Why do #inequalities endure, and what does #fairness really mean? Published today, our new Focus issue, Inequality and Fairness in a Complex World, explores these questions and their implications for research and policy. [1/10] www.nature.com/collections/...

🚨 New piece in @nathumbehav.nature.com: We show that socioeconomic gaps in childcare access across the OECD are not mainly about lower demand. Many disadvantaged families want childcare but face barriers such as scarcity, costs, and complex procedures. Main takeaway: make access easier 📣

In a commentary published today in Nature Human Behavior, we argue that regulating vaping needs pragmatic, evidence-based policy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

To regulate vaping we need pragmatic, evidence-based policy - Nature Human Behaviour

Vaping regulation is a global challenge. We discuss evidence on health risks, smoking impacts and policy goals, and advocate for pragmatic, proportionate regulation that reduces smoking harms while mi...

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Calling all researchers in social & behavioural genetics! Please read this excellent Comment by ECRs in the field (published this week in @nathumbehav.nature.com) www.nature.com/articles/s41... Led by Straub, Harerimana & Alajääskö, it calls for updated practice, training & ethics rdcu.be/fiUR2

Early-career-researcher-led best practices for social science and behavioural genetics - Nature Human Behaviour

An emerging market promotes embryo selection for behavioural traits including IQ, but the response of the social and behavioural genetic research community remains muted. We call for unified best prac...

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I'm so happy to see this paper published with us @nathumbehav.nature.com ! Check out the thread below (and the paper itself) for new insights into the global relationship between science and policy

Sebastian Ramirez-Ruiz@seramirezruiz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

If your research involves behavioural genetics, check out this Comment! Recommendations include - 🛡️Assess risks & build in safeguards from the very beginning 💬Engage with participants and communities openly, early & often I'd love to see these efforts documented in Methods sections more often

Shoumita Dasgupta, PhD@profdasgupta.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy to share my latest @nathumbehav.nature.com! Behavioural genetics must prioritize communication - an exploration of all of our roles and responsibilities in promoting ethical, inclusive discovery. rdcu.be/e6YlV

✍️🎓Will AI detectors change how we write? Bo Hu discusses potential impacts on academic writing in this World View for @nathumbehav.nature.com - www.nature.com/articles/s41... (also: rdcu.be/e6yzR)

Why artificial intelligence detectors could penalize academic writing - Nature Human Behaviour

Writing produced using artificial intelligence is becoming more common in academia, which has prompted institutions to look for ways to detect it. Bo Hu warns that an overreliance on fixed linguistic ...

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A new series of 'How to' Comment is now launched! It provides guidance & practical recommendations for topics of broad interest to our readership. Read our editorial about it:

Voices of experience - Nature Human Behaviour

Collective knowledge is a human strength. To benefit from the wisdom of experience, we launch a Series of Comments in a dedicated ‘How to’ style. These ‘How to’ Comments provide brief advice and practical recommendations to researchers across the wide spectrum of disciplines covered by the journal.

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We've launched a new Series at @nathumbehav.nature.com - "How to" Comments! Here are some highlights www.nature.com/collections/...

Ahoy! Call for papers now open for this year's amazing ESSGN conference - returning to the beautiful Bologna. Have anything to present at the intersection of the social sciences and genetics? Don't miss!

Pietro Biroli@pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📢🧬 Call for Papers — 5th ESSGN Conference 📍 Bologna, May 21–22, 2026 I’ll be co-organising the 5th ESSGN conference in Bologna together with Nicola Barban, Stephanie von Hinke, Paul Hufe, and Niels Rietveld @essgn.bsky.social 📄 Submit here: forms.gle/fmVDUrQqQYju... 🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026

Large language models can accurately score people’s Big 5 personality traits on the basis of their brief, open-ended narratives. LLM ratings converged with self-reports and predicted daily behaviour & mental health www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We have some great opinion pieces out in @nathumbehav.nature.com today! First, a Comment on colonial legacies and big team science - these multicentre projects aim to globalise science, but can the movement achieve this without structural reform? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The tension between big team science and colonial power dynamics - Nature Human Behaviour

Big team science promises to globalize the social behavioural sciences. However, without structural reform, it will reproduce a research model in which data are gathered globally but intellectual powe...

