International society supporting education and research on complex relationships between genes, environments, and behavior.
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Special Issue: Twin Registries in the Era of Biobanks and Register-Based Research
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Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) invites applications at the tenured and tenure-track assistant, associate, and full professor ranks for a cluster hire in clinical psychology
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The Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado Boulder, invites applications for up to 3 tenure track Professorships at the Assistant level or Associate/Full level.
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The Department of Psychology at California State University, Fullerton, invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Psychology to begin Fall 2027.
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The Department of Psychology at Utah State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Clinical or Counseling Health Psychology with a strong background in Clinical Neuroscience
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Postdoctoral opportunity at the University of Minnesota: traineeships in genetic and neurobehavioral mechanisms of addiction and related risk factors. Multiple positions are available, with applications considered on a rolling basis.
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Penn State is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Child Clinical Psychology. More details here:
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Another opportunity for our community: a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in Statistical Genomics/Genetic Epidemiology at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
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New job opening: Wake Forest University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Psychology, with a focus on Analysis & Measurement. Applications due October 1.
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Behavior Genetics Association retweeted
My grad student @LyuXuanyu and I won best paper at @BehaviorGenetic last week for work based on his master's thesis link.springer.com/article/10…
I couldn't be more proud of him!
The symposium ended with a discussion facilitated by Sarah Medland. A big thank you to all speakers, Evan, and Sarah for this great session!
@laraffington on sociogenomics and germany, including a videogame her lab developend on genetics and social inequality: purplesloth.itch.io/genetic-…
@daphmarts on the roles and responsibilities of academic and journalistic publishing in social & behavioral genomics, also part of our special issue: link.springer.com/article/10…
Margot van de Weijer on ethical and legal implications of Mendelian imputation, published as part of the BG special issue on public science: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4150…
@Cognitive_Camz and @robbeewedow on the results from the BGA public science survey that aimed to get insight on BG scientists' views on engagement, misunderstandings, and incentives
A highlight from yesterday:
The public science committee organized a plenary symposium 'From data to discourse: Behavioral Genetics as a Public Science' chaired by @EvanGiangrande . During the symposium, we heard from:
💫 These junior-career researchers blew it out of the park yesterday morning during the presidential symposium! Curious what they presented on? Check out the full conference program: bga.org/content.aspx?page_id… - abstracts will be shared in an upcoming edition of BG!
🧮 In terms of method development, multi-disorder prediction is the natural default, clinical translation requires well-calibrated prediction, and subtypes need benchmarking
A few take-aways from the great opening keynote by Wouter Peyrot:
🩺 Genetic counselling in the clinic is evidence-based and clinically useful for empowerment
