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Nadira Faber

@nadirafaber.bsky.social

Experimental psychologist. Full professor for Social & Economic Psychology at Uni Bremen (Germany), researcher in Philosophy at Uni Oxford (UK). Research: morality, prosociality, group dynamics. https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/social-psychology

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Nadira Faber@nadirafaber.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨 Wir an der Uni Bremen suchen für das WiSe 26/27 (+ evtl. SoSe 27) eine:n Vertretungsprofessor:in für Allgemeine Psychologie (75%). Lehre im Bereich Allgemeine Psych., Entscheidungspsychologie, Experimentalpraktikum. Bei Interesse melden bei: Prof. Ingrid Darmann-Finck, darmann@uni-bremen.de

Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان@iyadrahwan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our paper "Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research" is now officially published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to our team members Raluca Rilla, Tobias Werner, Hiromu Yakura, Anne-Marie Nussberger www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Recognising and mitigating LLM Pollution in online behavioural research - Nature Communications

Online behavioural research faces a growing methodological and epistemic threat as participants increasingly rely on large language models: LLM Pollution. Amid accumulating empirical evidence of conta...

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Juraj Mikurcik@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

Photo showing a combination of hard and soft landscape with callouts of surface temperatures
Nadira Faber@nadirafaber.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Exeter’s history, English, modern languages and politics courses could see up to 25 per cent of their staff cut" Sure, learning about mistakes of the past, how to speak to other groups, and about the dynamics of politics seems unnecessary given the stable state of the world. #sarcasmoff 😟

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

Nadira Faber@nadirafaber.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Awesome to have such an comprehensive review on this important topic - for both research & teaching! 👏 A must-read for anyone interested in the psychology how humans see & value animals written by two of the main experts in the field. #cogpsyc #socialpsyc #PhilSky

Nature Reviews Psychology@natrevpsychol.nature.com · 3mo ago

Speciesism and the psychology of animal exploitation Review by Kristof Dhont & Gordon Hodson go.nature.com/4b2gmSW #psychscisky

Eddie Yang@eddieyang.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

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National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 4mo ago

Barn owl cam is here! See how they are getting on 24 hours day over on YouTube. If you're lucky, you might even see some eggs hatching, live 👀 Tune in: buff.ly/AWxh8TW [📹️ A night-vision camera shows a single barn owl sitting, tending to eight eggs and eating inside a wooden nest box.]

Auschwitz Memorial@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The two pictures are 11 years apart. On 10 May 1933, the Nazi Party staged an ideological spectacle of the burning of 'un-German’ books. 2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber and crematorium V, 1944. #Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead people.

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Nadira Faber@nadirafaber.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Paper in Science shows Darwin's "same taste for the beautiful": humans and other animals (including birds, frogs, and amphibians) like the same sounds! We all prefer adorned, ancestral, and lower-frequency.🎵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PsychSciSky

Humans share acoustic preferences with other animals

Many animals produce courtship sounds, and receivers prefer some sounds over others. Shared ancestry and convergent evolution may generate similarities in preference across species and underlie Darwin...

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Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“we analysed data for 1436 mammal species, confirming that group-living and pair-living species exhibit longer lifespans than solitary species…findings suggest that while group-living may reduce predation risk, pathogen transmission costs in larger groups may constrain longevity benefits”

Social Organisation Predicts Lifespan in Mammals

Using Bayesian phylogenetic analyses of 1436 mammal species, we show that pair-living and group-living species have longer maximum lifespans than solitary species after accounting for body mass and p...

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Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

English writer Mary Wollstonecraft was born #OTD in 1759. Best known for her book, 𝘈 𝘝𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 (1792). It is a foundational text for feminism that argued for equal education and rights for women--challenging the notion of female inferiority. #literature #litsky #booksky

A split-image composition featuring two historical elements side by side. On the left is an oil portrait painting of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th-century British philosopher and advocate for women's rights. She is depicted as a young woman in her late 20s or early 30s with fair skin, rosy cheeks, and auburn hair tucked under a black cap. She wears a simple white muslin gown draped loosely across her shoulders and chest in a classical, flowing style. Her expression is calm and thoughtful, gazing to the left with soft brown eyes against a dark, shadowy background that gives the portrait a dramatic, introspective mood. On the right is a close-up photograph of the title page from the first edition of her seminal work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The text is printed in elegant 18th-century typography with black ink on aged, slightly yellowed paper. The full title reads: "A VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN: WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS. By MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT." Below are publication details: "LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, N° 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD. 1792." The page has a classic book layout with centered lines, decorative rules, and subtle printer's ornaments. The overall image juxtaposes Wollstonecraft's portrait with the foundational feminist text she authored, symbolizing her enduring legacy in women's rights and Enlightenment thought.
Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 5mo ago

In a world that often feels deeply polarized, it is rare to find a topic where almost everyone agrees. The treatment of farm animals is one of them. Surveys across many countries show that a strong majority of people, regardless of their diet, oppose common practices in animal agriculture.

Bar chart of survey responses from about 1,000 UK adults in 2022 where most respondents rate a range of common farming practices for chickens, cows and pigs as "not acceptable," highlighting a gap between public concern for farm animals and current practices. Data source: Bryant Research (2022). License: CC BY.