Mary Elizabeth Sutherland

Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biological, Clinical, and Social Sciences - New York City, New York (US) job with Springer Nature Ltd | 12848260 Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biological, Clinical, and Social Sciences Organization: Nature Portfolio Locations: New York, Jersey City...

Do you have a background in applied #AI and an interest in joining @nature.com's editorial team? If so, consider applying! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Protests are infectious: mapping rural unrest in Revolutionary France Researchers have used epidemiological models to determine whether the wave of riots in 1789 known as the Great Fear spread through irrational panic or rational protest.

And News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 27 August 2025

It's accompanied by a great episode of our podcast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

How did rumors related to the peasant insurrections in revolutionary France (1789) spread? Researchers used epidemiological models to provide a quantitative answer, marking - to my knowledge - the first quantitative history paper that @nature.com has published www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm sorry! The original article - currently unformatted - can be accessed without a paywall using this link: rdcu.be/eMUcR

Associate Multimedia Editor or Senior Multimedia Editor Job Title: Associate Multimedia Editor or Senior Multimedia Editor (12 Month Fixed Term Role) Organisation: Nature Portfolio Location: London – Hybrid Working Model Application Deadline: Sunday 9th No...

This is exciting: We just opened a position for a multimedia editor to broaden @nature.com 's presence on social media, including TikTok. If you're interested, consider applying springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/de-DE/Spring...

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AI discovers learning algorithm that outperforms those designed by humans An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before.

Did you know that AI can figure out its own way to learn, and that its way is better than one designed by humans? Read more in a @nature.com N&V (and the original paper is in the comment) 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...

And see the original @nature.com paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How stereotypes shape AI – and what that means for the future of hiring Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 08 October 2025

How do stereotypes shape AI, and what does that mean for the future of hiring? Hear more in @nature.com 's podcast here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

YouTube video by Douglas Guilbeault Age and Gender Distortion in Online Media and Large Language Models

I really like my job because it allows me to contribute to important @nature.com papers like this one, which shows that online media and large language models (LLMs) distort age and gender in stereotypical ways. Learn more in this video 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vdw...

Creative experiences and brain clocks - Nature Communications Creative experiences such as dance, music, drawing, and strategy video games might preserve brain health. The authors show that regular practice or short training in these activities is linked to brains that look younger and work more efficiently.

or in the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Creative hobbies could slow brain ageing at the molecular level To keep the mind young, dance the tango.

I play the harp and have always loved music and being creative, so was very excited to see this paper in Nature Communications showing that creative hobbies may slow brain aging! 🧪 Read more in @nature.com's news coverage: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by introducing prohibitive, task-specific guardrails.

And for anybody who's interested, here's a link to the original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI Participants in a new study were more likely to cheat when delegating to AI—especially if they could encourage machines to break rules without explicitly asking for it

One of "my" recent @nature.com papers showed how delegating tasks to AI/LLMs can increase dishonest behavior... and I'm delighted to say that it was picked up by @sciam.bsky.social. Read more in their story here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

DeepSeek-R1 incentivizes reasoning in LLMs through reinforcement learning - Nature A new artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek-R1, is introduced, demonstrating that the reasoning abilities of large language models can be incentivized through pure reinforcement learning, removing t...

I feel very proud to be part of @nature.com, and to have colleagues who handled this excellent #DeepSeek paper that describes DeepSeek-R1, because it's the first widely used commercial LLM that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I love taking trains so was so glad to see @nature.com's recent editorial advocating for sustainable rail travel www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Years of hits to the head prime the brain for decline Repetitive head impacts trigger neuronal loss and disrupt blood vessels and immune cells long before the accumulation of neurotoxic tau protein.

It's accompanied by an excellent News and Views that explains how this primes the brain for decline in later years www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Repeated head trauma causes neuron loss and inflammation in young athletes - Nature Repetitive head impacts from contact sports are associated with brain inflammation, vascular damage and neuron loss that are independent of hyperphosphorylated tau pathology.

I feel like this should go without saying, but repeated hits to the head can only be bad: A recent @nature.com paper describes the neuron los and inflammation caused by repeated head trauma in young athletes 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by ...

Would you let AI (LLMs) cheat for you? New work out in @nature.com shows that people are indeed willing to instruct AI in ways that will benefit themselves, despite not being totally honest. Great work by @nckobis.bsky.social and @iyadrahwan.bsky.social et al 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

Did you know that people who move to more walkable cities in the US end up walking more? This seems obvious, but is quite solid evidence for the influence of the built environment on human activity and well-being. Read more in the @nature.com paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

It's based on a recent @nature.com paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

Did you know that scientists have been able to link heatwaves to the carbon emissions from specific companies? Read more in @nature.com's recent new story 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

or in our news coverage www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France Hear the biggest stories from the world of science | 27 August 2025

Hear more about this work on the nature podcast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Epidemiology models explain rumour spreading during France’s Great Fear of 1789 - Nature Epidemiological methods are used to show that the Great Fear of 1789, a series of peasant insurrections in rural revolutionary France, was driven by deliberate political action rather than spontaneous...

How did rumors spread in revolutionary France? A recent @nature paper take an epidemiological approach to understand the spread of the "great fear" in France... and is an example of the type of social science work that we are now publishing www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I've always felt that @bsky.app is better for research-related information, an opinion supported by @nature.com 's survey and a recent arXiv preprint: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How the brain’s amygdala reacts when making decisions to avoid losses Neural noise increases before choosing to explore other options when faced with possible adverse consequences.

And for those with less time, the authors put together a short summary that explains the study, it's contributions, and some opinions of experts in the field: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Rate and noise in human amygdala drive increased exploration in aversive learning - Nature Human exploration is driven by two distinct neural mechanisms, a valence-independent rate signal and a valence-dependent global noise signal.

People explore unfamiliar options more when deciding how to avoid losses than when seeking gains, shows a recent paper published in @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation - Nature Microbiology An in-depth microbiological and metagenomic analysis of Colombian farm and fermentation facilities resulted in the design of a defined microbial community that can reproduce the flavour of fine chocol...

The @nature.com news story is based on this paper in Nature Microbiology www.nature.com/articles/s41...