Genome-wide analyses in multiancestry and European cohorts show that in complex traits, rare alleles have disproportionately large effects at the tails of the phenotypic spectrum compared with common ...

This is a repository containing the codes to simulate family datasets. - selimsametoglu/simulated_families

On 12 January 2026, I’ll be giving a talk on individual differences in typical and atypical language development from a genetically informative perspective (with a primary focus on typical development...

We’re hiring! Join the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen as a part-time student-assistent (16 hrs/week), starting 1 March 2026.   You will support research projects by assisting w...

A large twin study suggests the weak associations between social media use and mental health may reflect shared genetic influences, not direct effects. The findings challenge alarmist narratives and p...

Behavior Genetics is a leading journal concerned with the genetic analysis of behavioral traits. The journal offers the most current original research on ...

Using language is a skill that allows us to share our ideas and feelings, to learn in school, and to understand the world around us. Unfortunately, using and understanding language is not easy for eve...

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

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research (272560), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 24, 2025

This study demonstrates that deep neural networks, like humans, show a learnability advantage when trained on languages with more structured linguistic input, resulting in closer alignment with human ...

Bristol, May 22-23, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the 4th conference of the European Social Science Genetics Network. This conference aims to improve our understanding of how gene…

The "other" in science never is the caricature/abstraction you distill from the literature.