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A child drawing of a female scientist. The hedline is: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.

Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON

Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty —  across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Social identification with the police affects how people watch videos & judge an officer’s conduct—regardless of whether they see video evidence or learn in other ways—and the degree of bias does not differ across the different types of evidence. www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-video-...

After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...

My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.

Two people sitting closely on a couch in a cozy living room, engaged in a warm conversation with a cup of coffee on the table. Credit: Andres Ayrton from Pexels

How does culture shape the meaning and preference of humor? New research reveals consistent cultural differences in how humor is perceived, created, and appreciated.

Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: https://ow.ly/wWoF50XS8XJ

Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

Wanna see real-life miracles? Fund scientific research.

A team of US scientists just cured Alzheimer’s in mice — and there is now hope that the disease can be reversed in humans.
futurism.com/health-medic...

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CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe

Public health scientists are raising concerns following news of a $1.6 million award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a trial of hepatitis B vaccines in newborn babies in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.

Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...

Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:

1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.

2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How social media distorts our perceptions Our information diet is shaped by a tiny sliver of humanity whose job, identity, or obsession is to post constantly

Our information diet is shaped by a tiny sliver of humanity whose job, identity, or obsession is to post constantly

Consuming too much of this diet can distort our perceptions, manipulate our emotions, and fuel intergroup conflict
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-social...

Red game piece stands on a tall stack of coins while a blue piece stands on a single coin, symbolizing financial disparity.

📈 New research from Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that simply being aware of economic inequality in your society significantly undermines your well-being across happiness, meaning, harmony, and spirituality.

Learn more: ow.ly/PtIa50WrPFp

Senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells counter aging in primates Genetically engineered senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells can reduce aging markers and improve tissue and cognitive functions in aged macaques, highlighting their potential as a r...

🧬 Human stem cells delay aging in monkeys

Scientists gave older monkeys special human stem cells built to resist aging. The treatment improved brain function, reduced inflammation, and even boosted reproductive health, without side effects.

🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

#SciComm #Aging 🧪

3 generations of a family, laughing together

📢 @ukllc.bsky.social announces new approvals from NHS providers and UK Government departments, meaning linked longitudinal data held in the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment (TRE) can now be used for a wide range of research in the public good:
bit.ly/4072vpd

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary Excess words track LLM usage in biomedical publications.

The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024. scim.ag/3IhpoQF

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨

An ESRC White Rose DTP Associated Studentship based at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social is open for applications: "Cross-System Insights from Linked Public Service Data".

Deadline: Friday 18 July 2025

phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/419-...

Annual conference - Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Register for the Centre's annual conference: Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice.

Tickets are still available for our annual conference “Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice”.

🗓️ 9-10 September 2025
📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK

Read more and register:
vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

On this July 4, liberate the field from cross-sectional “mediation analysis” - check out this new paper discussing an alternative. I bet it’s an instant classic. My sense is that folks continue bad practices bc they don’t know what else to do. This solves that

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

How to cultivate collective intellectual humility

Being smart is knowing what you don’t know. From work meetings to book clubs, use these tips to boost your group’s thinking
psyche.co/guides/how-t...

via Liz Krumrei-Mancuso & @markalfano.bsky.social

Cross-Cultural Psychology Pioneer Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı Joins SPSP Heritage Wall

🎉 We're thrilled to announce Dr. Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı as our newest Heritage Wall inductee! A pioneer of social psychology in Turkey & leading cross-cultural researcher known for Family Change Theory & Theory of Autonomous-Related Self.

Learn more: ow.ly/LSQY50W6hVT

National policing strategy needed to tackle County Lines child exploitation, study shows - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre There is no consistent approach to county lines policing, leaving children and adults vulnerable to exploitation and harm, our research shows.

Inconsistent approaches to the policing of county lines drug distribution are leaving children and adults vulnerable to exploitation and harm, our research, the first national study of county lines policing across the UK, shows.

Read more 👇

vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/nationa...

Reducing barriers to reporting sexual harassment through enhanced police procedural justice for racially minoritised young women - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Read "Reducing barriers to reporting sexual harassment through enhanced police procedural justice for racially minoritised young women".

We funded @nadiajessop.bsky.social to lead a project that examined the link between racially minoritised young women’s perceptions of a lack of procedural justice and barriers to reporting public sexual harassment to the police.

Read the summary below 👇

vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/reducing-bar...

📢 New Publication!

Over 5 days of learning about ingroup and outgroup members, we found that contact eliminated racial bias in recall of person-knowledge

Open access link below

#SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky 🧪

Ipsos poll showing agreement by country and gender with the idea that efforts toward gender equality have gone so far that they're hurting men.

Not surprising, given what Ipsos has been documenting in its International Women's Day Poll. In 2024, 45% of men in Germany agreed that "we have gone so far in promoting women's equality that we are discriminating against men." That's only slightly less than the 47% of US men who agreed.

Americans often think the AfD’s rise signals people’s reactions to immigration. But imagine an anti-immigrant fascist party rises in West Virginia & Mississippi - where there are FEW immigrants.

Anti-immigrant politics is fueled by threat from media & politicians, not interactions with immigrants.

Proud to have contributed to this report!