Reposted by MícheálJohn Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 14/10/2026This year marks the centennial of R.A. Fisher's 1926 paper "The Arrangement of Field Experiments," presumably a key reason why p<.05 criteria and 95% confidence intervals have—for better or worse—been conventional for 100 years. 3164
Reposted by MícheálOleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 29/06/2026📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word! 08082
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Surprising that this government-commissioned report don't include deflationary contributions from people like Williams, Acerbi, Mercier and Altay. 020
Reposted by MícheálRoope Kaaronen @roopekaaronen.net · 12/03/2026Did you know that the spinning top is one of the most common forms of traditional play worldwide? Our research found tops to be nearly universal across human cultures. Wherever you come from, your ancestors probably spun tops. New preprint: Top of the World osf.io/preprints/so... Thread: 112852
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Italian Inquisition was so worried about people publishing bad science, they set up their own laboratories to repeat experiments and censor studies that failed to replicate. Some very contemporary concerns in the 1600s.open.substack.comWhy Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada PalmerAmbassador visiting Renaissance Florence: “Where am I? None of this has existed for a thousand years." 011
Reposted by MícheálRuben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 03/02/2026I reviewed an earlier version of this paper. I think it's interesting, because you can tell by reading it that evolutionary psychology still lacks a loyal opposition and a healthy error culture. It's a defensive paper, targeted at people who believe evolution stops at the neck, YouTubers, _others_ 65214
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Have you seen George Davey Smith telling him the smoking findings were completely implausible at a seminar in Edinburgh 1994? youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...youtu.beHans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lectureYouTube video by Philip Corr 1144
Reposted by MícheálCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 02/12/20251/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉 📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures? 🧪🏺 #evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolutionpnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 1116
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Agreement with "I look forward to going to school" crashes from 7/10 aged 8 to 2/10 aged 13 in England. 😥 040
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I was surprised to see many friends habitually lie to their kids for convenience ("the sweet shop is closed today"). Not in our household: theconversation.com/parents-lie-...theconversation.comParents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about itWe don’t casually lie to adults, and we should afford children the same respect. 120
Reposted by MícheálBret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Brick Experiment Channel gives such great physical examples of cumulative problem-solving innovation using nothing but legos.youtube.comMaking Lego Car CROSS Narrow BridgesYouTube video by Brick Experiment Channel 2134
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I get how their might be threshold effects for low hand-washing/vaccination rates, but how are seatbelts and raw-milk consumption multiplicative and rather than additive risks? 000
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024It's funny how one of the most important improvements in patient welfare in the history of medicine happened for reasons unrelated to measurement of patient welfare. 010
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Bloodletting was sustained - at least in doctors' imagination - by a hydraulic model: good for repairing flow. But as the model of the body become influenced by thermodynamics, doctors took against things that "wasted energy": This included masturbation, shaving and bloodletting. 200
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Abandonment of Bloodletting in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Medicine: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-... 142
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour (doi.org/10.1093/emph...) or communication (doi.org/10.1093/phe/...). Deadline 10th Jan www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res... 063
Reposted by MícheálCatherine Sheard @sheardcat.bsky.social · 29/10/2024Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea! With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comPeople and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com 26857
Reposted by MícheálWill Gervais @willgervais.com · 09/09/2024I’m sadly not at #CES2024Durham but a ton of these rockstars are! go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn 2239
Reposted by MícheálMartin Neugebauer @neugebauer.bsky.social · 04/12/2023New (open access) article in #ESR with #A_Patzina, #H_Dietrich, #M_Sandner Key finding: Young people’s life satisfaction strongly declined due to the pandemic. Particularly burdensome were travel restrictions, and the closure of bars/clubs. Mask wearing not so much. doi.org/10.1093/esr/... 11810
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 24/11/2023We find would-be caregivers are more inclined to help people who undergo treatment and that people with chronic pain + legitimacy concerns are keener on aversive treatment. In other words: we develop signalling perspective on medical (over)use. 000
Mícheál @michealdebarra.bsky.social · 24/11/2023Do people undergo medical treatments to demonstrate the legitimacy of their illness? New paper here: academic.oup.com/emph/article... 130
