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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Spotify is already trying to not let me listen to this...must be magic!

Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Doesn't NTR have that? Children of twins subset perhaps? In the form of parent personality - child personality / or parent personality - child temperament. It might be that the children of twins is not a big subsample though

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

First day visiting Laurel Raffington’s group at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin! Very warm welcome already, thanks @denizfraemke.bsky.social for being a great host. And yes, the grapes and plums are a definite plus :D

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Excited to be presenting this Thursday at #BGA2026! Join me at 14:45 in UvA 3-4 LT2 for the Education & Cognition session: I’ll present our preliminary findings on environmentally mediated genetic effects on children’s language/literacy - and yes, we also looked at parental personality!

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Very happy to read this piece I’ve been scanning some of the older work on this (with that I mean as old as 2017 - *cough*)

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A study in @nature.com shows that while complex traits are polygenic in population at large, they have distinct architecture at tails, where rare variants of large effect act as key drivers. Not a surprising finding but neat to see it demonstrated in large UK Biobank cohort across traits & methods.🧪

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Distinct genetic architecture in the tails of complex traits - Nature

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 ...

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Here is my occasional, I've made this post!

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Happy international day of women im science day. 🥳 From the MPI for Psycholinguistics ... led by a majority women directorate. It can be done :)

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I will just show you once you're back :D

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Today, I'm in Amsterdam, attending a gathering (I live more in the south of NL). As I walk in the streets all I want to say is that Amsterdam has so much the feeling of OLD money and OLD poverty :)

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Pleitropy (a set of known variants influencing the target 'positive' trait yet also potentially influencing another unknown -perhaps negative- outcome is already concern by itself (even if you don't care about the ethics and exacerbeting existing inequalities part of it which obviously you should)

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Come join us for a 4-year PhD on effects of rare gene disruptions involved in speech disorder, investigated in human neuronal models (via gene-editing, tissue culture, brain organoids, high-res microscopy, transcriptomics, epigenomics). More info: www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe... #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs 🧬🧪

Photograph of researchers at their benches in the custom-built molecular biology labs of the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, with green trees of the forest outside visible through large windows in the background.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here are the links for the images with higher resolution: drive.google.com/file/d/1uOFN... drive.google.com/file/d/1aWPR...

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here are some illustrations I’ve made as a hobby project, related to language development and the interplay between genes and the environment :-) Feel free to use them for your presentations, posters, etc., with a small attribution :-) My plan is to create and add more over time.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This doesn't look bad at all, particularly for extraversion and openness. Thanks!

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Thank you, Fiona, as always. I have seen Marleen's GWAS already, but it is potentially underpowered... and Ted's sum stats are currently not available. I will check out the follow-up links you have sent. It is a bit more difficult to find GWASes looking into other big 5 than neuroticism it seems

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Hi Ted, I see! Thanks for letting me know so quickly!

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I think this one seems like the best option. I have heard this one from a couple of other colleagues today as well. I will contact @tedmond.bsky.social for the sumstats (not sure if they're published anywhere yet). Thanks!!

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Can anyone point me to a personality GWAS paper or summary statistics that I could use to extract polygenic scores in a European sample? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 06/10/2025

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Okay, something non-academic about me: I once sculpted a mini Ottoman-inspired helmet and body armor for an old David de Kabouter figurine I found at home (I had to cut off the top of his hat -- Sorry, David).

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I'm looking for a PhD student to do some trailblazing at the frontier of personality genomics and lifespan gene-environment transactions (start Fall 2026)! If you want to work with me: psychology.msu.edu/graduatestud... (PS @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social is taking a student too, in moral psych/dev!)

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This coming from Giacomo makes it automatically verified for some reason

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.

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Behavior Genetics Association @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

📱 The association between social media use, wellbeing, and depressive symptoms, and the extent to which genetic and environmental factors contribute to this association by @selimsametoglu.bsky.social and colleagues

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

"...there is the possibility of real damage if selecting for one trait turns out to create risks for others." (On the top of all other ethical issues begin with).

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

GPT-5 regularly asks you why you are not citing its work. GPT-5 always believes your estimator is biased. GPT-5 has more of a comment than a question. Sometimes GPT-5 tells you stories about grad school and expresses regret about getting a PhD. GPT-5's mom wonders when it will start making money.

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Perline Demange @perlinedemange.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

How much do people know and understand what their administrative and health data is used for? Another story of consent for genetic data use this week.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Not sure who came up with "Manhattan Plot", but in 2014 I coined the alternative term "Nijmegen Plot" (inspired by the Dutch town where I live) to describe underwhelming results from our earliest genome-wide association scans of language/reading traits.

Contrasting photographs of the night-time skylines of Manhattan (left) and Nijmegen (right), with matching genome-wide association plots underneath each.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Great news, Fiona! Congratulations!!

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

👍Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think! If you're also curious about how the data collection process went (the challenges/ups and downs). I’d be happy to share more. I’m planning to write a thread about it later, but you’re welcome to reach out to me in the meantime!

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Overall, our study highlighted the potential of integrating social media data for research and its applicability to non-English contexts.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Incorporating Facebook likes and temporal information (e.g., monthly changes in word use) did not improve prediction model performances, even though they yielded insightful associations with survey-based wellbeing measures.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Next, we applied machine learning models to predict survey-based wellbeing scores. In these models, modest convergence between model predictions and traditional self-report wellbeing measures (r = 0.12) was found.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

And here are some of the main results: - We analysed social media posts using both closed and open vocabulary methods. - Words with negative valence and those related to negative emotions were most strongly related to wellbeing survey scores of people that were assesed over the years...

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We combined this data with wellbeing survey scores that had been collected over many years by the Netherlands Twin Register, which served as the gold standard for the wellbeing assessments we aimed to make using social media text-based indices.

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We have a new preprint: this work is especially dear to my heart, as it results from the data collection pipeline we established at the Netherlands Twin Register, which enabled us to collect Facebook posts and likes (paid for with plenty of blood, sweat, and tears...) osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Yep, our current multivac is more leaning towards the sugarcoating instead of the truth🤣😅..

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Selim Sametoğlu @selimsametoglu.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The plot follows from there with a sweet plottwist at the very end. Here is also a video commentary for this story with some pretty visuals/animations if you don't feel like reading : youtu.be/BmPcWuv6Mcw?...

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Humanity’s Final Goal | Isaac Asimov’s The Last Question

YouTube video by merlin

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