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

No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration

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

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 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

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

📣 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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

#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?)

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

📢 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/...

'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 ⬇️

🚨New paper alert! "Recognising, Anticipating & Mitigating LLM Pollution of Online Behavioural Research" Online experiments are being polluted by LLMs. We map the threat and fixes🧵 w/ Raluca Rilla, @hiromu1996.bsky.social, @iyadrahwan.bsky.social & Anne-Marie Nussberger arxiv.org/abs/2508.01390

Non-profit publishers (PLoS, Oxford, Cambridge) and publishers partnering a lot with academia (Wiley) are much more committed to open science than the others - MDPI being the worst by large. (4/5)

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

Rosalind Franklin was born OTD in 1920. Her X-ray crystallography was key to discovering DNA’s structure (her student Raymond Gosling took photo 51). She also studied viruses. After her untimely death, a colleague Aaron Klug continued her work and won a Nobel. 🌱🐋🧪 #EvoBio #HistSTM #WomeninSTEM

"Far from being maladaptive, shame appears elegantly designed to deter reputationally damaging actions and to make the best of a bad situation." osf.io/preprints/ps...

“You’ve got more languages students setting up successful start-ups than you do maths graduates, and the same number of history students setting up start-ups as engineers, so there’s a bit of myth busting that needs to go on.” www.ft.com/content/3162...

Schluss mit "Up or Out" Der Wissenschaftsrat erklärt Dauerstellen zum Regelfall. Ein Paukenschlag vor der Novelle des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes. Im Interview erklären Wolfgang Wick und Insa Großkraumbach, was das bedeutet. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/07...

🌟 Jim Sidanius has been added to the SPSP Heritage Wall! His social dominance theory revolutionized how we study intergroup relations & inequality. A brilliant theorist, master teacher, and mentor who shaped our field over 44 years. Learn more about his work and legacy: ow.ly/pj7A50WnLfB

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

Paper in Nature proposes a new global metric: the *Nature Relationship Index* (akin to the Human Development Index). The NRI aims to measure how well societies foster thriving, equitable relationships with the natural world. 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Surprising new result: Participants with vmPFC lesions *do not* show the usual effect where moral judgments impact intuitions about whether a behavior was performed intentionally

If for no other reason, you should read our new paper on mixed methods in psychology because we managed to get limecat in there. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

#25JahreCEWS: Im aktuellen #CEWS-Ranking 2025 bleibt Berlin ganz vorn, Bremen rückt erstmals in die Top-Gruppe im Ländervergleich. Ein zentrales Instrument im Gender-Monitoring – neu mit überarbeiteter Methodik. 👉 www.gesis.org/cews/c...#25JahreCEWS:#CEWS-Ranking#CEWSRanking25 #Gleichstellung

Congrats to HBES Rising Star Julia Stern, for her evolutionary work on personality, including its effects on well-being, mate choice, as well as the development and hormonal correlates of personality: www.uni-bremen.de/en/pppd/team...

Aesome! This lets you create a feed of only discussions on academic papers of people you follow and/or of papers you liked. Very easy to use. 👏

Take note.

Simply awful news. Her and her work reached and touched a lot of people. Her family are in my thoughts - what a devastating loss for them.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

NEW: A study led by @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social's Dr Aurélie Manin shows how dogs spread across the Americas alongside early farming societies – tracking with human migration, agriculture and cultural change. Find out more ⬇️

'Transforming governance through non-human animal representation': an extremely interesting PhD position at Radboud University in the Netherlands. www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

"The trouble with human beings ([Butler] said) is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don’t love others enough." -Mary Midgley, Utopias, Dolphins, and Computers #marymidgley #philsky

💡 Very excited to announce new features: better interactive maps! 🗺️ – Enhanced country/region selection with several sorting options and a bar chart preview – Selecting a country highlights it and shows its value on the map – Zooming to your selection brings up a 3D globe view 🌍

Science-integrity project will root out bad medical papers ‘and tell everyone’ Thrilled to announce this new $900,000 project headed by @jamesheathers.bsky.social

Large and richly appreciated rays of sunshine for UK SHAPE (Arts, Humanities & Social Science disciplines) at a time when grim news in our sector has become normative. Huge thanks to @wellcometrust.bsky.social for making this happen. 1/2

New: Halfmann & colleagues (inc. @nadirafaber.bsky.social) investigated the impact of Daylight Savings on norm violation judgments. In one study, judgments were harsher on the Monday after DST, but there was no difference in Study 2. Open Access: doi.org/10.1027/1864...

The proportion of p-values between .01 and .05 declined in psychology over the last decade, a strengthening of credibility. Papers with fewer fragile p-values are cited more. Higher ranked journals assoc. with > improvement, but not higher ranked universities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

If anyone is around Oxford next week, come and check out this conference. Lot of great talks on the philosophy and psychology of social emotions. philevents.org/event/show/1...

Audit study. Finds women discriminated in hiring, based on their academic performance. High performing women PENALIZED relative to men! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #sexism #PrejudiceResearch

In wenigen Stunden ist es so weit: Die zukünftig geförderten #Exzellenzcluster werden bekannt gegeben! 🔴 Livestream ab ca. 17 Uhr auf YouTube. Alle Informationen veröffentlichen @wissenschaftsrat.de u. die #DFG auf ihren Websites – und natürlich hier. Zum Stream:▶️ www.youtube.com/c/DFGbewegt_...

This study found that self-citations in Neuroscience vary by author position, geography, gender, and subfield, factors that collectively shape perceptions of scientific influence and opportunity. #AcademicSky #OpenScience buff.ly/2wDvGi6

There's an extremely interesting backstory to the current claim by intelligence researchers that men lie on the extreme ends of intelligence distribution. It used to be that intelligence research simply postulated higher intelligence in men. This made a lot of sense to intelligence researchers. 1/