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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
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economeager.bsky.social
I wrote about the endless temptation successful people feel to justify and feel justified in a clearly toxic system. Happy new year.

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Caveat Vendor
Universities, audience capture, and bullshit; Beowulf, Kendrick Lamar
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January 2, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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dsquintana.bsky.social
Research questions generated by AI. Questionnaires filled out by AI. Paper written by AI. Paper reviewed by AI. Just make it stop.
sabrinanorwood.bsky.social Sabrina Norwood @sabrinanorwood.bsky.social · 18d
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?

Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Text reads: About synthetic panels Recruiting the right participants for a study can be difficult. You may not get the exact demographics you need, and the shorter the deadline, the less sure you can be that everyone will answer on time. One possible solution can be to use synthetic panels. Synthetic panels are powered by a first party proprietary AI model developed here at Qualtrics. Our synthetic panel is trained on thousands of responses from a variety of demographic backgrounds in order to more accurately predict how certain populations would respond to a survey. Our synthetic panel is based on the United States General Population, and is only available in English. This panel comes with ready-made quotas and target breakouts in order to represent your chosen population and make it easy to launch your survey right away. Text reads: Question-writing best practices To get the most reliable and actionable results from synthetic audiences, consider these question-writing best practices: Ask forward-looking and attitudinal questions. Synthetic panels perform best with perceptions, preferences, and intent-based questions. For example, “How likely are you to try…?” Synthetic panels are less applicable for studies on past behaviors, detailed recall, brand recall, or awareness questions. For example, “When did you last visit…?” Text reads: Discussion The current study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of the TPB when applied to health behaviours which addressed the limitations of previous reviews by including only prospective tests of behaviour, applying RE meta-analytic procedures, correcting correlations for sampling and measurement error, and hierarchically analysing the effect of behaviour type and sample and methodological moderators. Some 237 tests were identified which examined relations amongst model components. Overall the analysis indicated that the TPB could explain 19.3% of the variance in behaviour and 44.3% of the variance in intention across studies. This level of prediction of behaviour is slightly lower than that of previous meta-analytic reviews which have found between 27% (Armitage & Conner, 2001; Hagger et al., 2002) and 36% (Trafimow et al., 2002) of the variance in behaviour to be explained by intention and PBC.
December 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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essgn.bsky.social
Hi Perline! Dates: 21-22 of May, in a lovely part of Italy (more details to come!) :)
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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drelsje.bsky.social
Honoured to be featured by the @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social Research Fellowship. Their support enables ambitious, cross-border science on how genetics and environments shape children’s learning & development. 🌍🧬
Work with other Fellows nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
jacobsfoundation.bsky.social Jacobs Foundation @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social · 24d
🧠 Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Elsje van Bergen of @vuamsterdam.bsky.social studies how genetics & home environments shape children’s development.

📢 Apply for the 2027–2029 #JacobsCIFARFellowship by 2 Feb 2026: cifar.ca/next-generat...

#ApplyNow #Education
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
@essgn.bsky.social Do you know about next year conference, are dates and location decided? Thanks!
December 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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laraffington.bsky.social
Open access via SharedIt rdcu.be/eThTl & Table 1 Suggestions to fostering a lower stress academic workplace for individuals, groups, and institutions >> osf.io/p6yut/files/...
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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laraffington.bsky.social
💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get”
🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge

I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What ideas would you add? 💡

#HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM
www.nature.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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torvik.bsky.social
Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...
Two positions as either PhD or postdoctoral fellow on health determinants of education
Do you want to research how health influences school performance and leads to intergenerational inequality? We have two vacant 3-year positions as a PhD fellow or postdoctoral research fellow in the p...
945000.webcruiter.no
December 5, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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rosacheesman.bsky.social
Exploring educational sorting using genetics

Great big picture commentary by @robbeewedow.bsky.social on our recent paper!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Exploring educational field sorting using genetics - Nature Genetics
Creative use of informed statistical genetics methods combined with large-scale genomic data has delivered insights about sorting into educational fields. This study has wide-ranging implications for ...
www.nature.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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astabreinholt.bsky.social
Come work with me! Feel free to contact me via email, if you have questions : )
pengzell.bsky.social Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Dec 1
Postdoc in Social Stratification, Education, and Genetics with @astabreinholt.bsky.social at Roskilde University, Denmark. The position is for 2 years, starting from May 1st, 2026.

Apply by Dec 12th
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
December 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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boonfalleur.bsky.social
Happy to share our latest study published in PNAS.

Using data from 274,316 French students, we find that lower-SES students are less likely to wait for better university offers, even when waiting would lead to more prestigious or better-fit programs.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Waiting time during admission procedures increases social inequalities in higher education | PNAS
Many domains in life require people to wait to access better outcomes, such as waiting in line to access prized tickets for a show, waiting to obta...
www.pnas.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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kph3k.bsky.social
This paper clearly articulates what is, in my opinion, one of the major ethical problems with polygenic embryo testing companies--that they are *companies* that sell health as a private commodity. from @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social & @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social

www.fertstert.org/news-do/embr...
Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality
The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...
www.fertstert.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
perlinedemange.bsky.social
"Offering genetic predictions for embryos to improve health outcomes latches onto a privatization logic that does exactly the opposite and hence erodes a system based on social equality and solidarity."

Thank you @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social for such an important piece!
arnovanhootegem.bsky.social Arno Van Hootegem 🌱 @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social · Nov 13
There’s a new kid in town!

Companies are now selling IVF and embryo selection based on genetic testing for traits related to health and even intelligence.

We outline methodological and ethical concerns, and warn against risks for social inequality.

With the fantastic @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social
Embryo selection based on polygenic prediction risks reinforcing social inequality
The rise of companies offering embryo selection based on genetic testing has triggered heated debate about ethical acceptability, as well as the accuracy and scientific validity of these techniques. W...
www.fertstert.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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