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… to The Netherlands! I’m now at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, as part of a new research group called Evolutionary Processes in Language and Culture.
The academic blog-urge has dwindled this last year; it seems to ...
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[This post has been lurking about since, oops, May, so I thought I better put it out there!]
I’m sure everyone has favourite inductive hypotheses about the world that they mull over as potential research questions–if only they weren’t so ...
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My friend and colleague Simon Greenhill handed in his PhD thesis today. Having read bits of it, seen the results of other bits of it, and generally parasitised off his hard work in creating and maintaining the Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database, ...
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That’s the Journal of the Polynesian Society, if you were wondering.
It’s been a sad wrench for me at UCL, browsing the e-journals list of our library and always feeling a little empty spot in my heart right here:
The ...
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From Sunday’s Observer, Split over health risk to cousins who marry:
A major medical row will erupt this month when scientists and health experts hold two key meetings to discuss the controversial subject of marriages between cousins and their impact on ...
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Nine month teaching fellowship in Biological Anthropology at the University of Bristol.
The position is in a joint Archaeology/Anthropology department and will provide sabbatical cover for Dr Mhairi Gibson.
Deadline for applications May 16th. Apply through the link above.
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Mike Dickison’s blog Pictures of Numbers is fab. It’s all about clear, simple, effective data visualisation for scientists. Three posts that I thought were particularly useful were:
Better Axes: improving readability, increasing the information content and decreasing the clutter in ...
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David Lawson, Kesson Magid and I have just published On Sex and Suicide Bombing: An evaluation of Kanazawa’s ‘Evolutionary Psychological Imagination’. This is a critique of Satoshi Kanazawa’s 2007 paper: “The Evolutionary Psychological Imagination: Why You Can’t Get a Date ...
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The blue-beats-white winning bias in judo as reported in 2006 appears to have been confounded by a number of factors, and there is no bias after all. So say Dijkstra & Preenen in Proceedings B:
A study by Rowe et ...
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I have been blog-blocked since before December last year and need to make a concerted effort to move beyond it. Part of the problem has been journalistic–I’ve not wanted to write about anything that isn’t (a) news and (b) an ...