Interesting working paper by Cieply, Kneib, @laura-barros.bsky.social, Kis-Katos, and Silbersdorf on gender pay gap among university professors docs.iza.org/dp18376.pdf

🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨 ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts. internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

Fascinating chart.

Each year, people speak 338 less words per day (on average). These effects accumulate. In 2019, people were speaking 28% less words each day than in 2005 (!). journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

How is your country's population changing, and what's driving it? We published new country profiles on population & demography. Pick a country and explore its population, age structure, life expectancy & much more, all in one place. → ourworldindata.org/population-growth#country-profile-selector

The lawn outside the Radcliffe Camera had a trim today 🌱 No, it’s not AI. Designed and carefully cut by James from our University Parks Estates team. 📷 Instagram | Jimigk13

A thread on our recent paper (w/Raihan Alam @raihanalam) in PNAS on why punishment often fails and what it means for crime, cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. I’m super excited for it, it’s the lab’s most extensive experimental work to date. Check it out! 1/ www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Congrats to all those journal editors & peer reviewers who legitimised Lynn’s “national IQ” database by letting it into their journals. Truly, it’s a victory for academic freedom to publish papers which claim that children living in a refugee camp constitute a nationally representative sample 👏👏

#AcademicSky New meta-analysis on harmful effects of #sexism in media psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky Cool new meta-analysis "Our findings suggest that while people may self-perceive as effective altruists, they give like empathic ones, a disjunction that calls for deeper causal investigation." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Such a great article. These are behaviors that people may or may not know are problematic (although some people definitely do). And we all need to be aware of them when reviewing for publication and in other venues. And... (1/3) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Going triple-meta on the human condition...

the most annoying shift in my academic career

Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt. Was für ein irres Projekt Z.B.

Have you ever caught yourself wondering, "Who am I, really?" or "Why do I feel this way?" New research suggests your sense of self is actually your brain's best statistical guess, constantly updated by your experiences. Read more in #PSPR: https://ow.ly/lqlO50YpH9N

New #openaccess book: 'Protecting Minds: The Right Against Mental Interference' - now in print. Douglas, T., (2026), Protecting Minds: The Right Against Mental Interference @oxfordunipress.bsky.social Read more and download a free copy: www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/article/open... #PhilosophyMatters

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

What if you find out your own brother is a thief? We asked how people respond when a close other commits a moral transgression. -> It gets people to feel both as the victim + as the perpetrator & changes what punishment they seek. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Large, cross-cultural study (n > 6k, 25 nations) on international prosociality finds that - ingroup favoritism is widespread - more similarities between two nations = more prosociality - people from rich nations give more to people from poor nations doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

"P-Hacking with one prompt" by Shigeto Kawahara. TL/DR: Ask LLMs to find a significant effect, and they will oblige. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Check out this very interesting tool from Giving What We Can that relies on our data!

Our recent paper discussing why children might care more about animals. A joy to write with @lmcguire.bsky.social @nadirafaber.bsky.social Jared Piazza and Katja Liebal. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

If you're interested in a quick overview of why children might care more about other animals than adults do, take a look (w. @nadirafaber.bsky.social, @mattiwilks.bsky.social, Katja Liebal and Jared Piazza) - doi.org/10.1093/cdpe...

'The nation is divided.' How an ancient evolutionary bond between street dogs and humans has become a modern urban crisis in India. Read more from @biology.ox.ac.uk’s Dr Nishant Kumar ⬇️

“We requested information about the case to at least protect attendees of our future events and potentially act against Hewstone, however, Oxford University never provided any information.” Open Access: archive.is/ue5k8#select... Paywall: www.thetimes.com/uk/education... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky

German law professor Werner Schroeder is suing his government after police forcibly checked his ID at the Austrian-German border. He argues these controls violate EU law and undermine the Schengen system of borderless travel.

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Why do real research with real people when you can just use our stereotype generator?

This is organized fraud, it's not accidental. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review — often against guidance www.nature.com/articles/d41... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Proud of this new piece 🚨 in @NatMachIntell, with S. Porsdam Mann, @JulianJKoplin & @HaotianYuan0630 - who is still in high school! ➡️ "LLMs in Scholarly Writing Pose a Provenance Problem" - when LLM's 'fill in the gaps' in your thinking with another's uncredited ideas. Preview/link ⬇️.

Here are the books I read this year that clarified and magnified my life, that will stay with me for the rest of it — from art and philosophy to memoirs and children's books www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/13/b...

1/3 Self-awareness prior to the mirror test. It has been three days since this fish passed the mirror test in Masanori Kohda's laboratory in Osaka. It is now experimenting with reflections, grabbing and lifting pieces of shrimp before watching closely as they fall into the mirror.

New experimental paper on intuitions about whether people have obligations *to themselves* From philosopher Laura Soter (@laurasoter.bsky.social) in JPSP psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

🚨 Call for abstracts 🚨 Join our EASP pre-conference on 'Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior: Cross-Cultural Perspectives and Methods' on June 30, 2026. We invite flash talk submissions from researchers at all career stages. 📝 Deadline: January 5 2026 🔗 More info: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Best MRI demo I’ve ever seen. Accurate. (Sound on).

"How defence rhetoric escalates untergroup conflict" spkl.io/63325AbcXh Luuk Snijder, Jorg Gross, & @dedreu.bsky.social @cp-iscience.bsky.social

How do some children learn to eat some animals while continuing to care for others? New research suggests that this is caused by resolving the conflict between moral values and human cultural practices. Read more in #SPPS: https://ow.ly/81NL50XHCS7

Children love animals. How do they turn into meat-eating adults? We investigate how children trade off their moral values with the importance of food for human traditions. The great Alex Carter's first PhD paper now out in SPPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky

🚨New research in SPPS: Call a dish plant-based meat and people think it will taste worse + looks “less manly.” Sexist beliefs made this even stronger. Results of nearly 1400 meat eaters across 2 studies w/ Salmen, @nadirafaber.bsky.social & Krings Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Children love animals. How do they turn into meat-eating adults? We investigate how children trade off their moral values with the importance of food for human traditions. The great Alex Carter's first PhD paper now out in SPPS: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #socialpsyc #devpsy #philsky

Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social #socialpsyc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The consultation is open to all. It takes around 15–20 minutes, and every response will help to shape future EU law. Please take part! #AnimalWelfare

Why do people oppose plant-based alternatives to meat? We find it has a lot to do with a symbolic association between meat & masculinity. And with sexism. Open access in SPPS with A. Salmen, V. Krings, & @kristofdhontphd.bsky.social #socialpsyc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...