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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 13h

Important to get more out here on how appearance pressures are felt differently across different groups within countries just as much as across them.

QMUL Centre for Psychiatry & Mental Health @qmulpsychiatry.bsky.social · 13h

New paper alert - Great work on body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among South Asian women and girls in the UK - please do share!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The pressure to be ‘Fair and Lovely’: Exploring the contributing factors to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among South Asian women and girls in the UK

Little is known about culturally relevant factors contributing to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating among British South Asians, despite data …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 14h

Kemi I assume

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15h

Reminder that basing funding on graduate income incentivises unis to close courses like nursing (too poorly paid), and to discriminate against female students and most minority ethnic groups (whose earnings on graduation are lower than white men).

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16h

'Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls.' 1/3

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 1d

Per Khandis Blake's work, women whose inclusive fitness runs more via male relatives are more accepting/in favour of practices which control women's sexualiry inc harmful ones.
In many cultures that practice FGM it's older women who perform it.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 1d

You want to know how many contrary 'no, shan't!' people there on each site?

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 1d

It looks like it's a paper from Will Costello (who would I assume call himself an EPer) and Alberto Acerbi (who I think would not? He's a CultEvo person.)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 1d

Ahem.
*gestures broadly at the UK Labour Party in the vague hope someone listens*

Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 1d

"Key take-away: Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right. When mainstream parties adopt far-right issues, they help to disseminate far-right ideas and legitimise them."

Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Option 5

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

So trying to bridge both Zach and Thom's v good points (both of which I agree with...)
'Evolution, Culture and Human Behaviour: A comprehensive introduction for psychologists and anthropologists'

Full titles even longer but leading title is a little punchier and it gets both target disciplines in

Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

So trying to bridge both Zach and Thom's v good points (both of which I agree with...)
'Evolution, Culture and Human Behaviour: A comprehensive introduction for psychologists and anthropologists'

Full titles even longer but leading title is a little punchier and it gets both target disciplines in

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

I prefer behavioural BUT I think we went with social in text because it's a bit broader than just behaviour. So the title would have to match the terminology used in text.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

1. An Introduction to the Human Evolutionary Social Sciences

2. Human Evolutionary Social Science: A comprehensive introduction

3. Evolution, Culture, Mind and Human Behaviour: A comprehensive introduction

4. Human Evolutionary Psychology and Anthropology

????

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Say you were looking for a free, online textbook to use in your teaching of #EvoPSych, Human Behavioural Ecology, Cultural Evolution (or all combined)... which of these titles would tempt you most?

(see post below...)

#EHBEA
#HBES
#CulturalTransmisison
#HigherEduction
#TLHE

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

(It's actually because I have all my CDs ripped and buy a mix of mp3s as singles and albums, and as such I listen to *playlists* rather than albums. These 4 were listened to either cos they were on a bigger playlist [Victoria] or because I was feeling nostalgic.)

Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

This made me laugh, because apparently I'm still mostly stuck in the 90s...

#Last4Albums

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a way to 'connect' with someone so they can follow me but not see them in my feed? Because I'm happy to have various ppl in messaging range, but I don't need to see all their posts and it's drowning out the stuff I do want to see.
Bloody hate LinkedIn.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 2d

Well done them!
Reminds of me the time my husband solved a long running jealousy/conflict between our eldest and her same-age cousin by plating a game where they gave each other raisins or chocolate buttons or something like that. I was sceptical at first as I watched but it worked a treat!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 5d

Which is interesting because 'musically strong, lyrically weak' is the exact opposite of the last album IMO

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

Talia Cohen, 28, who started to suspect she might be “a bit spectrummy” after people kept directly stating it right to her face, has since read everything she could get her hands on about autism, including why it’s problematic to say “a bit spectrummy” – and has passed this sacred knowledge on...
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 6d

Cohen said: “If I’m going down, I’m taking you all with me. I’m handing out epiphanies like Oprah hands out cars. You get an autism! And you get an autism. You only get an ADHD – but you can still hang with us.”

First domino falls in undiagnosed neurodivergent friend group

The first of a group of undiagnosed neurodivergent friends has finally figured it out, making it only a matter of time before the others start toppling into a big heap of late-discovered burnout,…

thedailytism.com

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

I was taught how to make more targeted correlation matrices using syntax in SPSS (using WITH; ironically easier to do in SPSS than in R). From that I slowly built to using syntax more often for tracking/rerunning purposes and I am very convinced that made learning R dramatically easier.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 6d

You can tell my (I like to think low level) scattiness is real precisely because it leaves me out of pocket on a regular basis and my (incomplete) expenses claims always go in a month or more after the trip...
(I also know how to search for info *before* asking the office to help me with a task...)

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 7d

Oh BBC website. Oh dear BBC Website...

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 7d

Oooff. But what an amazing life, and an amazing legacy to leave.

Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 7d

The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada has learned this morning, Wednesday, October 1st, 2025, that Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, has passed away due to natural causes.

She was in California as part of her speaking tour in the United States.

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 7d

Ah wait - I was quoting continuation rate. Completion rate on part time undergrad degrees in the UK is less than 50%. But total completion rate for lowest two quintiles on SES for all degree (mainly full time) is 84% - so better than apprenticeships
www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications...

A statistical overview of higher education in England - Office for Students

A statistical overview of higher education in England - the Office for Students' annual review 2023

www.officeforstudents.org.uk