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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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David Edmonds @davidedmonds100.bsky.social · 2d

Oxford book launch tomorrow. All welcome. www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l...

www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 6d

Wissenschaft unter Beschuss: Im Podcast von Anne Will spricht Prof. Dr. Brosius-Gersdorf über Angriffe auf Wissenschaftlerinnen, Wissenschaftsferne in der Politik und die Verrohung der Debattenkultur –

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 6d

what a playful cover featuring examples of what participants told the AI to do in our ‘delegation to AI can increase dishonest behavior‘ article

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

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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Nice coverage of our recent work on harm-based moral arguments about women's bodily autonomy! @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @shellkryan.bsky.social, @abiclick29.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/traver...

The Mistake We Always Make When Talking About Women, By A Psychologist

Why are debates about women’s rights so hard to resolve? New research shows how morality, not policy, shapes the fight over women’s bodies.

www.forbes.com

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 7d

Wissenschaft braucht verlässliche Rahmenbedingungen. Sie sind zentrales Anliegen einer Stellungnahme der DFG-Senatskommission f. tierexperimentelle Forschung. Auf Basis von Rundgesprächen mit Wissenschaftler*innen & Tierschutzbeauftragten u. einer Studie wurden Empfehlungen erarbeitet: sohub.io/4q3i

Tierexperimentelle Forschung: DFG-Senatskommission fordert Neujustierung der Genehmigungsverfahren für Tierversuche

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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · Aug 28

New research shows people shift moral arguments to fit their stance on women’s bodies

Researchers examining debates over women’s bodily autonomy find that harm arguments often operate less as genuine moral convictions and more as rhetorical tools. The study points to fairness and purity as stronger predictors of people’s actual stances on these issues.

www.psypost.org

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · Aug 26

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter.

Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting.

#art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 24

Huge variability documented in how publishers respond when informed about a problematic body of work by a research group. www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
#publishers #retractions

Bar chart showing % of articles retracted, with expression of concern, or no action from different publishers. 100% no action from Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer; 100% retraction from Taylor and Francis.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 21

Light pollution is causing birds around the world to sing for longer each day, prolonging their vocalizations on average by 50 minutes, according to a new study in Science.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Uz7vzP

A figure showing that light pollution prolongs avian vocal activity by nearly an hour. (A) Most diurnal bird species show bimodal vocalization patterns with peaks in the morning and evening; in light-polluted landscapes (yellow shading), the first vocalizations occur earlier in the morning and the last vocalizations occur later in the evening. (B) Globally—averaged across species, space, and season—onset of morning vocalization shifted 18 min earlier in the brightest landscapes versus the darkest landscapes. (C) Similarly, evening cessation was delayed by an average of 32 min. In (B) and (C), lines are means and shaded regions are 95% confidence intervals (CI) of model predictions.

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Uehiro Oxford Institute @uehiro.ox.ac.uk · Aug 21

A new open access paper from Katrien Devolder, @joshrottman.bsky.social, @qinyuxiao.bsky.social, Guy Kahane, Lucius Caviola, Lauren Yip & @nadirafaber.bsky.social explores public views on the creation and treatment of human-animal chimeras.
doi.org/10.1007/s116...

#ethics #chimeras #publicscience

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · Aug 20

The @altmetric.com on the @whysharksmatter.bsky.social @drjuliawester.bsky.social study academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... really tells the story, doesn't it?

Altmetric badge for study on science Twitter vs science bsky
Mentioned by 926 bsky users, 13 on Twitter

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Catherine Molho @cmolho.bsky.social · Aug 18

📣 New registered report in @nathumbehav.nature.com with Ivan Soraperra, @jonathanschulz.bsky.social, and Shaul Shalvi: rdcu.be/eAcMA

With data from 7,978 participants in 20 countries, we find that information about negative externalities promotes prosociality, especially in guilt-prone individuals.

Guilt drives prosociality across 20 countries

Nature Human Behaviour - This Registered Report of 7,978 people in 20 countries found that guilt and information about consequences drive prosocial behaviour. Guilt-prone individuals gave more when...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 15

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · Aug 14

Artificial intelligence has invented two new potential antibiotics that could kill drug-resistant bacteria
www.bbc.com/news/article...

