Mícheál
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Mícheál
@michealdebarra.bsky.social
Agreement with "I look forward to going to school" crashes from 7/10 aged 8 to 2/10 aged 13 in England. 😥
April 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I was surprised to see many friends habitually lie to their kids for convenience ("the sweet shop is closed today"). Not in our household: theconversation.com/parents-lie-...
Parents lie to children all the time – but they should think twice about it
We don’t casually lie to adults, and we should afford children the same respect.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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Brick Experiment Channel gives such great physical examples of cumulative problem-solving innovation using nothing but legos.
Making Lego Car CROSS Narrow Bridges
YouTube video by Brick Experiment Channel
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Abandonment of Bloodletting in Nineteenth-Century Swedish Medicine: academic.oup.com/shm/advance-...
November 23, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Get in touch if you are interested in a funded PhD on the cultural evolution of health behaviour (doi.org/10.1093/emph...) or communication (doi.org/10.1093/phe/...). Deadline 10th Jan www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Res...
November 19, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Fully-funded PhD position available on the cultural evolution of tea!

With me, Sabine Parrish, and David Burslem at the University of Aberdeen (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿), come combine anthropology and biology to think about why people drink tea and how that may change in the future.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - People and tea: past, present, and future at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 29, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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I’m sadly not at
#CES2024Durham but a ton of these rockstars are!

go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn
September 9, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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New (open access) article in #ESR with #A_Patzina, #H_Dietrich, #M_Sandner

Key finding: Young people’s life satisfaction strongly declined due to the pandemic. Particularly burdensome were travel restrictions, and the closure of bars/clubs. Mask wearing not so much. doi.org/10.1093/esr/...
December 4, 2023 at 8:55 AM
Do people undergo medical treatments to demonstrate the legitimacy of their illness? New paper here: academic.oup.com/emph/article...
November 24, 2023 at 3:16 PM