Boryana Todorova

It's OUT! 🥳My first (shared) first author paper with @kim_doell, Madalina, @jayvanbavel and our 254 amazing collaborators is now published in @ScientificData Hope our dataset would be useful to many! Cant way to see the research that will come from it 🤩 nature.com/articles/s4159…

AI outperformed human mediators in helping groups find common ground on divisive political issues, according to new research by @mhtessler and co-authors in @ScienceMagazine: science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It was such a pleasure to give a talk today at the Climate Cognition Lab at @stanforddoerr about our work on individual and nation-level predictors of climate change beliefs and action 🌍♻️ Such a wonderful group of people, very thankful for the invitation! 🤩

Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan annualreviews.org/content/journa… New review with @JC_Dreher and @Connected_Mindz We provide a framework for understanding similarities and differences from birth to older adulthood

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! bioart.niaid.nih.gov

In this preprint, we used data from the International Climate Psychology Collaboration to validate a measure of climate policy support across 63 countries: osf.io/p947z/ Including @Kelly_Kirkland_ @J_A_Karl @Omid_Ghasemi21 @Robert_M_Ross @annaklas_ @kim_doell

Focusing for a moment on the POLICIES at play. Voters were asked whether they supported 100 different policies, but weren't told whether the policy was from Trump or Harris. Nearly all of Harris' policies got majority support from the public, and... 🧵

A recent article in @Nature by Team Scientist @OlegUrminsky & co-authors analyzed a dataset spanning 74 countries and found that emotions are more significant predictors of economic decision-making in developed, individualistic nations: go.nature.com/4eGYhtN

🚨 Just out in @PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against…

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… "We find that many treatments reduce partisan animosity. Additionally, several treatments reduced antidemocratic attitudes."

📢 New Preprint! 🌪️🔥🌡️ Do people in 68 countries (N = 71,922) associate #extremeweather events with #climatechange? Do actual impacts of extreme weather relate to climate policy support? Read our #preprint to find out 👇🧵1/13 osf.io/preprints/osf/…

🔥New paper out in Science!!🔥 @ScienceMagazine We found that a third of the seed dispersers and interactions face potential extinction, in Europe 🌿🌳🐦‍⬛🦆🌍 This was an incredibly challenging (and rewarding!) chapter of my PhD thesis! #seeddispersal science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

There is nothing better than working with smart and genuinely kind people! We found that intellectual humility in science communication boosts trust in science. Preprint here and now in press at Nature Human Behaviour! osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵

Looking forward to talking about social information seeking 🔍, climate motivation 💪, big data 🌍, and inevitably also the weather ⛈️ at #SNE2024 🔍 poster P1-D-22 today 💪 blitz & poster P2-F-106 Saturday 🌍 round table Saturday

Social media is not reality: -While only 3 % of active accounts are toxic, they produce 33% of all content! -A mere 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news -74 % of all online conflicts are started in just 1 % of communities. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…