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Lilith Roberts
@lilitou.bsky.social
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Psychology PhD student at University of Sheffield | Research interests: intergroup bias (incl. weight stigma), social identity, behaviour change, cyberpsychology | also writer, "activist", procrastinator
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September 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
This is not an original thought, but it is galling that the Starmer government is not only literally doing the wint tweet, but is actually going one step further and not even bothering to look back at the audience for approval while doing this cartoonishly evil bullshit.
September 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
Does every county have one???

Now I'm starting to feel a bit left out that Yorkshire doesn't!
July 18, 2025 at 1:51 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
On it boss, exact borders of the regions coming up
July 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
Just astonishing arrogance - and, frankly, ineptitude - on display.

Posing outside the doors of Downing Street and quoting the prime minister, allowing him to avoid accurate allegations of bigotry, while government pursues an anti-trans agenda.

You are enabling these attacks by legitimising them.
July 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
💯💯💯
July 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
This part in particular resonated strongly with me and my views on how the internet was versus how it now is.
May 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
@morganj0nes.bsky.social analysis remains unbeaten

labourlist.org/2025/03/labo...
April 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
lilitou.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
Brain structure is somewhat dimorphic (changes based on sex). The vast majority of the brain is not, but small parts are - such as INAH-3, larger in males on average - are.

Trans women have an average INAH-3 that is almost identical in volume to the average INAH-3 volume of cisgender women.
A graph showing 4 curves on a scale from 0 to 0.2. The 4 curves show the INAH-3 volumes in -Cisgender heterosexual men -Cisgender gay men -Cisgender heterosexual women -Transgender women The curves for cisgender heterosexual women and transgender women are almost overlapping, while he curve for cisgender heterosexual men is not. References are made to Garcia-Falgueras & Swaab (2008), LeVay (1991) and Byne et al. (2001)
April 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
So - is sex entirely immutable and entirely binary?

If we plot sex characteristics on a simple chart (one axis as immutability, the other as binary-ness), we can see that no sex characteristics are both immutable and binary (I've circled a couple that are important).

[references at end of thread]
A 4-quadrant chart with the Y axis as "Binary, yes or no" and the X axis as "Immutable, yes or no". Sex characteristics are plotted on the chart. Genitalia, hormones and secondary sex characteristics are in the "Not binary, not immutable" quadrant. Gonads are in the "Not binary, semi-immutable" space. Genes, chromosomes and brain structure & activity are in the "Not binary, but immutable" quadrant. Genes and brain structure & activity are circled.
April 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
A great amount of Labour politics can be explained by this very simple framing!

It's never clever triangulation, or part of some big-brained strategy, or anything like that - it's edge for the sake of edge to get the praise from columnists that they crave.
A screenshot from the quoted article, which reads: They do it because it sounds cool I know why people do this, having spent a lot of time in the world of the party, listening to the people who run the think tanks and advise the politicians. The answer isn’t very complicated: they do it because they think it sounds cool and thrusting, because they want journalists to think they are the cleverest and most hard headed boy, and then to say they are the cleverest and most hard headed boy in the newspaper and also hopefully in the pub.
March 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
Incredibly excited to share that our meta-analysis (with
@chantellewwood.bsky.social and others) has been published in Psychological Bulletin! 🥳

Our findings support the efficacy of confrontation as a prejudice reduction tool (with some important caveats!)

doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

#PsySciSky
Screen shot of the abstract and public significance statement. The abstract reads as follows: Confronting prejudice is a promising strategy for reducing intergroup bias. The current meta-analysis estimated the effects of confronting prejudice on intergroup bias in the confronted person and examined the impact of potential moderators. Eligible studies measured intergroup bias in participants confronted versus not confronted for intergroup bias. A three-level mixed-effects analysis on 91 effect sizes found a significant, medium-sized effect of confronting prejudice on reducing intergroup bias (g+ = 0.54). There was only limited evidence of publication bias. Confrontation was differentially effective at reducing different types of intergroup bias with a medium-to-large effect on using or endorsing stereotypes, small-tomedium effects on behavior and behavioral intentions, and no significant effects on cognitive prejudice. Effects were otherwise largely robust to differences in confrontation, sample, and study design characteristics. Yet, studies predominantly focused on whether confronting the use of stereotypes reduced subsequent use of stereotypes in artificial settings, and primarily sampled U.S.-based, young, White adults, making it difficult to generalize effects to other forms of intergroup bias and populations, particularly in realworld settings. Studies also tended to measure intergroup bias immediately after confrontation, so the duration of effects over longer periods is less clear. To better evaluate the potential of confrontation as a prejudice reduction technique, future research should examine whether confronting prejudice reduces different forms of intergroup bias in more diverse participant samples and settings, over longer periods, and further test theoretical mediators of these effects.
February 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
Setting aside the inhumanity on display here, what is this statement meant to tell us?

This is the problem with the current govt's narrative imo. It's trying to argue that it is somehow not political, but... we all know that isn't true? It just rings hollow, feels like a fib.

Who is this for?
A quotation from the article, which reads: Asked if it was a "kneejerk" reaction to Reform UK doing well in the opinion polls, Norris said: "We don't set policies as a result of political considerations.
February 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
Trump's plan to force trans people out of public life is, of course, not mentioned in the Guardian article on his inauguration.

Because many of their commentators agree with it.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Screenshot of the Guardian article, reads: "After an indoor parade for 20,000 supporters, Trump is expected to hit the ground running by issuing a slew of executive orders. He has promised that on day one he would pardon January 6 insurrectionists, seal the southern border and launch the biggest ever deportation programme of undocumented people."
January 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
lilitou.bsky.social
I was sort of going based on this section in particular, and the bit further down, but maybe that's me reading into things:
A screenshot of the blog. It reads: "I think it’s self-evident that AI services can be useful. If an AI service can answer a question correctly, that provides value. If one can generate usable text, or a usable graphic, that provides value. And, usually, this can all be done by AI much faster than doing it with human labor. By virtue of being a tool that sometimes works, the utility provided has to be something above zero."
January 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM