iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New paper from me, out soon in Behavior Research Methods: I'm a lil bit obsessed with good online recruitment and the result is this side-quest paper that made use of data we had collected that recruited people online in three ways (met them on Zoom, validated their email, and Prolific). 🧵>>

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A paper without author? We did a paper years back on overly positive framing of results, isms, and marginally sig effects as a consequence of academic capitalism years back. Looks like my younger I did not spend enough time with ecomomists.

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Arno Van Hootegem 🌱 @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New preprint from my stay at @invest-flagship.bsky.social! 🧐 Do genes moderate earning declines following endogenous and exogenous job loss? 📉 Those with a higher PGI for depression experience a larger drop in earnings, but only for exogenous job loss 🧠 We discuss implications for GxE! 🧬

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was great to finally meet you in person in Amsterdam/BGA. Enjoy your PL! Hope I/we will find time some day to run a GWAS on personality profiles or at least check if they are differentially associated with the revived PGIs.

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our big Big Five GWAS, out today! Personality Genomics is extremely hot in 2026.

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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 02/08/2026

My son Eemil is about to begin his studies at Rotterdam Business School this autumn. If you know someone in the region who needs a trusty tenant, please let me known! Anything in a commutable range would definitely be fine, Eemil has already extended his search to Delft, Gouda and Dordrecht.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

BGA conference venue does have a roof top bar

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FinnGen @finngen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A unique job opportunity to work on some of the most exciting genomic datasets in the world!

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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics. Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch. You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Printing banknotes with larger and larger denominations isn't that the characteristics of a hyperinflation?

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Deichkind hatte den Trend schon 2015 analog und in stereo erkannt "selber machen lassen" youtu.be/dapqMeQCdcs?... Aye, aye Captain!

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DEICHKIND - Selber Machen Lassen (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

We need a way for saying AI was involved. Like "I machine translated a text". "I vibe coded something digital", gets close to it. Alternatively, I may just say/write "Aye" did something. Because I & aye are both pronounced as "ei" :-) while while Aye implies AI acknowledged and executed a command.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Values research shows that people differ more by field of study then by country. Second, this is a selection and not socialization effect. So the entire discussion is fake. Plus group differences always mask individual similarities across groups. Rest is empty talk and propaganda.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This short THL news piece about the MEDIG project is also available in English. Just change the language setting :-)

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

First output of my 2 months stay at Amsterdam UMC linked to our MEDIG and SOSE projects at THL/ @invest-flagship.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/so... A cohort profile of our genetically informed register data / tutorial for using polygenic scores carefully when predicting health and social outcomes.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 28/05/2026

❗️EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc will demand limits on Russia’s armed forces if negotiations over Ukraine begin. She also said the EU will demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from Moldova and Georgia. #Russia

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I love the first sentence of the abstract "academic writing has prompted..."

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 22/05/2026

The populations in East&West Germany were far from being randomly selected groups: 1. the later border is already visible in pre-WWII data 2. WWII & the subsequent occupying forces affected East & West differently 3. a selective fifth fled from East 2 West Germany before the building of the Wall

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I would like to coin the term technocratic paternism. Weird folks telling people what is good for us.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Just sumbitted our poster to print for the @essgn.bsky.social conference 2026 Bologna. Really looking forward to presenting it at the most beautiful location known to me!

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Maria Vaalavuo @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

💡Uudessa työpaperissa Jukka Laaksosen ja @hdobewall.bsky.social kanssa tutkimme, miten pääsy 2. asteen koulutukseen vaikuttaa nuorten mielenterveyteen. osf.io/preprints/so... @invest-flagship.bsky.social #koulutus #mielenterveys

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

PLEASE SHARE: Serious request for a future scientific collaboration. Do I know any historians/sociologists who works with, or love working with historic ego documents. Diaries, letters, notes, etc. Especially those that describe real, or wished for, romantic partners/interests? email me, DM me!

