Excited to get this paper published! 🌟
We argue that men exaggerate patriarchal beliefs in an effort to signal conformity to others, which in turn fuels misperceptions about peers - making patriarchal norms resistant to change.
royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...
Reading Adam Rutherford's "How To Argue with a Racist". Despite the pugnacious title it's largely a fun, readable and highly educational book about genetics (with the occasional glimpse into the worldview of white supremacists). I learned a lot.
amzn.to/4rW29Op
Anyone can say they are open-minded, but how can you prove it? We show how the 'Ideological Turing Test' can be used to measure mutual understanding across controversial topics (and the result suggest people who disagree may understand each other better than we expect) […]
- The monkey on your back: Embodied metaphor via real monkeys impairs cognitive control
- What if individual differences in brain activation via fMRI are associated with [important overt behavior]? (N = 16)
'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2
There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed.
No wonder some people are smiling!
A big thank you to all those who have been so positive about my new book. It's about how neurological patients can tell us so much about our selves, how personal and social identities are forged by different cognitive functions, and what it means to belong.
After over 15 years of prevarication, procrastination, and avoidance, have managed to submit the final manuscript for the second edition of my 'Facts are friendly' book--due out Spring 2026 from Sage.
This in the latest PNAS. Phylogenetics has gone all in on Bayes but knowledge & norms have lagged. I mean posterior often has good frequentist coverage but can't assume it. Also no chain diagnostics in the paper or supplement. Where are our standards?
If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
More reason to read Sarah Hrdy, rather than population panic narratives, typically written by people with little understanding of our species:
“What I take from Hrdy’s expansive view of human possibility is a strange sort of confidence in futures we’ve never seen or imagined”
Thanks to Tim Lewens for a wonderful review of our 'Evolution Evolving' book.
"In this exceptionally ambitious and impressive book, Lala and collaborators... show how an understanding of development is essential to an understanding of evolution"
Read it here: shorturl.at/mgGEm
#evolution #evodevo
New paper with @lottybrand.bsky.social and @verwirrt.bsky.social. We use some cool modeling to argue for a central role of analogy in the evolution of both language and high-fidelity social learning, using multiple NK landscapes. Feedback welcome.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
@blongdon.bsky.social don't know if you're on here much but my friend wants to know on a scale of 1-10 how legit/pseudoscience is this antihistamine -COVID paper just out in asm microbiology? 🙏🏻 Ta
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Important paper here 👇. Body Image (the journal) and #bodyimage (the field) have the same problem as most of Psychology - too much emphasis and focus on mainly-students in a few mainly high income countries.
We need to change this! (We *are* changing it.) But there remain barriers to doing so... 🧵
So at this point I'm thinking well I'm definitely fired but this will one day make a great story on a Nazi-riddled microblogging platform, and 6yrs later on a much nicer alternative with only 19 active users. I head to the staff area, wipe my face and check my phone. I'd been in the room for 35 mins
On way to work, starts kicking in. You know when the roof of your mouth starts politely folding your brain in half, and your chest flutters like a cathedral filled with bees? I was holding it together but knew if I stopped concentrating for one second, I would become time itself.
For those who don't know this story, which I first shared six years ago today....
This one time I got my days wrong at work and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the President of Ireland while I was on ketamine.
🧵
It is heartbreaking to think of millions of kids going through this.
USA, This. IS. NOT. NORMAL.
Today in criminal negligence
Especially as the whole ethos seems to be that errors are normal, we expect human error, but we need to be aware of it and quantify it especially for something as important as science
I'm not sure if I'm missing something/ if there is any reason to think they won't check certain papers/authors. I'm sure once the project is underway it will become clear :) in terms of police I personally think science currently is in need of more policing sadly, I don't see a downside to that!
Hey! I don't speak for the @error.reviews project but from looking at the website it seems they focus on influential/highly cited papers. It seems like anyone can suggest papers too, so feel free to suggest some to include! From where I'm standing it looks pretty transparent.
Anyone who has ever dealt with the bureaucracy of proving you are in sufficient need of assistance to get assistance should recognize how huge of a difference unconditional basic income would make in our times of greatest need.
Your regular reminder that eugenics never went away, and remains a highly influential ideology👇
‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Our aim is to win a 4-day week for all by 2030. To do that, we need your help.
Right now we’re seeking volunteers to help us spread the word about 4UGUST, our brand new initiative to get businesses trialling a 4-day week throughout August.
Interested? Follow the link below to sign up ⬇️
"By partnering with Slow Ways...Railwalks aims to eventually offer a comprehensive, searchable, national network of rail walks, a mixture of station-to-station routes and circular hikes. And like Slow Ways itself, it needs your help."
This is really very good. The examples are 👌🏻 especially cervical cancer & smoking... poppers & HIV...
A major risk factor for believing nonsense about risk factors is not reading this two pager from George Davey Smith and Andrew Phillips #stats www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
