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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · 19h

Not directly to your point, but: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Testing for treatment effect heterogeneity: Educational reform, genetic endowments, and family background

We study the heterogeneous effects of a Swedish educational reform that increased compulsory schooling from seven to nine years. Following a pre-registered Anal

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Mikael Persson @professormpersson.bsky.social · 5d

The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 10d

The European Research Council offers up to €2M additional funding for PIs relocating to the EU or a Horizon Europe Associated Country from non-associated third countries under Starting, Consolidator or Advanced Grants. @erc.europa.eu ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · 25d

Amazing, congrats!

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · 28d

Are you... psychic?

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · 28d

Now do s1mono!

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Ted Schwaba @tedmond.bsky.social · Sep 2

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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Julia Sero @cellmorphosero.bsky.social · Sep 2

I like how the QWERTY keyboard mirrors evolution. Proteins and pathways adapted to a situation persist, even when the situation changes. So we end up with mysteriously complex Rube Goldberg machines across biology that only make sense if you know about clashing type bars in Victorian machines.

Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · Aug 29

I just put online the chapter from my book that talks about all the myths and mysteries about QWERTY and Dvorak.

You can read it here: aresluna.org/the-primitiv...

The primitive tortureboard

Untangling the myths and mysteries of Dvorak and QWERTY

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · Aug 31

PhD position in Economics with a specialization in AI and the Future of Taxes at Uppsala University uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

PhD position in Economics with a specialization in AI and the Future of Taxes

The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences, with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year, around 1,000 students participa

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Tim Morris @timtmorris.bsky.social · Aug 13

Call for abstracts: genetics, economic & social issues.

We're hosting a 1-day workshop on using genetic data to examine economic & social issues on 12th December at UCL’s Social Research Institute. More info & submission at link below #genetics #socialscience #economics #cohort

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Microsoft Forms

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · Aug 2

A few thoughts on Herasight, the new embryo selection company. First, their whitepaper (drive.google.com/file/d/1EpFi...) implies that competitors like Nucleus have been marketing and selling grossly erroneous risk estimates. This is shocking if true! 🧵

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 30

This is cool!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jul 30

Congratulations to @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social, winner of the latest @jepsjournal.bsky.social Award for Best Replication.

Find out more here - cup.org/3H0qy2y

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 26

Just got stung by a wasp for the first time since I was kid. I'm genuinely surprised by how much it hurts!

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UppsalaPeaceConflict @uupeace.bsky.social · Jul 23

In a recent episode of a podcast about the Lundin Oil war crimes trial, our Associate Professor Johan Brosché and historian Douglas H. Johnson discuss the evidence that systematic war crimes were committed to support the oil industry.
🎧 unpaiddebt.org/e19-question...

E19: Questioning History: A Lundin Defence Tactic

The defence lawyers for Ian Lundin and Alex Schneiter deny that any war crimes were committed during Lundin’s operations in South Sudan. They have spent considerable time in court attempting to discre...

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 23

Hypothetically yes, but it's probably difficult to get a decent quantitative measure of those outcomes that would fit this design. There are some good indirect ways of getting at this though, such as this excellent paper: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners

Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 22

At long last, this paper is now published. Does wealth (causally!) confer an advantage in terms of political participation? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do the rich ditch politics? Evidence from Sweden

The world has seen a massive increase in wealth and wealth inequality over the last decades. Given the skew in policy making towards the preferences o…

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 17

Looking forward to reading the final thing!

Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 15

Nice to see this in print! Congrats!

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Deniz Fraemke @denizfraemke.bsky.social · Jul 15

🚨📜 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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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 7

You're assuming that neither of these were there? :)

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 7

It's 2025, and I still got a desk reject because of null results today. Anyway, how's your publication bias going?

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congrats, very well deserved!

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Laurel Raffington @laraffington.bsky.social · Jul 3

Humbled to receive the BGA's early career award ☺️ Thank you to my brilliant team #MPRGBiosocial, the @maxplanck.de for investing in early career researchers, @mpib-berlin.bsky.social for the excellent environment, and my many mentors incl @kph3k.bsky.social @tuckerdrob.bsky.social #ScienceTeamSport

Behavior Genetics Association @behaviorgenetic.bsky.social · Jul 2

🏆 @laraffington.bsky.social‬ won the early career award, and Paul Liechtenstein won the Dobzhansky award

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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · Jun 30

The sheer stupidity of this

David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · Jun 27

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...