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/...

Excited to announce that my next book will be released in the UK in October 2025! It's got crime, exciting investigations, and science 🧪🕵️‍♂️ I also got some new author shots Green Crime: Inside the minds of the people destroying the planet, and how to stop them

So pleased that two of my fave recent projects are up for awards! The Human Subject Podcast which went out on BBC radio 4, and my expert-led TV series Killers Caught on Camera.

For my US friends... You can now get 50% off my audiobook Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality! I loved writing and recording this in studio. Hope you enjoy it too 🩷💜💙 www.audiobooks.co.uk/promotions/p...

Catch me this Thursday at the University of Oxford giving a talk on queer history and how research on bisexuality has long been a part of it 🩷💜💙

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We also provide a (non-exhaustive!) list of examples of AI tools that can be used to overcome #languagebarriers in science and discuss the pros and cons of using those AI tools. 4/4

Excellent point. If I'm writing about a non-English speaking country, I always ask ChatGPT to translate the key terms and look for research... and then translate the papers to English. That's ok for one-off stats, but too onerous for a meta-analysis. It's also going to miss many studies. 🧪 #science

The scientific misinformation about heat pumps is fascinating 🧪 It's a mix of deliberately sowed energy-transition confusion/resistance, combined with people simply not believing science they don't understand But it's time to upgrade both for the planet and energy independence

I spoke with this year's BBC Reith lecturer, Dr Adshead, about the causes and consequences of violence She is a therapist who works with people who have murdered or engaged in other extreme violence. And her insights are fascinating #psychsci #crimpsych Listen now! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

"it is only when we say it out loud, and use the word bisexual, that we can find each other and normalise our existence" 🩷💜💙 I wrote about why I use the term queer sometimes, but prefer the term Bi. Read it in today's article for Metro online! metro.co.uk/2024/12/02/t...

Bi the way… 😋 I can’t recommend this book enough. There’s not a ton of books specifically about Bisexuality, but this one is a great read and flawlessly researched by @drjuliashaw.bsky.social The audiobook is fantastic too! Amazon Link: a.co/d/0ptFzOD