Dr Julia Shaw
@drjuliashaw.bsky.social
Criminal Psychologist 🎙️ TV & Audio Presenter 📚 Author. Next book: GREEN CRIME, on the psychology of environmental crime, out now. drjuliashaw.com
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A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social engineer @HayaatunSillem & @harriettsg.bsky.social recommend #books they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Julia Shaw and Hayaatun Sillem
Psychologist Julia Shaw and engineer Hayaatun Sillem discuss favourite books with Harriett
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
A daring comedy debut about de-radicalisation, an investigation of manufacturing & an unsettling novella. Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social engineer @HayaatunSillem & @harriettsg.bsky.social recommend #books they love. A Good Read 3pm Mon @BBCRadio4 #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
"That everyone can learn to read will ruin, in the long run, not only writing but thinking too"
Just read this in Nietzsche's book Thus spoke Zarathustra, & it evoked the ai doomism we are hearing at the moment
Just read this in Nietzsche's book Thus spoke Zarathustra, & it evoked the ai doomism we are hearing at the moment
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"That everyone can learn to read will ruin, in the long run, not only writing but thinking too"
Just read this in Nietzsche's book Thus spoke Zarathustra, & it evoked the ai doomism we are hearing at the moment
Just read this in Nietzsche's book Thus spoke Zarathustra, & it evoked the ai doomism we are hearing at the moment
If you are interested in research on prisons or prisoners in the UK, there is an incredible & largely untapped dataset with 20 years of prisoner survey data that was recently released.
It has over 100,000 prisoner questionnaire responses 🧪
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/blog-br...
It has over 100,000 prisoner questionnaire responses 🧪
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/blog-br...
Bringing closed worlds into the open – HM Inspectorate of Prisons
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk
November 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you are interested in research on prisons or prisoners in the UK, there is an incredible & largely untapped dataset with 20 years of prisoner survey data that was recently released.
It has over 100,000 prisoner questionnaire responses 🧪
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/blog-br...
It has over 100,000 prisoner questionnaire responses 🧪
hmiprisons.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/news/blog-br...
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Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss her latest read, examining some of the highest-profile environmental crimes and why they occur, in 'Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet and How to Stop Them.'
🎙️Listen: @mongabay.com
🎙️Listen: @mongabay.com
New book unearths environmental crime’s psychological roots
Psychologist and true crime presenter Julia Shaw joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss her latest read, examining some of the highest-profile environmental crimes and why they occur, in Green Crime: Ins...
news.mongabay.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Psychologist @drjuliashaw.bsky.social joins Mongabay’s podcast to discuss her latest read, examining some of the highest-profile environmental crimes and why they occur, in 'Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet and How to Stop Them.'
🎙️Listen: @mongabay.com
🎙️Listen: @mongabay.com
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🕵️ Criminal psychologists are turning their gaze to a new kind of perpetrator: environmental offenders. From illegal logging to toxic dumping, these crimes are getting the forensic attention they deserve.
✍️ @drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social):
✍️ @drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social):
Criminal psychologists are profiling a different kind of killer – environmental offenders
By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.
theconversation.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🕵️ Criminal psychologists are turning their gaze to a new kind of perpetrator: environmental offenders. From illegal logging to toxic dumping, these crimes are getting the forensic attention they deserve.
✍️ @drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social):
✍️ @drjuliashaw.bsky.social (@uclpals.bsky.social):
"By synthesising ... wider work from the social sciences, I have developed a psychological profile of environmental criminals"
Read my new article on how we can use social science (and investigations) to help catch and understand green criminals! 🧪
theconversation.com/criminal-psy...
Read my new article on how we can use social science (and investigations) to help catch and understand green criminals! 🧪
theconversation.com/criminal-psy...
Criminal psychologists are profiling a different kind of killer – environmental offenders
By understanding why people commit crimes that damage the environment, we can better hold environmental criminals accountable.
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"By synthesising ... wider work from the social sciences, I have developed a psychological profile of environmental criminals"
Read my new article on how we can use social science (and investigations) to help catch and understand green criminals! 🧪
theconversation.com/criminal-psy...
Read my new article on how we can use social science (and investigations) to help catch and understand green criminals! 🧪
theconversation.com/criminal-psy...
