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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 13h

Is that because we are descendants of the survivors? Or did it really kill 1/3 of Europe with a transmission rate like that?

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 19h

Indeed. The hit/miss profile is curiously distorted...

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 20h

Having had Facebook remove a video of me awkwardly playing Beethoven's Pathetique with my son balanced on my lap because it was apparently so good a performance it triggered automated copyright for a professional recording... 🙄 I do not get how copyright processes have such a poor hit/miss rate...

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They took down my cruise line video …

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 05/10/2026

In which the author disagrees with Mr Wolfers and discusses what it *really* looks like when you sit down and have a conversation with your ideological opponents. When you do not have the protections of the ivory tower it turns out to be a much darker experience than he imagines it to be.

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Dining with wolves – Notes from a data witch

Polite discussion over lunch is not a reasonable option when you are on the menu

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Perspectives in Body Image @persbodyimage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We have a fully functional website! Love body image research? Want to find other body image researchers from diverse disciplines all around the world? Want to get first news about the next PIBI conference? Here we are! www.perspectivesinbodyimage.com #PsychSciSky #BodyImage #EatingDisorders

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Perspectives in Body Image Network

An international online research network on body image and sociocultural appearance pressures.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Daily Tism on brutal form today... 😬😆

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 02/10/2026

Deep male voices are perceived as more attractive and formidable, but does this hold up when a listener can actually see who's speaking? A new paper from #RSOS tested this: doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @drboothroyd.bsky.social @jrut.bsky.social

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Micah, do you not understand how LONG 2 minutes is?! May as well be forever!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I often think that if a future palaeontologist were to dig up me and my close friends, perhaps perished and preserved in some kind of volcanic disaster or placed lovingly in a shared grave, that they would assume I was a different species of hominid to the others...

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also ... why would anyone invest when you are losing so much money hand over fist?

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The presidents seem to have been alternating recently at least do maybe that's true for secretary too. (No secretary on the website atm.)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do the president and secretary have to alternate genders or something?

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was also my take on the Vanderbilt State of Anthropology report. A mostly historical set of internecine wars, the bad handling of the Chagnon allegations, and a shift in balance across a subset of departments. Not quite what the umbrella report claimed to be epistemological rot.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Attempted to rescue the situation in Scotland at least. 😬😆 But thanks DM for spreading the completely wrong idea about the work. *slow hand clap*

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I strongly suspect I will end up watching it on a plane at some point which is how I prefer to deal with films that morbidly fascinate me but also have v high cringe or other terrifying things like zombies.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apologies, purple is the 'hardest' category - the combo of 4 things they think youll find it most difficult to identify.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sometimes I struggle cos I'm not American. Sometimes their groups are just weird. And Sometimes the purple 'haed' group is surprisingly obvious

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Perfectly put. (The whole thread’s very good.)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Although if you see some that would be good for me to use in teaching about misuse of EvPsych, please do send me screen caps!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am giving BBC Radio Scotland a more accurate version of the results tomorrow at 7.20am!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lastly, there are studies suggesting a deeper voice makes you sound larger. When people can actually see you (as we usually can in interpersonal perception) there is no effect of pitch in perceived height BUT a deeper voice can still trick people into thinking you're slightly heavier.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also - what is the contribution of the voice versus the visuals? Well, it turns out vocal pitch information constitutes only a teeny tiny part of the overall social perception. Visual information is doing much, much more work.

Dominance: Visual-only ratings, when included as the only fixed effect, were highly significant predictors of perceived fighting ability, physical strength and social dominance (p < 0.001). For each of these models, the proportion of variance explained was 35.4, 37.6 and 12.3% for perceived fighting ability, physical strength and social dominance, respectively. These figures increased to 36.4, 39.5 and 17.1%, respectively, when F0 and FS were added to the model as fixed effects. All fixed effects were highly significant (p < 0.001) in every model. The marginal R2 for each model is summarized in table 4.

Table 4, repeating the information in the text in image1

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New paper from my ex PhD student @jrut.bsky.social! Lots of research on sexual selection and the human voice uses audio-only stimuli - what happens when you can see the person who's talking? A deeper voice can still make you sound more dominant but deep voices were not rated more attractive.

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Low voice pitch, when accompanied by video, increases perceived dominance but not attractiveness

Abstract. Vocal masculinity, when increased digitally in audio recordings, tends to enhance men's perceived attractiveness and dominance. This observation

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

She then looked back at the front of my passport, laughed and apologised.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How Kafka-esque. I usually get a big red warning that I will need an ETA for the UK but can still check in on the app, but I did get quizzed at boarding when leaving Nairobi last week. "Newcastle... Where's your ETA?" "I don't have one." "How are you cleared to enter the UK?" "... I'm British...?"

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I went all the way from Durham to Montpellier by train the other year for EHBEA. It was amazing. Trains are wonderful. High speed across the length of two countries and under the sea between them.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I mean one of the problems with the explosion in LLMs is that they are contributing to the excessive carbon power usage which is endangering the continued existence of our comfortable technological world (and the future of those not enjoying its comforts too.)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Given that at the time he gave a very stroppy speech at her funeral and then buggered off back to the Southern Hemisphere right after she was entered on his pay-to-enter country estate ... I dont think that was ever his focus no matter what he claimed.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wasn't just tradition and media. The crowds outside BP were chanting for them to be brought to London. (Bring us our princes or some BS like that.) It was disgusting.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It is in keeping with the entire saga of Diana's death in that there is zero consideration from anyone about the emotional wellbeing of her bereaved children.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I should probably be relieved I dont get the cult reference?

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is everyone else getting human verification screens when they just open a normal journal article url? Not downloading the pdf, just clicking to the article from a TOC email say? I feel like this is new this year, and probably reflects what @carlbergstrom.com is talking about here.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I loved Waiting for God. And I am deeply disturbed by being also almost the same age she was! (Or possibly the same age depending on when filming happened...)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really, where else in the world would I get academic discussion and nerd discussion in such perfect harmony as here? (In this case: LLMs are the One Ring ... and it's a better analogy than chatbot lovers realise...)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(To be clear, Lyon itself is also gorgeous!)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

wow, how lovely to live in Lyon! Quick train ride to so many awesome places. Congrats on the amazing job.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Why, why, whyyyyy would anyone ever upload their original thinking to an online LLM chatbot if they don't want it to be used by that company? Sure, you toggle learning off. I don’t believe them when they say that's really not being stored.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Big *flat* feet is a total bummer. Not just limited by size but also whether they will take my orthotics. Result is mostly granny shoes.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What was the problem? Am hoping to go next year if I can get in via the next ticket batch release.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

But writing up a scientific study is a valuable skill to learn and practice and worth assessing too. (Okay v few will end up being scientists but quite a number will do A Level or even degree level science, and structured report writing is common in many fields).

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And the very toned down second bathroom!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What? There is no ambiguity that Mrs Norris is talking about Mrs Price there. It would make that line incredibly weird if she meant anyone else. And when you add the Betram eldest son/daughter being named Thomas and Maria, obviously Fanny was also named for her mother.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I actually think if I hadn't done it for A Level I would never have read MP. Something about having to read it three times and dig into the Crawfords in particular made it interesting rather than dull.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The fact that Cassandra Austen was also a Henry-Fanny is the better outcome truther, is always reassuring to me.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The sheer *pining* of that book. And Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root embodied it perfectly.

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