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Perline Demange
@perlinedemange.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral fellow at PROMENTA, University of Oslo.
Genetics – Intergenerational Transmission of Inequalities – Mental Health – Education
https://perlinedemange.github.io/
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Perline Demange @perlinedemange.bsky.social · May 22
And that’s already a wrap for me, thank you all for coming to my poster! @essgn.bsky.social #ESSGN2025
perlinedemange.bsky.social
New paper by Rosa Cheesman and co: GWAS of fields of education and phenotypic annotations 🥳👇
November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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ludvigdb.bsky.social
Excited to share this work led by @cktamnes.bsky.social (and featuring many colleagues from PROMENTA at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social) exploring the links between psychological wellbeing and illbeing across biological, developmental, societal and intervention perspectives
October 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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rosacheesman.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen now out in PNAS!
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Causal evidence of gene-environment interaction for reading test scores based on:
🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences
🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added
The genetic lottery goes to school: Better schools compensate for the effects of students’ genetic differences
www.pnas.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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sirileknes.bsky.social
Brilliant thread summarising this field - perfect for those in other fields 🙏
drelsje.bsky.social Dr Elsje van Bergen @drelsje.bsky.social · Oct 6
🧩Learning to talk & read isn’t just about effort or teaching—it’s shaped by biology, experience & context

🧠Our new review links genetics, neuroscience, psychology & education to show why some children find language or reading easier.

📖 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🖼️genes→brain→cognition→behaviour 🧵👇
Figure 2 in the review: Levels of analysis from genes and brain systems to cognition and behaviour. The child both influences and is influenced by parents through genetically shaped interactions, and by the wider school and social environment. Figure design by Neil Usher. Figure from this review paper: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w23yz_v1
October 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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eivindy.bsky.social
Two birds of a gene - catch Matt Keller's webinar at @uio.no on October 15th. Please share
www.sv.uio.no/promenta/eng...
@ispg.bsky.social @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social @essgn.bsky.social @ibg.colorado.edu
Using structural equation models to estimate direct and indirect genetic effects and assortative mating in trio data - PROMENTA
Guest lecture by Matt Keller
www.sv.uio.no
October 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
Should we tax the super-rich?

My favorite news show tackles this question this week: www.arte.tv/en/videos/11... (spoiler: the answer is yes)
ARTE Europe Weekly - Does Europe need a supertax for the super-rich? - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
Europe’s super-rich are getting astronomically wealthy, while the squeezed middle and lower classes are being asked to tighten their belts. The French economist Gabriel Zucman has proposed a wealth ta...
www.arte.tv
October 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Currently attending a conference & our field is quite a bit into fancy modeling, so it’s time to repost this blog post.

Don’t try to squeeze your research question into whatever model is fashionable right now; try to build the right model for your research question.

www.the100.ci/2024/08/27/l...
Let’s do statistics the other way around
Summer in Berlin – the perfect time and place to explore the city, take a walk in the Görli, go skinny dipping in the Spree, attend an overcrowded, overheated conference symposium on cross-lagged pane...
www.the100.ci
September 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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monajoly.bsky.social
📢 Appel à communications
Les conférences annuelles des GDR FRESH et RESHAPE auront lieu à Montpellier, les 4–6 nov. 2025.

Thèmes : santé publique & inégalités, climat & santé, evolutionary medicine, + session Varia.

✅ Inscription gratuite → fresh-reshape25.sciencesconf.org
📅 Deadline : 30 sept.
September 20, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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sjoerdalten.bsky.social
Proud to share our new @nber working paper on how genetics shape the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status in the Netherlands. 🧵(1/8)

www.nber.org/papers/w34208
A Chip Off the Old Block? Genetics and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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leacmichel.bsky.social
Choosing to go by train/ferry to #Flux2025 I emitted SEVEN times less C02 compared to a plane trip.

Air travel is one of the largest contributors to the carbon footprint of research. Researchers, universities and conferences have the responsabilities to create more sustainable alternatives.
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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shaicarmi.bsky.social
Brilliant paper by Visscher et al.

Populations differ in traits/disease burden. Are these differences due to genetics?

Comparing single variants or polygenic scores between populations is biased due to environmental confounders correlated with the variants.

