NJ
@nadiajessop.bsky.social
Assistant Prof/Lecturer, Psychology in Education, University of York, England
Say it louder for the people at the back
Last year, I was honoured to give the Huttenlocher Lecture at the @fluxsociety.bsky.social conference. Over the past year, I’ve been writing it into a paper:
The developing adolescent brain: Implications for youth justice and children in criminal proceedings
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The developing adolescent brain: Implications for youth justice and children in criminal proceedings
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September 16, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Say it louder for the people at the back
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✨A fun little reminder for everyone✨: Future You is not magically less busy. Future You is actually just as busy as Current You + also hates Past You for all the extra stuff you signed them up for.
September 9, 2026 at 12:37 PM
✨A fun little reminder for everyone✨: Future You is not magically less busy. Future You is actually just as busy as Current You + also hates Past You for all the extra stuff you signed them up for.
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Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!
July 28, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!
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A publicly available dashboard designed to collect residents’ feelings of trust and safety toward Chicago policing produced different impacts on Black and non-Black residents, according to a new study from #ScienceAdvances. https://scim.ag/4vARQ2V
When trust building looks like surveillance: Public polarization toward Chicago policing
Experimental exposure to a police trust-building initiative widened gaps in police trust and support for racial equity policies.
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July 22, 2026 at 6:00 PM
A publicly available dashboard designed to collect residents’ feelings of trust and safety toward Chicago policing produced different impacts on Black and non-Black residents, according to a new study from #ScienceAdvances. https://scim.ag/4vARQ2V
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🤔How does intellectual humility relate to well-being?
📈New research suggests that appreciating the knowledge and abilities of people around us - interpersonal intellectual humility - is linked to better well-being.
Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/uswA50ZiPyh
📈New research suggests that appreciating the knowledge and abilities of people around us - interpersonal intellectual humility - is linked to better well-being.
Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/uswA50ZiPyh
July 1, 2026 at 4:01 PM
🤔How does intellectual humility relate to well-being?
📈New research suggests that appreciating the knowledge and abilities of people around us - interpersonal intellectual humility - is linked to better well-being.
Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/uswA50ZiPyh
📈New research suggests that appreciating the knowledge and abilities of people around us - interpersonal intellectual humility - is linked to better well-being.
Read more in #PSPB: https://ow.ly/uswA50ZiPyh
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Communities have always had the answers. Research should help amplify them, not speak over them.
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia speaks on trust, accountability, and what real partnership can look like in our recent YouTube video youtu.be/s21Spzxkin4
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia speaks on trust, accountability, and what real partnership can look like in our recent YouTube video youtu.be/s21Spzxkin4
How do we rebuild trust between researchers and communities? | Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia
YouTube video by Russell Sage Foundation
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June 23, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Communities have always had the answers. Research should help amplify them, not speak over them.
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia speaks on trust, accountability, and what real partnership can look like in our recent YouTube video youtu.be/s21Spzxkin4
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia speaks on trust, accountability, and what real partnership can look like in our recent YouTube video youtu.be/s21Spzxkin4
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New paper by Gabriele Chierchia, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer Marwa El Zein, Benedetto de Martino
Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone
Introduction Adolescents show a heightened propensity to take risks, relative to other age groups, especially in contexts involving peers. In the current study, we investigated whether peer contexts...
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May 1, 2026 at 11:41 AM
New paper by Gabriele Chierchia, Blanca Piera Pi-Sunyer Marwa El Zein, Benedetto de Martino
Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Collective Risk Taking in Adolescents and Young Adults: Adolescents Take More Risks When Deciding Collectively Than Alone
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣
New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
April 30, 2026 at 1:37 AM
📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣
New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268
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A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding
go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project
Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.
go.nature.com
April 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding
go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
go.nature.com/4bZ9k0W
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I was interviewed on NPR's Hidden Brain about the power of social identity
One of the central insights from our discussion: We often think of beliefs and decisions as individual choices. But in many cases, they are shaped by our social identities.
Listen here: www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/grou...
One of the central insights from our discussion: We often think of beliefs and decisions as individual choices. But in many cases, they are shaped by our social identities.
Listen here: www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/grou...
Group Think - Hidden Brain Media
How do the groups you identify with shape your sense of self? Do they influence the beer you buy? The way you vote? In this favorite episode from 2021, psychologist Jay Van Bavel explains how our grou...
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March 26, 2026 at 2:55 PM
I was interviewed on NPR's Hidden Brain about the power of social identity
One of the central insights from our discussion: We often think of beliefs and decisions as individual choices. But in many cases, they are shaped by our social identities.
Listen here: www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/grou...
One of the central insights from our discussion: We often think of beliefs and decisions as individual choices. But in many cases, they are shaped by our social identities.
Listen here: www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/grou...
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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
February 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018.
