#Behavioural

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31357-X/fulltext#coronavirus-linkback-header Have deaths from COVID-19 in Europe plateaued due to herd immunity? There has been quite a bit of discussion regarding herd immu
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*New* @instituteforgov report out today, ‘Overcoming the Barriers to Tax Reform’ from @gemmatetlow, @tompope0, @jillongovt, @sukh_ss (and me).https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/overcoming-barriers-tax-reform#ifgtax #taxreform In 2
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Since these have proved to be useful & fun, here’s a tweetorial on our new research project “Cultural Evolution of Sustainable Behaviors: Pro-environmental Tipping Points in an Agent-Based Model” published
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#fanderdisabilityblackout#fanderdisabilitypositivityThe month of April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance month, so I decided to take some time to research into autism whilst being careful to avoid topics that @ThomasSanders is already aware
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First publication from my PhD on the association between physical activity and mental health outcomes in Irish adolescents just published. Some key findings outlined in the thread below. You can
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It's #MEAwarenessHourME is a complex physiological malfunction. It's not something that a person can cure themselves from. It is unrelated to attitude.It doesn't matter how hard a person tries or
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I didn't know that the Westminster Commission on Autism …https://westminsterautismcommission.wordpress.com/about-2/  (Parliamentary MPs and related groups) was co-founded by this ABA organisation. https://thegivingtreefoundation.
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Been seeing a lot of autistic-ADHD discourse on my timeline, so some thoughts?So basically I think that autism and ADHD are distinct conditions with a high cooccurrence rate (currently seems
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I recently listened to @katy_milkman and @angeladuckw share an update on the brilliant and bold work they are doing with the @ChangeBcfg initiative!The talk was largely around the results from
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Whenever someone tells me that consciousness will soon be solved by a new neuroscience or physics I tell them to read history a little more carefully. Here's a short thread
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I've received a few responses to my prison abolition thread along the lines of, "so you're saying I'm a bad person for wanting my rapist locked up?"no, I don't think
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1/ A thread on my substance abuse: partly inspired by @causalinf a few months ago! Initially, I turned to heavy drinking not so for much for the social aspect (though
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I've seen too many tweets this week claiming ADHD is actually just a trauma response, so here is a thread unpacking that assumption. So, is ADHD actually just trauma? As
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Cool, that makes things a little easier. Here's a quick, incomplete list, including some that are actually incorrect predictions.Example 1: A choice can only be triggered after sampling a piece
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**NEW SURVEY KLAXON**Most of my research chat on here is about autism, but I'm also involved in some fantastic work on #preterm birth. We are now planning the next epoch
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Sorry this has taken me so long but I have a definite answer to your question. Drinking age people (19-24) have a far higher incidence than school age people (15-18).And
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