Charlotte Payne

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

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 ...

✍️🎓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)

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.

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:

With many congratulations 👏 to Giacomo Ariani, Aisha Bradshaw and Xiao Wang for leading this Series and bringing it together - and Bethany Vukomanovic for the beautiful artwork ❤️

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 pract...

There are many more!

Please check them out, and also take a look at our editorial, led by Giacomo Ariani

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How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs - Nature Human Behaviour Language models have become an essential part of the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) psychology. I discuss 14 methodological considerations that can be used to design more robust, gen...

How to evaluate the cognitive abilities of LLMs

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How to design and conduct a megastudy - Nature Human Behaviour Megastudies are experiments that test many treatments simultaneously using the same outcomes, control condition and sample, and are a promising tool that can provide unique insights relative to other ...

How to design and conduct a megastudy

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How to design your academic website - Nature Human Behaviour An academic website serves as both a public-facing window on the world wide web and an important internal laboratory resource. In this ‘How to’ piece, I outline how to build your academic website, inc...

How to design your academic website

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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 sense. This Comment describes the iterative c...

How to develop good research questions

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We've launched a new Series at @nathumbehav.nature.com - "How to" Comments!

Here are some highlights
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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!

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...

Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Why single-item measures of wellbeing are best

And last but by no means least, a Correspondence from the editors of the @worldhappiness.report, which makes a strong case for capturing wellbeing - "the quality of life as we experience it" - with a single, self report measure.

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Political action is now crucial for US scientists - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - Political action is now crucial for US scientists

Second, a timely call for US scientists to come together to defend academic freedom through collective action

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

💼 💔 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/...

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.

#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.

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

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

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

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...

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 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 ...

🎨 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 🧪

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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.

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...

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