Behavior Genetics Association

❗Job opening: Assistant/Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pittsburg

𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: November 14, 2025

More info on the website ➡️
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3) Assistant professor in Neurogenetics, Neurodegeneration, & Stem Cell Biology at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder (deadline November 1, 2025) jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

2) Multiple tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor in Integrated Health Across Lifecycle and Systems at Purdue University (Review of applications starts November 10, 2025 and continues until positions are filled) careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistan...

Postdoctoral Position in Social Science Genomics | Max Planck Research Group Biosocial

1) A postdoctoral position in social science genomics at the Max Planck Research Group Biosocial at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (deadline November 30, 2025) www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2196134/2025...

We currently have multiple job openings (post-doc/assistant prof/associate prof) listed on our website, see thread below if you don't want to miss out!
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🐥 Early-bird announcement

The abstract deadline for BGA 2026 will be February 15, 2026. BGA will take place June 23-26, in beautiful Amsterdam. Time to start thinking about the cool findings you want to share with your international colleagues at our annual meeting!

🍬 Rhiannon Armitage and colleagues examine variation in sweet-liking in a twin population in Finland

📕Diana Bicona and colleagues construct polygenic scores for dyslexia and examine interactions with socioeconomic status to predict reading ability

🧠 Yu-Cheng Hsu and colleagues investigate potentially modifying effects of education on the association of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele and polygenic scores for different cognitive outcomes

⚖️ Parisa Riahi, Farshad Teymoori et al examining familial resemblance patterns of different body adiposity indicators among 16,983 Tehranian adults

🧬 A proteome wide asssociation study examining causal effects of the mother’s and fetal blood proteome on pregnancy related outcomes by Emily Daubney and colleagues

🔍 A systematic review of twin literature by Will Conabere and colleagues that addresses genetic and environmental influences to gender diversity

⏰ New issue alert: Volume 55, issue 5: link.springer.com/journal/1051...

Behavior Genetics Behavior Genetics is a leading journal concerned with the genetic analysis of behavioral traits. The journal offers the most current original research on ...

🔜 Submit your abstract to the BG special issue "The role of sex in neurodevelopment" before October 31!

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Using structural equation models to estimate direct and indirect genetic effects and assortative mating in trio data - PROMENTA Guest lecture by Matt Keller

Two birds of a gene - catch Matt Keller's webinar at @uio.no on October 15th. Please share
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🧬 Xuanyu Lyu and colleagues on using extended pedigrees to quantify the influence of mitochondrial DNA on human behavior

🧠 The impact of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for cannabis use disorder (CUD) and general substance use and substance use disorder liability (SU/SUD) on brain morphology in drug-naïve adolescents by Sydney Kramer et al.

👋 The potential causal effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring handedness using a proxy gene-by-environment (GxE) Mendelian randomization design by Daisy Crick and colleagues

🚬 A study by Li Hazel Yu and colleagues that calls into question the robustness of links between self-reported victimization in childhood and prospectively measured timing of substance initiation across adolescence.

📱 The association between social media use, wellbeing, and depressive symptoms, and the extent to which genetic and environmental factors contribute to this association by @selimsametoglu.bsky.social and colleagues

😷 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the wellbeing of children & adolescents in three large Dutch samples by Hekmat Alrouh and colleagues

Behavior Genetics Behavior Genetics is a leading journal concerned with the genetic analysis of behavioral traits. The journal offers the most current original research on ...

⏰Volume 55, issue 4 of Behavior Genetics is out, with studies exploring 🧵⬇️
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If you are looking for more resources on behavior genetics and its broader implications? A large list of resources is available on the website!:
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The BGA Public Science committee has published its second statement, 'BGA Statement on Polygenic Embryo Selection'.

Read more on the BGA website:
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In other news from the BGA meeting @sophiebell.bsky.social won the award for best student oral presentation. I think my lab is firmly in the lead for student awards, BGA-wide. Gifted students have always been my secret sauce.

👬 A special symposium on twin and family studies in the 21st century, and setting up a global collaboration with presentations by Matt Keller, @meikebartels.bsky.social and Chris Beam

And much, much more! Share your favorite moments and tag us 📸

🏆 @laraffington.bsky.social‬ won the early career award, and Paul Liechtenstein won the Dobzhansky award

🧑‍🏫 @ent3c.bsky.social Dobzhansky lecture "Theodosius Dobzhansky and the Origins of Radical Behavior Genetics"

Thank you too all (virtual) attendees that attended #BGA2025 - we look back at a great week of presentations, meet-ups and catching up between colleagues. ✨Some highlights:

First day of #BGA2025! Looking forward to learning about all the research that is happening.

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