Selim Sametoğlu

Happy international day of women im science day. 🥳 From the MPI for Psycholinguistics ... led by a majority women directorate. It can be done :)

On 12 January 2026, I’ll be giving a talk on individual differences in typical and atypical language development from a genetically informative perspective (with a primary focus on typical… | Selim Sa... On 12 January 2026, I’ll be giving a talk on individual differences in typical and atypical language development from a genetically informative perspective (with a primary focus on typical development...

Language development & individual differences 🧬 --- talking at Koc University on 12 Jan 2026. Hope to see you there!

We’re hiring! Join the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen as a part-time student-assistent (16 hrs/week), starting 1 March 2026.   You will support research projects by assisting… ... We’re hiring! Join the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen as a part-time student-assistent (16 hrs/week), starting 1 March 2026.   You will support research projects by assisting w...

Come and work with us!

I will just show you once you're back :D

Today, I'm in Amsterdam, attending a gathering (I live more in the south of NL). As I walk in the streets all I want to say is that Amsterdam has so much the feeling of OLD money and OLD poverty :)

Pleitropy (a set of known variants influencing the target 'positive' trait yet also potentially influencing another unknown -perhaps negative- outcome is already concern by itself (even if you don't care about the ethics and exacerbeting existing inequalities part of it which obviously you should)

Photograph of researchers at their benches in the custom-built molecular biology labs of the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, with green trees of the forest outside visible through large windows in the background.

Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics).
More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...
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Here are the links for the images with higher resolution: drive.google.com/file/d/1uOFN...

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Here are some illustrations I’ve made as a hobby project, related to language development and the interplay between genes and the environment :-) Feel free to use them for your presentations, posters, etc., with a small attribution :-) My plan is to create and add more over time.

This doesn't look bad at all, particularly for extraversion and openness. Thanks!

Thank you, Fiona, as always. I have seen Marleen's GWAS already, but it is potentially underpowered... and Ted's sum stats are currently not available. I will check out the follow-up links you have sent. It is a bit more difficult to find GWASes looking into other big 5 than neuroticism it seems

Hi Ted, I see! Thanks for letting me know so quickly!

I think this one seems like the best option. I have heard this one from a couple of other colleagues today as well. I will contact @tedmond.bsky.social for the sumstats (not sure if they're published anywhere yet). Thanks!!

Can anyone point me to a personality GWAS paper or summary statistics that I could use to extract polygenic scores in a European sample? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Okay, something non-academic about me: I once sculpted a mini Ottoman-inspired helmet and body armor for an old David de Kabouter figurine I found at home (I had to cut off the top of his hat -- Sorry, David).

Genetic analysis upends narrative linking social media use to lower wellbeing A large twin study suggests the weak associations between social media use and mental health may reflect shared genetic influences, not direct effects. The findings challenge alarmist narratives and p...

Nice to see our work on PsyPost!

www.psypost.org/genetic-anal...

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud...
(PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

This coming from Giacomo makes it automatically verified for some reason

Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.

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 🧵⬇️
link.springer.com/journal/1051...

📱 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

"...there is the possibility of real damage if selecting for one trait turns out to create risks for others." (On the top of all other ethical issues begin with).

GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

How much do people know and understand what their administrative and health data is used for?
Another story of consent for genetic data use this week.

Next on my reading list.

Contrasting photographs of the night-time skylines of Manhattan (left) and Nijmegen (right), with matching genome-wide association plots underneath each.

Not sure who came up with "Manhattan Plot", but in 2014 I coined the alternative term "Nijmegen Plot" (inspired by the Dutch town where I live) to describe underwhelming results from our earliest genome-wide association scans of language/reading traits.

Great news, Fiona! Congratulations!!

Thanks of course to my co-authors @dirkpelt.bsky.social @meikebartels.bsky.social and @ntrbiopsy.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

👍Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think! If you're also curious about how the data collection process went (the challenges/ups and downs). I’d be happy to share more. I’m planning to write a thread about it later, but you’re welcome to reach out to me in the meantime!