Mary Elizabeth Sutherland
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I'm Nature's Deputy Editor for ecology, evolution and social science and handle papers in cog neuro, psych, and a variety of behavioral and social sciences. When I'm not working, I'm a mom (and sometimes even try to find time to play my harp or ski).
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Protests are infectious: mapping rural unrest in Revolutionary France
Researchers have used epidemiological models to determine whether the wave of riots in 1789 known as the Great Fear spread through irrational panic or rational protest.
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October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France
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Discovering state-of-the-art reinforcement learning algorithms
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October 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...
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October 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Creative experiences and brain clocks - Nature Communications
Creative experiences such as dance, music, drawing, and strategy video games might preserve brain health. The authors show that regular practice or short training in these activities is linked to brains that look younger and work more efficiently.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature
People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by introducing prohibitive, task-specific guardrails.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Years of hits to the head prime the brain for decline
Repetitive head impacts trigger neuronal loss and disrupt blood vessels and immune cells long before the accumulation of neurotoxic tau protein.
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September 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature
Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology
The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.
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September 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Viral spread: how rumours surged in revolutionary France
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