It's been over month since I fell sick with a life threatening infection, weeks of slow recovery have followed (& its likely still a long road ahead) BUT! Finding my first Crocus Sativus bloom, AKA saffron flower, has brightened my week 📷 the stigmas from the 🌷 I.e. homegrown saffron strands! 😄

🚨 Our new lab paper, led by @amandinevisine.bsky.social, examines exploration, group composition, and play activities among BaYaka children and teens living in a village context! Amandine is currently on fieldwork following up on this for her PhD 🎯 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congolese BaYaka children's learning and exploring in a village context

Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…

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Feeling disheartened about the limited representation of ADHD in the recent ch4 documentary? or want to broaden your view of what it can look like? May i suggest this award-winning alternative by the very lovely & talented Emily Bates in collaboration w/ @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why do women like me get diagnosed with ADHD late?

Emily Bates was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 34. She explores how the condition presents in women and why so many are diagnosed later in life.

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Check out our 🌟new paper🌟 on observational data collection in children through adolescence Such methods can capture complexity & richness of experiences across diverse contexts, something that is missing from a lot of developmental psychology! Open-access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Lara Wood@larawood.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As part of our ESRC-funded project on age-based imitation, we have produced a methods paper reflecting on naturalistic observations of children and adolescents in diverse contexts, detailing methods, challenges and recommendations doi.org/10.1002/icd....

We draw on our recent experience of a naturalistic video observation study of children and adolescents in Scotland, the Republic of Congo, and Chinese-Americans in Seattle USA involving a significant amount of local collaboration and partnership @sheinalew.bsky.social @jing-xu.bsky.social

🚨 In the first publication from our ESRC-funded project on age-based imitation, we asked parents their views on what and how children in four communities should learn from peers and adults. www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Parental perspectives on children’s social learning in four cultures

Social learning is key to the accumulation and transmission of cultural knowledge that underpins human evolutionary success. Cultural context is critical for...

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We hope this will be useful addition to any developmental psychology researchers and/or educators wanting to understand more about the benefits and approaches within naturalistic observations.

As part of our ESRC-funded project on age-based imitation, we have produced a methods paper reflecting on naturalistic observations of children and adolescents in diverse contexts, detailing methods, challenges and recommendations doi.org/10.1002/icd....

Naturalistic Observations of Children and Adolescents in Diverse Contexts: Methods, Challenges and Recommendations

The understanding of child development benefits from varied research approaches, including those that reflect the complexity of children's experiences across diverse and real-world contexts. This art...

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What's really clear from today's #CES2026 - #HBES2026 panel is how much we've come to work together, across the evolutionary social & behavioral sciences. Monique Borgerhoff Mulder sums it up: "The gaps between evolutionary psychology, human behavior ecology, & cultural evolution have narrowed"

What things are often missed out? Risk! Life history! Individual variation! Inequality! @psmaldino.bsky.social Speaking my language in his talk on Development of Risk Behaviours and thier Cultural Transmission #CES2026 @ces2026.bsky.social

Talking of talks, if you are at #CES2026 come by the session on "Modes of Cultural Transmission" to see my talk on new methods we've been developing to measure imitation from naturalistic footage! Also featuring Francesco d'Errico, @ctennie.bsky.social, Yo Nakawake, and @arielevy.bsky.social

Dr Eve Holden (she/her)@chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The best piece of advice I've recieved for academic presentations is to aim for ~the same number of slides as you have minutes to talk Helps you stay on time before even starting practicing it! Thankyou @nakedprimate.bsky.social !

The best piece of advice I've recieved for academic presentations is to aim for ~the same number of slides as you have minutes to talk Helps you stay on time before even starting practicing it! Thankyou @nakedprimate.bsky.social !

The Office: Michael Scott's PowerPoint

ALT: The Office: Michael Scott's PowerPoint

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Just out: Recently discovered chimp gene-tool-culture are more likely due to permanent population splitting & expansion (i.e. "demic diffusion") than to female dispersal. *free* pdf link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1n3XqAlZXf... #ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social #hbes2026 @hbes2026.bsky.social

A very early Manchester morning But making our way to Rabat for #ces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social

ADHD grocery shopping fiasco continues... This time i managed to order my supermarket delivery to my neighbours address instead of my own #adhd #howtoadult

a baby in a striped shirt is covering his face with his hands .

