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New CoDE Lab preprint led by @QuanZhouu💫. We investigated whether spatial ability consistently predicts STEM success beyond other cognitive skills and what aspects of spatial ability predict success in STEM more accurately. Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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🎬 How can #IdenticalTwins help us find out more about the causes of #bullying? Is there a link between Developmental Language Disorders (#DLD) and peer victimisation?
Watch our new video with @Sinzi_O @OxExpPsy.
Full version on YouTube ➡️@OxfordSparks.
@TedsProject #TEDS 1/2
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We are RECRUITING FOR A POSTDOC to join us at the SGDP Centre, IoPPN. Focus is on mental health, family data, quantitative genetics/epidemiology. Maternity cover with possibility of contract extension. Please share. kcl.ac.uk/jobs/098685-postdo…
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🎉 The very FIRST digital newsletter has landed in your inboxes last week! 📩 Packed with updates, stories, greetings from the team and lots of cute pictures! Check it out and stay in the loop 💻📰
#CoTEDS #stayconnected
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❗️2x New Research Assistant Posts (18 months each)❗️
I'm hiring TWO RAs to work on a super cool study, part of my @wellcometrust early career award on youth mental health.
We're assessing daily mental health data in @CO90s and @TedsProject using smartphones.
Please share/RT.
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1. Out now in @molpsychiatry “Gene-environment correlation: The role of family environment in academic development”. We investigate how family environments and genetic propensity combine to result in individual differences in academic achievement 🧬🌍nature.com/articles/s41380-0…
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Out today in @NatureHumBehav: Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
@QMUL @QM_SBBS @uclnews A detailed thread👇
1. New preprint: ‘Genetic contributions of noncognitive skills to academic development’ biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Jointly led with the wonderful
@AndreAllegrini. We address 4 important questions regarding the role of noncognitive skills in academic development. Thread👇
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Fern is VERY happy with the post this morning ! Stickers are always a huge hit in this house 🌿💚 @Co_TEDS @TedsProject
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Wonderful presentation by @becca_ferdinand on the links between school environment and mental health.💫💫💫 #BGA2024 @RHULPsychology @KailiRimfeld @TedsProject
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Massive congratulations to @RosaCheesman (also a @TedsProject twin!) and @OlakunleOginni for winning the 2024 early career award from @BehaviorGenetic association. So well deserved 👏👏👏 @SGDPCentreKCL
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Very special outing to Kew Gardens to celebrate @edit_lab & @TedsProject teams winning the @KingsIoPPN Open Science award. Particularly enjoyed visiting the #DNA helix sculpture. Great to have our two visitors @Madhur_B_Singh and @Britt_Mitchell1 with us too. @SGDPCentreKCL
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This is the first of several posts we will be advertising for our new @wellcometrust funded project predicting outcome following psychological treatment for #anxiety. Would greatly appreciate retweets.
@ewancarr @psychgenomics @UKLLCollab
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It was lovely to host Robert Plomin at @RHULPsychology Thank you for the fantastic talk and engaging discussions @TedsProject
Delighted to have welcomed Prof. Robert Plomin to Royal Holloway for our Festival of Research. Robert delivered an insightful talk on the century of research in behavioural genetics. Thanks to everyone who attended and contributed such thoughtful questions! 🧬🌿 @RHULPsychology
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We're continuing our conversations with @TedsProject twins to understand what matters to them and what we should be asking about in our research. Take a read! @SGDPCentreKCL
MSc placement students Xinyi and Ziyu have written a blog reflecting on the focus groups the team held to look at experiences unique to the millennial generation! 🤯
Have a read below👇
blogs.kcl.ac.uk/editlab/2024…
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A new blog by brilliant @becca_ferdinand on the roles of maths anxiety and maths motivation in young adults’ STEM career choices. lrn.psychologyresearch.co.uk…
@LRN_RHUL @RHULPsychology @TedsProject
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🥳🧬🗣️Very pleased that our meta-GWAS of infant and toddler vocabulary size is now published in @BiologicalPsyc1. Full-text available here biologicalpsychiatryjournal.… and a 🧵below
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We are pleased to announce that applications for the 2024 IoPPN Youth Awards are open! Are you aged 15-18, at a state school in London/Greater London and studying GCSEs, A-Levels or equivalent? Head to the link in our bio to apply for summer work experience at KCL.
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Our last Wolfson lecture was a success! You won't want to miss the next one 😉
Book your free place here: bit.ly/wolfsonte
We will welcome @thaliaeley to talk on: Longitudinal explorations of developmental and treatment outcomes in anxiety and depression in adolescents and young adults
See you there! 😊
#wolfsonlectures
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Had a great time presenting preliminary findings from @TedsProject and upcoming analyses in @GLADStudy and BioResource at #WCPG2023 and, on top of all, meeting/being inspired by amazing researchers and thinkers! 🇨🇦
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What is the direction of the association between weight & depression, & is this association influenced by genetic or environmental factors? We investigated this using data from @TEDS & @TwinsUK in our new paper published OA in @CambUP_Psych bit.ly/3st31Qe 🧵1/8
