Family demographic behavior is often studied as a response to structural conditions or parental characteristics, yet children may themselves shape ...

Children of parents with psychopathology generally perform less well in school than their peers. Parental symptoms might not, however, account for their lower achievement, as other familial factors mi...

ALT: The Predator Emerges

An emerging market promotes embryo selection for behavioural traits including IQ, but the response of the social and behavioural genetic research community remains muted. We call for unified best prac...

Personality psychologists were doing behavior genetics way before it was cool. In this episode, Rafael and Aysu sit down with Eivind Ystrøm, personality psychologist at the University of Oslo, to talk...

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (297591), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, May 4, 2026

Postdoctoral Position, Political Science , Department of Government, Uppsala University

We are seeking to appoint a quantitative researcher to work on an ambitious research project using genetically-informed designs to investigate the intergenerational transmissi...

Rosa Cheesman is exploring which environments help different children

Job title: Researcher in Post-Pandemic Youth Mental Health  (294258), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, March 5, 2026

Join us for a two-day workshop for Early-Career Researchers on Family-Based Genomic Analyses. The workshop is hosted by the PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health, Oslo – 09.04.202...

Mendelian imputation is a promising method for imputing missing parental genotypes and estimating direct and indirect genetic effects. While the method has clear scientific benefits, so far there has ...

Nature Human Behaviour - Changing research culture begins with the kind of engaged, collaborative, critical reflection that can spark collective action. This Comment outlines how to design...

Universities, audience capture, and bullshit; Beowulf, Kendrick Lamar

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...

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 ...

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...

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...