Finally a Nobel Prize for Evolution! 👏 Here’s hoping that this will rekindle multidisciplinary interest in the field. There’s still so much we don’t know about what makes humans so special.

Peterhouse rainbow flag to mark start of #LGBT history month & celebrate the LGBTQ+ community. Must be one of the biggest in Cambridge, thanks to our former Head Porter, Gerald Meade always keen for his College to stand out! ⁦Peterhouse Cambridge⁩ ⁦Peterhouse M.C.R.

The perception of IQ as a seemingly objective measure of intelligence is frequently used to promote racist pseudoscience on social media. For this reason, I think it's extremely important for people to know some relevant facts about IQ:

Delighted to receive a Dissertation Award and to share a bit of my research at #INSAR23 !

Thank you to everyone who came by to see our poster at #INSAR2023 ! Here it is again, albeit less creased. These and more findings on the placenta and neurodevelopment, to be published soon 🙏

We are recruiting postdocs! Please apply if you'd like to study the health profiles of autistic people using large population registries ⁦⁦AutismResearchCentre⁩ . Funding available until January 2027. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50393/

Here’s an opportunity for people with differences in sex development to take part in research about diversity and mental health. See the link to the survey below. Thank you for helping research

Great opportunity for clinicians who can diagnose autism to join a novel research project led by Cambridge University. You could be based anywhere, as assessments are hybrid. Part-time and flexible working. ADOS or ADI-R experience is essential. Paid per assessment. Please share!

Before birth, beyond the brain: Researchers trace human evolution to the womb courthousenews.com/before-birth-b…

Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in the womb, which may have shaped our evolutionary brain development newscientist.com/article/248499…

Unlike other primates, humans are exposed to high levels of placental sex hormones in the womb, which may have fuelled the evolution of our large brains. newscientist.com/article/248499…