Teaching children to read by sounding out letters and words has always been the obvious choice in Dutch (👇 from 1900). But in the opaque English, it took a reading war to fight for #phonics. Blog on BOLD with Jennifer Buckingham & me. bold.expert/do-children-ne… #orthography

Really lovely reuniting with our previous QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute visiting students at #BGA2024! Wonderful to see all the fantastic research they are doing

Honored and grateful to have received the Rising Star Award at #bga2024. A huge thank you to the organizers for a wonderful week of science and my colleagues and supervisors for their unwavering support.

Last week, I presented my work at #bga2024 in London and got to meet so many amazing people and future collaborators! My presentation was about the overlap in genetic factors influencing social media use and well-being. There will be a pre-print very soon, so stay tuned!

Looking forward to #ESHRE2024 my presentation is in session 64 on Tuesday. DNA methylation signature of monozygotic twinning: investigating the relationship with medically assisted reproduction, higher-order gestations, and common genetic variants Netherlands Twin Register

There is still time to register for the TWINS Congress 2024 (Assisi, Italy, 26-28 September 2024). Find out more here: twinscongress.com #twins #science #conference Twinstudies

Are you at #SSSR2024🇩🇰? Come to Monica Melby-Lervåg's & my symposium on Friday at 10.30 in the Auditorium on the #GeneEnvironmentInterplay on reading ability!🧬👨‍👩‍👧📚 With Callie Little Germán Grande Daria Khanolainen, PhD Hungry Mind Lab Minna Torppa Hans Fredrik Sunde Fartein Ask Torvik Dr Caro Rowland

beep beep 🚨 new preprint alert! Using data from Netherlands Twin Register, we showed the associations between wellbeing/anxious-depressive symptoms and social media use to be small but partly driven by overlapping genetic influences🧬! #wellbeing doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Interviewtje in het MR magazine over mijn onderzoeken die laten zien dat #leesplezier volgt op #leesvaardigheid. #medezeggenschap frederik smit: frederiksmit.net/2024/06/06/de-…

Save the date: Mini Symposium on Epigenetics at the Vrije Universiteit, September 5th with Laurel Raffington, PhD Dr. Yayouk Jenny van Dongen and Bodine Gonggrijp

Humbled to receive the SSSR Mid-Career Award! This international recognition highlights our work on reading (dis)ability. Big 🙏to my lab & collaborators #SSSR2024 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam European Research Council (ERC) NWO Nieuws Netherlands Twin Register Genetics Network Amsterdam Jacobs Foundation vu.nl/en/news/2024/e…

Creativity and borderline personality disorder share genetic factors. Natalia and Bruno Sauce shed light on the complex relation between mental health and creativity, challenging longstanding stereotypes that might change public views. Read on: vu.nl/nl/nieuws/2024…

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