📸 BGA Banquet, London, England, 29 June 2024 🇬🇧 Don't miss the next one in Atlanta! 🇺🇸 https://t.co/KBr2xJaM63

❗ Job opening: Assistant/Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pittsburg 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆: November 14, 2025 More info on the website ➡️ https://t.co/ANRgBr4f6G

3) Assistant professor in Neurogenetics, Neurodegeneration, & Stem Cell Biology at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder (deadline November 1, 2025)

2) Multiple tenure track Assistant/Associate Professor in Integrated Health Across Lifecycle and Systems at Purdue University (Review of applications starts November 10, 2025 and continues until positions are filled)

1) A postdoctoral position in social science genomics at the Max Planck Research Group Biosocial at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (deadline November 30, 2025)

We currently have multiple job openings (post-doc/assistant prof/associate prof) listed on our website, see thread below if you don't want to miss out! https://t.co/zqhUcvcNtu

🐥 Early-bird announcement: The abstract deadline for BGA 2026 will be February 15, 2026. BGA will take place June 23-26, in beautiful Amsterdam. Time to start thinking about the cool findings you want to share with your international colleagues at our annual meeting!

🍬 @RMArmitage and colleagues examine variation in sweet-liking in a twin population in Finland

📕Diana Bicona and colleagues construct polygenic scores for dyslexia and examine interactions with socioeconomic status to predict reading ability

🧠 Yu-Cheng Hsu and colleagues investigate potentially modifying effects of education on the association of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) ε4 allele and polygenic scores for different cognitive outcomes

⚖️ Parisa Riahi, farshad teymoori et al examining familial resemblance patterns of different body adiposity indicators among 16,983 Tehranian adults

🧬 A proteome wide asssociation study examining causal effects of the mother’s and fetal blood proteome on pregnancy related outcomes by Emily Daubney and colleagues

🔍 A systematic review of twin literature by Will Conabere and colleagues that addresses genetic and environmental influences to gender diversity

⏰ New issue alert: Volume 55, issue 5:

🔜 Submit your abstract to the BG special issue "The role of sex in neurodevelopment" before October 31! https://t.co/bCxQU8IihA

📢We are sharing two timely statements by @BehaviorGenetic : 1️⃣ Against misuse of behavioral genetics, reaffirming the complexity of genes & environment. 2️⃣ On polygenic embryo selection, advising against clinical use. Read here: https://t.co/5zNEsQHuAK

🧬 @LyuXuanyu and colleagues on using extended pedigrees to quantify the influence of mitochondrial DNA on human behavior

🧠 The impact of polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for cannabis use disorder (CUD) and general substance use and substance use disorder liability (SU/SUD) on brain morphology in drug-naïve adolescents by Sydney Kramer et al.

👋 The potential causal effect of maternal smoking during pregnancy on offspring handedness using a proxy gene-by-environment (GxE) Mendelian randomization design by Daisy Crick and colleagues

🚬 A study by Li Hazel Yu and colleagues that calls into question the robustness of links between self-reported victimization in childhood and prospectively measured timing of substance initiation across adolescence.

📱 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 and colleagues