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Brandon C Davidson @bcdavidson.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.

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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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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 26d

WOO, huge congratulations!!!!

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 27d

@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/...

Fees and Funding - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 27d

@alanlevinovitz.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Adam Hunt @realadamhunt.bsky.social · 27d

🎉New pre-print!🎉

“Our findings represent the most robust evidence to date that evolutionary psychiatry offers normalising causal stories with various positive effects, in this case by casting anxiety as a calibrated defence system that can overshoot in contemporary contexts."

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Sep 4

WOOO!! - That's massive. Big congratulations Oleg :)

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Wow, that seems quite telling!!!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

@sxz.bsky.social Thanks so much for this timely work!!!!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

Converges with an observation that @michelleakline.bsky.social made some time back

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

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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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Aug 29

On the bright side, presumably, he will do quite well at night time tales by the campfire :)

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Jul 30

Wooooo - big congratulations Jordan!!!

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Adam Hunt @realadamhunt.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

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…

www.femh.uk

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Jul 16

It would look very swell behind a lava lamp

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Jul 13

I am really glad :) - She’s an amazing writer. There’s other recos as well, which I can send across if you really like this book!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Jul 3

The Workflow of A (Cognitive) Scientist;
OR How to think in Science: A conceptual & computational overview of doing science;
OR The Dance of Data Analysis & Theory: A False Binary;

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · Jun 27

🎙️ 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

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

Cognitations · Episode

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Jun 24

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!!

Amira Skeggs @amiraskeggs.bsky.social · Jun 24

🚨New preprint 🚨

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬: 𝐀 𝐋𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞-𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨-𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Using a novel micro-narrative method, we collected ~ 900 first-person accounts of social media harms from young people across the UK and US.

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations!! Looks very exciting!!

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The Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · May 30

🎙️ 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

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

Cognitations · Episode

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · May 28

Sachin Tendulkar for cricket in India!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · May 24

Thanks for this - would you know of lit that has looked at how to control for looping effects (e.g labelling someone causes self-diagnosis via mental health literacy efforts)

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Georgia Turner @georgiaturner.bsky.social · May 22

🔷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 · May 20

Could you maybe repost this in your network? Not many psychiatric epidemiologists in my local networks, unfortunately!

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Tanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · May 19

+1 @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social

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