1/3

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Direct effect of genetic ancestry on complex traits in a Mexican population
Human populations differ in disease prevalences and in average values of phenotypes, but the extent to which differences are caused by genetic or environmental factors is unknown for most complex trai...
www.medrxiv.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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fgenovese.bsky.social
This is a helpful article of where Norwegian green politics is at and where it is coming from with insights by @elinlb.bsky.social

www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/norways-elec...
Norway’s Elections: A Fossil Consensus
Could the rise of smaller parties drive Europe’s biggest gas supplier to change course?
www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu
September 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
To engage people on the problem of wealth inequality, we should focus on the “unfair influence” wielded by those at the top, write @michaelvaughan.bsky.social, @wealtherty.bsky.social & Annalena Oppel, even if that causes outrage.

@jrf-uk.bsky.social

🔗 buff.ly/GAf0Es5
It’s time to face up to power in the debate about wealth inequality
When discussing wealth inequality, the “unfair influence” framing fares best at driving support for redistributive measures. But does it come with hidden costs?
buff.ly
August 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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ludvigdb.bsky.social
New paper! 📜 In nearly 50,000 individuals randomly sampled from the general population, we apply a symptom-specific perspective to examine which anxiety and depressive symptoms are most strongly associated with various aspects of financial adversity

doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
This is the most interesting opinion piece I have read on the topic of polygenic embryo screening!
The "having" and "doing" of motherhood, the concrete practicalities of IVF, the blur between traits and diseases, etc.

Highly recommended reading.
August 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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josefina-bernardo.bsky.social
I could not resist...
August 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
"Sure, at some level everyone has a right to whatever knowledge is out there about their own genome, but dissemination of that knowledge should be based on something more than a toxic combination of libertarianism, greed, and ignorance."
ent3c.bsky.social Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · Aug 9
New blog post: The New Eugenics Companies
(Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)
The New Eugenics Companies
Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection
ericturkheimer.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
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.
August 6, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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sashagusevposts.bsky.social
A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵
August 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
Must-read for anyone considering Mendelian Imputation to increase their genetic sample.
Is the potential benefit really outweighing the risks?
margotvdweijer.bsky.social Margot van de Weijer @margotvdweijer.bsky.social · Aug 1
New pre-print online: Imputing parental genotypes through Mendelian Imputation: Ethical and Legal Considerations
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
August 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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pengzell.bsky.social
Poetry collection is going well thanks for asking
Mock up of a pamphlet with silly academic poems in the form of bluesky posts
July 24, 2025 at 8:35 AM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
"One thing I deeply appreciate about genetics is that people do in fact cumulatively build knowledge. So if ideas are quietly set aside, that’s a consequence of the bulk of the field accepting empirical results and proceeding on the basis of those findings."
July 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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gcbias.bsky.social
Worth highlighting as folks occasionally repost "data science" factoids by "Cremieux", unaware that he's also trying to mainstream racist & eugenics views (as Lasker in real life) based on a laughably poor understanding of genetics
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Jordan Lasker, AKA ‘Cremieux’ One of the speakers at the conference is billed under a social media alias, Cremieux, but the Guardian has corroborated that the account is apparently run by Jordan Lasker, a long-time proponent of eugenics. The @cremieuxrecueil X account has been boosted or engaged with dozens of times by that platform’s proprietor, Elon Musk, often on the topic of falling birthrates. On 27 November, Musk reposted a Cremieux comment on falling birthrates, adding: “With rare exception, all countries are trending towards population collapse.” On 29 April, Cremieux posted: “Only about a third of the world even meets replacement rate fertility. This is the biggest problem of our time.” Musk responded: “Yes.” Musk has also boosted or responded favorably to Cremieux posts on other rightwing hobby horses such as crime in Portland, Oregon, and allegations that Democrats had created loopholes in the asylum system.
March 6, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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olivia-wootton.bsky.social
New preprint!🚨
"“The Contribution of Common and Rare Genetic Variation to Emotional and Behavioural Symptoms in Childhood and Adolescence” is out on medRxiv.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thread 👇
The Contribution of Common and Rare Genetic Variation to Emotional and Behavioural Symptoms in Childhood and Adolescence
Genetic factors influence vulnerability to common mental health conditions, but their role in early-life mental health remains understudied. We analysed genotype array and exome sequence data from two...
www.medrxiv.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM