1/6: The Dutch harbor some of the most racist sentiments in the world. For centuries, alongside other European nations, the Dutch have promoted pseudoscience to justify colonial expansion. The 'cold winters theory' exemplifies their attempts to validate notions of superiority.

Feeling fortunate to welcome this incredible lineup of speakers to our institute in Berlin, IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE)!

This will be a summer full of discussions on gene-environment interplay in Lifespan Development, focusing particularly on social inequalities

#MPRGBiosocial

Today marks the start of our IMPRS on the Life Course (LIFE) course on 'Genetics, Social Inequality, and Development' with these fantastic speakers 🌟

New #MPRGBiosocial preprint on the “Linked emergence of racial disparities in mental health and epigenetic biological aging across childhood and adolescence”. Co-first author @willlems, C Mitchell, B Goosby, Laurel Raffington, PhD
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In Turkish, instead of writing 'et al.' which corresponds to 'and others,' they write 've ark.' which corresponds to 'and friends.'

I love it.

Just a gentle reminder that in 2020, Elsevier's profit margins were greater than those of some big tech companies and WFH companies.

Academic publishing is fine, this isn't problematic at al...

🎶 Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the most celebrated musicians in human history, has a low genetic predisposition for 'musicality'.

We discuss challenges of polygenic score predictions at the individual level, and for someone who lived over 200 years ago: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

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 🧵:

We think that the big mismatch between this DNA-based prediction and Beethoven’s musical genius provides a valuable teaching moment... 🎶🧬aesthetics.mpg.de/en/newsroom/ne…