Kerli Ilves
36 posts
@IlvesKerli
Junior research fellow in health behaviour genetics • Project manager in applied social sciences research 🧠🏃🏼♀️🧬🎧📊👩🏼🎓🥕👩💻
(1/10) Check out our new paper in Nature Communications! “Non-random mating patterns within and across education and mental and somatic health”. In the paper, we study partner similarities before they (were likely to have) met. nature.com/articles/s4146…
I had a lot of fun in Tallinn presenting our work on the relationship between playing videogames and genetics 🎮🧬 @ESTbiobank is an amazing resource with great people behind it 🇪🇪 Thank you for the hospitality @lehto_kelli @ukuv @IlvesKerli @ia_kuznetsov
Why numbers are sometimes better than words. What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”
In the same week, I also greeted @unitartu Faculty of Social Sciences with a DJ set, back-to-back with @IlvesKerli .
Exercise does not help you lose weight. In fact, it barely changes your daily calorie burn. Welcome to the workout paradox! Watch our latest video to learn how your body deals with calories and sabotages your best efforts to burn them: kgs.link/WorkoutParadox
Very glad to see the expansion of our Estonian delegation of behavioral genetics researchers from the usual 2 (me and @KailiRimfeld ) to whopping 7 at #BGA2024 this year! Lots of great science using @ESTbiobank data was presented 📊🧬🧠 I hope this trend will continue! 📈
