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Here’s a remarkable fact: Dollar stores are now feeding more Americans than Whole Foods is – even though most dollar stores have no fresh food, only a limited selection of packaged items. 1/

Worth remembering that today is the 50th anniversary of what might be considered the largest social science experiment in history: the Vietnam draft lotteries

A day after the 50th anniversary of the first Vietnam Era Draft Lottery, Tim Johnson's (Willamette MBA), Chris Dawes' and my article on its role in social science came out in the Atlantic online: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

New piece on the social and political implications of polygenic prediction, based on original survey data... washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…

Extremely excited to announce that UW–Madison has a tenure track opportunity in our Social Genomics cluster with tenure home in Sociology UW-Madison Sociology. Job ad here: bit.ly/3BB40yd Full consideration date: 3/22 learn more about our group here: isg.wisc.edu

New educational attainment (EA) GWAS out today: nature.com/articles/s4158…. We expand the sample size from ~1 million to ~3 million, making it one of the largest GWAS to date. We identify more loci affecting EA and increase our ability to predict EA from genetic data, and more...🧵

In “Polygenic Scores for Plasticity,” Rebecca Johnson Ramina Sotoudeh & Dalton Conley develop a genetic measure to capture plasticity in outcomes “to equip demographers & social scientists w/ an additional tool for studying the interplay btw genes & environment.” ow.ly/kxzf50J7EIP

Using DHS data from Bolivia, Colombia & Peru, @DanielaUrbinaJ finds that further compulsory schooling led to reduced autonomy. “The positive returns of schooling for women’s autonomy diminished as school systems expanded.” Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science Sociology@Brown ow.ly/gvHu50Jb4ja

Draw the connections between power, place and health in County Health Rankings & Roadmaps new podcast, In Solidarity. In Episode 3, you can catch my conversation with hosts Ericka Burroughs-Girardi and Beth Silver on the health implications of the racial wealth divide.

Out now in PNASNews : Is the association from parents status to children's achievement confounded by genetics in Norway? Theoretically, it should be to a larger degree than in more liberal welfare states, right? Well, we don't find that !! pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… A 🧵:

"What happens before you’re born turns out to have consequences for decades afterward" theatlantic.com/health/archive… The Atlantic Dalton Conley

Colorado peeps: pls join me in Boulder fri nite for #Parentology Boulder Book Store tinyurl.com/k79dvhy

Big Data, Big Obstacles: Towards a social science of #bigdata. TY Dalton Conley et al. chronicle.com/article/Big-Da… … Data & Society

Is the Effect of Parental Education on Offspring Biased or Moderated by Genotype? - Sociological Science sociologicalscience.com/articles-vol2-…

Great defense of social programs by Jason Furman today nyti.ms/1FZ0ug0

Proud of my mamma's Kirkus review for her latest novel : kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/e…

Jerry McGill and I narrate Jan 1, 1982: arrvls.com/arrvls-podcast…

Who's the real election loser? Erving Goffman and his concept of "backstage": huffingtonpost.com/dalton-conley/…

GATTACA nigh (gulp)? blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/wha…

Polygenic scores continue to get more predictive. Congrats to Pat Turley on a nice piece of work! x.com/patrickaturley…