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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Important new study (currently pre-print) from @adigitaltanay.bsky.social and colleagues re transmission of MH awareness These findings provide support for my 2023 prevalence inflation hypothesis paper w Jack Andrews, particularly the existence of the second pathway, over-interpretation

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cool thread on cool new work regarding social contagion.

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 03/10/2026

Very happy to be part of this. Great team and fantastic work from Tanay!

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Quentin André @quentinandre.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Super interesting results and exciting paradigm!

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Not that other guy, that's for sure @neogliberal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's not often that I have all of my loose and difficult-to-express thoughts on a touchy subject summarized by a simple thread... but here we are.

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Does spreading mental health awareness online amplify self-diagnosis? In my first PhD pre-print, I empirically examine this question (n =3392) with some kick-ass collaborators and tools from cultural evolution A 🧵

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎙️ EP #23 Is the drive to seek status a human universal? What are the ways in which humans seek status cross-culturally? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with anthropologist @chrisvonrueden.bsky.social youtu.be/7pDGe2bp3m4

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Cultural Varieties of Status-Seeking | Chris von Rueden

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Sakshi Ghai @sakshighai.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Honoured to share our new paper in @nature.com today. Across 12 countries in eastern and southern Africa and Southeast Asia, 1 in 6 internet-using children had experienced technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse. A thread 🧵

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

For the theme of "Cross-Cultural & Ethnographic Perspectives", the Bridging Mental Health Network at Cambridge hosted two brilliant talks. Check them out for historical easter-eggs in psychiatry + rich story-telling Talk 1: @kristensyme.bsky.social youtu.be/-QEarzXEecw?... 🧵

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Suicide as Social Protest: Ethnographic Evidence from 53 Cultures | Kristen Syme

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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

An open access article in Psychological Review contextualizes the negative #mentalhealth effects of digital communication within other evolutionarily novel societal changes, serving as an antidote to overpathologization. Learn more from @adigitaltanay.bsky.social et al. bit.ly/4uckZkw

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🎙️ EP #22 How are religious beliefs distinct from ordinary factual beliefs? What is the cognitive architecture of such beliefs? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with philosopher Neil Van Leeuwen youtu.be/pUUS8fAJfRg?...

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Religion as Make-Believe | Neil Van Leeuwen

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Ecstatic to hear that our paper was selected as the Editor's Choice selection for Psychological Review!!!! Many thanks to the editorial team for the recognition, and to my brilliant co-authors for making this project what it is. Check out the thread below for a summary of the paper! 👇

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Easter EP As AI agents get smarter, are we entering a golden age of hypercreativity? Or are we entering an age of homogenised culture where we all just recycle the same AI-generated ideas? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with @babeheim.bsky.social youtu.be/coQnyaEw50s

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Human Innovation in the AI Age | Bret Beheim

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A Hadza collaborator of mine suddenly lost his wife earlier this week. They had two young children. I am seeking to raise a small amount of money to help Endeko cover funeral expenses and short-term childcare costs. Any small donations would be appreciated www.gofundme.com/f/support-en...

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Donate to Support Endeko After Sudden Loss, organized by Duncan Stibbard Hawkes

Endeko S. Endeko is a Hadza collaborator of mine and has helped me for many ye… Duncan Stibbard Hawkes needs your support for Support Endeko After Sudden Loss

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Some have long thought that humans are universally attracted to specific features: think of symmetrical faces. Are these really universal? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with @drboothroyd.bsky.social youtu.be/skwy9yKkytM

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Are Attractiveness Preferences Universal? | Lynda Boothroyd

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Mental health has several disciplinary homes. Yet members from different homes seldom meet. With Johanna, we decided to make these meetings more frequent at Cambridge with the Bridging Mental Health Network. Room has been brimming at our two talks Network talk recordings: tinyurl.com/5b4bwd5d

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This + Eli's other piece (Where do the children play) coincides with my PsychReview paper's point - anthropology sheds new insights into the social media-mental health debate: tinyurl.com/yn3h6mky My paper is long + Eli's writing is vivid, so better to check his Substack out for the value of anthro

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🎙️ EP #19 Think our ancestors lived in a state of "primitive communism"? New research reveals our deep past was far more complex than the "noble savage" myth suggests. @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this & much more with @manvir.bsky.social youtu.be/1BRZy9O665k?...

