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The line between 'disorder' & 'normality' does not exist - but we pretend it does....

Excellent blogpost by Jessica Rumbelow who leads Leap Lab, on the possibilities (and limitations) of AI for improving science. Major problems: garbage in, garbage out; and hallucinations But big data, careful bespoke models and interpretability offer exciting avenues...

Introducing Grok 4, the world's most powerful AI model. Watch the livestream now: x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

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!

👇 the records of humans living in pre-industrialised life are some of the most precious information we have (and can still gather, just about!). For however many centuries or millennia humanity survives, we'll be relying on those records for insights into our nature

before you have a baby, you think "babies are cute" but then after you have a baby, it finally sets in: that sentiment is exactly backwards. cute is baby. babies are the ultimate referent for cuteness, the ur-cute against which all other cuteness is a crude facsimile.

ADHD is in the media a lot recently. Complaints about excessive support, too easy diagnosis. Ignoring the fraudsters, a lot of people do struggle with modernity (understandably, we weren't built for this!) and supporting our individual differences to maximise our potential does

The Coldplay fiasco is a nice example of huge backfiring of natural reactions due to weird modern environments!

👇 when evolutionary psychiatry is mainstream

Big problem! "People just take a random GWAS of a protein, a GWAS of a disease or trait B, run a little test,retroactively cobble together an introduction,write a paper, and submit. Add in the bias towards publishing significant findings and you get a very potent noise machine."

Meagre financial handouts for neurodivergent individuals probably aren't the best option for support and maximising their long term potential. A better (cough evolution cough) informed system could do a more nuanced job at helping people integrate into classrooms and workplaces!

Every parent (especially of twins) and teacher can comfortably attest: personality does just differ wildly, often with no discernible environmental effect, even at such an intimate level of observation! Explaining why evolution allowed this was one of the major aims of my PhD

Still a week left to sign up for the evolutionary psychiatry debate day in Cambridge - the best opportunity of this year to meet up with others interested in the field! Discussing key topics of depression and the future of the field buff.ly/daHzwQK

Last chance to sign up join us this August 31st in Cambridge for lively debate on evolutionary psychiatry! Debates on depression, research, practise. Panels interspersed with pizza and coffee. Sure to be fascinating! buff.ly/daHzwQK

Come see me debate whether depression is/isn't a functional signal (and more!)