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Kate Fox

@KateFoxWatching

Anthropologist; author of Watching the English; Associate Member, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.

 Oxford
Joined May 2013
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Ever wondered about the psychology behind rituals? In his new book, The Ritual Animal, Harvey Whitehouse explores how different modes of ritual performance have influenced the evolution of social complexity. Buy your copy here: global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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I am now a proud patron of Ceasefire on @patreon, and if you really want to promote civil public discourse (as opposed to just complaining about the lack of it) you should be too: #NewPatron patreon.com/ceasefire?utm_me…

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Wow. Really overwhelmed with the response to my story about the real 'Lord of the Flies'. So so happy that this extraordinary tale is finally - after 50 years! - becoming famous. Here's a thread (with pictures!) on how I found the 'boys' three years ago /1 theguardian.com/books/2020/m…
The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months

When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently to William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman

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When in doubt, it's always worth checking out what @melindacmills has to say.
Melinda Mills (@melindacmills) profile pictureMelinda Mills@melindacmills22 Apr 2020
You asked for a simple & concrete examples of how our #COVIDー19 network #exitstrategy can move from mathematical simulation models to real life examples – see arxiv.org/abs/2004.07052 (pages 14-16) @block_per But I break it down here….
Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID 19...

Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID 19...

Social distancing and isolation have been introduced widely to counter the COVID-19 pandemic. However, more moderate contact reduction policies become desirable owing to adverse social,...

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Science lessons should teach evolution, not creationism. I've signed @Humanists_UK's petition with David Attenborough to tell the @WelshGovernment to ban teaching creationism as science. Please join me and sign it too → humanism.org.uk/what-you-can…
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Exciting news this morning!
Chris Stringer (@ChrisStringer65) profile pictureChris Stringer
@ChrisStringer6510 Jul 2019
My thoughts on the Apidima early sapiens..
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What do you get if you remix Doughnut Economics with Extinction Rebellion? Find out in this powerful & pithy new book. I’m dead proud to have contributed a chapter and I can’t wait to read the rest - an amazing array of authors. @ExtinctionR
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Analysis | The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, U.S. says melting ice creates ‘new opportunities for trade’ washingtonpost.com/world/201…
Analysis | The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, U.S. says melting...

Analysis | The day a million species are announced to be on brink of extinction, U.S. says melting...

“I feel like I got a slap in the face,” one official observer said.

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The Government is planning to fund new schools that have 100% religious selection, with thousands of pupils being turned away simply because they don’t share their local school’s religion. This is discrimination. Click the link, and write to your MP today! humanism.org.uk/campaigns/va…
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Replying to @AdamRutherford @AngelaDSaini
Come to my TED Talk, I mean Voltaire Lecture for @Humanists_UK where I will be dissecting the history of racial pseudo-science, and its return to public life. bit.ly/2GjZhVv
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We've teamed up with over 180 of our patrons as well as leading political activists, trade unionists, religious leaders, and campaigners to make a high-profile intervention on faith schools in today's Sunday Times. thetimes.co.uk/article/celeb…

Celebrities warn new single-faith schools will split society

Celebrities such as Stephen Fry and David Baddiel have united with leading thinkers to fight a plan for a new wave of single-faith schools, saying it “fundamentally threatens social cohesion”.The...

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Just published - how I believe our project may help people to understand what a smarphone is.
The Conversation (@ConversationUK) profile pictureThe Conversation@ConversationUK9 Jan 2019
Philip Pullman can help us understand what smartphones are doing to people, anthropologist writes. bit.ly/2CW4ceK
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Congratulations to @theAliceRoberts on becoming the next President of @Humanists_UK! Splendid news - excellent choice. humanism.org.uk/?p=69973
Acclaimed scientist and broadcaster Alice Roberts appointed President of Humanists UK

Acclaimed scientist and broadcaster Alice Roberts appointed President of Humanists UK

Acclaimed science writer, broadcaster, and humanist Alice Roberts has today been named as the next President of Humanists UK and will lead a national push to promote humanism to the many millions of...

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This woman is such a badass it’s unreal. teapawt.org/rickwasmith/status/985…
Rick W. A. Smith (@rickwasmith) profile pictureRick W. A. Smith@rickwasmith14 Apr 2018
.@JenniferRaff presents paleogenomic analysis of population history in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas. #AAPA2018
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I feel the same way about constant headlines on smartphone `addiction' - is it addiction to gaming, to chatting with friends, to driving with maps, to reading the news or a novel, to watching football? What exactly is smartphone addiction ? teapawt.org/aliciablumross/status/…
Alicia Blum-Ross (@aliciablumross) profile pictureAlicia Blum-Ross@aliciablumross28 Feb 2018
Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di… via @Livingstone_S @NKucirkova
Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided - Parenting for a Digital Future

Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided - Parenting for a Digital Future

When it comes to screen time, 'one-size-fits-all' solutions don’t work when they are taken too literally; they don’t allow for the diverse conditions of real people’s lives. In this post Sonia...

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Philip Pullman meeting Sara Banerji's splendid sculpture of his Armoured Bear.
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Philip Pullman's Armoured Bear by my lovely friend, brilliant sculptor Sara Banerji.
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Sorry for very very late thank-you - I'm working obsessively on the new book, but at about the pace of natural selection, I'm afraid. It was very kind of @Ways_With_Words to let me try out some of the ideas. teapawt.org/DrKateLovett/status/88…
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The web is crawling with v smart social scientists, but if you could only read one book about social media, this is the one I'd recommend. teapawt.org/DannyAnth/status/79156…
Daniel Miller (@DannyAnth) profile pictureDaniel Miller@DannyAnth27 Oct 2016
Congratulations to the team for award yesterday to our book How the World Changed Social Media which has 25,000 downloads in six months. teapawt.org/UCLpress/status/791307…
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#trumpvideo Misogyny aside, this is about Trump's view of power: power = "you can do anything you want" to people and "they let you". Scary.
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