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On the show today: Israeli reaction to the Gaza peace deal; A lost interview with John Lennon; @henrymckean.bsky.social on the price of milk; @drjuliashaw.bsky.social on green crime; @jamesproclaims.bsky.social reviews 'The Iris Affair' 'The Last Frontier' & 'Victoria Beckham'; Farms in colour
October 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
On the show today: Israeli reaction to the Gaza peace deal; A lost interview with John Lennon; @henrymckean.bsky.social on the price of milk; @drjuliashaw.bsky.social on green crime; @jamesproclaims.bsky.social reviews 'The Iris Affair' 'The Last Frontier' & 'Victoria Beckham'; Farms in colour
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#Nonfiction Author of GREEN CRIME, @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new mini-series with TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast tedxlondon.com/podcasts/wha...
What is a green crime? With Dr. Julia Shaw - TEDxLondon
Criminal psychologist Dr. Julia Shaw joins Climate Curious co-hosts Ben Hurst and Maryam Pasha to explain Green Crimes.
tedxlondon.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
#Nonfiction Author of GREEN CRIME, @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new mini-series with TEDxLondon Climate Curious Podcast tedxlondon.com/podcasts/wha...
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Happy Publication day!
PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Happy Publication day!
PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
PHYSICS FOR CATS – @tomgauld.bsky.social
NAMESAKE – @nswriting.bsky.social
RAISING HARE – @chloedalton.bsky.social
WITH LOVE, GRIEF & FURY – @salenagodden.bsky.social
GREEN CRIME – @drjuliashaw.bsky.social
Whenever I see established journalists use alliteration I wonder:
Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai?
Or did the ai train you?
Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai?
Or did the ai train you?
October 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Whenever I see established journalists use alliteration I wonder:
Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai?
Or did the ai train you?
Was it YOUR articles that trained the ai?
Or did the ai train you?
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12/11: @drjuliashaw.bsky.social will be in conversation with Jamie Woodward, discussing the motivations of those damaging our environment. Part psychology, part true crime - this is going to be a fascinating conversation! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-crim...
October 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
12/11: @drjuliashaw.bsky.social will be in conversation with Jamie Woodward, discussing the motivations of those damaging our environment. Part psychology, part true crime - this is going to be a fascinating conversation! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-crim...
Happy Bi visibility day 💖
Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕
Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕
September 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Happy Bi visibility day 💖
Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕
Sending love to anyone new to being open about their Bi identity, to those who have been out for ages, and to those unable to be openly Bi. You are all part of our beautiful community 💕
Ein Gespräch mit GEO über die Psychologie von Umweltverbrechen
An interview I did with GEO about the psychological science that can help us understand environmental crimes... and why I think it makes more interesting true crime than murder cases. 🧪
🌎 www.geo.de/natur/oekolo...
An interview I did with GEO about the psychological science that can help us understand environmental crimes... and why I think it makes more interesting true crime than murder cases. 🧪
🌎 www.geo.de/natur/oekolo...
September 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Ein Gespräch mit GEO über die Psychologie von Umweltverbrechen
An interview I did with GEO about the psychological science that can help us understand environmental crimes... and why I think it makes more interesting true crime than murder cases. 🧪
🌎 www.geo.de/natur/oekolo...
An interview I did with GEO about the psychological science that can help us understand environmental crimes... and why I think it makes more interesting true crime than murder cases. 🧪
🌎 www.geo.de/natur/oekolo...
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Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
September 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Deforestation is responsible for nearly 75% of dry season rainfall reduction in the Amazon rainforest since 1985, according to a study in Nature Communications. go.nature.com/3I2xPzr ⚒️ 🧪
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Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
August 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
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Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen.
Lesenswertes Interview.
Lesenswertes Interview.
Kriminalpsychologin: "Es muss sozial inakzeptabel werden, die Umwelt zu zerstören"
Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen
www.derstandard.at
August 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Viele Umweltverbrechen werden noch nicht ausreichend entdeckt und geahndet, sagt die Kriminalpsychologin Julia Shaw. Bestraft würden meist die Falschen.
Lesenswertes Interview.
Lesenswertes Interview.
One of the wildest things I've seen in a while.