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The Social Lives of Our Ancestors | Manvir Singh

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Jordan’s one of the most methodologically conscientious scientist I have ever met + his work is at the cutting edge of evolutionary biology. Working with him is bound to be filled with many intellectual adventures. Check this PhD position out.

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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This weekend, I'm going on a sponsored walk to help raise money for my friend's younger brother's cancer treatment. If able, I'd really appreciate if you could share or sponsor me here: sites.google.com/view/alex-wa...

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On 17th January 2026, we will be going on a sponsored 10km walk to raise money to help fund Alex's cancer treatment. To sponsor us, please donate here: https://www.justgiving.com/page/alex-warwick-20...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Attention checks are a routine tool used to enhance data quality in online studies. However, a causal inference perspective suggests using this tool with “extreme” care. A 🧵

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Am curious about a parallel trend - When a niche artist becomes famous, why do fans start hating them? Is this status-signalling? Or do fans fear a genre risks massive change due to increased audience size? @mehr.nz @sobchuk.bsky.social @patrickesavage.bsky.social @masonyoungblood.bsky.social

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

NEW EP Theories in pragmatics have long tried to explain how we use language to communicate. Jay & @thomasbeuchot.bsky.social chat with @dansperber.bsky.social about relevance theory, which potentially offers an unifying account of both verbal and non-verbal communication. tinyurl.com/2vne39sp

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Congratulations to the Cognitations podcast, which was awarded an @ehbea.bsky.social grant to support the excellent work they're doing in public communication 🎉 This year, and for future years, we broadened the criteria for workshop grants to include non-academic events & public engagement

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This is a mammoth piece of measurement work for evolutionary psychiatry, that hopefully triggers more rigorous testing of evolutionary theories of mental health. Camila et al. have spent several years(!!!) developing this vital piece of work, so do check it out and share

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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This is one of the rare papers that completely changed my thinking about the field I work in. Have a read!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My first paper, out in PsychReview!! Along with @orbenamy.bsky.social, Nik & @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social, @realadamhunt.bsky.social & I revisit an old theoretical question using concepts from evo psychiatry and anthro: Why do mixed associations exist b/w social media & mental health? A 🧵

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

UPDATE! 🎉 Cognitations has been awarded a Workshop Event Grant by @ehbea.bsky.social This amazing grant will help us record new episodes with leading international experts in evolution, anthro & cog sci. Stay tuned in to hear from @manvir.bsky.social, @dansperber.bsky.social & many more!!!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Reading cross-cultural perspectives on mental health just makes you rethink some of the ('universalistic') assumptions of Western psychotherapy.

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Lukas Gunschera @lukasgunschera.com · 17/10/2025

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Some people are at greater risk of experiencing negative mental health outcomes of social media use than others, but why? 🧵 We examined whether individual differences in cognitive processes shape risk and resilience to mental health effects on social media: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media. 🧵 Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited? It turns out, yes!

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Many of us have heard how existing mental health narratives can have some unintended consequences. But what if there’s a better alternative story? A new preprint strongly suggests that evolutionary psychiatry might offer one—without making us strangers to ourselves.

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue

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Adam Hunt @realadamhunt.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This summer, August 31st, we are hosting an evolutionary psychiatry debate in Cambridge. Experts discussing whether depression is functional and whether evolutionary perspectives are more important in research or the clinic. Audience participation possible. Join us! www.femh.uk/activities/e...

