"That everyone can learn to read will ruin, in the long run, not only writing but thinking too" Just read this in Nietzsche's book Thus spoke Zarathustra, & it evoked the ai doomism we are hearing at the moment

If you are interested in research on prisons or prisoners in the UK, there is an incredible & largely untapped dataset with 20 years of prisoner survey data that was recently released. It has over 100,000 prisoner questionnaire responses 🧪 hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/blog-br...

Had a great chat with @lexfridman.bsky.social that went live last week! youtu.be/7OLVwZeMCfY?...

Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss her latest read, examining some of the highest-profile environmental crimes and why they occur, in 'Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet and How to Stop Them.' 🎙️Listen: @mongabay.com

🕵️ Criminal psychologists are turning their gaze to a new kind of perpetrator: environmental offenders. From illegal logging to toxic dumping, these crimes are getting the forensic attention they deserve. ✍️ @drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social):

"By synthesising ... wider work from the social sciences, I have developed a psychological profile of environmental criminals" Read my new article on how we can use social science (and investigations) to help catch and understand green criminals! 🧪 theconversation.com/criminal-psy...

On the show today: Israeli reaction to the Gaza peace deal; A lost interview with John Lennon; @henrymckean.bsky.social on the price of milk; @drjuliashaw.bsky.social on green crime; @jamesproclaims.bsky.social reviews 'The Iris Affair' 'The Last Frontier' & 'Victoria Beckham'; Farms in colour

#Nonfiction Author of GREEN CRIME, @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new mini-series with TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast tedxlondon.com/podcasts/wha...

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

Whenever I see established journalists use alliteration I wonder: Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai? Or did the ai train you?

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...

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 💕

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...

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 ⚒️ 🧪

Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 ! Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...

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

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. 🧪

Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 ! Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...

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...

Fascinating finding.

🌐 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...

"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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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!

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

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! 🧪

This is such a beautiful way of presenting data

How do you tell if something is real or imaginary? 💭 Dr @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social‬ (@uclqsion.bsky.social‬) speaks to the New Scientist about how brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we can believe what we're seeing. buff.ly/k2Cs2OD

Want to know the difference between police interrogations & investigative interviews? Curious why police should not rely on body language, yet they often do? Want to know what makes ppl look guilty? Watch my new doc with The Times on the science of interrogations 🧪. youtu.be/fj0x8_jsepE?...

To make it easier to share teaching resources, I'd like to start by asking what your favorite cog psych videos are. Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems. What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.

Great collection of psych science 🧪 articles for pride month. 🏳️‍🌈

Bisexuality is the largest sexual minority, but bi+ ppl are often seen as performative, are sexualised, & their id is downplayed. But it is also seen as a form of freedom ✨️ This pride month, learn about the science 🧪, history & culture of Bisexuality by reading my book! www.drjuliashaw.com/bibook

Text-based & video-based misinformation inoculation interventions can remain effective for 1 month, whereas game-based ones decay more rapidly. And, importantly, memory-enhancing booster interventions enhance the diminishing effects of counter-misinformation interventions. 🧪

Looking for someone in the UK who does research on misogynistic online hate speech / abusive online behaviour towards women ... and wants to be interviewed about their work on TV. Tag anyone you think is a good fit! 🧪 thanks!

Interesting finding that when searching an image for something specific, we rely on general memories first, then precise ones. "Episodic memory improved image search efficiency only when semantic knowledge failed to successfully guide early eye movements to the target" 🧪

If interested in the intersection btwn #psychology & #law, there are starter packs with people working in the area. This pack has grown over time, so if you saw it last year it's fuller now (e.g., now has Am Psych-Law Soc'y bsky.app/profile/ap-l...! (lmk if you want to be added!) go.bsky.app/KS4zG4s

Remember when the press called sugar and ultra processed foods "addictive", comparing them to drugs? And many of us - me included - laughed and said that language was too extreme? Well, shucks. I wonder what else we will learn about self-control and, say, crime? 🧪 From: issues.org/ozempic-era-...

Wonderful review in the official journal of the British Psychological Society of my book on Bisexuality (and anyone, whichever label they use, who is attracted to more than one gender) 🧪

This is the funniest science writeup I've seen in a long time. It's about why cats are so perfectly evolved 🧪 Apparently lots of other animals have "tried to be cats" and the fact that other species have so much more variation is "because they suck" 😆 www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats...

Interesting! Some of the psychology of climate change action 🧪

New research by clinical sociologist Vidette Bester 🧪 - Documents life narratives around artisanal miners in South Africa - Discusses migrant labor system in artisanal mining activities - Looks at mining initiatives for artisanal miners & provides practical guidelines for future similar endeavors

A new & ground-breaking read for anyone who wants to understand the real people who work in illegal & unregulated mining It includes interviews with "zama zamas", explores drivers that push them underground, and the (often horrific) public & police response. 🧪 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

If you like true crime, research, and top notch journalism, you'll love the brand new series "beyond suspicion" on audible. It examines how the worst offenders are often hiding in plain sight. I'm interviewed in two of the chapters/episodes and Yinka Bokinni is such a great presenter!

These are the 25 most cited papers published in the twenty-first century https://go.nature.com/3G8ZOfI

Breaking news from neuroscience 🧪 Kveim et al. found when mice learn something, their brain creates two distinct memory traces in the hippocampus—at the same time. It might explain why memories are malleable but can also last a v long time. Study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...