Professor at the University of Oslo, Director of the PsychGen research centre at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health

Joined October 2012
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💥📢There is still time to register for our #Stakeholder #Dialogue #Event on 17 January 2024! Don't hesitate and register now to share your needs & opinions on ethical aspects and social consequences of prediction of risk of mental illness. ➡️More info: family-project.eu/for-patien…
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📢 We're offering a paid PhD position on neurodevelopment in the context of the family environment. Use MoBa data with 100K children and families. Join our international, collaborative & neurodiverse team in beautiful Oslo! #PsychGenCentre #FHI #Unioslo 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Re…

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How do prosociality and inhibition relate to each other across development in late childhood? New paper out in @SRCDtweets led by @liafersch using longitudinal data from the fantastic ALSPAC Study - @CO90s - srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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In this interesting #OpenAccess paper, @AdrianAskelund et al. explore the differentiation of behavioural and emotional problems across childhood using data from a large population-based birth cohort. Read the full paper at bit.ly/3pwVKhs to learn more.
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🚀 Exciting news! 🎥🧠 Introducing our brand-new YouTube channel with a short intro into the #FAMILY_EU project. 👀 Go and check it out: youtu.be/HEH1JWU2cqQ 🎞️ @neeltjevanharen @erasmusmcintl @radboudumc @KalischLab @LIRgGmbH @EUFAMI @ESCAPonline @UZH_ch @CHUVLausanne @ucl

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Looking for a 3-year postdoc position and inspiring research?🤩Come join my group at @AarhusUni and the @novonordiskfond (NNF) Center for Genomic Mechanisms of Disease @broadinstitute to work with genetics functional genomics of metabolic disorders👏👏😄 biomed.au.dk/about-us/vacant…
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Alexandra Havdahl retweeted
Hi Everyone, Offering two PhDs in sunny Oz- 1 on developing statistical methods to investigate causality: Sometimes Correlation does Equal Causation: Developing Statistical Methods to Determine Causality Using Genetic Data at University of Queensland on FindAPhD.com
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💡Exciting #PhD opportunity! 🎓Join our amazing, interdisciplinary team at @theCEFH (@Folkehelseinst) as a PhD fellow. Work with world-class data, shape your own research & enjoy the best supervision (trust me😉)! Apply now: finn.no/job/fulltime/ad.html… #PhDChat #AcademicTwitter
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So pleased to see our paper out in @BMCMedicine. We explored the impact of health behaviours prior to pregnancy on fertility and reproductive outcomes. Read on for a summary 🧵or full paper here: 10.1186/s12916-023-02831-9
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Who wants to come to Oslo and do a PhD on links between parenthood and mental health? We're looking for a quantitatively minded psychologist, epidemiologist, or economist who likes large data. finn.no/job/fulltime/ad.html…
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Apply for a postdoc position @PromentaC by April 15. It is in the @ERC_Research funded project GeoGen where you will be doing work along the lines linked to in @dr_appie tweet👇👇 share! @RosaCheesman @ZiadaAyorech @henrikdz @alexhavdahl et al. jobbnorge.no/en/available-jo…

The geographic distribution of educational attainment, income, and the polygenic score for education in Norway 🎓💰🧬 From @RosaCheesman et al: nature.com/articles/s41539-0… Also check out her blog explaining the GxE interaction effect she found in her study: neurosciencecommunity.nature…
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What is “triangulation of evidence” as applied to epidemiology (& other sciences)? An attempt to make it clear, so you can decide whether it is helpful or not, on Tues 21st Feb @ 1pm UK time online or in person in Oxford @rdseminars @Oxford_NDPH ndph.ox.ac.uk/events/richard…
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RT Oxford PhD European Social Science Genomics add now out! @GalamaTitus @dr_appie @AysuOkbay @EivindY @pietrobiroli @alexhavdahl @AndriesMarees @nicolabarban @fctropf @nm_davies @AlexTISYoung @ceclindgren @simon_r_myers @drjenndowd @akimova_eva @XuejieDing
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📢New preprint: We set out to disentangle the mechanisms underlying associations between maternal at-risk drinking and offspring emotional and behavior problems in the context of genotype-environment interplay A 🧵 (1/8). psyarxiv.com/g5p9f

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New Year!! 🎉 New Preprint!! 🤓 We kicked off 2023 by tackling some fundamental questions about the role of assortative mating, selection bias & gene-environment correlation on widespread comorbidity across psychiatric disorders. 🧵below, preprint here: psyarxiv.com/d8t3q

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