Tanay Katiyar

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media.

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Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited?

It turns out, yes!

WOO, huge congratulations!!!!

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised!

3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution

2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions.

Please share and apply!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

@alanlevinovitz.bsky.social @awaisaftab.bsky.social

Many of us have heard how existing mental health narratives can have some unintended consequences.

But what if there’s a better alternative story? A new preprint strongly suggests that evolutionary psychiatry might offer one—without making us strangers to ourselves.

WOOO!! - That's massive. Big congratulations Oleg :)

Wow, that seems quite telling!!!

@sxz.bsky.social Thanks so much for this timely work!!!!

Converges with an observation that @michelleakline.bsky.social made some time back

On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..."

Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ;

We really need more papers on this issue

On the bright side, presumably, he will do quite well at night time tales by the campfire :)

Wooooo - big congratulations Jordan!!!

Evolutionary Psychiatry Debate Day, August 31st, Cambridge — Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health 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…

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! www.femh.uk/activities/e...

It would look very swell behind a lava lamp

I am really glad :) - She’s an amazing writer. There’s other recos as well, which I can send across if you really like this book!

The Workflow of A (Cognitive) Scientist;
OR How to think in Science: A conceptual & computational overview of doing science;
OR The Dance of Data Analysis & Theory: A False Binary;

EP #17 | The Anthropology of Leisure Time | Mark Dyble Cognitations · Episode

🎙️ EP #17

Most of us struggle w/ work-life balance. Long before the existence of long commutes and busy calendars, our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers (HGs). Do HGs have more free time? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social discusses this & much more with Mark Dyble

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(1/2)

Elated to be involved in this project where @amiraskeggs.bsky.social introduces a novel method to (basically) conduct ethnography at scale.

This method might have interesting implications for conducting quantitative ethnography in other disciplines. Do check her work out!!

Congratulations!! Looks very exciting!!

EP #16 | What do Auditory Illusions Reveal about the Brain? | Daniel Pressnitzer Cognitations · Episode

🎙️ EP #16

Two people can hear different things when listening to the same sound (see 🧵): how does our auditory system really work? Cindy & @mariusmercier.bsky.social discuss this and much more with Daniel Pressnitzer

shorturl.at/w6Y0w

Sachin Tendulkar for cricket in India!

Thanks for this - would you know of lit that has looked at how to control for looping effects (e.g labelling someone causes self-diagnosis via mental health literacy efforts)

🔷New in Biological Psychiatry🔷

**Old Strategies, New Environments: Reinforcement Learning on Social Media**

In this Review, we argue that the computational framework of Reinforcement Learning can help us understand social media behaviour:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Could you maybe repost this in your network? Not many psychiatric epidemiologists in my local networks, unfortunately!

+1 @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social

I think these questions come from a place of confusion - some epidemiological studies say there is an adolescent mental health crisis, others say no with qualitative lip service given to looping effects and changing diagnostic definitions. curious to see state of art in terms of measurement here

Are mental health awareness efforts contributing to the rise in reported mental health problems? A call to test the prevalence inflation hypothesis In the past decade, there have been extensive efforts in the Western world to raise public awareness about mental health problems, with the goal of re…

Basically, what proxy variables are epidemiologists using for this? Can we do better? Curious to know whether some epidemiologists have taken Lucy's ( @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social) prevalence inflation hypothesis VERY seriously "in the past"? 2/n

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thanks Eiko :) I was curious about how folks typically control for effects of changing mental health definitions/criteria, both officially (e.g. changes in DSM or ICD criteria) and unofficially (changes in folk definitions of illness, which could also inflate number of diagnoses via looping) 1/n

Does anyone know good review papers that summarise the various methodological difficulties involved in conducting good psychiatric epidemiology? And what sort of inferences can we make, knowing these difficulties (e.g. diagnostic criteria changes)?

@eikofried.bsky.social
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