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Was the html visualizations vibe coded / redone by an agent? If yes, for time being, one should still state this to make others feel better when reading such accomplishments with their morning coffee :-) Fully interactive textbook, quite cool.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Try an intra cohort aging plot, do follow cohorts over time and then compare ages where they overlap.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I actually find the biological aging field most exciting because it shows the social gradient in health at the epidemic level.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Maybe we have a chance to talk about it on Wednesday during the smaller conference dinner. In Turku, we also are using twins in full population registers, while our direct genetic effects with polygenic scores are much much smaller.

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Strange mix of findings,if you use AI in funding proposals, then you likely higher your chances of funding (unclear if reviewers used them too). Then the same scientists publish more (likely with the help of AI). The quality of the output is however lower than excellent. Publish fewer better papers!

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 24/04/2026

The Finnish #Environmental Institute @syke.fi - where I work - published a great #policy brief "Comprehensive #security is founded on a good state of the #environment." I wholeheartedly agree. #Economy, society, even #war are fully owned subsidiaries of the environment. www.syke.fi/en/comprehen...

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Comprehensive security is founded on a good state of the environment

Climate change, biodiversity loss and the crossing of tipping points in the Earth System are among the most serious security risks in the coming decades.(1) A deteriorating environment weakens people’...

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Sweden transformed school meals from a simple welfare policy to a school meals mission, providing an example of “sandboxing” green industrial strategy in a way that is both cross-sectoral and inter-ministerial.

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Free School Meals in Sweden: More than the food on the plate

Authored by Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato

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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

“Genes Linked to Educational Attainment & Adult SES Across Birth Cohorts”: @hdobewall.bsky.social, @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social et al. examine whether genetic endowment for high education is assoc. with subsequent socioeconomic outcomes. @invest-flagship.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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Henrik Dobewall @hdobewall.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

We answer research questions like: Do education linked genes still matter beyond academic credentials for socioeconomic attainment? Did the Comprehensive School reform of the 1970s change this association? What is the role of family background? Open access, so free food for the brain.

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Michel Nivard @michelnivard.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Thinking about this more, the 2 and 3 year bans are real career killers… who’d hire a tenure track candidate, or an (associate) professor that has one of those hanging around their necks?

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INVEST Research Flagship Centre @invest-flagship.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What does the MSCA application process really look like in practice? Mar Facchini and Mijail Figueroa González share their own experiences of applying for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funding, from first ideas to funded projects at INVEST. #researchfunding blogit.utu.fi/invest/2026/...

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Applying a grant – the process behind GROW and INSEQU projects

Mar Facchini & Mijail Figueroa González Thirty years ago, the European Commission launched its flagships funding scheme for PhD students and early-career researchers, honouring the legacy of a woman w...

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#Estonia surpassed South Korea by nominal GDP per capita while Lithuania surpassed Japan. Latvia is also trying #Baltics

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

GDP is a bad way to measure wealth, and it doesn't take a lot into account, including happiness or nature. An example if GB would join US is would be the poorest state by a margin. But on results on things that matter are different class. What would you prefer?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 10/04/2026

This is correct.

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Louise Arseneault @larseneault.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The @wellcometrust.bsky.social has opened a new funding opportunity for UK-based research teams to evaluate the mental health impacts of potential digital technology and social media restriction policies for children and young people. Check it out here: wellcome.org/mental-healt... 🧵1/2

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Evaluating the mental health impact of online technology restrictions | Wellcome

We’re inviting UK-based research teams to carry out timely evaluations of online technology restriction measures, particularly social media, for young people.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I love me an article that pushes back on low fertility panic by talking to demographers like @karenguzzo.bsky.social and @philipncohen.com. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

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Women in Their 20s May Not Be Having Babies, but by 45 Most Probably Will

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Some slides from a recent talk on missing heritability. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kvogj...

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 30/03/2026

More good news: #solar #PV is winning the #energy race. I used to be VERY concerned about energy & #climate change. Wrote books and demonstrated in favour of #nuclear power. I'm still concerned about #climate change, but believe the energy problem will be solved. www.dw.com/en/solar-is-...

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Solar is winning the energy race

The world’s cheapest power source is scaling at warp speed, pushing coal, gas and nuclear aside.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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