In celebration of #InternationalWomensDay this Sunday, 8th of March, we wanted to highlight some of our early and mid-career #WomenInSTEM here at the PGC🎉!
Stay tuned to find out what some of these✨awesome✨ scientists are doing and what being a woman in STEM means to them!
Is being a woman in STEM still so strange we need to ask what it means? Sorry not-sorry that I chose to talk about the anger and not the gratitude this year. #IWD #WomenInSTEM
I had been recommended Lou Malnati’s and it was nice (but that’s the only one I ever had so can’t compare). Stop by Doughnut Vault next by, this I can def recommend :)
Yes. I am working on this in coaching. Sadly, managing this kind of interaction is an important aspect of being an academic department head.
Looking forward to this year's Behavior Genetics Association (BGA) conference, in my hometown of Amsterdam!
Deadline for abstracts is next week, February 16th: bga.org/content.aspx...
Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.
I’m regularly annoyed that I can’t read the peer review reports for published papers. Does anyone know the current state of the debate on this? Are there still good reasons not to openly publish reviewer reports?
I'm hiring #PROMENTA @uio.no: Researcher (PhD) in post-pandemic youth mental health (#NordForsk consortium SISU/PRISM).
#MoBa #genetics + registry data -> gene-environment interactions. Please share!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... @ki.se @haskolinn.bsky.social @thlorg.bsky.social
I’m regularly annoyed that I can’t read the peer review reports for published papers. Does anyone know the current state of the debate on this? Are there still good reasons not to openly publish reviewer reports?
Working on an MR paper (might have fell right after...)
Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Dr Margherita Malanchini is examining how school, family, and peer environments interact with genetic risk to shape educational outcomes – a crucial step toward better, targeted interventions.
🎥 Watch the video and learn more about her work: bit.ly/3MlXuFu
#Research
📝 The PsychGen Center for Genetic Epidemiology and Mental Health is hosting a two-day, in-person workshop for early-career researchers on family-based genomic analyses. The workshop takes place in Oslo, Norway, on 9-10 April 2026 and registration is now open:
shorturl.at/etXCN
📢🧬 Call for Papers — 5th ESSGN Conference
📍 Bologna, May 21–22, 2026
I’ll be co-organising the 5th ESSGN conference in Bologna together with Nicola Barban, Stephanie von Hinke, Paul Hufe, and Niels Rietveld @essgn.bsky.social
📄 Submit here: forms.gle/fmVDUrQqQYju...
🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026
Indeed. If you make a google news search, you'll see it is popping up every 2-3 years. I talked about this last week with my Bsc students, and I am sure every Behaviour Genetics course has a similar slide with the same example 🥲
I am getting ads for AI software that make literature reviews on TikTok, especially targeting PhD candidates 😩
« And the message can’t be what it has always been: your science is welcome, but your humanity is conditional. »
The updated version of this paper is now online: rdcu.be/eX8ck. We wrote this paper as part of the behavior genetics special issue 'Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science: Impacts and Implications' -excited to see it out! @evangiangrande.bsky.social @lucasjmatthews.bsky.social @appelbap.bsky.social
Back at work, back to my bi-monthly habit of trying to remember and understand how LDscore regression works.
Thank god for the international statistical genetics workshop for sharing their slides eg. ibg.colorado.edu/cdrom2023/fa... and videos www.youtube.com/@isg-worksho...
We wrote a short piece on conducting participatory workshops to change research culture, given our experiences in teaching workshops on climate activism & open scholarship.
With @anne-urai.bsky.social @clarekelly.bsky.social @annaveer.bsky.social
📝 rdcu.be/eXja4
🧪 #AcademicSky
reposting for the Monday crowd—
This week in my newsletter I discussed the “Have your best baby” campaign by Nucleus Genomics as an example of what @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @arnovanhootegem.bsky.social have called “commodification on steroids”
open.substack.com/pub/kathrynp...
For those working in psychiatric genomics and related disciplines: join us next Wednesday as we discuss accurate and trusted science communication.
I will cover how researchers can get involved in lending their expertise to educate and combat misinformation, and introduce @authentisci.bsky.social.
I wrote about the endless temptation successful people feel to justify and feel justified in a clearly toxic system. Happy new year.
open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
I would not have thought of it as disagreeableness and disinhibition but as courage. Courage to look yourself in the mirror, courage to not play the game, and courage to push the system to change. This will be called disagreeable only by those powerful and “well-adjusted”.
Research questions generated by AI. Questionnaires filled out by AI. Paper written by AI. Paper reviewed by AI. Just make it stop.
I had not seen the llm part at first, and it still made sense to me, I just saw 5 burn-out ECRs tied up.
Hi Perline! Dates: 21-22 of May, in a lovely part of Italy (more details to come!) :)
Thank you 🙏
Honoured to be featured by the @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social Research Fellowship. Their support enables ambitious, cross-border science on how genetics and environments shape children’s learning & development. 🌍🧬
Work with other Fellows nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com/articles/s41...
