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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    How should COVID-19 vaccines be distributed between the Global North and South: a discrete choice experiment in six European countries

    Janina I Steinert, Henrike Sternberg ... Tim Büthe
    In a large discrete choice experiment, respondents from six European countries reveal preferences for global vaccine solidarity, where female, younger, more educated respondents are most likely to prioritise candidates from the Global South in their allocation choices for COVID-19 vaccines.
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    Talking Points: Bianca Kramer on publishing

    A former university librarian looks back at how scientific publishing has changed over the course of her career and shares her hopes for the future.
  2. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Mental health in medical and biomedical doctoral students during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and racial protests

    Allison Schad, Rebekah L Layton ... Jeanette Gowen Cook
    Biomedical doctoral students and those from historically excluded groups exhibit higher rates of mental distress, which worsened in 2020 for some populations.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health

    Science Forum: Adding a One Health approach to a research framework for minority health and health disparities

    Brittany L Morgan, Mariana C Stern ... Laura Fejerman
    Adding a One Health approach to a research framework for minority health and health disparities encourages the exploration of new avenues of inquiry, multidisciplinary collaboration, and the consideration of new determinants of health.
    1. Ecology

    New Caledonian crows keep ‘valuable’ hooked tools safer than basic non-hooked tools

    Barbara C Klump, James JH St Clair, Christian Rutz
    Animals’ tool-handling behaviour can be used to make inferences about the value they ascribe to different tool types, unlocking considerable research potential for observational and experimental studies across diverse species.
    1. Neuroscience

    Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability

    Soojung Na, Dongil Chung ... Xiaosi Gu
    People use vmPFC-dependent forward thinking to guide social choices and exploit the controllability of social environments, expanding the role of this neurocomputational mechanism beyond spatial and cognitive mapping.
    1. Neuroscience

    The role of oxytocin in delay of gratification and flexibility in non-social decision making

    Georgia Eleni Kapetaniou, Matthias A Reinhard ... Alexander Soutschek
    Oxytocin was found to significantly improve non-social decision making in a healthy sample, suggesting a domain-general function of the hormone, in contrast to its previously hypothesized social domain specificity.
    1. Neuroscience

    Neural basis of corruption in power-holders

    Yang Hu, Chen Hu ... Jean-Claude Dreher
    Model-based fMRI reveals the neurocomputational bases of accepting a bribe when power-holders consider two moral costs, conniving with a fraudulent briber and the harm brought to a third party.
  3. Research Culture: A survey of early-career researchers in Australia

    Katherine Christian, Carolyn Johnstone ... Michael R Doran
    Job insecurity is putting stress on early-career researchers in Australia, compromising their career development and potentially reducing the quality of research.
    1. Neuroscience

    Vicarious reward unblocks associative learning about novel cues in male rats

    Sander van Gurp, Jochen Hoog ... Marijn van Wingerden
    Rats learn to interpret cues predicting rewards delivered to social partners as valuable, but only if social information exchange is possible.