Sharon Shavitt

Screenshot from JACR website announcing the issue.

Excited to share a call for papers for a JACR issue on “Cultural Influences on Decision Making and Marketing” co-edited by Carlos Torelli, Chi-Yue Chiu, and myself. Please consider submitting your work! Details here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/.../jacr/for...

A hamerkop bird sits on a tree branch in profile, one black eye glinting at the viewer.

Hamerkop. Photographed in Botswana. #birds

Psychology takes a global view Global research collaborations are seeking larger, more representative samples in investigating shared urgent challenges.

Psychological science is going global, using larger, more representative samples. These are a massive public good.

But I argue that these global projects are an administrative beast and we need more grant $$$ to support data collective in lower-income countries.

see: www.apa.org/monitor/2025...

Very cool finding. Would love to see cross-cultural comparisons of human groups. Which cultures would come closest to beating the ants?

On November 2, 1976 this peanut farmer from #Plains GA beat Gerald Ford to become the 39th US president. Although I could not yet vote in that election, I was proud of doing my tiny part, and inspired by the honesty and humanity of this ticket. #RIPJimmyCarter

Here is the inside of one of the flyers I helped distribute. Can you imagine this message resonating in our current political environment? Beyond the content, the WORD COUNT is insane. How far our political rhetoric has degraded over the last half century. #advertising #politicaladvertising

I spent hours volunteering at the Ohio Democratic HQ in downtown Columbus, stuffing envelopes. And I served as a press coordinator for Carter’s campaign visit to Columbus, the only role in my life that required a security clearance.

In spring 1976, I was 16, fascinated w politics, & geeking out on the Dem primaries. Jimmy Carter wasn’t my top choice in the Dem field--I was suspicious of his Deep South roots & religious rhetoric. But when he won the nomination, I signed up. #Plains #RIPJimmyCarter

On the left, my image. On the right, the Al image that was clearly trained on, and designed to plagiarize, my image.

All Al generated imagery is inherently theft. It's unethical, environmentally disastrous, and does irreparable harm to both artists and society.

Several oxpeckers sit atop two old African buffalo as they stand in a field of grass.

Yellow-billed oxpeckers, Maasai Mara, Kenya
#birds #mammals #wildlife

A mostly white, rotund bird with brown spots sits on the ground surrounded by dead brown leaves as it waits for the snows of winter to camouflage it.

This one is completely white,with feathered legs and feet. It stands out starkly against the green/brown ground cover.

Willow Ptarmigan, winter plumage. Churchill, Manitoba #birds

We only rate dogs. This is clearly a smol pavement kangaroo. Please only send dogs. 14/10

#birds #birding

Three blue-footed boobies stand on volcanic rocks in the Pacific Ocean, chilling

One blue-footed booby stares down at you from volcanic rocks, cacti in the background.

Blue-footed boobies, Galápagos Islands

Bluesky just hit 25 million users

Yellow, black, and white bird with striped tail perches in a flowering tree

The bird now nibbles into on one of the flowers to its right, its red feathers near its tail now showing.

D'Arnaud's Barbet, Maasai Mara, Kenya #birds 🪶

Madagascar fish eagle looking to its right, sitting in a baobab tree

Madagascar fish eagle, sitting high in a tree

Good morning Bluesky! Here’s a Madagascar fish eagle, a critically endangered raptor. Photographed near Anjajavy. #addbirder #birds #endangered #Madagascar