Really great new paper using agent-based modelling to show how an exploratory childhood can lead to innovation in the population at large. royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution

Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr

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Final version of this paper is now published. Find out what the microfinance literature can tell us about the evolution of human cooperation

Alex Mesoudi@alexmesoudi.com · 6mo ago

New paper out in Evolutionary Human Sciences (unformatted early access): Testing Evolutionary Theories of Human Cooperation via Meta-Analysis of Microfinance Repayment with Dougie Foster, Shakti Lamba & @erikpostma.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Phil Trans Roy Soc B theme issue ‘The evolution of collective intelligence’ is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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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...

The social performance of gender roles: men report lower support for women’s empowerment when in front of their peers

Abstract. Beliefs about gender roles are widely understood to be acquired via social learning. However, accounts of gender socialization remain disconnecte

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David W Lawson@davidwlawson.bsky.social · 2y ago

⭐️Preprint: We combine a field experiment with focus groups to study the social learning of gender roles in Tanzania. Men express greater support for patriarchal beliefs when in peer groups implying the 'performance' of masculine ideals even when at odds with personal beliefs. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds

Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

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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?

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · last yr.

my example intervals are all prime: 89, 97. none of my intervals are frequentist though so should never be used for sig tests. but I do encourage other values just to force discourse about how arbitrary and unthinking scientists are about NHST. at this point it seems like the NHST brain worms won

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

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Lala et al.’s (2024) Evolution Evolving is an excellent book. It offers a compelling case for the relevance of development to the study of evolution. It takes a pluralistic stance on the forms of unde...

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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/...

The histamine receptor H1 acts as an alternative receptor for SARS-CoV-2 | mBio

In addition to human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can utilize alternative cofactors to facilitate viral entry. In this study, we discov...

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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... 🧵

Jeanne Bovet@jeannebovet.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 New Paper Alert! 🚨 Our latest research published in Body Image: "Sample characteristics for quantitative analyses in Body Image: Issues of generalisability" with @tvpollet.bsky.social, Rosie Buhaenko, Piers L. Cornelissen, and Martin J. Tovée. 1/5 🧵 #Psychology #Research #BodyImage

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.

Micah@rincewind.run · 2y ago

the four year old wanted to play teacher tonight so he turned off the light and closed the door and told me to “shhhh” because it was a lockdown and I had to be quiet this is a drill we do for preschoolers now anyway I’m going to go cry

Today in criminal negligence

John Annese@johnannese.bsky.social · 2y ago

NYPD appears to be saying the cop (who they don’t name) was using his gun as a flashlight when he fired a shot by mistake.

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...

‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute

Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism

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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."

‘You can walk virtually everywhere in England by using the train’: the man connecting rail-based walks

A new website aims to offer a wide network of walking routes from British train stations, and is calling on hikers to add their favourites. Our writer accompanies the founder on a ramble to Bath Spa s...

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This is really very good. The examples are 👌🏻 especially cervical cancer & smoking... poppers & HIV...

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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...