1/4 🚀 Exciting news in research! 📚 PhD candidate Madhur Bain Singh unveils IV-CLPM, a causal inference method merging instrumental variables & longitudinal data, last authors Richard Mcneale #ConorDolan. Published in Multivariate Behavioral Research tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Early Words Shape Future Brain: Genetic Link Between ADHD and Language A new study explores the intricate relationship between genetics and early language development, shedding light on how early vocabulary growth influences later cognitive and neurodevelopmental outcomes.

1/9 our work where we disentangle phenotypic heterogeneity from a genetic perspective is out now in Nature Communications ➡️nature.com/articles/s4146… Beate St Pourcain MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics MRC IEU SPARK for Autism #SSC Donders Institute @SFARIorg

We are honored to have worked with other journal editors to provide guidance on the use of population descriptors in #Genetics and #Genomics research bit.ly/3TzaUi4

We are depositing the meta-GWAS summary statistics of early vocabulary size into The Language Archive (TLA) MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics and hope they will spark future research. For questions, just contact me or Ellen Verhoef biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S0006-… hdl.handle.net/1839/1ed6b24f-…

In Topics in Cognitive Science, Jan Hulstijn and I present the Enhanced Literate Mind (ELM) hypothesis: processing of written language leads to increased (language) knowledge as well as enhanced language and non-language (perceptual and cognitive) skills pure.mpg.de/rest/items/ite…

Recently, the latest book (Open Access) by MPI director emeritus Stephen C. Levinson was published entitled "The Dark Matter of Pragmatics". More info: mpi.nl/news/stephen-c…

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 🧵:

This is so unreal that one of my kindest colleagues during my days in Bristol has passed away. Miss you, Santi!

Autism-related features have many different presentations. To what extent is this variability related to differences across the genome? mpi.nl/news/variabili… Beate St Pourcain Lucía de Hoyos

What an amazing sense of rhythm

Flattered that Federica Bulgarelli wrote a very insightful commentary about our meta-GWAS on infant and toddler vocabulary🧬🗣️💭 Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biop… Commentary: doi.org/10.1016/j.biop… Biological Psychiatry EAGLE_Consortium Beate St Pourcain MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics

Fancy working with us on the genetics/epigenetics of early language development and social abilities MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics? We have an open 4-year, fully funded PhD position starting 1 October 2024: mpi.nl/career-educati…

In UK Biobank, individuals who had high polygenic score for educational attainment but performed poorly in fluid intelligence test and/or had poor education ('deviators') were more likely to carry neurodevelopmental disorder-related rare variants. Great demonstration of liability

I am so proud of my PhD student, Lucía de Hoyos MaxPlanck-Psycholinguistics, who won the Outstanding Associate Member Oral Presentation Award #bga2024 for her work on the social behaviour meta-GWAS in the EAGLE_Consortium consortium!

Social media is not reality: -While only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33% of all content! -A mere 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news -74 % of all online conflicts are started in just 1 % of communities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Perceptual flexibility can be found even in birds with stereotyped call production only

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

PRS score of dilated cardiomyopathy cases vs controls stratified by rare variant status. Mean PRS of cases with rare variants is closer to controls compared to cases without rare variants. Nice demo of liability threshold hypothesis. Jurgens et al. Nat Gen