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Researching the cultural evolution of health behaviour at @BrunelCCE.
Joined July 2012
Interesting: Cross-gender friendships on facebook. EU and US are far from the most equal. Bangladesh/Somalia quite equal for muslim majority countries.
Cross-gender friendships, using Facebook data Just incredible! You can see where male honour depends on womenfolk staying away from unrelated men, and where female employment would be significantly lower..
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@pursuitofprog @crush_crime Amazing work. I'm curious: you are an academic, right? Does you university give you any credit for these kinds of things? It's not your typical "policy engagement" or "REF impact case study" kind of work.
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RT @s8mb: NEW from me and @Sam_Dumitriu: how we can choose growth. Eleven politically-viable ways the Labour government can start to rever…
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RT @_larsporsena: Our new paper is out! Congrats to the whole team, especially the staff and students @bournemouthuni who have been excavat…
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@wrathofgnon What I appreciate as a parent of young kids: benches to sit and chat with space for toddlers can run about, safe from cars and fast bicycles.
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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:
No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. No amount of alcohol is safe. Stop alcohol before it’s too late ⏰‼️
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@Aella_Girl : argues we have adaptive tendency to form a model of opposite sex during early life sensitive periods but coincidental inputs during that period can get LT coded as hot.
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@GarettJones Inscription in this Galway monument: "This Ancient Memorial Of The Stern And Unbending Justice Of The Chief Magistrate Of This City James Lynch Fitzstephen Elected Mayor A.D. 1493 Who Condemned And Executed His Own Guilty Son Walter On This Spot"
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RT @padillaccc: We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? My friend Erika &…
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It's funny how one of the most important improvements in patient welfare in the history of medicine happened for reasons unrelated to patient welfare.
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@StefanFSchubert I was surprised to learn that heavy-doored rooms in the basement of my apartment building in Årsta were in fact bomb shelters.
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RT @Emily_Emmott: Come work with me! Deadline extended to 26th Nov, to give people a few extra days🙂 Note: We can't sponsor a skilled work…
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Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour ( or communication (.
Delighted - Applications open for PhD studentships in Health and Wellbeing at Brunel - Grand Union DTP | Brunel University of London @LouMansfield101 @brunelchwl @BrunelResearch Happy to discuss
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RT @LouMansfield101: Delighted - Applications open for PhD studentships in Health and Wellbeing at Brunel - Grand Union DTP | Brunel Unive…
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RT @EES_update: Gillian Brown and Kevin Lala: Excited to announce that the new edition of our book on human behaviour and evolution will…
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