
Adam Hunt
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Researcher @Cambridge_Uni. PhD in evolutionary psychiatry. Explaining neurodiversity, improving methods & stigma. 'Evolving Psychiatry' podcast host.
Cambridge, England
Joined February 2019
New paper🎉 just published🎉 in Biological Reviews 🎉.We propose a new gold standard to avoid “just-so” storytelling in evolutionary inference & apply it to autism. It’s been 9 years (!!) in the making.
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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
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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...
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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.
Nothing like having fraternal twins to realize how big individual differences are. All baby advice seems to assume babies are interchangeable but lemme tell you: we treat them exactly the same & it’s clear that they are two _very_ different people with very different preferences.
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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.".
Psychiatric Genetics Beyond Heritability: Q&A with Michel Nivard. “We look for genes as a means to an end—biology, epidemiology, and etiology of complex human outcomes.”.
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RT @mpopv: before you have a baby, you think "babies are cute". but then after you have a baby, it finally sets in: that sentiment is exact….
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👇 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.
Good theory is important in the social sciences but while theories are, by necessity, continuously being refined and often superseded, the observations in the ethnohistorical record are timeless and will always be valuable. They remain criminally under-appreciated.
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Excellent blogpost by @JessicaRumbelow 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. .
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RT @JDaviesPhD: The line between 'disorder' & 'normality' does not exist - but we pretend it does. .
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