You know what’s not great for women’s sexual desire? When men partners pressure them to have sex! Surprisingly, there’s been very little research on this association. UNTIL NOW! 😉 Excited to announce our new open access article on sexual coercion & desire, published in Sex Roles! rdcu.be/fxXCV

Woohoo!!! I am so thrilled that our paper on hormonal birth control (mis/dis)information online has been accepted at AJPH! I’ve been rage thinking/writing about this topic for awhile & it getting to work on this with @jacasiegel.bsky.social was so awesome & serendipitous! Can’t wait to share it!

Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD@jacasiegel.bsky.social · 4w ago

Delighted to share that this piece was just accepted for publication at AJPH. In this work, we outline the legacy of misogyny and racism in contraceptive science & medicine that have led to this moment of mistrust among young women and provide suggestions for earning trust back at multiple levels.

News outlets have reported over the past year that the U.S. birth rate has hit an all-time low. However, there are different ways to measure fertility, and some of these methods tell a different story.

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs

RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.

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Ugh. Not good reporting about unrefereed preprints. Sabrina Tavernese at NYT says two studies were "published," one of which was "published in the National Bureau of Economic Research" (not a journal) the other is on SSRN (not identified).

Why Are Birthrates Down? Two New Studies Point to Phones.

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NEW from me in @pnas.org on the risks of data sharing with qualitative research: "Today, confidentiality risks are amplified by social media, surveillance, and AI tools, which make ample data about people publicly available, thus making deidentification less effective" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

“My hypothesis is that women will use AI to do more work. Men will use AI to get out of doing more work. And, every argument that is not dealing with the preconditions of this gendered inequality is not thinking seriously about AI” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/lost...

Dr. Holly Walters@manigarm.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Now out in Behavior Genetics: I track how fringe researchers weaponize preprint servers to disseminate pseudoscientific studies that advance scientific racism and eugenics links.springernature.com/f/a/Y0XN-XcL...

The Preprint Problem: Fringe, Genetically Informed Studies of Group Differences in Behavior Housed on Open Science Platforms - Behavior Genetics

Preprint servers and open science platforms have revolutionized the scientific process. A fundamental feature of these platforms is a lack of peer review—virtually anyone with an internet connection can upload their research in a few clicks. Although this setup has facilitated rapid dissemination of results and open access to research, it has also enabled fringe researchers to post and share pseudoscientific, genetically informed studies of differences in behavior that often advance racial hereditarian and eugenic claims. Because preprint archives are now routinely used by mainstream academics, preprints grant a degree of legitimacy to fringe research that otherwise may have been relegated to a blog post or fringe publication. Previous studies have documented individual examples of pseudoscientific, genetic studies of group differences being posted on preprint archives, but the scope of this problem remains unclear, making it difficult to formulate responses and potential solutions. The present study quantified and characterized pseudoscientific studies of group differences in behavior—including studies that used genetic methods—housed on popular preprint servers and open science collaboration platforms. Dozens of such preprints were identified. Preprinted studies on group differences often analyzed controversial phenotypes, most frequently intelligence and related traits, and furthered classical, widely rejected hereditarian and eugenic theories. Genetically informed analyses rested on fundamentally flawed assumptions about heritability and polygenic scores. The Preprint Problem is indicative of a broader effort to weaponize mainstream academic research and its mechanisms, including Open Science, and a recent resurgence of scientific racism and eugenics. Potential responses to these challenges are introduced.

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Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Access by Mail to Continue www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/u...

Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill Access by Mail to Continue

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Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

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Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology

On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several d...

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Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

Are we still posting our raw datasets now that they're being farmed for genAI-written papers? I'm starting to feel differently now sharing data before I'm totally done with my own research questions...

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion Pill by Mail www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/u...

