Evo psych now apparently calls itself sociogenomics.
March 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Evo psych now apparently calls itself sociogenomics.
My research note on the sociogenomics of stratification and general theories of inequality. doi.org/10.1111/1468...
The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality
The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to reco...
doi.org
June 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
My research note on the sociogenomics of stratification and general theories of inequality. doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Numerous FAQs & think pieces were written promising GWAS participants & the broader public that sociogenomics was focused on education improvement, environmental interventions, and away from the hereditarian past. All quickly betrayed.
August 2, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Numerous FAQs & think pieces were written promising GWAS participants & the broader public that sociogenomics was focused on education improvement, environmental interventions, and away from the hereditarian past. All quickly betrayed.
Interesting read on the elephant in the sociogenomics room - "the dilemmas of social responsibility in a field whose history has been used to perpetuate systemic racism & classism". Concerningly, the researchers interviewed only seem to be aware of historical, and not present, misuses of the field
“The elephant in the room”: social responsibility in the production of sociogenomics research - BioSocieties
Sociogenomics examines the extent to which genetic differences between individuals relate to differences in social and economic behaviors and outcomes. The field evokes mixed reactions. For some, soci...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Interesting read on the elephant in the sociogenomics room - "the dilemmas of social responsibility in a field whose history has been used to perpetuate systemic racism & classism". Concerningly, the researchers interviewed only seem to be aware of historical, and not present, misuses of the field
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...
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...
March 31, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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...
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...
Triple sociogenomics postdoc opportunities coming up! Here's the Amsterdam one.
Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬
You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL)
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
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You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL)
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures...
Please RT for karma points ♥️
Vacatures - Postdoctoral researcher specialising in gene–environment interplay - Amsterdam UMC
Ready to unravel the complex interplay between genes and environment shaping health and society? Join our interdisciplinary team analyzing large-scale genomic data across Europe. Are you eager to contribute to groundbreaking research on health and social inequalities?
werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org
March 24, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Triple sociogenomics postdoc opportunities coming up! Here's the Amsterdam one.
Piece critical about the current state of genetic research in demography ("The Dead Ends of Sociogenomics") but which ends on a hopeful note, arguing demographers & sociologists should work together with the natural sciences to improve this field shs.cairn.info/journal-popu...
The Dead Ends of Sociogenomics
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November 17, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Piece critical about the current state of genetic research in demography ("The Dead Ends of Sociogenomics") but which ends on a hopeful note, arguing demographers & sociologists should work together with the natural sciences to improve this field shs.cairn.info/journal-popu...
🚨📜 Debut publication alert!
Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification!
Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956...
#Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB
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Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification!
Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956...
#Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB
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July 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨📜 Debut publication alert!
Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification!
Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956...
#Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB
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Do genetics influence education differently across state borders? 🧬📚 We tested differences in genetic associations with education in East and West 🇩🇪 around reunification!
Out now in Psychological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0956...
#Sociogenomics #MPRGBiosocial #MPIB
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Sociologists have discovered cultural evolution, but call it “sociogenomics”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
March 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Sociologists have discovered cultural evolution, but call it “sociogenomics”
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Always energising to engage with cutting-edge work on assortative mating, cross-ancestry prediction, and rare variants at @ESSGN — especially with such a strong cohort of doctoral researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
#Sociogenomics #GeneticPrediction #ESSGN
#Sociogenomics #GeneticPrediction #ESSGN
March 27, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Always energising to engage with cutting-edge work on assortative mating, cross-ancestry prediction, and rare variants at @ESSGN — especially with such a strong cohort of doctoral researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
#Sociogenomics #GeneticPrediction #ESSGN
#Sociogenomics #GeneticPrediction #ESSGN
Olesya wrote an exceptionally rich thesis on the philosophy of sociogenomics. Follow her work! Tim Lewens and I are very proud co-supervisors. #philsci #philsky #metascience
And so I can finally announce the big news: I have recently passed my PhD viva, with no corrections. I am very happy and thankful to everyone who has supported me on this journey, and most of all to my brilliant supervisors including @annaalexandrova.bsky.social!
