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I’m thrilled to say that starting this fall I’ll be an assistant professor of Public Affairs and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Madison! Very excited to become a badger.

Check out our new preprint on gene-environment interactions! With Ben Domingue, Elliot Tucker-Drob, and Emma Armstrong-Carter. osf.io/preprints/soca…

Just posted a preprint on genetic influences on birth weight using data from Born in Bradford and the WLS! Glad to have the second chapter of my dissertation and first sole-authored paper out in the world. osf.io/preprints/soca…

EEEEK! Congrats @Andrew_Grotz Elliot Tucker-Drob and team!!!! Excited to read this 😀

Largest study to date of students exposed to fatal shootings while @ school shows persistent and significant increases in youth antidepressant use, says research by new La Follette School of Public Affairs UW–Madison faculty member Sam Trejo. pnas.org/node/948683.ab…

Heteroscedasticity can give the misimpression of GxE. Heteroscedastic regression distinguishes genuine GxE from more general genetic or environmental moderation of total dispersion of the phenotype. doi.org/10.1101/2020.0… Ben Domingue Klint Kanopka Travis Mallard Sam Trejo

I hate that kindness is so often viewed as antithetical to good science. You can be both. You can be tough on the science AND kind to your fellow scientists.

Interactions between Polygenic Scores and Environments: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges | Sociological Science sociologicalscience.com/articles-v7-19…

Our debate about the nature of a 'dimmer' also inspired a formal attempt to examine this issue, biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New work preprinted! This one is about estimating genetic nurture with GWAS sumstats. Most approaches for estimating genetic nurture requires family-based, individual-level data. We show that all you need is offspring phenotypes on existing GWAS cohorts biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

💥OUT NOW Nature Genetics by Daphne Martschenko, PhD and colleagues: ➡️FoGS provides a public FAQ repository for social and behavioral genomic discoveries 🔗go.nature.com/2WQH7Xr

Math achievement for school-age children in Flint decreased and the proportion of children with special needs increased as a result of the Michigan city’s water crisis during 2014-16, according to a new study from Ed Policy Initiative. myumi.ch/gNgzD

I wish we didn’t have to live in a world where one has to write a piece such as this: scientificamerican.com/article/scient… “Scientists Must Consider the Risk of Racist Misappropriation of Research” with Robbee Wedow and Sam Trejo

1/ Statistical studies of interactions are opportunities to gain insights into important drivers of heterogeneity. They're also really hard to get right!

NEW PREPRINT: osf.io/preprints/soca… epic project with Marissa Thompson Sam Trejo and AJ Alvero: “They have Black in their blood”: Exploring how genetic ancestry tests affect racial appraisals and classifications 🧵