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🚨New Paper Alert! 🚨: The structure of psychiatric comorbidity without selection and assortative mating : rdcu.be/dzQYN

Karakterer har personlighet - Her fant vi at personlighet ved 8 år gir ulikhet i nasjonale prøver. Det er barnet selv og ikke foreldrene som styrer dettte. UiO - Psykologisk Institutt Det utdanningsvitskaplege fakultet (UiO) PROMENTA UiO Dr Rosa Cheesman Fartein Ask Torvik Henrik D Zachrisson forskning.no forskning.no/personlighet-e…

We found that personality at 8 years old leads to differences in school performance. It's the child, not the parents, driving this. UiO - Psykologisk Institutt Det utdanningsvitskaplege fakultet (UiO) PROMENTA UiO Dr Rosa Cheesman Fartein Ask Torvik Henrik D Zachrisson ScienceNorway.no sciencenorway.no/children-and-a…

Interesting. And it’s boys. A case for redshirting at least the younger ones?

New GxE preprint out! Did the effects of a Swedish schooling reform on a large variety of outcomes differ depending on underlying genetic measures? Among 105 pre-registered heterogeneity tests, only two come out positive after multiple testing adjustments. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Today, I’m proud to say, our new paper on assortative mating was published in Nature Communications. (Link: doi.org/10.1038/s41467…). Here are our key findings 🧵:

Good news! I received the ERC Advanced Grant for “HOMME”, Health, Cognition, Family, and Employment among Men. HOMME will use the world’s most comprehensive data to study men’s cognition and health development through adulthood. European Research Council (ERC) #ERCAdG

Very proud to say our Registered Report supporting a causal relationship between age at menarche and adolescent depression is now published in BMC Medicine. Link: shorturl.at/dFKTY. This was a big team effort spanning the duration of my PhD! A🧵on the process and findings:

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I am very proud and happy to say that I successfully held my trial lecture and defended my PhD thesis on Tuesday 🥳👨‍🎓. The day was made extra special by the presence of many friends, family members, and colleagues who showed their support.

"Gender equality is not a zero sum game. We can do more for boys and men without doing less for women and girls. We can be passionate about women’s rights, and compassionate towards the struggles of boys and men. We rise together". Me: aibm.org/commentary/mel…

🧵 Is there a genuine adolescent mental health crisis or are we just more sensitive to mental health problems? What did we learn using Norwegian register data of primary care diagnoses and educational outcomes? #MentalHealth #Education New study 🔗: doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.1…

🧵Are cognitive abilities linked with mental disorders? Can you be too smart for your own good and how does educational attainment factor in? See this thread and linked preprint …

This plot shows the proportion of individuals who develop a mental disorder (y axis), as a function of cognitive abilities (x axis). Note the strong and linear trend 📊.

This plot show proportion of developing any mental disorder as a function of both cognitive abilities and educational attainment. It show clearly that the individuals with compulsory education only, and with low cognitive abilities are particularly vulnerable.

I'm very excited to share our new preprint, where we explore indirect assortative mating on educational attainment. We develop a new framework, and use partners of twins to find that partners are likely sorting on associated environmental factors. 🧵doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

I really enjoyed #bga2024. It was fun to meet and talk with interesting people, and to present our recent work on assortative mating. I'm also honored to be awarded the outstanding poster award. Thank you! Poster: osf.io/dznbk/files/os… Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Thanks to all at #BGA2024 for the camaraderie and great science in London! Special thanks to 📸 Our symposium speakers on intergenerational transmission of education 🧬👨‍👩‍👧📚 📸My current and soon-to-be lab members

This paper is 🔥🔥🔥. I am a big fan of extended twin designs as a way of accounting for assortative mating when estimating genetic and environmental influences on a trait and for investigating the genetic and environmental basis of parent-offspring resemblance. Yet I've long