Evolutionary psychologist, cyclist, eco-ninja, baker
Joined April 2009
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5 Nov 2025
What if our universities were being run in a way that was doing them harm? In this long-form essay, I focus on one university (mine) as a case study of managerial misadventure, examining what's gone wrong, why it is happening, and what we can do about it - quentinatkinson.substack.com…
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State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing. nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research nature.com/articles/s41... (with @DrQueue ) in Nature Human Behaviour supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
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The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research nature.com/articles/s41... (with @DrQueue ) in Nature Human Behaviour supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
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25 Mar 2025
Our new paper showing tool use isn't as rare as we thought among parrots - cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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19 Sep 2023
Check out our new paper @NatComms on the non-independence of nations in cross-national analyses...
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30 Jul 2023
We have a new paper (round 3!) on the origins of Indo-European out this week in Science. Kudos to the amazing work by Paul Heggarty, Cormac Anderson and team producing the new IE database that underpins this analysis - doi.org/10.1126/science.abg0…
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26 Jul 2023
Something to watch out for - just discovered this paper that lists me, @corenapicella, @chammeeno, @RCC_AU and @GuessRita as authors but we didn't have anything to do with it - topjournals.org/index.php/TA… #therobotsarecoming
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5 Jul 2023
Check out our new political ideology scale...
5 Jul 2023
A new theory-driven scale for studying political ideology!
“Validating the Dual Evolutionary Foundations of Political Values in a US Sample”
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19 Jun 2023
PhD Scholarships available on cognition and culture in New Caledonian Crows. If you're interested, check out the full ad here - auckland.ac.nz/en/study/scho… . Or PM me to discuss other PhD opportunities on cultural diversity, the psychology of politics, religion and climate change.
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7 Jun 2023
Sign the petition: Provide tertiary institutions a funding boost to enable good long-term staffing decisions. together.org.nz/provide_tert…
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17 May 2023
NEW PAPER! Climate change belief and pro-environmental behaviour more likely among those who cooperate with strangers in lab-based social dilemmas that make no mention of climate change or any other real world social dilemma - theconversation.com/climate-…
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21 Apr 2023
Out this week in Science Advances, our long-awaited Grambank paper, documenting global variation in grammar across 2400 languages. 10 years' work by an amazing team (too many to mention in one tweet). We have to protect this linguistic diversity - science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
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11 Apr 2023
Our paper showing how responses to COVID-19 across the political landscape make more sense when you consider the dual dimensions of political ideology...
6 Apr 2023
My study with @DrQueue & @ProfAnanish on political ideology & covid attitudes, showing for example that high-RWA conservatives were pro-lockdown & high-SDO conservatives were anti-lockdown, has been published in the British Journal of Political Science! cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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30 Mar 2023
A wide ranging chat covering democracy, religion, climate change and cross-cultural databases, with Ricardo Lopes @TheDissenterR - youtube.com/watch?v=09UkHZ3n…
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9 Dec 2022
Partner choice does not predict prosociality across countries @scottclaessens and @thkyritsis
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2 Dec 2022
It scored poorly on fuel economy and price but destroyed the competition when it came to its ability to smoothly and efficiently run over children
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16 Nov 2022
New paper in Nature Human Behaviour...How do religious and political authority co-evolve and which comes first? We take a look across Austronesian-speaking communities of the Pacific - nature.com/articles/s41562-0… @olcsheehan @Joseph__Watts RDGray @scottclaessens @prof_joe_ @err_ring
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