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🎶 Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a low genetic predisposition for "musicality". We discuss challenges of polygenic score predictions at the individual level, and for someone who lived over 200 years ago: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

We think that the big mismatch between this DNA-based prediction and Beethoven’s musical genius provides a valuable teaching moment... 🎶🧬aesthetics.mpg.de/en/newsroom/ne…

Today, I’m proud to say, our new paper on assortative mating was published in Nature Communications. (Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…). Here are our key findings 🧵:

In Turkish, instead of writing "et al." which corresponds to "and others," they write "ve ark." which corresponds to "and friends." I love it.

New #MPRGBiosocial preprint on the “Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence”. Co-first author Nicole, C Mitchell, B Goosby, Laurel Raffington, PhD biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Today marks the start of our IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE) course on "Genetics, Social Inequality, and Development" with these fantastic speakers 🌟

Feeling fortunate to welcome this incredible lineup of speakers to our institute in Berlin, IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE)! This will be a summer full of discussions on gene-environment interplay in Lifespan Development, focusing particularly on social inequalities #MPRGBiosocial

Happy to share that our work with dennis hernaus got published in Communications Psychology 🎉 Check out the creative effort-threat “Thunderstorm ” paradigm 😉 ! 🌩️🏃🏡 And thank you so much to all collaborators 🙏

I am finally taking the time to let what I learn at #BGA2024 sink in, so here is a far-from-exhaustive list of the cool new stuff I saw in London! (First cool thing: the view from the venue!)

Our group at Max Planck Society Harnack Haus for a day of "Science Dreamwork"! What social problem or research theme would you explore if data and methods were of no concern? #MPRGBiosocial

First publication of my thesis is out w/ this fantastic & interdisciplinary team: Carlos J. Gil, F. Bernardi, Dr Elsje van Bergen, Perline Demange!✨ Do parents' SES moderate the link between genetic propensity for (non)cognitive skills and education? Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm…

Excellent work demonstrating how high parental SES may buffer the impact of low genetic propensities for cognitive skills on educational outcomes in NL ! 🧑‍🎓📚🧬 Very curious to see more on the interplay of societal factors and genetic propensities in educational attainment

Come and join our team as a PhD candidate for this exciting project on phenotypic and genetic relations between substance use, mental health, and creative engagement in a great and interdisciplinary team with Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Karolinska Institutet and Amsterdam UMC! See e-recruiting.pro/jobposting/a8d…

I wrote about some recent studies identifying widespread gene-environment interactions (GxE) acting on common traits, but through an unexpected mechanism. A few highlights 🧵:

Out today in Nature Human Behaviour: Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development nature.com/articles/s4156… Queen Mary University of London QM_SBBS UCL News A detailed thread👇

Last week The Atlantic featured an article on the rising popularity of race/IQ science on the right (theatlantic.com/technology/arc…). The obvious point that "intelligence is not like height" sparked an unusual amount of whinging. I wrote about how this is now more true than ever. 🧵

Without controlling for geographic region, associations between genes and *most* heritable traits will include effects of environmental differences between high-income and low-income regions 🧬🗺️💵 One-page summary below, full paper here (open access): nature.com/articles/s4158…

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