Dr Julia Shaw

A stack of hardback & paperback books published today, floating against a grey background

Happy Publication day!

PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social

Whenever I see established journalists use alliteration I wonder:

Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai?

Or did the ai train you?

12/11: @drjuliashaw.bsky.social will be in conversation with Jamie Woodward, discussing the motivations of those damaging our environment. Part psychology, part true crime - this is going to be a fascinating conversation! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-crim...

Happy Bi visibility day 💖

Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕

Ein Gespräch mit GEO über die Psychologie von Umweltverbrechen

An interview I did with GEO about the psychological science that can help us understand environmental crimes... and why I think it makes more interesting true crime than murder cases. 🧪

🌎 www.geo.de/natur/oekolo...

This is figure 4, which shows the relative contributions of climate change and deforestation to the Amazonian climate.

Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪

Haha, just going where the bookstores / publishers send me!

Green Crime book by Julia Shaw tour dates

Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !

Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...

Kriminalpsychologin: "Es muss sozial inakzeptabel werden, die Umwelt zu zerstören" Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen

Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen.

Lesenswertes Interview.

One of the wildest things I've seen in a while.

"by simply rubbing a solution into a juvenile mouse’s scalp, researchers can make the skin transparent"

Interesting for physical monitoring of brain development. 🧪

Green Crime book by Julia Shaw tour dates

Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !

Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...

Book now to see @drjuliashaw.bsky.social discussing 'Green Crime' @canongate.co.uk on Thursday 2nd October @blackwellbooks.bsky.social

Tickets available here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1481059983...

Fascinating finding.

🌐 Coming Nov. 4 🌐

Criminal psychologist, popular BBC presenter & podcaster Julia Shaw looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.

💡📚💙 Learn more about @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812873...

"Julia Shaw brilliantly sets the pace for criminal acts that the world needs to know about.

I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences”

Dr Adam Rutherford

UK pre-order SALE on, 25% off this week only! www.waterstones.com/book/green-c...

Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation

Oh no

"individuals high in psychopathy and FoMO are consistently more likely to engage in online political activity"

And

"higher cognitive ability is uniformly associated with lower levels of online political participation"

finds large new study 🧪

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

Top: Representative images showing the spatial localization of labeled dmPFC neurons with BFP (blue) or retrobeads (red), taken using 10 X (upper) or 40 X (lower) objectives. The majority of labelled neurons were located in layer II/III of dmPFC. Scale bars, 100 μm (10 X) and 25 μm (40 X). Bottom: Summary on the neural circuit mediating the transition from memory retrieval to freezing behavior. Presentation of CS+ activates LA neurons and TeA neurons. The activated LA neurons activate dmPFC T-neurons, which in turn activate dmPFC S-neurons and LC neurons. S-neurons receive inputs from TeA and send their outputs to BLA, which projects to PAG to enable freezing behavior. Activated LC neurons release NE in the dmPFC via their projections.

Which neural circuits allow memory retrieval to influence behaviors? This study shows how #fear #memory activation initiates & sustains #FreezingBehavior in mice via the interplay of #norepinephrine & activation of different prefrontal #neuron subtypes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3TGqt7a

I am pleased you liked it!

Examining critical assumptions in global conservation practice The ability of conservation practitioners to design and implement successful conservation projects and scale up positive outcomes depends in large part on their ability to make accurate assumptions a...

New paper! What we think we know, know we don’t know, and don’t know we don’t know, when it comes to working on environment and climate issues. 🧪

doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

An Illusion of Time Caused by Repeated Experience - Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, 2025 How do people remember when something occurred? One obvious possibility is that, in the absence of explicit cues, people remember on the basis of memory strengt...

Illusion of time 🧪

"experiences that are repeated (&, consequently, better remembered) are counterintuitively remembered as having initially occurred further back in time."

Interesting memory study that argues this may be one reason why our sense of time often deviates from reality

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought - Nature Reviews Neuroscience The capacity to prevent unwanted thoughts is important for cognitive function and mental health. Anderson et al. describe insights into the neural mechanisms of the inhibitory control of thought that ...

How does the brain stop thoughts? Find out in my article in @natrevneuro.nature.com with Subbu Subbulakshmi & Maite Crespo-Garcia www.nature.com/articles/s41... that integrates 25 yrs of psychology and neuroscience on this vital function.@mrccbu.bsky.social sky.social #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Finally read Fallen Idols by @alexvont.bsky.social and absolutely loved it. I know I'm late to the party, but I highly recommend it.

I would love to do a talk together about research on false memories, and how history is written. I bet we would have lots to discuss!

Science — Dr Julia Shaw

Fangen wir mal mit meiner Forschung zu falschen Erinnerungen an.

Mein erstes Buch heißt Das trügerische Gedächtnis.

Und hier findet ihr all meine wissenschaftlichen Papers (frei zugänglich): www.drjuliashaw.com/research

Starting tomorrow I will be posting for 1 week all about my research and writing on false memory, criminal psychology, and bisexuality over at @realscientists.de.

It will be in German - so come follow along if you speak German! What questions would you like answered? AMA! 🧪

This is such a beautiful way of presenting data

We've figured out how our brains sort imagination from reality Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely a product of our imaginations - and understanding them further may help treat visual hallucinations

How do you tell if something is real or imaginary? 💭
Dr @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social‬ (@uclqsion.bsky.social‬) speaks to the New Scientist about how brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we can believe what we're seeing.
buff.ly/k2Cs2OD

This episode was about US interrogations, and criticising the Reid model, which I am sure as a UK detective you also take issue with. The point of investigative interviewing - your style - is the truth. The point of high pressure US tactics isn't always the truth. Or do you disagree?

YouTube video by Times Originals Criminal Psychologist Reveals Secrets Of Police Interviews I Interrogators

Want to know the difference between police interrogations & investigative interviews? Curious why police should not rely on body language, yet they often do? Want to know what makes ppl look guilty?

Watch my new doc with The Times on the science of interrogations 🧪. youtu.be/fj0x8_jsepE?...

To make it easier to share teaching resources, I'd like to start by asking what your favorite cog psych videos are.

Let me start: I love showing this visual agnosia video in class. Kevin is articulate about his recognition problems.

What's your favorite? I'll compile your responses & share them.

Great collection of psych science 🧪 articles for pride month. 🏳️‍🌈