"by simply rubbing a solution into a juvenile mouse’s scalp, researchers can make the skin transparent"
Interesting for physical monitoring of brain development. 🧪
"by simply rubbing a solution into a juvenile mouse’s scalp, researchers can make the skin transparent"
Interesting for physical monitoring of brain development. 🧪
Researchers have developed a solution that can reversibly and noninvasively turn juvenile mouse scalps transparent to image brain development >>> www.biotechniques.com/neuroscience... 🧪
I can see what you’re thinking: solution makes mouse scalp transparent
Researchers have developed a solution that can reversibly turn skin transparent to image mouse brain development.
www.biotechniques.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:03 AM
One of the wildest things I've seen in a while.
"by simply rubbing a solution into a juvenile mouse’s scalp, researchers can make the skin transparent"
Interesting for physical monitoring of brain development. 🧪
"by simply rubbing a solution into a juvenile mouse’s scalp, researchers can make the skin transparent"
Interesting for physical monitoring of brain development. 🧪
Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
August 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Coming soon to a city near you! Green Crime book on tour - auf Deutsch 🇩🇪 - and in English 🇬🇧 !
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
Tickets: linktr.ee/drjuliashaw?...
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Book now to see @drjuliashaw.bsky.social discussing 'Green Crime' @canongate.co.uk on Thursday 2nd October @blackwellbooks.bsky.social
Tickets available here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1481059983...
Tickets available here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1481059983...
August 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Book now to see @drjuliashaw.bsky.social discussing 'Green Crime' @canongate.co.uk on Thursday 2nd October @blackwellbooks.bsky.social
Tickets available here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1481059983...
Tickets available here
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1481059983...
Fascinating finding.
Lithium has an essential role in the brain and is deficient early in Alzheimer’s disease, which can be recapitulated in mice and treated with a novel lithium salt that restores the physiological level, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/47mxemu #medsky 🧪
August 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Fascinating finding.
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🌐 Coming Nov. 4 🌐
Criminal psychologist, popular BBC presenter & podcaster Julia Shaw looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.
💡📚💙 Learn more about @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812873...
Criminal psychologist, popular BBC presenter & podcaster Julia Shaw looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.
💡📚💙 Learn more about @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812873...
July 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
🌐 Coming Nov. 4 🌐
Criminal psychologist, popular BBC presenter & podcaster Julia Shaw looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.
💡📚💙 Learn more about @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812873...
Criminal psychologist, popular BBC presenter & podcaster Julia Shaw looks at six world-changing environmental crimes and takes readers inside the minds of the people responsible.
💡📚💙 Learn more about @drjuliashaw.bsky.social's new book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/812873...
"Julia Shaw brilliantly sets the pace for criminal acts that the world needs to know about.
I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences”
Dr Adam Rutherford
UK pre-order SALE on, 25% off this week only! www.waterstones.com/book/green-c...
I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences”
Dr Adam Rutherford
UK pre-order SALE on, 25% off this week only! www.waterstones.com/book/green-c...
July 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"Julia Shaw brilliantly sets the pace for criminal acts that the world needs to know about.
I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences”
Dr Adam Rutherford
UK pre-order SALE on, 25% off this week only! www.waterstones.com/book/green-c...
I found Green Crime deeply compelling. A true crime thriller that, for once, has global consequences”
Dr Adam Rutherford
UK pre-order SALE on, 25% off this week only! www.waterstones.com/book/green-c...
Oh no
"individuals high in psychopathy and FoMO are consistently more likely to engage in online political activity"
And
"higher cognitive ability is uniformly associated with lower levels of online political participation"
finds large new study 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"individuals high in psychopathy and FoMO are consistently more likely to engage in online political activity"
And
"higher cognitive ability is uniformly associated with lower levels of online political participation"
finds large new study 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation
www.nature.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Oh no
"individuals high in psychopathy and FoMO are consistently more likely to engage in online political activity"
And
"higher cognitive ability is uniformly associated with lower levels of online political participation"
finds large new study 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
"individuals high in psychopathy and FoMO are consistently more likely to engage in online political activity"
And
"higher cognitive ability is uniformly associated with lower levels of online political participation"
finds large new study 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Which neural circuits allow memory retrieval to influence behaviors? This study shows how #fear #memory activation initiates & sustains #FreezingBehavior in mice via the interplay of #norepinephrine & activation of different prefrontal #neuron subtypes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3TGqt7a
July 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Which neural circuits allow memory retrieval to influence behaviors? This study shows how #fear #memory activation initiates & sustains #FreezingBehavior in mice via the interplay of #norepinephrine & activation of different prefrontal #neuron subtypes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3TGqt7a