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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The Economist coming out in favour of selecting embryos for IQ while dismissing the many extremely good arguments against this - from “it doesn’t work” to “promoting the idea that a flawed metric is a useful indicator of human worth is not going to go well” - is disappointing, to say the least

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Pat Hastings @ophastings.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Do conjoint/factorial/vignette experiments reflect choices in the real world? Are hypothetical scenarios in the artificial survey context externally valid? Do hypothetical bias, intention-behavior gap and social desirability biases undermine validity? Two cautionary studies on this question:

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.

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Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Why do associations between grandparents & child health vary [Africa]?: "implication is that net flows of support from grandparents to children diminish as societies undergo demographic & epidemiological transitions, weakening the positive association between grandparent coresidence & child health"

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<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

In many modern populations, grandparents are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. This phenomenon has renewed interest in the role that grandparents play in within-fam...

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Isma Muñoz @ishmamunoz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

New paper out in Population and Development Review: We explore how the influence of grandparental co-residence on grandchildren’s nutrition varies across Africa’s diverse demographic and health contexts 👇 📄 doi.org/10.1111/padr...

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

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Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds

Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

New blog post: The New Eugenics Companies (Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection)

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The New Eugenics Companies

Oops, I meant to say generational health and embryo selection

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It is depressing, but all too predictable, how swiftly we’ve gone from the Social Science Genetic Association Consortium offering reassurances about the uses of behavioural polygenic scores to one of their lead authors marketing embryo selection for IQ

Text from an FAQ in Okbay et al 20222:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01016-z
a similar same statement is made in an FAQ in 2025: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653986v1.supplementary-material
Text reads:
"The results of SSGAC studies have sometimes been used by online platforms, including some companies, to predict individual outcomes. We recognize that returning individual genomic “results” can be a fun way to engage people in research and other projects and to feed or stoke their interest in genomics. But it is important that participants/users understand that these individual results are not meaningful predictions and should be regarded essentially as entertainment. Failure to make this point clear risks sowing confusion and undermining trust in genetics research"

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Harvard sociologist/polisci Theda Skocpol explains how the vast expansion of ICE in BBB may be Trump's secret weapon to overcome the barriers of federalism and complete his autocratic takeover of the American state. (History from Germany & Hungary in 20s/30s.) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

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Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy

TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Michael Borchgrevink Lund @borchgrevink.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The first paper of my PhD—co-authored with @ishmamunoz.bsky.social and Alberto Palloni—is now out as a preprint! 👵👶 Grandparents’ investments matter for grandchildren’s human capital formation independently of parental investments —especially in Ethiopia and India. 📄 osf.io/preprints/os...

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Hector Cebolla @hcebolla.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A big thank you to Dulce Manzano with whom I coauthored this paper on how returns to preschool evolved over the last century. Open access ! direct.mit.edu/euso/article... Tracing the evolution of preschool’s impact on education over a century: Spain, 1900-1973 | European Societies | MIT Press

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Tracing the evolution of preschool’s impact on education over a century: Spain, 1900-1973

Abstract. Preschool is acknowledged as a strategy for promoting long-term educational attainment and fostering equality of educational opportunities. Most of these expectations are based on evidence f...

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Why has fertility suddenly crashed everywhere all at once? Certainly, there are many factors, which vary across all world regions & over time. I’ve written on many of these! But we should also recognise the collapse of coupling. Always open to new data & ideas! 🙂 Graph by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

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Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Oxford University @oxforddemsci.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🚨 The end of an era for global health data — and a defining crossroads. In Jan 2025, the DHS Program—the backbone of health & demographic data in 90+ countries—was terminated after US aid cuts of up to 84%. Our researchers & global collaborators reflect on it in a recent pre-print🧵

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I just published a new #Rstats notebook to celebrate the release of {marginaleffects} 📦 0.26.0: Survival Analysis in R Please send me feedback, and don't forget to update the pkg for important bug fixes. Thanks to Robin Denz for his amazing work on this! marginaleffects.com/bonus/surviv...

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32 Survival analysis – Model to Meaning

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2025

REPORTER: Amazon will soon display a number next to the price of each product that shows how much the Trump tariffs are adding. Isn't that a perfect demonstration that it's the American consumer who is paying for these policies? LEAVITT: This is a hostile and political act by Amazon.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Here's an update on sociology (and some demography) journal editorial polices with regard to sharing preprints before submission and after acceptance. A big improvement from the last edition of this table. With one exception.

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Fiona Hagenbeek @fionahagenbeek.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Our new study in Molecular Psychiatry, in 1528 children and their parents (@ntrbiopsy.bsky.social) shows that indirect genetic effects—where parental genetics shape offspring traits via environmental influences (genetic nurture)—impact DNA methylation of children. doi.org/10.1038/s413... (1/5)

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Intergenerational transmission of complex traits and the offspring methylome - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Intergenerational transmission of complex traits and the offspring methylome

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Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🔎 Según @hcebolla.bsky.social del Dep. Población (CSIC): "El calor es malo para todos los niños, pero en hijos de madres migrantes el impacto es mayor. Esto parece deberse a la menor presencia de aire acondicionado en sus hogares, reflejando un efecto de la pobreza".

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Bird account @dialecticbio.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It's finally official and verified: The X user "Cremieux" is ID'd as a guy called Jordan Lasker. Lasker has been LARPing as an expert in genetics on X to promote racist pseudoscience. @sashagusevposts.bsky.social has been calling out his bullshit for ages

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.

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Leire Salazar @leire-salazar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

No, las niñas no son peores en ciencia. En el día de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia recuerdo este texto de 2018 en @piedrasdepapel.bsky.social sobre la interacción entre estereotipos, actitudes, expectativas, rendimiento y decisiones académicas y laborales: www.eldiario.es/piedrasdepap...

