A new study from UC San Diego reports no clinical differences in language development, social and motor skills, and core autism traits between female and male autistic toddlers at the time of first diagnosis.

A representative study taken in thirty European countries shows that women with low socio-economic status in particular are less satisfied with their lives than childless women in the same social situation. In Northern European countries, parenthood is associated with the highest levels of satisfaction and meaning / publication in the “Journal of Marriage and Family”

Every year, around 90,000 young people make the transition from school to work. A large number of them start to participate in sports less during this transition. This is worrying, because those who participate less in sports usually do not pick it up again automatically. However, an activating social and work environment can restimulate participation in sports, according to research by sociologist Sara Wiertsema. Wiertsema’s PhD defense is May 28 at Radboud University.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed a method to predict when online conversations deviate from their original topics and escalate into personal attacks. Using large language models (LLMs) and a zero-shot prediction approach, the technique achieves high accuracy without requiring platform-specific training.