February 2, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Olesya wrote an exceptionally rich thesis on the philosophy of sociogenomics. Follow her work! Tim Lewens and I are very proud co-supervisors. #philsci #philsky #metascience
@astabreinholt.bsky.social just won a grant to advance the sociogenomics field by studying educational inequalities! ✨
Keep an eye on this project in the coming years—it promises to bring exciting outcomes!
Keep an eye on this project in the coming years—it promises to bring exciting outcomes!
Do genetic effects on education work through social mechanisms? And does the social environment moderate these effects? I’m addressing these RQs with brilliant @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social and @mikkelhoumark.bsky.social in a new project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark!
December 12, 2024 at 7:42 PM
@astabreinholt.bsky.social just won a grant to advance the sociogenomics field by studying educational inequalities! ✨
Keep an eye on this project in the coming years—it promises to bring exciting outcomes!
Keep an eye on this project in the coming years—it promises to bring exciting outcomes!
Keynote: social responsibility in sociogenomics, with @daphmarts.bsky.social
May 21, 2026 at 7:25 AM
Keynote: social responsibility in sociogenomics, with @daphmarts.bsky.social
Warm welcome to @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social! Expert on ethics and methodology of sociogenomics and an all around great philosopher of science. #philsci #philsky #scipol
October 3, 2023 at 6:04 PM
Warm welcome to @olesyabondarenko.bsky.social! Expert on ethics and methodology of sociogenomics and an all around great philosopher of science. #philsci #philsky #scipol
Helsinki sociogenomics workshop bubble slowly arriving here, welcome @hdobewall.bsky.social 👋
October 10, 2023 at 4:47 AM
Helsinki sociogenomics workshop bubble slowly arriving here, welcome @hdobewall.bsky.social 👋
While the return of eugenic ideology in “science" and public debate is deeply troubling, I’ve seen no genetic determinism promoted anywhere by sociologists in sociogenomics. On the contrary, there’s a strong awareness of how socially constructed genetically associated traits truly are 2/3
April 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
While the return of eugenic ideology in “science" and public debate is deeply troubling, I’ve seen no genetic determinism promoted anywhere by sociologists in sociogenomics. On the contrary, there’s a strong awareness of how socially constructed genetically associated traits truly are 2/3
“the claims of sociogenomics are dangerously misleading and essentially groundless. Its advocates use spurious scientism—an alphabet soup of acronyms and elaborate statistical practices that exploit vast, cheaply accessible genetic databases—to disguise social ideologies as scientific facts”
Not in Your Genome | M.W. Feldman, Jessica Riskin
Generations of “sociobiologists” have tried and failed to argue that genetic analysis offers the key to understanding social inequality. A new book fares no better.
www.nybooks.com
May 31, 2026 at 4:38 PM
“the claims of sociogenomics are dangerously misleading and essentially groundless. Its advocates use spurious scientism—an alphabet soup of acronyms and elaborate statistical practices that exploit vast, cheaply accessible genetic databases—to disguise social ideologies as scientific facts”
📢 MEDIG project's first article using genetic data is finally published. 💃🏼Do "educational genes" matter beyond achieved level of education? ⬇️
#sociogenomics #education
#sociogenomics #education
“Genes Linked to Educational Attainment & Adult SES Across Birth Cohorts”: @hdobewall.bsky.social, @mariavaalavuo.bsky.social et al. examine whether genetic endowment for high education is assoc. with subsequent socioeconomic outcomes. @invest-flagship.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
April 21, 2026 at 12:51 PM
📢 MEDIG project's first article using genetic data is finally published. 💃🏼Do "educational genes" matter beyond achieved level of education? ⬇️
#sociogenomics #education
#sociogenomics #education
Welcoming the rising star of sociogenomics in London. Thanks for sharing a meal @furuyashiro.bsky.social @harvard.edu @clscohorts.bsky.social .