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New evidence of Ice Age occupation at 1000m in Australia challenges old ideas about human mobility during the last glacial maximum I was excited to handle this Article by Amy Way et al, & love the stunning cover art by co-author Wayne Brennan @nathumbehav.nature.com

Australia's social media ban is now in place - what next? Writing in @nathumbehav.nature.com, Dr Wu Shin Ling considers the implications of this ban - for teens, researchers and policymakers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Implications of Australia’s under-16 social media ban - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - Implications of Australia’s under-16 social media ban

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💼 💔 Academia’s toxic love language is playing “hard to get” 🧪 💓 Science is the beautiful pursuit of building knowledge I wrote an essay for Nature Human Behaviour on treating academia as “just a job” www.nature.com/articles/s41... What ideas would you add? 💡 #HigherEd #PhDLife #DiversityInSTEM

Our new Focus issue "Rethinking Waste" is live! We’re thrilled to present a human-centred look at sustainable waste management. [1/14] www.nature.com/collections/...

#WHS2025 This Comment by Gelen et al discusses diversity in representation at the World Health Summit. They found an increasing diversity in representation is increasing — but influence remains uneven. They propose three areas for future reform.

Power and representation at the World Health Summit - Nature Human Behaviour

At the World Health Summit, diversity in representation is increasing — but influence remains uneven. Drawing on 11 years of speaker data from one of the most prominent global health forums, we uncover patterns in gender, geography and sector. We propose three areas for future reform to ensure global health platforms move beyond tokenism towards meaningful inclusion and accountability.

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There's a gender gap in adolescent mental health and it's not OK - too many girls are suffering alone. Zui Narita et al summarise the evidence in @nathumbehav.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... @knowlesg42.bsky.social

The silent crisis in girls’ mental health - Nature Human Behaviour

Nature Human Behaviour - The silent crisis in girls’ mental health

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Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today. Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

Does socioeconomic status predict health or happiness? A study of 70k people across 11 countries finds relative income predicts happiness, education predicts health 💲😃🎓🩺 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nathumbehav.nature.com

The social ladder to wellbeing - Nature Human Behaviour

What aspects of socioeconomic status predict health and happiness? In an ecological momentary assessment study with more than 70,000 people, Newman et al. find that income is linked to happiness but g...

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🎨 How we see style A new study shows our brains are tuned to recognise style, like Monet’s brushstrokes, separately from content. Style is not just art, it is perception. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #Cognition 🧪

The psychophysics of style - Nature Human Behaviour

Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is ...

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Some people call it a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences. My love letter to social science genetics: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-love...

A Love Letter to Social Science Genetics

Some people call social science genetics a minefield. Others call it dangerous, even irresponsible. I call it the most promising field in life sciences.

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When we search for scientific papers, we often rely on an algorithm - but do we miss important work? In this Correspondence, Zackary Dunivin and @psmaldino.bsky.social warn that current algorithms exacerbate disparities in science, and make the case for greater user control. rdcu.be/eASFa

User control of search algorithms would improve science

Nature Human Behaviour - User control of search algorithms would improve science

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How do you come up with a really good research question? Megan Peters @ucirvine.bsky.social writes about her process, offering some great tips (and traps to avoid!) rdcu.be/eAmL2

How to develop good research questions

Nature Human Behaviour - Designing good research questions goes well beyond the standard definitions of clarity, focus and tractability, and even beyond ‘novelty’ in the strictest...

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80 years on from Hiroshima bombing, risks of nuclear war are the highest they’ve been in decades. We need new science leaders to engage with policymakers & the public to create a shared knowledge-intensive understanding of the calamitous consequences of nuclear war 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists can help stop a slide to nuclear war — don’t shut them out again

It has taken the United Nations nearly 40 years to commission another study on the effects of nuclear conflict. Better late than never.

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New Editorial: "The human factor" rdcu.be/exe7t From this month, we will be publishing pieces specifically focused on the personal side of research. And the first is: Q&A with Aster Gebrekirstos: "Creating resilience through agroforestry" rdcu.be/exl7A

If you visit Hong Kong, it's well worth taking a boat to Lantau to see the feral buffalo - they are incredible 🐃🐃🐃 (Last year I was so lucky to visit them together with the team behind this brilliant work!)

Alan McElligott@amcell.bsky.social · last yr.

Where the feral buffalo roam in Hong Kong | www.eurekalert.org/news-release... led by @debottam1991.bsky.social Well Done Team! www.hkbuffaloresearch.org

The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

Erik Sulidra proudly presented his work in Bahasa Indonesia. Everyone understood his presentation—whether in English, Japanese, or other languages—with Wordly's live AI translation. A moment when we broke #languagebarriers at #ICCB2025.