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No, las niñas no son peores en ciencias

En España los chicos obtienen puntuaciones en ciencias superiores a las chicas, equivalentes a lo que se aprende en casi 3 meses de escolarización. Sin embargo, cuando se analiza el conjunto de países...

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

“Smoke’s Enduring Legacy: Bridging Early-Life Smoking Exposures & Later-Life Epigenetic Age Acceleration,” by Ramirez, Povedano, Garcia & Lund, uses the HRS (1992-2016) & VBS (2016) to investigate the complex relationship btw smoking/exposure & epigenetic aging. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Tim Riffe @timriffe1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I have a 99.8% snapshot of all zipped files from CDC Vital Statistics Online as of today. Documentation pdfs too. The one missing file was cut off part way 🤷‍♂️ will try again from time to time. Anyone needs anything reach out

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Ingrid van Dijk @ingridvandijk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Ah, so our students can't work with DHS right now, as (US-funded) DHS program is paused and not accepting registrations of new users 😶

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

How population stratification makes environments look like genes. A short 🧵:

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Is population stratification a problem in real GWAS data? Recent family GWAS (Tan et al. medrxiv.org/content/10.1...) estimated 50% of the GWAS effects for Education and 65-75% for IQ, Income were not direct, with population stratification likely the major cause.

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Mark Grabowski @markgrabowski.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Cuts to public universities, growth of private ones. Two sides of the same coin. 19 Dec, at 12 protest at Madrid Assembly against cuts in public spending. And foreign colleagues: if you look for Spanish partners for H2020 projects, infrastructure, acad network etc choose public centres! Reasons 👇

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Elsevier have chosen new editors for Intelligence, which will hopefully lead to a dramatic improvement in the quality of research published. New followers may be unaware of just how shockingly bad is the “research” the journal has published, epitomised by the paper which assumes the earth is flat

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Ahora que Ayuso ha cedido y se crearán más de 1000 plazas de ayudantes doctores en Madrid, es crucial que sean plazas abiertas y que se valore el historial investigador, no solo el docente.

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Ayuso rectifica y afirma que cofinanciará con el Estado el sueldo de 1.091 profesores

El Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades dice que “no hay ni negociación ni acuerdo” y que no va a firmar un pacto diferente al del resto de comunidades autónomas

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Casey Breen @caseybreen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm organizing a CenSoc Users Conference this Friday, Dec 6th! Please consider tuning in (all are welcome) to hear about some of the fascinating mortality research being done with these data. Full program and Zoom link: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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CenSoc Users Conference Program

CenSoc Users Conference Meeting Information In-person: Demography Seminar Room, 310 Social Science Building Zoom Link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/95559957196 Date: December 6th Organizers Casey...

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Fabrizio Bernardi @fabriberna.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

In Spain in regions like Madrid (7 public, 14 private), public unis face huge cuts while private ones thrive—backed by right-wing policies. What to do? Read my Op-ed published in El País: Defending Public Universities (translation from Spanish below) 1/2

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Defending Public Universities » fabrizio bernardi

A translation of an op-ed that I have published in El Pais on the 30/11/2024 As is well known in Spain, the Autonomous Community of Madrid is leading a political ... Read more

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Álvaro San Román del Pozuelo @asanromanpoz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🚨 The second round for #PAPERSS Seminars is here! 🥊 Early-career researchers in political science, sociology, and applied economics are invited to submit proposals for the Spring series by January 1st, 2025, through our online portal ⬇️. Let’s keep the momentum going! 📚✨

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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

"Behavioral Genetics on the Brink: A Review of Eric Turkheimer’s Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate." My new preprint book review. I will post a thread about the book in the near future. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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EAPS PhD Network @eapsphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Let's continue welcoming our newest members of the @eapsphd.bsky.social committee 🤗🎉 Aitor is a PhD student at Poblacion CSIC🇪🇸 and Carlos III - Juan March Institute 🇪🇸, and a researcher in the ERC ECHO Project🇪🇺. His research focuses on SES differences in #Health and #LifeCourse

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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.eurosky.social · 14/11/2024

I created this list a couple of days ago based on some people I know about but there has been a ton of new arrivals--please let me know who else to include. Also, this is an interdisciplinary list! #EconSky #Sociology #PoliSky #Demography go.bsky.app/T667spi

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Jennifer Hook @jenlhook.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Mostly #work-family sociologists so far. Reach out for an add! go.bsky.app/63Jq944

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Linzi Ladlow @drlinziladlow.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Lots of new faces here so I’m resharing this starter pack of folks interested in Family Studies. Comment if you want added, hope it’s useful 😊 go.bsky.app/RvM95NE

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Tom Emery @drtomemery.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The Austrian Research Agency publishes a list of #ERC applications that you can find online. If you are applying, this can be helpful. If you have received a grant, I would urge you to share yours too: www.ffg.at/europa/heu/e...

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List of ERC Proposals published online by ERC Principal Investigators | FFG

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid... I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I wrote about Eric Turkheimer's recent book on "the nature-nurture debate", which should be of interest to people thinking not just about the genetics of behavior but complex traits more broadly. A 🧵:

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Book Review: Eric Turkheimer's "Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate"

Or, some thoughts on The Gloomy Prospect and the Gloomy Present

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Jose Maycas @jmaycas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In Carlos III, the PhD students organize a seminar series for young researchers. Take a look if you are interested, and reach out to join the mailing list! 📫: paperss.seminars@gmail.com 💻: sites.google.com/view/paperss...

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