Come work with me! Deadline extended to 26th Nov, to give people a few extra days🙂 Note: We can't sponsor a skilled worker visa for this role, but PhD holders should be able to apply for a Global Talent Visa if appointed.

Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour (doi.org/10.1093/emph/e…) or communication (doi.org/10.1093/phe/ph…).

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? My friend Erika & I wrote our story for Science Magazine on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹 science.org/content/articl…

To prevent one alcohol related illness among moderate drinkers (1 drink a day), about 25,000 people would need to quit entirely. Estimate from a systematic review, summarised here: medium.com/wintoncentre/t…

Our new paper is out! Congrats to the whole team, especially the staff and students Bournemouth Uni who have been excavating this incredible site for 15 years (with much more left to uncover!) Widespread matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Up Na Mná :) rdcu.be/d6mb0

NEW from me and Sam Dumitriu: how we can choose growth. Eleven politically-viable ways the Labour government can start to reverse Britain's decline and make Britain prosper again.

Interesting: Cross-gender friendships on facebook. EU and US are far from the most equal. Bangladesh/Somalia quite equal for muslim majority countries.

New study with a billion words! Here’s the 60-second version. ⏲️ nature.com/articles/s4159… Nature Portfolio Sharath Guntuku The University of Chicago

🚨Thrilled that our🆕paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in Science Advances 💡Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage science.org/doi/full/10.11… 🧵A thread 1/7

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I wonder if AI will make the scale of dodgy research more legible. There is probably a lot to gain from discontinuing commonplace harmful treatments.

David Hockney: The Arrival of spring.

It’s a bummer that anthropologists generally don’t write long form ethnographies anymore. There’s been more than two decades of constant (highly productive) field work among the Tsimane for ex. & I don’t think there’s been any English language ethnographies on them in that time.

Another gpt-image feedback loop: "Generate the same photo 5 seconds into the future." Starting with distracted boyfriend meme.

I am dead-chuffed to announced that the first Cambridge Element in Psychology of Religion has just been published. Ze Hong's fascinating and compelling "Divination: A Cognitive Perspective" is free to download for the next two weeks. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

The decline of violence (and especially the weekend pub brawl) marches on in England and Wales

I made a big interactive tech tree of technological history! Here are some screenshots