Please take the time to read this Open letter of psychologists and neuroscientists for peace in the Middle East — I signed it wholeheartedly, and so did thousands of fellow scientists. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Please see my op-ed, Big Tech’s AI Isn’t The Future Europe Needs in Le Grand Continent In English: geopolitique.eu/en/2025/02/10/… In French: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/02/10/…

The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.

Did you know that hormonal contraceptives can affect your #immune system & #health⁉️ In this new review, Summer Mengelkoch, PhD, Kimya Afshar, & I examine how hormonal contraceptives impact biology and health. See: uclastresslab.org/pubs/Mengelkoc… Video overview at: youtu.be/GoH1RH6_xm4

Link: Do the Four Laws of Behavior Genetics Matter? stevestewartwilliams.com/p/do-the-four-…

✨My essay in The Lancet this week has made the front page!✨ (I didn’t know about this 🤗) ‘Reflect, Collaborate and Listen’ looks at why doctors don’t listen and the urgent need to rebalance the power dynamic in the patient - doctor relationship. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I am hiring a predoc at MIT to start this summer! We will work on various topics in labor economics - unions, minimum wages, imperfect competition, etc. Please apply and share ! #predoc MIT Sloan School of Management MIT IWER Econ RA Listings

🎓 Pre-doc Opportunity! 1) Round 2 of applications for the Kabir Banerjee Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Program is now open! Great opportunity for individuals from low and lower-middle-income countries who aim to pursue doctoral studies in development economics at top universities.

1/ Recent moves by US colleges to bring back the SAT highlight a major tension: do “objective” metrics really reduce bias, or do “subjective” assessments (like “fit”) risk perpetuating class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧵

I keep coming back to this paper as a really good way to understand discrimination in labor markets, because its evidence is just so incredibly clear. Comparing low- and high-caste job applicants, the penalty for being low-caste just does not appear until caste is identifiable.

HPV vaccines protect against cervical cancer The data is clear! Vaccines WORK

‼️Save the date‼️The new Max Planck #Postdoc Program kicks off its first call for applications from April 1, 2025; applications can be submitted until May 13, 2025. mpg.de/en/max-planck-… #ScienceCareer

Why do people enjoy video games? Why do they enjoy some video games and not others? And why do such preferences vary? We wrote a paper with Valérian Chambon on this topic and it is now published in Entertainment Computing: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Truly beautiful paper from Kevin Tobia et al. on how people ordinarily understand the concept of the reasonable person Key claim: There is a core folk notion of the reasonable that is widely shared across cultures papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

1/ 🌟Paper *just* accepted @ PSPB!🌟 Does moral licensing really exist?? 👀(doing a good thing, then a less good thing) ➡️ Many failed replications. Why? ➡️ Using #metaanalysis, we put the effect to the test—to uncover when & why it happens 🧵👇 @NorthumbriaPsych #SocialPsych

“The most important question is not ‘why the addiction’ but ‘why the pain?’ In order to heal addiction, we must look at the underlying trauma” Our chair Rachel Bannister writes in the opening forward of Royal College of Psychiatrists report referencing Dr. Gabor Maté #Livedexperience #MentalHealth

Join us for Free WPA Evolutionary Psychiatry webinar on Thursday 29 May 6pm BST speaker Molly Fox , title is Evolutionary Perspectives on Alzheimer’s wpanet.org/evolutionary-p… Derek Tracy Adam Hunt Henry O'Connell Gurjot Brar Agnes Ayton 💙 Reem Abed Lenny Cornwall

Only a week to go to the F2F Evolutionary Psychiatry conference at the RSM in London. Full prog & Reg Link rsm.ac.uk/events/psychia… Derek Tracy Reem Abed Agnes Ayton 💙 Adam Hunt Lenny Cornwall Femi Oyebode Muzaffer Kaser Simon Baron-Cohen Mohammed J Abbas Mona Joly

One million excess deaths were linked to deprivation between 2009 and 2020, Michael Marmot told a Royal College of Physicians conference. Marmot calculated 148 000 can be directly linked to austerity measures introduced by the coalition government in 2010 bmj.com/content/389/bm…

And we're underway! Our The Royal Society of Medicine & Royal College of Psychiatrists conference on evolution, psychology and medicine. Riadh Abed opens the day telling us why evolutionary approaches are relevant and matter.