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On ordo amoris, JD Vance, and what we owe each other medium.com/@nicholaraih...

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New from us, and first study from the PhD of Dr @elisavetpappa.bsky.social Delusional Themes are More Varied Than Previously Assumed academic.oup.com/schizophreni... A global meta-analysis of the prevalence of delusional themes in psychosis, examing association with clinical features and culture

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

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Baboons show no evidence of visual self-recognition in a novel mark/mirror test. I especially liked the anecdotal observations, suggesting that the baboons understood the mirror's reflective properties but not twigging that the reflection was them royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....

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📚 I've recently finished “The Social Instinct” by @nicholaraihani.bsky.social. It was a wonderful and thought provoking book, on how cooperation evolved in nature, and how crucial it is for our survival. 💡 Anyway, here a few of my favourite quotes from the book. What do you think of them?

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This is interesting - and is part of the reason that I am ambivalent about the default provision of online recordings of lectures for students. Ostensibly, this makes the university experience 'better'. I understand the arguments for, but worry that the downsides have been overlooked.

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Uta’s here! Welcome!

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Now out in @science.org: misinformation exploits outrage to spread online. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Doing this work was way harder than it had to be, thanks to Big Tech. I want to highlight our lead analyst @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social for his heroic perseverance to bring you this paper 🧵

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A New Year's rant, for 2025 😊:

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Just been told by my kids that I’m an NPC because I accidentally said ‘hey there’ instead of ‘hi’ to a random stranger on a walking track.

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Our latest paper with @urihertz.bsky.social , @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and @stepalminteri.bsky.social is a great occasion to post again in here! Come see how your own experience (and the costs of deciding to act) affect your tendency to give advice to others! www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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A very humanist advent calendar – excerpts from chapters of ‘What I Believe’, every day from now until Christmas🎄 📚✨ Snapshot of interviews with well-known humanists including Sandi Toksvig, Alice Roberts, Stephen Fry, Tim Minchin, Jim Al-Khalili & more! 🧵 humanists.uk/whatibelieve/

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Amazing data viz here, with good explainer in the thread. Cancer susceptibility ⬆️ with age also has an evolutionary basis as I explain in my book 👇

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The only surprising thing about this story is how long it has taken for people to realise the amount of misinformation being spread on this podcast www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...

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Bumping into Redouan Bshary at a conference & remarking that his field site looked pretty nice & that I wouldn’t mind visiting. That sparked a fruitful & wonderful collaboration that helped secure me my RS fellowship which changed the trajectory of my career. And Red1 is also pretty great. 😊

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Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

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Humanities also have purpose, they help us collectively build and examine our individual identities. Incredibly crucial as digital technology rapidly alters our experience and capacities. #AIEthics #NZ #Marsden

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I'm pretty appalled by the news about Marsden funding for humanities and social sciences being cut. www.labour.org.nz/news-release...

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ALL SCIENCE HAS A PURPOSE www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

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Hunter Biden pardon decision dangerous on a few levels 1. Clearly using pardon powers for family bad in of itself 2. Legitimises practice for next admin & to push envelope further 3. Most importantly feeds into anti system view of “one rule for them” and anger at democratic rot

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* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

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Our book of neuroscientists, clinicians, and psychologists talking about their personal experience of neurological disorder is out www.amazon.co.uk/Injured-Brai... From Narinder Kapur, me, Daniel Friedland and Steven Kemp. A few notes...

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This is going straight into my lectures. Large 'ManyBabies' replication attempt of the famous 'infants prefer Helpers over Hinderers' effect finds no evidence of such a preference. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a #meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... New paper led by Oded Ritov and w/ @nicholaraihani.bsky.social and Jan Engelmann.

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New paper: in what we think is one of the largest meta-analyses of animal behaviour, we find no evidence for inequity aversion in nonhumans (in accept/reject paradigms) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... Led by Oded Ritov & with @engelmann.bsky.social & Christoph Völter

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"Old individuals make important contributions to reproduction, cultural transmission, trophic dynamics & resilience to disturbance. This contrasts with the senescence-focused paradigm of old age that has dominated the literature yet is consistent with behavioral ecology & life-history theory"

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I wrote about how paranoia sometimes serves strategic goals of propaganda and signalling. I then explore the role of this "strategic paranoia" in witchcraft accusations, the Satanic panic, tribal narratives, genocides, conspiracy theories, and the mafia. www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/strategic-...

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The website vs app split for Bluesky vs Threads captures the difference in user base and usage patterns beautifully. Bluesky = knowledge sector workers who have it open all day in a tab next to their emails. “Wait what was I doing again?” Threads = normies watching recipe videos on the commute.

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when you want to read the review more than the book. Savage. 💀 @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social

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Hello 👋 nice to see so many familiar faces here. For those I don’t know, I work on cooperation, punishment, paranoia & politics. I will mainly post about social evolution and cognition and stuff I think is cool. Perhaps a bit of cycling. And a smidge of dog.

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Abstract submission for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference closes early this year - 2 December - so make sure not to miss the deadline 😊

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Many of us struggle to remember details of our lives, but imagine if you couldn't forget. A fascinating account of hypermnesia, described here, shows that what we sometimes see as limitations of the mind are in fact design features. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Interested to hear how other unis are dealing with GenAI being used to generate parts/all of student written assessments? Seems to be no clear way of knowing / proving the case, leaving us in the farcical position of marking essays written by algorithms. What are others doing?

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