Natália B. Dutra

@nataliabdutra.bsky.social

Associate professor at the Graduate Program in Neurosciences and Behaviour (UFPA, Brazil) PhD in Developmental Psychology (Durham University, UK) Culture, Cooperation and Cognition Lab (LaC3)

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Brazil now has a few funding calls for collabs with Latin America, Africa and BRICS. All of them require affiliation w local institutions. This reminds of earlier discussions about the relevance of affiliations in global science. +

Finally this long-last meta-research is done! We examine the demographics of subject from 1000 Chinese psych journal articles & 27 big-teams science. Findings: these participant are not representative of the 🇨🇳population, in terms of sex, age, & edu. @btscon.bsky.social @sakshighai.bsky.social

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PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Profiling the Chinese Participants in Psychological Science: Non-WEIRD but Not Representative: https://osf.io/j8xgf

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Reminds me of our findings comparing unequal sharing in Brazilian versus English kids for my PhD. No differences in amount shared, but on active (UK) versus passive (BR) sharing. BR kids took their share more often. Small effect size (afair) and urban communities though.

Kris Smith@kris-smith.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New paper with @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social exploring responses to unequal distributions in Hadza hunter-gatherers. Equal distributions were more like to come from people *taking* from peers with more rather than giving to peers with less.

If you have about 20 minutes, I would be grateful if you could help my undergraduate student explore whether common empathy questionnaires are actually interchangable in the ways they are used in the social science literature.

Sara Eftekhari@sara-eftekhari.bsky.social · 6mo ago

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲: Level 1 Psychology students at University of Glasgow (to earn 2 Credits on SONA): glasgow.sona-systems.com/default.aspx... Everyone else: uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺: Sara Eftekhari (dissertation student), and @debruine.bsky.social (supervisor).

Post 1/13 📢🧵 Call for activities proposals ! You are invited to submit proposals for three activities to be held during the upcoming CES2026 conference:

200 boats. 5,000 people. Indigenous, quilombola, and riverine leaders filled the waters of Belém this week to say: NO to Ferrogrão. No more destruction. Their message to #COP30: Implementation without justice for Indigenous & frontline communities isn’t climate action. https://bit.ly/4pbqihP

Major River Mobilization With More Than 5,000 Leaders from the Amazon Arrives at COP30 | Amazon Watch

“The presence of Indigenous Peoples at COP30 is very important, but the struggle doesn’t end here."

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