AI might not be taking jobs at the moment — but many people already fear it.

In our new preprint (experiment + large panel study), we examine why.

Drawing on Integrated Fear Acquisition Theory and the Technology Acceptance Model, we show that simply framing AI as being “in control” increases job replacement anxiety — especially when AI is seen as highly useful (ease of use didn’t matter).

Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/exg7t_v1

#AI #FutureOfWork #AIAnxiety #NewResearch #IOPsych #IOpsychology

How did the #intensity of #wildfires change throughout the past in one of the coldest regions in the world? 🔥❄️📉

To answer this question, we used #BPCAs from sediment samples from #Yakutia, #Siberia. Find our results, now published open access, here:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818126000299

@wildfirescience @paleofire @ecology @academicchatter #paleofire #siberia #paleoecology #newresearch

📘✨ New Release! The Gift is a powerful research-based book exploring strategic studies and global power dynamics. A must-read for thinkers, analysts, and policy enthusiasts.

#NewRelease #TheGift #StrategicStudies #NewResearch #GlobalPolitics
#InternationalRelations #PolicyStudies #Geopolitics #Thinkers
#BookLovers #NonFiction #AcademicReads #DrNaimTahirBaig

Parents want the best for their kids' education. See how high-income families leverage their advantage, illustrating stratification in forms of parental involvement.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2025.2589480

#sociology #education #Covid #newResearch

Learn how self-care improved nurses' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to research from V. Savage, M. N. Barringer, and Addy Lindsay.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00380237.2025.2544543

#sociology #newResearch #covid #mentalHealth #selfCare

Disease Models & Mechanism's new special issue on infectious diseases is now closed!

https://tinyurl.com/4zea2dc5

On the cover: 3D-volume render of tuberculosis granulomas in mice infected with E2Crimson-expressing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Granuloma boundary in turquoise and infecting bacteria in red.

#Biology #SpecialIssue #NewResearch #Research #Academia

Curiosity and science are inseparable – this was impressively demonstrated to 10th grade students from the Emil-von-Behring-Gymnasium in Spardorf (Erlangen-Höchstadt district) during their visit to the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light.

Click here for the full article.
👉 https://mpl.mpg.de/news/article/experiencing-the-thrill-of-research-up-close-school-class-visits-mpl

📸 MPL, Elisabeth Offial

#MPL #PhysikdesLichts #ScienceofLight #NewResearch #SchoolClassVisit #Schüler #Bildung #Zukunft

I'm excited that my latest paper has just been published!

I looked at the legal language used attempting to restrict access to healthcare for transgender people in the U.S. last year. Lawmakers seem particularly interested in sexualized appearances, functioning genitals, and, ahem, "protecting reproductive organs of minors."

#newResearch #sociology #transgenderHealthcare #uspol

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-025-01176-7