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Evolutionary Psychiatry Debate Day, August 31st, Cambridge — Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health

The Evolutionary Psychiatry Debate Day, on August 31st at the University of Cambridge, and organised via the newly established Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health, will be this summer’s…

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🎙️ EP #17 Most of us struggle w/ work-life balance. Long before the existence of long commutes and busy calendars, our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers (HGs). Do HGs have more free time? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social discusses this & much more with Mark Dyble tinyurl.com/y6hd8ur5 (1/2)

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EP #17 | The Anthropology of Leisure Time | Mark Dyble

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Elated to be involved in this project where @amiraskeggs.bsky.social introduces a novel method to (basically) conduct ethnography at scale. This method might have interesting implications for conducting quantitative ethnography in other disciplines. Do check her work out!!

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

🎙️ EP #16 Two people can hear different things when listening to the same sound (see 🧵): how does our auditory system really work? Cindy & @mariusmercier.bsky.social discuss this and much more with Daniel Pressnitzer shorturl.at/w6Y0w

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EP #16 | What do Auditory Illusions Reveal about the Brain? | Daniel Pressnitzer

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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🔷New in Biological Psychiatry🔷 **Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media** In this Review, we argue that the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Does anyone know good review papers that summarise the various methodological difficulties involved in conducting good psychiatric epidemiology? And what sort of inferences can we make, knowing these difficulties (e.g. diagnostic criteria changes)? @eikofried.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social

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Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New Perspective out in @nathumbehav.nature.com today with co-author @orbenamy.bsky.social! We propose a new framework for designing 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 that support well-being, grounded in self-determination theory 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Social media interventions to improve well-being - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Perspective, the authors review current interventions on social media use among adolescents and propose a new theoretical model based on self-determination theory to guide the effective design...

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Luisa Fassi @fassiluisa.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

After 3 years in the making, our Registered Report is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We analyse nationally representative UK data from 3,340 adolescents (aged 11–19) to examine how social media use differs between those with and without mental health conditions. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions - Nature Human Behaviour

Using a nationally representative UK sample of adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms, this Registered Report examined differences in social media use. The results suggest that adolesc...

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

While studying psychiatry/mental health, one is often taught about the popularity of the DSM. #TIL that various editions of the DSM also act as 'significant' revenue streams for the American Psychiatric Association!! Source: lareviewofbooks.org/article/scie...

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🎙️ EP #15 How can methods from cognitive science provide new ways of investigating social media’s mental health effects? Does it offer new policy insights? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social discusses this and much more with @lukasgunschera.bsky.social & @georgiaturner.bsky.social tinyurl.com/4ayf4x5s 🧵

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EP #15 | Social Media and Mental Health: The Cognitive Turn | Georgia Turner & Lukas Gunschera

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Adrian Jaeggi @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Ever wondered if the mind really is modular? Ego disorders suggest so! In this new paper, psychiatrist Gheorghe Ilie and I argue that dysfunctions of the unitary self reveal the work of distinct modules, perceived by patients as distinct voices, often in conflict www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

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Frontiers | The modular mind and psychiatry: toward clinical integration with a focus on self-disorders

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Marius Mercier @mariusmercier.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

"What goes on four feet in the morning, two feet at midday, and three feet in the evening?" This riddle is thousands of years old, but why does it stick with us? In our new paper, we argue that the feeling of insight might explain the lasting success of some cultural products: tinyurl.com/4j756h9a

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

This @cognitations.bsky.social podcast has made my bank holiday cleaning considerably less tedious: Daniel Nettle being interviewed about what human behavioural ecology is and how it can help inform policy, including around poverty podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

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EP #11 | Human Behavioral Ecology: Putting Depression & Poverty In Context | Daniel Nettle

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Uta Frith @utafrith.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Intriguing. Includes impressively up-to-date review of relevant literature on autism.

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Amy Orben @orbenamy.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

New Paper! I'm truly excited to share @natematias.bsky.social and my new Policy Forum in Science published yesterday. We evaluate science's ability to address technological harms, and offer recommendations for what could be done to improve on the status quo: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Fixing the science of digital technology harms

Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts

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