Dernier jour pour vous inscrire et candidater aux conférences annuelles de FRESH et RESHAPE !

📢 Appel à communications Les conférences annuelles des GDR FRESH et RESHAPE auront lieu à Montpellier, les 4–6 nov. 2025. Thèmes : santé publique & inégalités, climat & santé, evolutionary medicine, + session Varia. ✅ Inscription gratuite → fresh-reshape25.sciencesconf.org 📅 Deadline : 30 sept.

📢 Appel à communications Les conférences annuelles des GDR FRESH et RESHAPE auront lieu à Montpellier, les 4–6 nov. 2025. Thèmes : santé publique & inégalités, climat & santé, evolutionary medicine, + session Varia. ✅ Inscription gratuite → fresh-reshape25.sciencesconf.org 📅 Deadline : 30 sept.

It's hiring season at @iast.fr! - 2y research postdoc contract - Full autonomy, you are your own PI - Awesome multidisciplinary environment - All social and behavioral sciences welcome - Seed funding for projects and workshops - Gorgeous city in the south of France www.iast.fr/research-fel...

We’re delighted to share that the CES2026 Conference website is now live! We warmly invite researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their presentation proposals by November 16th through the submission portal on the website.

📅Let's meet on Dec 4 & 5 to ̶d̶i̶s̶g̶u̶s̶t̶ discuss about Disgust accross borders, a theme that's anything but tasteless ! 👃 As you'll see very soon, the program is still appetizing. ⬇️Interested in presenting? Subdmissions are now open!⬇️ @cmolho.bsky.social @csarabian.bsky.social @atognetti.bsky.social

New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October to join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...

#PressRelease 🗞️ Women suffering from long COVID have a greater risk of experiencing abnormal uterine bleeding. The symptoms of the illness intensify during the perimenstrual and proliferative phases of the menstrual cycle. 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/men...

New research out with @jackiemaybin.bsky.social ! Disease and periods - a potentially bidirectional relationship !

"Behaviour change interventions that are unsuccessful may often be limited by structural constraints. ... Policymakers should combine structural and behavioural insights to enact systemic reforms to better address environmental and societal challenges." share.google/OSywqBxHZzNk...

🚨NEW PAPER from the @eegcam.bsky.social!🚨I have never been as proud of something as of the work that finally we can share today: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - we show how a climatically driven Pan African meta population model explains our species genetic and morphological diversity 🧬💀

🧵New paper out in Cognition Why do people moralize harmless carnal sins (e.g. gluttony, masturbation)? @danielnettle.bsky.social & I find that these behaviors activate reciprocity-based moral judgment—no need for a distinct "purity" module. 50 days free link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l18D2Hx2-...

What do people want from a welfare system? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Do mental health raising campaigns actually work? Do they do anything to help? This very interesting piece suggests that well-meaning programs can have harmful effects and it is possible that mental health awareness interventions are ineffective. www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/news/do-ment...

Without ambitious policy change, child poverty is projected to increase dramatically over the next decade. In fact, should the Government continue with existing policy, our projections suggest child poverty will hit 33 per cent in 2029-30, a level not seen since 1998-99.

The UK is among the worst nations in Europe for child poverty. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. In the Netherlands and Finland, this number was 3%.

#Sociologie #Santé 🩺 "La production sociale des inégalités de santé" 📌 Colloque organisé par Nathalie Bajos, professeure invitée sur la chaire Santé publique, en partenariat avec l'agence nationale @santepubliquefrance.fr#Sociologie⏰ Jeudi 26 juin 2025 👉 https://shorturl.at/z7Oip

Proud to be part of the lineup for this exciting event at the @roysocmed.bsky.social. I talk about perceived control over risk, why it matters for health behaviour, and what role the relationship plays in amplifying health inequalities. www.rsm.ac.uk/events/psych...

The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!