Supreme Court Temporarily Restores Access to Abortion Pill by Mail

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Conservatives think that yesterday’s federal ruling will end abortion pills by mail—it’s not happening. Some abortion providers plan to continue shipping mifepristone 👀 jessica.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

The Biggest Attack on Abortion Since the End of Roe

A federal court wants to end mifepristone by mail—it's not happening

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For the first time in over a month I had about an hour yesterday to do a little research - in this case some reading to complement archival work I've started. This quote from an early edition of Our Bodies Ourselves, on disrupting sexual shame, got to me (from Adams 2019 Peitho): 1/4

Big congrats to my undergrad student, Alethea Quick, who completed a senior honors thesis analyzing our US nationally representative data on orgasm coercion. 91.4% of participants had ever experienced some form of orgasm coercion & we didn’t really see sig differences by various identity groups. 🤯

A new study suggests that women start to devalue their own orgasms when they happen infrequently. This may be self-protective in the short term, but may ultimately widen the orgasm gap. https://www.psypost.org/new-psychology-research-explains-why-some-women-devalue-their-own-orgasms/

New psychology research explains why some women devalue their own orgasms

When women consistently experience infrequent orgasms, both they and their partners mentally downgrade the importance of climaxing. While this psychological shift protects short-term self-esteem, new research suggests it might ultimately perpetuate the ongoing orgasm gap.

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It’s true: not all men use sexual force. But 95.1% of men in a recent, anonymous survey of men between the ages of 18 and 34 reported having recently used at least one strategy to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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An Ohio man became the first person to be convicted under a 2025 federal law on revenge porn that also made publishing pornographic deepfakes a crime, federal prosecutors announced on Tuesday.

Ohio Man Is First to Be Federally Convicted for Deepfake Porn

James Strahler II, 37, of Columbus, Ohio, had at least 10 victims, according to the authorities. He pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and other charges covered by the Take It Down Act.

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I’m also growing increasingly concerned about pre-prints - the theory & motivations behind them are well-intended, but I’ve already seen news sites (& now this suggests AI) report on pre-prints as though they are full-fledged scientific publications.

Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#AcademicSky I hold a minority position: being concerned about pre-print papers on servers. My concern? Widely available "evidence" that's not peer reviewed. Now AI is here, the threat is clear. You can flood servers w rubbish, AI will amplify the nonsense. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here we go! We are VERY excited to announce the publication of the 16th ed of Understanding Human Sexuality, by Janet Hyde & now also myself & the incredible @morgancjerald.bsky.social ! What an honor to participate in educating thousands of students about sexuality & to share in this legacy. 😍

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures

In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

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Men who favor the tradwife lifestyle often view the women in it with derision

Men who favor the tradwife lifestyle often view the women in it with derision

A new study reveals that young men who support the so-called tradwife movement are driven more by hostile sexism and resentment toward women than by a chivalrous desire to protect and provide for them.

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A positive development in the world of sex ed is that 5 states added a requirement to teach about sexual consent last year. However, that only brings the total number to 16. In 2026, the vast majority of states still don't require consent instruction. www.sexandpsychology.com/blog/2026/4/...

2026 Sexual Education Curriculum Requirements In The US - Sex and Psychology

A look at the state of sex education in the United States in 2026.

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Just a little throwback to my early days in the feminist social neuroendocrinology lab! 🥰

“The tax code often assumes that economic resources within a household are shared equally and that caregiving has no independent economic value. Both assumptions obscure the realities of inequality and disproportionately disadvantage women.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/y...

Is the U.S. Tax Code Anti-Feminist?

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Best joke from last night.

New research suggests that the reason women tend to report less sexual desire than men may not be due to biological differences, but early negative sexual experiences that occur during an important developmental period. https://www.newsweek.com/sex-libido-gap-scientists-study-11612303

Scientists studied why women want less sex than men—they now have an answer

Drawing on evidence from more than 300 scientific studies, researchers have debunked a long-held myth about women's desire.

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New study analyzing fertility data and the volume of pronatalist media coverage finds the two are unrelated, suggesting “pronatalist media discourse selectively deploys demographic evidence in order to operate as an ideological regime of truth.” www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/worki...

New work with @zenamello.bsky.social -- using the person-centered approach, we found that social class discrimination, particularly discrimination that occurs in school negatively relates to academic outcomes. Classism from teachers was most common onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Social Class Discrimination and Academic Success: A Person‐Centered Approach Among Adolescents Disadvantaged in Social Class

Introduction Prior research indicates that social class is strongly associated with academic outcomes such as GPA. However, little work explores the role that social discrimination plays in this rel...

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