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How do parental health shocks affect children’s well-being, personality and NEET status? Our new paper on @jmfncfr.bsky.social l‬ suggests small or null effects in Germany. With @jpheisig.bsky.social , Jonas Radl and Alena Scheinert Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

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New paper with @fabriberna.bsky.social - part of my PhD thesis! Why are the negative educational consequences of parental separation stronger among high-SES children? → When high-SES parents separate, they lose their ability to compensate for their child’s low genetic propensity for education 🧬👪

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🎓 SPS Theses of the Month – May 2025 👏 Congratulations to @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social & Stephan Pietzner for successfully defending their dissertations! Their work spans gene-environment inequality to nuclear strategy timely, rigorous, and impactful. #SPS #PhDdefense www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

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New paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social just out in Demography! 🔗 read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a... Here’s a short thread on what we found—and why it might be worth a look.

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New paper with @paulhufe.net Astrid Sandsør and Nicolai Borgen 📝 Causal evidence for gene-environment interaction based on: 🧬 Exogenous within-family genetic differences 🏫 Exogenous variation in school value added

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I recently defended my PhD thesis on education & health inequalities! To help prevent misuse of sociogenomic findings, here is a graphic version of my thesis conclusion: → Family socioeconomic environment interacts with genetic propensities, reproducing social inequalities in education and health.

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Congratulations @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social on your impressive PhD & supervisor @fabriberna.bsky.social (don’t worry - he didn’t wear the football shirt during the defense 😆) Sorry I couldn’t join in person!

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@gaiaghirardi.bsky.social defended her PhD yesterday at the EUI. An outstanding thesis and a fantastic defense, so proud of you, Gaia!! Here pre-defence with the Bologna ultras supervisor and post with the committee @juhoharkonen.bsky.social @melindacmills.bsky.social (zoom) and Nicola Barban

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A possible mechanism underlying the intergenerational transmission of health inequalities: high-SES families buffer genetic propensity for obesity and overweight, while low-SES environments trigger them ⚖️ New working paper here 👇 osf.io/preprints/so...

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The BREATHE project is hiring BREATHE is a new ANR project on air pollution, inequalities & child development in France. We are a hiring a data manager at @ined.bsky.social (18 months contract) to link geocoded data to child-level admin & survey data. Deadline 8 May www.ined.fr/fichier/rte/...

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Interested in doing a Marie Curie #postdoc fellowship in Italy @ UNIBO with me? Happy to supervise applications in social science genomics 🧬 health 🏥 and human capital 👩‍🏫 * Check whether you qualify marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post... * Send me your CV and proposal * 🤞

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New preprint! We find no evidence that parental mental health influences children's academic achievement when comparing families in the Norwegian MoBa study. osf.io/preprints/ps... Quick thread 👇

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Us college educated folks are so diverse in our cultural practices, right? Not when it comes to the high-stakes cultural practice of social reproduction: #parenting! We parent much more alike than parents with fewer years of #education: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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I have seen a lot of prejudice and resistance against the inclusion of polygenetic scores (PGI) and PGIxSES in social stratification research. Using PGI is seen as antithetic to the core idea of sociology and even as politically dangerous 1/3

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New pub (w/ @fabriberna.bsky.social) highlighting how family socioeconomic background plays a key role in shaping genetic associations: advantaged families both compensate for and amplify their children’s genetic propensities for education doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103174 👇🧵

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A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️ As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!) #RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

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Check out my new new paper with @marcocozzani.bsky.social on Population Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0032... We show that immigrants’ educational selectivity improves their children’s health at birthin Spain, but just for some outcomes and some migrant groups

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Our paper with @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social is now out at SSR! Have a look if you are interested in social stratification and/or sociogenomics Below are the main findings and contributions 1/6 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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What in interesting piece! Do not miss it!

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I am recruiting a PhD student to join my lab this autumn, to study how vulnerable young people navigate the transition to adulthood: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/... Jointly supervised with Skills Development Scotland, so lots of scope to translate findings into impact and policy!

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This is a rare and outstanding opportunity to work with exceptional molecular genetic data to address fundamental sociological research questions! 🌟

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🆕 New Paper with Ilaria Pietropoli (lead) in "Research in Social Stratification and Mobility"! 🎯 We show how Home Learning Environment (HLE) & Early Childhood Education (ECE) interact in shaping and equalising Child Development across SES groups. Paper Link! 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Absolutely brilliant work by an equally brilliant friend and researcher ✨ Go read it!👇🏼

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Great to see "The Social Genome" by my colleague Dalton Conley now in print. A wealth of evidence and insights, challenging the old "nature vs. nurture" debate and showing how genes and social contexts interact to shape our lives.

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Any university still using X and promoting it on its web site is making a mockery of "institutional neutrality."

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🚨 Excited to share our latest work with @perlinedemange.bsky.social, Felix Elwert, Nicolai Borgen, @eivindy.bsky.social, and Henrik Zachrisson. Does more schooling increase earnings? We revisit this classic question using multiple genetically informed designs 📚🎓🧬 💰 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Next time you hear someone say preregistration and multiple testing corrections are 'not a thing' in sociology, just point to Gaia Ghirardi's award-winning paper as proof they should be! 🌟 Huge congratulations to Gaia on winning the Best Paper Award from the Italian Sociology Association! 🎉

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New working paper with @ferraraale.bsky.social

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🚩 NEW PAPER 🚩 Income volatility is associated with many adverse outcomes in today’s economy but we know almost nothing about how exposure to volatility depends on family background. @filippogch.bsky.social and I show … 1/2 #erc #sociology #EconTwitter academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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#convegnoSISEC2025 quest’anno il premio giovani per il miglior articolo va a Gaia Ghirardi con il suo lavoro “Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills: no evidence of the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis for educational outcomes”. Congratulazioni!

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Parental union dissolution substantively and persistently lowers children's wellbeing. ew article in @sfjournal.bsky.social by Mikkeline M. Nielsen (@rockwoolfonden.dk), Michael Gähler (@stockholm-uni.bsky.social), and I (@sofi.su.se ), we use longitudinal data on Danish children. #divorce (1/n)

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🤔 How can new technologies help public health efforts to overcome rising obesity levels? https://buff.ly/4h4vOit @drjenndowd.bsky.social explores the role of anti-obesity medications in tackling this population-level problem. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social

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Call for Papers The Advances in Social Genomics Conference Series (TAGC) May 14-16, 2025 UW-Madison @uwmadison.bsky.social Deadline for submissions: March 7, 2025 Funding available for presenters Keynotes: Kelly Bakulski and Dan Belsky isg.wisc.edu/events/the-a...

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NEW: Ruth Eva Jørgensen, Rosa Cheesman, Ole A. Andreassen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad , "The Genetics of Partnership Dissolution."

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Want to get out of Dodge? Do a postdoc @uio.no! You will be using the MoBa study and registers to study intergenerational transmission and GxE for #MentalHealth and #education using @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social and @pgcgenetics.bsky.social approaches. Please share! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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