This selection of blog posts records and provides links to public discussions and content. Various aspects and achievements of my work as a researcher in evolutionary psychiatry are mentioned. Short-form content such as social media posts is excluded.

I was very pleased to be invited to teach the Evolution and Mental Health lecture for the Evolutionary Medicine course at the University of Oxford last week. A comment that I hear again and again is that the Mental Health lecture of the Ev Med courses is always the most anticipated. Unsurprising, given that mental health is the most pressing concern for the demographic being taught! Thanks to Paula Sheppard for the invitation, and the chance to be in the room with so many br

I was recently invited to give a lecture to a group of forensic psychiatrists in Oxford at The Oxford Clinic, Littlemore Mental Health Centre, and it was a pleasure to do so. The talk focused on the relevance of evolutionary psychiatry to forensic practice — an area where I think evolutionary thinking has a great deal to offer, even if it doesn't always get the attention it deserves. The discussion afterwards was lively. It's always nice to be asked to speak to colleagues wor

Tanay Katiyar is first author and I am co-first author on this recently published paper (credit to Tanay for doing the bulk of the writing though; this is a project that I have been working with him on since he visited our lab in Zurich). Here is a tweet thread on it. I'll replicate the text and images here. Australia just banned social media for under-16s. Will that help? Out in Psychological Review, our evolutionary analysis suggests why the ban will backfire. Despite som