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Dr Michelle Ann Kline

@michelleakline.bsky.social

anthropologist in a psych dept | American in the UK | she/her | doing my best to be inclusive

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Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/ Important retraction news 👇📰 A recent article using “national IQ” data to claim that a country’s “national intelligence” causes economic growth has been retracted @rebeccasear.bsky.social was among those who raised concerns - a good example of the importance of responsibility in science 💪 🧪

Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare

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Dr Lora Adair@loraadair.bsky.social · 7mo ago

97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that! This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time. therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...

Petition - Free Civil Legal Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence

Support free civil legal support for sexual violence survivors. Help create a fair, accessible path to justice when the system fails to act.

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Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 1/ CCEs @michelleakline.bsky.social , @nicolewen.bsky.social and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩 edited by the lovely @sheinalew.bsky.social

A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological, Practical, and Ethical Considerations for an Interdisciplinary Field

This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-relia...

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Paolo Crosetto@paolocrosetto.bsky.social · last yr.

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing

Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro

the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io

Will Gervais@willgervais.com · last yr.

I asked chatGPT for quotes from the very fake book "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code" by Will Gervais. It happily provided a quote about how snowboarding is like coding, as well as code for a deranged halfpipe. Thanks, chatGPT!

The title is "Pipes, Pipes, Pipes: The Hipster Tobacconist Snowboarder's Guide to Tidyverse Code", I believe the author is Will Gervais. I'm hoping for one quote about how snowboarding is like coding, and one batch of code to draw a halfpipe in ggplot() Certainly! Here's a quote that captures the essence of how snowboarding relates to coding: > “Snowboarding is like coding: you start with a plan, but the real joy comes from adapting to the terrain as you go.” This reflects the dynamic and adaptive nature of both activities. Additionally, to draw a halfpipe using `ggplot2` in R, you can use the following code: ```r library(ggplot2) library(dplyr) # Create data for the halfpipe halfpipe_data <- tibble( x = rep(seq(0, 100, length.out = 100), 2), y = c(sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100)), -sin(seq(0, 2 * pi, length.out = 100))), group = rep(c("Top", "Bottom"), each = 100) ) # Plot the halfpipe ggplot(halfpipe_data, aes(x = x, y = y, group = group)) + geom_line() + coord_flip() + theme_minimal() + labs(title = "Halfpipe Design", x = "Length", y = "Height") ``` This code creates a simple representation of a halfpipe using sine functions to simulate the curved shape. You can adjust the parameters to refine the design further. ggplot graph showing a wasp-shaped figure 8, labeled "Halfpipe Design" y-axis is length, x-axis is height
Dr Michelle Ann Kline@michelleakline.bsky.social · last yr.

Come visit our FANTASTIC group @brunelcce.bsky.social with one of two Wolfson fellowships. The first is a 1y (or flex visits over 2y) fellowship *including relocation costs for scholar + family* DEADLINE SEPT 4: royalsociety.org/grants/royal...

Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowship | Royal Society

The Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships provide an opportunity for talented international research leaders to undertake a flexible 12-month period of sabbatical leave in a UK university or rese...

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Nancy Kelley@nancymk.bsky.social · last yr.

My friend Claire deserves to be able to go about her day to day life in peace. We *all* do. There is *nothing* feminist, and *nothing* good in this obsessive transphobic cult.

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Carlos Noreña@carlosfnorena.bsky.social · last yr.

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · last yr.

Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences just published a paper which argues that East Asian psychology evolved to cope with cold winters, and that ancestral climate may have "plausibly stunted" the development of East Asian & other populations around the globe. Sounds vaguely familiar, for some reason...?

Screenshot of a paper titled Arctic Instincts? The late Pleistocene Arctic origins of East Asian Psychology by David Sun, published in Evolutionary Behavioral SciencesThe widely discussed sociocultural problems bottlenecking the flourishing of East Asian civilization (excessive levels of conformity, self-suppression, emotional repression, maladaptive introversion, brutal grinding work culture, harsh upbringing methods, social rigidity, social judgment, image obsession, risk aversion, high anxiety, tense urgency, lower Openness, stifled creativity, etc.) that have historically been misattributed to Confucianism or rice farming, are highly likely to be primarily aspects of paleolithic Arcticism that became maladaptive/mismatched in non-Arctic Holocene environments and the modern world, and were present in the population long before Confucius or the adoption of agriculture. It is worth exploring if ancestral ecological/climatic adaptation and modern maladaptation also negatively affect other societies around the world, as this may be the missing causal factor behind underdevelopment and longstanding sociocultural challenges in many nations.
Cultural Evolution Society@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 CES launches Advancing Cultural Evolution (ACE) Course Design Awards! 🎉 $4000 award + global impact for your cultural evolution course materials. Course must be college/grad level with 10+ hrs content. Application link: vuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #CulturalEvolution #Education #Grants

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Abbey Page@abbeyepage.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 New paper by myself @djsmith90.bsky.social and colleagues published today in @royalsociety.org Proc B 📣 Grandmothers are often seen as key carers, but this isn’t always the case. We explore why in Agta forgers reflecting on the implications of demography for evolution of grandmothering 👵🌍

Demography of grandmothering: a case study in Agta foragers | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Grandmothers are often presented as key carers due to low costs and high inclusive fitness returns. Empirically, however, grandmothers are not consistently important. Understanding the factors that pr...

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Abbey Page@abbeyepage.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ 🧵 New preprint out today 🤩 With @djsmith90.bsky.social and co we have done deep-dive into grandmothering in the Agta to unpick the role of demography in shaping the role of grandmothers in direct childcare 👇🧪🏺 #Grandmothering #demography #BioAnth #EvPsych

Dr Michelle Ann Kline@michelleakline.bsky.social · last yr.

For fun I am going to share the worst AI response I received in this study. Subtweeting myself 1/n (FYI - I do have ethical approval to share direct quotes without attribution, participants through Prolific cannot be identified by me or anybody, and this is DEFINITELY AI, as you will see.)

Dr Michelle Ann Kline@michelleakline.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is a writing day for me, but instead of writing all morning I have had to sort through the data I collected via Prolific to exclude AI-based responses 👎-- a thread 1/n