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Reversing nature's decline Oxford experts explain how our climate varies naturally, and how human-induced climate change is impacting nature and biodiversity. They also discuss habitat loss and how we can work with nature to ta...

🌍 | How can we harness nature-based solutions to protect the planet?

Profs Helen Johnson, Yadvinder Malhi and Nathalie Seddon explain ⬇️
www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-...

#OxfordClimate | @oxfordgeography.bsky.social | @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social | @naturerecovery.bsky.social | @biology.ox.ac.uk ‬

Know their names: Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza One out of every 65 children in Gaza has been killed by Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.

Know their names: ‘Since October 7, 2023, Israeli attacks have killed at least 16,800 children, according to Palestinian officials. That is one Palestinian child killed every 30 minutes, or about one out of every 65 children in the Gaza Strip.’

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Title: Would you talk about this? Participate in our study! We want to understand how people talk and think about environmental topics. Why participate? Help us learn about everyday conversations and win one of four vouchers worth 45€. Who can participate? Permanent residents of the UK; 18 years or older What’s involved? An online survey that takes ~15mins to fill out Interested? Follow the link in the description!

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Scoping review: potential harm from school-based group mental health interventions Carolina Guzman-Holst, Rowan Streckfuss Davis, Jack L. Andrews, Lucy Foulkes

🚨NEW PAPER from my group: Scoping review of potential harm from group-based CBT and mindfulness interventions in schools

Our research question was essentially this: How often do school mental health interventions make things worse?

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Modifiable risk factors of vaccine hesitancy: insights from a mixed methods multiple population study combining machine learning and thematic analysis during the COVID-19 pandemic - BMC Medicine Background Vaccine hesitancy, the delay in acceptance or reluctance to vaccinate, ranks among the top threats to global health. Identifying modifiable factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy is cruc...

Excited to share our BMC Medicine article on Modifiable Risk Factors of Vaccine Hesitancy

With 2 independent teams of authors blind to each others procedures, we combine gradient boosting machines & thematic analysis, & replicate results in 2 nations 🧵
bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

|| New Publication (Nature Communications)

Psychological Booster Shots Targeting Memory​ Increase Long-Term Resistance Against Misinformation
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Press Release
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

Key Findings
* Inoculation works
* Effects dissipate
* Booster shots remedy this

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In a new paper we analyzed 43,932 randomized news headlines and found causal evidence in support of the out-group animosity hypothesis:

Negativity about out-groups boosted engagement by 14.1%, compared to just 1.6% for negativity about in-groups.
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Behavioral Sciences Behavioral Sciences, an international, peer-reviewed Open Access journal.

Special Issue of Behavioral Sciences: Advanced Studies in Human - Centred AI

Human-centred AI puts human behaviour and experience at the heart of artificial intelligence research. To know more about or contribute to this special issue, email andy.wills@plymouth.ac.uk

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Past work has found that negativity and identity language both predict online engagement.

In this working paper, we find that engagement is highest when negativity and identity language are combined -- especially if an *out-group* identity term is used.

Excited to see this latest paper from my PhD out! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed!

Incarcerated. Teenagers.

More people speak English today than any other language in human history. But what do we lose, psychologically and culturally, as a result? For this week's @newyorker.com, I explore how English shapes thought—from our conception of time to how we talk about the senses.

Going beyond the individual level in self-control research - Nature Reviews Psychology Self-control is traditionally viewed as an individual-level struggle, reflecting prevailing notions of individual autonomy and personal responsibility. In this Perspective, Hofmann calls for...

This @natrevpsych.bsky.social paper on self-control by @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social is one of the papers that had the biggest impact on my thinking this year. Will's call for going beyond the individual level (e.g., willpower) & considering environmental/societal factors is critically important.

The impact of social identity complexity on intergroup parochial and universal cooperation under different payoff structures and frames As society evolves, individuals increasingly cooperate with both in-group members and out-group strangers, despite risks such as betrayal. Social iden…

Social identity complexity is positively related to universal cooperation (& negatively related to parochialism)

Diverse identities allow people to assess situations from different perspectives, reducing bias & enhancing intergroup understanding + communication www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender… Downloadable file

An open letter to the scientific community in the US and UK on the crisis impacting transgender people: medium.com/@transrights...

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#LGBTQSTEM 🧪

Communicating scientific agreement on climate increases perceived consensus and belief in human-caused climate change across the globe, including amongst skeptics and those with lower trust in climate science.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Spillover effects of the polarization of the pandemic:

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