AI designs new superbug-killing antibiotics for gonorrhoea and MRSA

Two new potential drugs have been designed by AI to kill drug-resistant bacteria, in a major Massachusetts Institute of Technology study.

www.bbc.com

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Thekla Morgenroth @theklamorgenroth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Check out our new pre-print in which we argue something that might be obvious but doesn't seem to be obvious to everyone: Large Language Models (such as ChatGPT) do not simulate human psychology.

Benjamin Paaßen @bpaassen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Large Language models (LLMs) do not simulate human psychology. That's the title of our new paper, available as preprint today (1/12):

arxiv.org/abs/2508.06950

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology

Large Language Models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT, are increasingly used in research, ranging from simple writing assistance to complex data annotation tasks. Recently, some research has suggested that LLM...

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Aug 13

Foreign aid can be a large share of a country’s income during times of conflict or humanitarian crisis

The image displays a world map highlighting various countries based on the percentage of foreign aid as a part of their gross national income for the year 2023. The map features several colors indicating different categories: countries receiving foreign aid that constitutes more than 20% of their national income are shaded in dark brown, while those receiving less than 20% are light blue.

Seven countries are specifically marked in dark brown: Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, South Sudan, Burundi, and the Central African Republic. Countries that did not receive aid are shown in white. The map provides a visual overview of how foreign aid impacts national income in these regions, with a legend clarifying the meaning of the color codes.

Data source for this information is the OECD, dated 2025. The image is attributed to "Our World in Data" under the Creative Commons BY license.

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wenn Gewalt gegen Schwächere zu einem Community-Event wird: Letzten Samstag versammelten sich 4000 Personen in Emskirchen, um erneut den „Drachenlord“ zu beschimpfen und zu verhöhnen. 4000.

www.nzz.ch/panorama/vie...

4000 Personen reisen in bayrische Provinz, um den «Drachenlord» zu beschimpfen

Der Youtuber war das bekannteste Cybermobbing-Opfer Deutschlands. Bis er sich aus dem Internet zurückzog. Doch seine Hater machen trotzdem weiter.

www.nzz.ch

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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · Aug 12

Much enjoyed the philosophy-psychology collaboration on this project with Katrien Devolder, @joshrottman.bsky.social , @qinyuxiao.bsky.social , Guy Kahane, Lucius Caviola, and Lauren Yip.

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Nadira Faber @nadirafaber.bsky.social · Aug 12

Chimeras between humans & animals (e.g. transplantation of gene-edited pig kidneys in humans) are increasingly likely. In our new paper, we look at the moral status of the resulting beings & how people judge xenotransplantation:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#moralPhil #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Will Human-Animal Chimeras Cause Moral Confusion? Exploring Public Attitudes - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Recent medical research involving human-monkey chimeras, human brain organoids in rats, and the transplantation of a gene-edited pig heart and gene-edited pig kidneys in living human beings have inten...

link.springer.com

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · Aug 8

#PrejudiceResearch #SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky

Large meta-analysis finds global #sexism is declining over time.

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

(hmm, wonder if this will reverse soon, given, you know, modern in 2025?)

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Graham Kendall @grahamkendall.bsky.social · Aug 9

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network buff.ly/OCqies0

Frontiers to retract 122 articles, links thousands in other publishers’ journals to “unethical” network

The publisher Frontiers has begun retracting a batch of 122 articles across five journals after an investigation found a network of authors and editors engaged in “unethical actions” such as manipu…

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Marco K Wittmann @mkwittmann.bsky.social · Aug 7

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Aug 7

'Once we’ve made the transition we’ll look back and wonder why on Earth we didn’t do it sooner.'

We can reap big rewards by changing how we grow and eat food - before climate change does it for us, argues @oxmartinschool.bsky.social's Prof Paul Behrens ⬇️

By changing our diets now, we can avoid the food chaos that climate change is bringing

By choosing to transform how we grow food and what we eat – rather than letting climate change dictate the pace of change – we have so much to gain.

theconversation.com

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