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4qFrPON
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Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty — across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty — across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Social identification with the police affects how people watch videos & judge an officer’s conduct—regardless of whether they see video evidence or learn in other ways—and the degree of bias does not differ across the different types of evidence. www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-video-...
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Social identification with the police affects how people watch videos & judge an officer’s conduct—regardless of whether they see video evidence or learn in other ways—and the degree of bias does not differ across the different types of evidence. www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-video-...
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After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 16, 2026 at 9:42 PM
After a multi-year effort led by my brilliant PhD advisee Ruth Bagley, this exciting work documenting large-scale racial disparities in media representations of gun violence is out today in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
January 8, 2026 at 8:26 PM
We should no longer trust data collected on MTurk
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
My guess is that other online data is going to drop in quality due to LLMs. This is going to be an existential crisis for the behavioral sciences.
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How does culture shape the meaning and preference of humor? New research reveals consistent cultural differences in how humor is perceived, created, and appreciated.
Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: https://ow.ly/wWoF50XS8XJ
Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: https://ow.ly/wWoF50XS8XJ
January 6, 2026 at 6:10 PM
How does culture shape the meaning and preference of humor? New research reveals consistent cultural differences in how humor is perceived, created, and appreciated.
Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: https://ow.ly/wWoF50XS8XJ
Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: https://ow.ly/wWoF50XS8XJ
Nope
Public health scientists are raising concerns following news of a $1.6 million award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a trial of hepatitis B vaccines in newborn babies in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns
Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Nope
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Public health scientists are raising concerns following news of a $1.6 million award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a trial of hepatitis B vaccines in newborn babies in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
CDC funds controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in African newborns
Scientists question the value of the proposed study, which will investigate a vaccine long known to be efficacious and safe
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Public health scientists are raising concerns following news of a $1.6 million award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a trial of hepatitis B vaccines in newborn babies in the West African nation of Guinea-Bissau.
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Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:
1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.
2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.
2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
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December 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:
1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.
2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.
2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our information diet is shaped by a tiny sliver of humanity whose job, identity, or obsession is to post constantly
Consuming too much of this diet can distort our perceptions, manipulate our emotions, and fuel intergroup conflict
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-social...
Consuming too much of this diet can distort our perceptions, manipulate our emotions, and fuel intergroup conflict
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-social...
How social media distorts our perceptions
Our information diet is shaped by a tiny sliver of humanity whose job, identity, or obsession is to post constantly
www.powerofusnewsletter.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Our information diet is shaped by a tiny sliver of humanity whose job, identity, or obsession is to post constantly
Consuming too much of this diet can distort our perceptions, manipulate our emotions, and fuel intergroup conflict
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-social...
Consuming too much of this diet can distort our perceptions, manipulate our emotions, and fuel intergroup conflict
www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/how-social...
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📈 New research from Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that simply being aware of economic inequality in your society significantly undermines your well-being across happiness, meaning, harmony, and spirituality.
Learn more: ow.ly/PtIa50WrPFp
Learn more: ow.ly/PtIa50WrPFp
July 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
📈 New research from Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests that simply being aware of economic inequality in your society significantly undermines your well-being across happiness, meaning, harmony, and spirituality.
Learn more: ow.ly/PtIa50WrPFp
Learn more: ow.ly/PtIa50WrPFp
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🧬 Human stem cells delay aging in monkeys
Scientists gave older monkeys special human stem cells built to resist aging. The treatment improved brain function, reduced inflammation, and even boosted reproductive health, without side effects.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#SciComm #Aging 🧪
Scientists gave older monkeys special human stem cells built to resist aging. The treatment improved brain function, reduced inflammation, and even boosted reproductive health, without side effects.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#SciComm #Aging 🧪
Senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells counter aging in primates
Genetically engineered senescence-resistant human mesenchymal progenitor cells can
reduce aging markers and improve tissue and cognitive functions in aged macaques,
highlighting their potential as a r...
www.cell.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:23 PM
🧬 Human stem cells delay aging in monkeys
Scientists gave older monkeys special human stem cells built to resist aging. The treatment improved brain function, reduced inflammation, and even boosted reproductive health, without side effects.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#SciComm #Aging 🧪
Scientists gave older monkeys special human stem cells built to resist aging. The treatment improved brain function, reduced inflammation, and even boosted reproductive health, without side effects.
🔗 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...
#SciComm #Aging 🧪
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📢 @ukllc.bsky.social announces new approvals from NHS providers and UK Government departments, meaning linked longitudinal data held in the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment (TRE) can now be used for a wide range of research in the public good:
bit.ly/4072vpd
bit.ly/4072vpd
July 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
📢 @ukllc.bsky.social announces new approvals from NHS providers and UK Government departments, meaning linked longitudinal data held in the UK LLC Trusted Research Environment (TRE) can now be used for a wide range of research in the public good:
bit.ly/4072vpd
bit.ly/4072vpd