Woman smiling standing behind a coffee shop counter. New data release: 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) Activity Histories, 1986-2024. CLS logo

🚨New data release: BCS70 Activity Histories
Looking at employment histories of the 1970 cohort, this dataset is available to access via @ukdataservice.bsky.social [SN 6943]. The latest edition includes data on work and non-work activities from the Age 51 Sweep. Read the user guide 👉 buff.ly/aGg0OxR

If you are interested in all things ✨causal inference✨, please join our multidisciplinary Causal Inference Interest Group (CIIG). We host monthly seminars featuring speakers with various academic backgrounds and research interests.

Links below.

cc @clscohorts.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social

What We Inherit Debating the use of genomic tools and their societal impact

Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.

Back at work, back to my bi-monthly habit of trying to remember and understand how LDscore regression works.

Thank god for the international statistical genetics workshop for sharing their slides eg. ibg.colorado.edu/cdrom2023/fa... and videos www.youtube.com/@isg-worksho...

“Who Partners With Whom in Diverse Societies?”: @kasimirdederichs.bsky.social & @frankvantubergen.bsky.social use NL register data & find “Muslim groups maintain boundaries for union formation to other national origin groups." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @rug.nl read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Looking forward to the 18th INAS conference! Next year's edition will take place at @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social. Check out Ozan's post below for more details.

Research Seminar: How Chronotypes Affect Health and Society | Economics Department, New Uzbekistan University posted on the topic | LinkedIn Students, faculty and experts are invited 17 December 2 pm  Research Seminar of Econ Dept Living Against the Clock: How Chronotypes, Sleep, and Society Interact What happens when our work or relatio...

Honored and excited to be giving a talk at New Uzbekistan University!
As someone born and raised in Tashkent, this opportunity feels especially meaningful-returning home to share my research with the academic community that shaped my early years is truly special. www.linkedin.com/posts/newuu-...

Our paper with Ginevra Floridi out in Sociological Science now!

We use sequence analysis, LCA & survival models to map how parental financial and co-residential support unfolds across young adulthood. We find 3 distinct pathways & a gendered relationship between marriage and independence.

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I heard it's organised by some really dedicated people, who got a location overlooking zürich with a lovely terrace... should be nice in may

📖👨‍💻🎓 New Courses Alert 🎓👨‍💻📖

The Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science is launching three upcoming short courses designed for researchers across health, economics, and the social sciences. Led by experts in the field — including @crahal.com — these courses are now open for registration.👇

Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...

There’s a new kid in town!

Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence.

We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality.

With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social

Eight new convergence environments will address major societal challenges in life sciences - UiO:Life Science The application process initiated a year ago has concluded, eight interdisciplinary research projects have been selected to address major societal challenges in the life sciences at the University of ...

I’ll be leading a new project uniting biomedical and social sciences to learn why neurodevelopmental conditions are rising and how to better support people. We’re hiring soon! @astridsandsor.bsky.social Hedvig Nordeng Krister Fjermestad Alexandra Havdahl Nicolai Borgen www.uio.no/english/rese...

Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

We're holding brief/extremely informal 15 minute meetings with anyone who is interested in either of these positions, scheduled for 19.11.2025 and 17.11.2025, respectively. Email or DM for more information!

Please do share details within your network; I think these projects are pretty cool!

The huge congrats!!!

🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥

A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society.

🌍 Open to *ALL*!
🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online)
🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io
📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk

Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!

The Means of Prediction An eye-opening examination of how power—not technology—will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms,…

In case somebody missed this yesterday, while watching a political car-crash unfold:

"The Means of Prediction - How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)"
is now in the UChicago Press catalog, and available for pre-order online!

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Submission Deadline 15 May! 📮@mpidr.bsky.social

How do workers learn about and develop resources to enter alternative occupations? A new AJS article finds workplaces organize the division and contagion of labor. Bringing together workers of distinct occupations enables exchange of resources, and mobility unfolds along the nexus of collaboration.

We examined the complex interplay of genetics, family environment, health and intergenerational transmission of occupational status @naturehumbehav.bsky.social

Article 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
FAQs unpacking study 👉 tinyurl.com/yckamr7x
Graphical summary below 👇

We’re hiring an assistant professor!
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