Alt: a baby in a striped shirt face palms, covering his face with his hand

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Love is in the air Its that time of year I get to watch these pidgies get all soppy right from the comfort of my office chair

Just some bed heads trying to warm our souls on the radiator

Sometimes I wonder which parts of life wouldnt have to take the hits, work? social life? recreation? If women were taken more seriously... If the refferals had been made when symptoms were raised... If they were made when they said they were made.... @nhsfife.bsky.social

Dr Eve Holden (she/her)@chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'll take the win but its not talked about enough how hard it is to balance life & illnesses Organising & attending appointments is hard when youre already chronically exhausted This is the 2nd time that I hadnt been reffered to a specialist, but was told I was

I'll take the win but its not talked about enough how hard it is to balance life & illnesses Organising & attending appointments is hard when youre already chronically exhausted This is the 2nd time that I hadnt been reffered to a specialist, but was told I was

Dr Eve Holden (she/her)@chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This year i dropped my work hrs back so I could take better care of myself Today I saw the specialist for persistent nosebleeds I notified my GP of in March 2024 Today I also found out that I have in fact NOT been on the waitlist for a different specialist I was told I was reffered to over 6mo ago

This year i dropped my work hrs back so I could take better care of myself Today I saw the specialist for persistent nosebleeds I notified my GP of in March 2024 Today I also found out that I have in fact NOT been on the waitlist for a different specialist I was told I was reffered to over 6mo ago

a woman in a pink robe is laying on a kitchen counter with her head on her hand .

ALT: a woman in a pink robe is laying on a kitchen counter with her head on her hand .

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Update: it was a success, I managed the shopping, and now have fresh veg in the house, and freezer reserves have been stocked back up !

Dr Eve Holden (she/her)@chimpanzeve.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Accountability post: The ADHDer is yet to do a proper food shop in 2026 Maybe today will be the day...! #adhd #whatyoufindeasyifindhard

Accountability post: The ADHDer is yet to do a proper food shop in 2026 Maybe today will be the day...! #adhd #whatyoufindeasyifindhard

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📚 Research & evidence (for those who like receipts): pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... www.nature.com/articles/s41... acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... elifesciences.org/articles/104...

Miss. Diagnosis: A Systematic Review of ADHD in Adult Women

The aim of this review was to explore the impact of living with undiagnosed ADHD and adult diagnosis on women. A systematic literature search was completed using three databases. Eight articles were considered relevant based on strict inclusion ...

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🧠 No academia without neurodivergent minds theprofessorisin.com/2024/12/10/n... 🧬 Being neurodivergent in academia (ASBMB) www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

In @natureportfolio.nature.com 's recent documentary we talk about women's experiences being diagnosed with ADHD as adults Watch here: youtu.be/8atR9SGoVLA?... Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⚠️ New paper! Why do words sound so similar? In an agent-based model + communication game, we show that production/comprehension pressures trade off to shape lexicon structure. In @cognitionjournal.bsky.social w/ @simonkirby.bsky.social & Jenny Culbertson. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The lexicon adapts to competing communicative pressures: Explaining patterns of word similarity

Cross-linguistically, lexicons tend to be more phonetically clustered than required by the phonotactics of the language; that is, words within a langu…

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"Participants found diagnosis revelatory, their lives finally making sense; citing healing, improved self-esteem, and life feeling more worth living." 💯 It's was liberating! Great 📚 I'll keep commenting on it because it's so important as a scientist to reflect on the role of my diagnosis #ADHD 🧪🧐

Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis

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👇 interview on collaborative (research 🧪) cultures Thanks to @humboldt-foundation.de for funding my work on cooperative subsistence across cultures, w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social, and my network at @durhamdcerc.bsky.social: @mandolinguist.bsky.social @amandinevisine.bsky.social @chimpanzeve.bsky.social

Humboldt-Stiftung@humboldt-foundation.de · last yr.

Science and society thrive through collaboration! Meet our Feodor Lynen Research fellow @fhillemann.bsky.social ‬ and her host @sheinalew.bsky.social, as they reflect on the importance of shared learning in both indigenous communities and academia. www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/explore/n...

Durham's Dunagree Lab continues to be the most wonderful workplace. Thank you to @sheinalew.bsky.social, @chimpanzeve.bsky.social, @fhillemann.bsky.social, @amandinevisine.bsky.social and others not on Bluesky for the surprise baby shower today 🥹

late diagnosed women with ADHD found diagnosis revelatory, their lives finally making sense; citing healing, improved self-esteem, and life feeling more worth living. The adversities faced from delayed diagnoses were described from early childhood, through adolescence, and adulthood

Tamim Ahsan@tamim-ahsan.bsky.social · last yr.

Adverse experiences of women with undiagnosed ADHD and the invaluable role of diagnosis #psychiatry #ADHD #diagnosis #woman #neuro #LivedExperience 🧪 doi.org/10.1038/s415...