PsyberSpace® is a weekly psychology podcast for curious people who want to understand why the world feels the way it does—online and offline.https://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mu2mjxqkcs24People who get stuck after hard experiences aren't weak. They may have less narrative infrastructure for processing difficulty, and there are real developmental and cultural reasons for that. I break down the research this week on PsyberSpace. share.transistor.fm/s/460e189f https://share.transistor.fm/s/460e189f27 Aug 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2mjxqkcs24https://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mu2iebpcdt23Just posted "Why You're Stuck: The Stories We Tell Ourselves" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/460e189f27 Aug 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2iebpcdt23https://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mtmbocdpdx2lA researcher spent 18 months infiltrating far-right women's communities online and found that wellness and thinness content consistently functioned as entry points into political radicalization. The pipeline from SkinnyTok to tradwife to far-right ideology is real. https://psyber.space/episodes/specimen-in-a-petri-dish-part-two-body-control-as-political-power21 Aug 2026 17:24 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmbocdpdx2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mtkndi35ve2pJust posted "Specimen in a Petri Dish Part Two: Body Control as Political Power" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/6f26825521 Aug 2026 01:47 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtkndi35ve2phttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mt2ousm62523Objectification theory doesn't start with women monitoring themselves. It starts with a culture that treats women's bodies as objects available for public evaluation. The self-monitoring is what women develop to survive that. https://psyber.space/episodes/specimen-in-a-petri-dish-the-psychology-of-public-body-policing14 Aug 2026 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2ousm62523https://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3msz6uqum5m2kJust posted "Specimen in a Petri Dish: The Psychology of Public Body Policing" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/cfab3d6414 Aug 2026 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3msz6uqum5m2khttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3msgu6a7c4w2yJust posted "Be Cringe, Be Free: The Psychology of Refusing to Perform" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a97f1ee506 Aug 2026 20:14 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgu6a7c4w2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mruu2rkg4v2oJust posted "Gotcha Culture: Why Catching an AI Cheater Feels So Good" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/1ec126bf30 Jul 2026 16:24 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mruu2rkg4v2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mrdy4bdfsr27Just posted "Coded to Exhaustion: The Hidden Cost of Outsmarting the Algorithm" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/541a187223 Jul 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrdy4bdfsr27https://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mqsbq5upgv2fJust posted "What We Lose When Knowledge Has to Pay Rent" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/94e3f2f916 Jul 2026 22:25 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsbq5upgv2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mqav75z4my2eJust posted "Love Languages Were Never Scientific" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5b54aecc10 Jul 2026 00:26 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqav75z4my2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mpodfzmhuw2pJust posted "Why We Keep Falling For Moral Panics" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/25071b0102 Jul 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpodfzmhuw2phttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mp3ubhvuqf2gJust posted "Why We Reject New Evidence That Could Directly Help Us: The Semmelweis Effect" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/fa4107ae25 Jun 2026 07:01 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp3ubhvuqf2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mokfdi3otl2wJust posted "The Age of Uncertainty: What Workplace Instablity is Doing to Your Brain" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c971dc4c18 Jun 2026 08:18 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mokfdi3otl2whttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mnyxcdr22v2nJust posted "Sounds Deep, Says Nothing: The Science of Bullshit Receptivity" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/06aeb03211 Jun 2026 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnyxcdr22v2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mnkjof7h572fResearch shows your brain treats confidence as a proxy for accuracy. The problem: the people who know the least tend to sound the most certain, and the people who know the most tend to hedge. We're cognitively wired to trust the wrong person. #AcademicSky #Podcast bit.ly/4xinh4f05 Jun 2026 16:11 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnkjof7h572fhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mniwf524362qJust posted "The Credibility Trap: Why We Trust Confident Wrongness" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/7d6d864a05 Jun 2026 00:53 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mniwf524362qhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mmffx37mxk24Today's supposed to be the first podcast on the new Thu. release day, but there was so much construction happening near the studio this week the audio is too busted. Look for it next week after the first week off since we began. Thanks for your patience! Enjoy some of our past episodes: psyber.space https://psyber.space21 May 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmffx37mxk24https://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mlmfgwtp4l2lJust posted "Propaganda: Nobody's Immune" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/aebbba6211 May 2026 23:10 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmfgwtp4l2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3ml2bx4uzz22eJust posted "Moral Licensing: How Doing Good Gives People Permission to Be Worse" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5f729c2104 May 2026 18:19 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml2bx4uzz22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mkhfigc2uh2uJust posted "The Death of Serendipity: What Algorithmic Personalization Is Doing to Your Mind" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/645bba6727 Apr 2026 06:02 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkhfigc2uh2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mjff6htoi22bThis week I’m talking about the ethics and psychology of TV shows that depend on deception, humiliation, manipulation, or engineered conflict to work. https://psyber.space/episodes/when-tv-makes-harm-look-normal-why-we-keep-watching13 Apr 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjff6htoi22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mjdtjoqwwe2pJust posted "When TV Makes Harm Look Normal: Why We Keep Watching" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/2b8467ce13 Apr 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjdtjoqwwe2phttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mizc6lk64n2lWe're nominated for a 2026 Women in Podcasting award! Vote for us here: https://www.womenpodcasters.com/awards-science-nominees08 Apr 2026 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mizc6lk64n2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3mituoe2qvh2bJust posted "The Psychology of AI Slop: How Synthetic Junk Erodes Attention, Trust, and Meaning" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/eb07512e06 Apr 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3mituoe2qvh2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/psyberspace.bsky.social/post/3miaczbhwxg2sJust posted "Meta Lost. Now What?" on PsyberSpace® 🎙️ Have a listen: https://share.transistor.fm/s/8ba8e3b629 Mar 2026 23:39 +0000at://did:plc:5rnkvswrtxon3k5ughdeecuw/app.bsky.feed.post/3miaczbhwxg2s