January 27, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Welcoming the rising star of sociogenomics in London. Thanks for sharing a meal @furuyashiro.bsky.social @harvard.edu @clscohorts.bsky.social .
"A tale of two sociogenomics: Shall the twain ever meet?"
by Gene E. Robinson & Dalton Conley
In this TrendsTalk article, we meet two leaders in sociogenomics, who help us better understand both the animal and human ‘sides’ of this evolving field.
Check it out!
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
by Gene E. Robinson & Dalton Conley
In this TrendsTalk article, we meet two leaders in sociogenomics, who help us better understand both the animal and human ‘sides’ of this evolving field.
Check it out!
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
September 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
"A tale of two sociogenomics: Shall the twain ever meet?"
by Gene E. Robinson & Dalton Conley
In this TrendsTalk article, we meet two leaders in sociogenomics, who help us better understand both the animal and human ‘sides’ of this evolving field.
Check it out!
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
by Gene E. Robinson & Dalton Conley
In this TrendsTalk article, we meet two leaders in sociogenomics, who help us better understand both the animal and human ‘sides’ of this evolving field.
Check it out!
www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Very happy to have contributed TRAILS data (www.trails.nl/eng) even if only a few 100. I always tell my students how sociogenomics can’t happen w/o everyone being willing to collaborate and this proves it again. Thanks to @erc.europa.eu for funding and @tedmond.bsky.social for excellent leadership!
May 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Very happy to have contributed TRAILS data (www.trails.nl/eng) even if only a few 100. I always tell my students how sociogenomics can’t happen w/o everyone being willing to collaborate and this proves it again. Thanks to @erc.europa.eu for funding and @tedmond.bsky.social for excellent leadership!
Marc Feldman and Jessica Riskin with another withering critique of a "sociogenomics" popularization:
"...you can’t add or subtract factors that interact, such as genetic and environmental influences. How much of a rainbow’s formation is due to moisture in the air and how much to sunlight?"
"...you can’t add or subtract factors that interact, such as genetic and environmental influences. How much of a rainbow’s formation is due to moisture in the air and how much to sunlight?"
Not in Your Genome | M.W. Feldman, Jessica Riskin
Generations of “sociobiologists” have tried and failed to argue that genetic analysis offers the key to understanding social inequality. A new book fares no better.
www.nybooks.com
May 31, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Marc Feldman and Jessica Riskin with another withering critique of a "sociogenomics" popularization:
"...you can’t add or subtract factors that interact, such as genetic and environmental influences. How much of a rainbow’s formation is due to moisture in the air and how much to sunlight?"
"...you can’t add or subtract factors that interact, such as genetic and environmental influences. How much of a rainbow’s formation is due to moisture in the air and how much to sunlight?"
We are looking for a scientist passionate about developmental psychology, sociogenomics, and DNA methylation in a cash gift RCT postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/692! 3.5+ yr position in Berlin (until April 30, 2029) integrated into a new Max Planck postdoc program www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #MPRGBiosocial
Postdoc position | Max Planck Postdoc Program
postdocprogram.mpg.de
March 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We are looking for a scientist passionate about developmental psychology, sociogenomics, and DNA methylation in a cash gift RCT postdocprogram.mpg.de/node/692! 3.5+ yr position in Berlin (until April 30, 2029) integrated into a new Max Planck postdoc program www.mpg.de/en/max-planc... #MPRGBiosocial
In this research note, Herman G. van de Werfhorst explores how the field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility.
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
The Sociogenomics of Social Stratification and General Theories of Inequality
The field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility. Do sociologists need to…
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 25, 2026 at 12:05 PM
In this research note, Herman G. van de Werfhorst explores how the field of the sociogenomics of inequalities would benefit from discussing what its findings and ambitions mean for core theories of social stratification and mobility.
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️