Of the million excess deaths, Marmot calculated that 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures brought in by the coalition government in 2010. “Arguably, austerity killed 148 000 people. That was a pretty momentous political choice,” he said. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

🔔‼️ New papers alert In these papers, @lakens.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the two major crises in psychology. Concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology are discussed. A must-read for every psychology researcher! Available in #OA 👇👇

Researchers used to talk about priming effects and framing effects as two pieces of evidence for the same larger claim: that people’s judgments are easily pushed around With the spectacular collapse of priming research, perhaps we should rethink the core lesson of framing xphi.net/2025/05/23/p...

New Substack post It's very personal: my story of a 20-year academic career, and the many challenges of theoretical and cross-disciplinary work As I put it in the subtitle: There is a lot of success and a lot of pain here, and no happy ending thomscottphillips.substack.com/p/happy-in-t...

A combination of structural and legal powers that protect tenured professors enables and emboldens abusers. “It’s considered culturally normal — this is just what science is like,” says @leising.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Researchers should not make claims based on exploratory analyses because the probability that these claims are wrong can be unacceptably high. doi.org/10.1080/0264...

Why Did Evolution Leave Us Vulnerable to Mental Disorders? A Q&A with Randolph Nesse ( @randynesse.bsky.social ) Nesse provides a great introduction to evolutionary psychiatry and corrects important misconceptions about the discipline in this interview. www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...

📣This conference on the production of health inequalities in Paris in June will feature a stellar cast of thousands!! (well... not exactly "thousands")📣 Nathalie Bajos Owen O’Donnell Janet Shim Cyrille Delpierre Muriel Darmon @anne-mcmunn.bsky.social Greta Bauer Seth Holmes @pygeoffard.bsky.social

For anyone who needs them this week 💜 Here are some resources for our trans friends and allies 👇 goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...

if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing

Study: Local COVID restrictions had little effect No significant behaviour change found in Scottish regions with lockdowns. Key takeaway: Restrictions didn’t improve adherence. Read: academic.oup.com/tbm/article/... #COVID19 #PublicHealth #BehaviouralScience

8 PhD scholarships in Sociology and Social Research - University of Trento - deadline 15th May www.unitn.it/en/phd/socio...

Do evolutionary hypotheses about physical attraction hold up cross-culturally? Nope, according to @drboothroyd.bsky.social’s #ehbea2025 plenary

Just been reading this great blog post by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci on accessible technical writing. Lots of good advice (some of which I knew, some was new to me) clearly laid out in one handy place! www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

My paper on concerns about replicability, theorizing, relevance, generalizability, and methodology across 2 crises is now in press at the International Review of Social Psychology. After revisions it was 17500 words, so it is split in 2 parts: osf.io/dtvs7_v2 and osf.io/g6kja_v1

Publishing looks glossy from the outside. Inside? It’s built on unpaid labour. My first book is out this year. Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice. kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-do... #Publishing #Books #Author #Writer

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.

bookings close on Friday!

English version of the documentary about power abuse in the Max Planck Society can be found here. 144.000 views already, more than 800 comments. Share it to make colleagues aware of what happens in German academia & the MPG! #IchBinHanna #PowerAbuse

the fantastic @viveknityananda.bsky.social wrote a book and I can't wait to dive into it! sadly it's not available in the UK (yet?) but I pulled some strings to get my hands on a copy -- thanks to @drhavichichger.bsky.social's mum for bringing it over from her travels

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢 Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

No economist, eh ? Well, I AM NO ECONOMIST (I’m not as talented as Pratchett eitheir alas)

If inequality had remained the same as it was in 1975, every American adult could be getting a universal basic income of $16k a year right now instead of the top 1% sucking it all up for themselves. GET MAD.

What is the simplest organism that eats socially? Our study shows that Trichoplax adhaerens—lacking nerves or muscles— digest food together, suggesting that sociality is fundamental even in the simplest animals. 🌊🦠 #Evolution #BehavioralEcology #Sociobiology

The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.