Really interesting new paper from Akbari et al. identifying a lot more selection in ancient DNA than previous approaches. I think it gets at three core challenges for this type of analysis where our understanding is still limited. 🧵

A timely piece on how often and why online survey takers use generative AI. LLMs are an increasingly important matter to consider for researchers conducting surveys with open-ended questions online 👽

It was great to have Matthew Salganik | @msalganik.bsky.social at Yale to talk to us about the unpredictability of life outcomes and the reasons underlying it. Thanks so much for joining us, Matt!

In “Effect of Social Origins on Educational Attainment,” L Anderson, Patrick Präg Eva Akimova 🇺🇦 & @cwsmonden find wide variation in sibling correlation, esp. under ↑ income inequality. Oxford DSPI CREST Sociology Purdue Department of Sociology Sociology at Oxford Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science ow.ly/cm8y50TAgk7

New paper by Ginevra Floridi tackles the important problem of how context-level inequality in the US relates to an important driver of inequality: parental transfers. Out now in Social Forces 🥳

CFP: Revisiting Biomedicalization: Toward a Technology Focused Approach, conference at Yale Feb 28-Mar 1. If you do research on health technologies, submit an extended abstract by the end of the week! Email me with any questions! Details and form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We of course acknowledge inspiration from the U.S. highway system during our road trip 🚗 that led to this work

Great to see this paper out in Nature today! One aspect that I worked on was the curious result that the education polygenic score predicts neurodevelopmental conditions but this prediction disappears within family. It's possible that this is because the parents' genetics

Another incredible opportunity for a faculty position in (socio)genomics Purdue University careers.purdue.edu/job/Assistant-…

Thrilled to share our study in DIGITAL HEALTH! With Alyce Raybould, Pietro Rampazzo, Ross Barker & Doug Leasure, we explore the global use of menstrual tracking apps across income levels. Key trends revealed! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Check out this recent op-ed from ASA member Grace Kao @Prof_GraceKao Yale Sociology Yale University. koreaherald.com/article/104220…

Congratulations to Zora Hauser for receiving the The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship. As a research fellow, Hauser will work at the Institute of Criminology for the next 3 years, researching peace and war in organised crime. Learn more here: crim.cam.ac.uk/news/zora-haus…

Excited to share my new article in the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS)! "Endogenous Opposition: Identity and Ideology in Kuwaiti Electoral Politics" explores how authoritarian elections generate opposition to incumbent autocrats. Link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ukrer5r…

Follow the money: A Yale analysis of financial reports from 92 large U.S. health care companies found that over the past 20 years, they have spent 95% of their net income — $2.6 trillion in total — on shareholder payouts rather than reinvesting in care. These decisions directly

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Our new article "Family change in Latin America: schooling and labor market implications for children and women" is out in this special issue on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean 🧩 doi.org/10.1093/ooec/o…

How selection can incorporate evolutionary history into the genetic architecture of a single cell, giving rise to a hypermutable locus that appears to anticipate environmental change, thereby accelerating adaptive evolution. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

📌 Happy to see the first paper of my PhD thesis on changes in household structure in Latin America and the Caribbean published in Studies in Family Planning!

I am recruiting a quantitative/computational postdoc to my group at UCLA. This is a great opportunity to work on foundational theory, methods, and software in statistical genetics. Link to apply below. Please repost!