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Canongate @canongate.co.uk · 1d

Happy Publication day!

PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social

A stack of hardback & paperback books published today, floating against a grey background

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see established journalists use alliteration I wonder:

Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai?

Or did the ai train you?

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Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social · 7d

12/11: @drjuliashaw.bsky.social will be in conversation with Jamie Woodward, discussing the motivations of those damaging our environment. Part psychology, part true crime - this is going to be a fascinating conversation! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-crim...

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · 17d

Happy Bi visibility day 💖

Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · 29d

Ein Gespräch mit GEO über die Psychologie von Umweltverbrechen

An interview I did with GEO about the psychological science that can help us understand environmental crimes... and why I think it makes more interesting true crime than murder cases. 🧪

🌎 www.geo.de/natur/oekolo...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Sep 9

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

Haha, just going where the bookstores / publishers send me!

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Aug 17

Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !

Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...

Green Crime book by Julia Shaw tour dates

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Oliver Scheiber 🇪🇺 @oliverscheiber.eu · Aug 28

Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen.

Lesenswertes Interview.

Kriminalpsychologin: "Es muss sozial inakzeptabel werden, die Umwelt zu zerstören"

Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen

www.derstandard.at

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Aug 29

One of the wildest things I've seen in a while.

"by simply rubbing a solution into a juvenile mouse’s scalp, researchers can make the skin transparent"

Interesting for physical monitoring of brain development. 🧪

BioTechniques @biotechniques.bsky.social · Aug 29

Researchers have developed a solution that can reversibly and noninvasively turn juvenile mouse scalps transparent to image brain development >>> www.biotechniques.com/neuroscience... 🧪

I can see what you’re thinking: solution makes mouse scalp transparent

Researchers have developed a solution that can reversibly turn skin transparent to image mouse brain development.

www.biotechniques.com

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Aug 17

Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !

Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...

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Blackwell's Bookshops in Oxford @blackwelloxford.bsky.social · Aug 14

Book now to see @drjuliashaw.bsky.social discussing 'Green Crime' @canongate.co.uk on Thursday 2nd October @blackwellbooks.bsky.social

Tickets available here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1481059983...

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fascinating finding.

Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Aug 10

Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/47mxemu #medsky 🧪

This is figure 5, which shows the therapeutic efficacy of a plaque-evading lithium salt.

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌐 Coming Nov. 4 🌐

Criminal psychologist, popular BBC presenter & podcaster Julia Shaw looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.

💡📚💙 Learn more about @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812873...

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jul 29

"Julia Shaw brilliantly sets the pace for criminal acts that the world needs to know about.

I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences”

Dr Adam Rutherford

UK pre-order SALE on, 25% off this week only! www.waterstones.com/book/green-c...

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jul 19

Oh no

"individuals high in psychopathy and FoMO are consistently more likely to engage in online political activity"

And

"higher cognitive ability is uniformly associated with lower levels of online political participation"

finds large new study 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation

www.nature.com

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · Jul 16

Which neural circuits allow memory retrieval to influence behaviors? This study shows how #fear #memory activation initiates & sustains #FreezingBehavior in mice via the interplay of #norepinephrine & activation of different prefrontal #neuron subtypes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3TGqt7a

Top: Representative images showing the spatial localization of labeled dmPFC neurons with BFP (blue) or retrobeads (red), taken using 10 X (upper) or 40 X (lower) objectives. The majority of labelled neurons were located in layer II/III of dmPFC. Scale bars, 100 μm (10 X) and 25 μm (40 X). Bottom: Summary on the neural circuit mediating the transition from memory retrieval to freezing behavior. Presentation of CS+ activates LA neurons and TeA neurons. The activated LA neurons activate dmPFC T-neurons, which in turn activate dmPFC S-neurons and LC neurons. S-neurons receive inputs from TeA and send their outputs to BLA, which projects to PAG to enable freezing behavior. Activated LC neurons release NE in the dmPFC via their projections.

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jul 6

I am pleased you liked it!

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · Jul 3

New paper! What we think we know, know we don’t know, and don’t know we don’t know, when it comes to working on environment and climate issues. 🧪

doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Examining critical assumptions in global conservation practice

The ability of conservation practitioners to design and implement successful conservation projects and scale up positive outcomes depends in large part on their ability to make accurate assumptions a...

doi.org

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jul 3

Illusion of time 🧪

"experiences that are repeated (&, consequently, better remembered) are counterintuitively remembered as having initially occurred further back in time."

Interesting memory study that argues this may be one reason why our sense of time often deviates from reality

An Illusion of Time Caused by Repeated Experience - Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, 2025

How do people remember when something occurred? One obvious possibility is that, in the absence of explicit cues, people remember on the basis of memory strengt...

journals.sagepub.com

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Michael C. Anderson @memorycontrol.bsky.social · May 20

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital [email protected] sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...

www.nature.com

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jun 30

Finally read Fallen Idols by @alexvont.bsky.social and absolutely loved it. I know I'm late to the party, but I highly recommend it.

I would love to do a talk together about research on false memories, and how history is written. I bet we would have lots to discuss!

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · Jun 23

Fangen wir mal mit meiner Forschung zu falschen Erinnerungen an.

Mein erstes Buch heißt Das trügerische Gedächtnis.

Und hier findet ihr all meine wissenschaftlichen Papers (frei zugänglich): www.drjuliashaw.com/research

Science — Dr Julia Shaw

www.drjuliashaw.com

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jun 22

Starting tomorrow I will be posting for 1 week all about my research and writing on false memory, criminal psychology, and bisexuality over at @realscientists.de.

It will be in German - so come follow along if you speak German! What questions would you like answered? AMA! 🧪

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Dr Julia Shaw @drjuliashaw.bsky.social · Jun 21

This is such a beautiful way of presenting data

Dorian J. Burnette @djburnette.com · Jun 21

It is #ShowYourStripes Day! Warming stripes for Memphis, TN are below. Each stripe represents the annual average temperature anomaly from 1850-2024. You can create your own at the website below. 1/2 🧪

Show Your Stripes

Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

showyourstripes.info

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