Anthropologist; author of Watching the English; Associate Member, Department of Sociology, University of Oxford.
Joined May 2013
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Kate Fox retweeted
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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14 Aug 2020
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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Kate Fox retweeted
10 May 2020
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…
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28 Apr 2020
When in doubt, it's always worth checking out what @melindacmills has to say.
22 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….
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16 Oct 2019
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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11 Jul 2019
Exciting news this morning!
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Kate Fox retweeted
11 Jun 2019
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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Kate Fox retweeted
7 May 2019
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…
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Kate Fox retweeted
16 Apr 2019
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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Kate Fox retweeted
17 Apr 2019
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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Kate Fox retweeted
14 Apr 2019
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…
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Kate Fox retweeted
9 Jan 2019
Just published - how I believe our project may help people to understand what a smarphone is.
9 Jan 2019
Philip Pullman can help us understand what smartphones are doing to people, anthropologist writes. bit.ly/2CW4ceK
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11 Dec 2018
Congratulations to @theAliceRoberts on becoming the next President of @Humanists_UK! Splendid news - excellent choice. humanism.org.uk/?p=69973
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Kate Fox retweeted
14 Apr 2018
This woman is such a badass it’s unreal. x.com/rickwasmith/status/985…
14 Apr 2018
.@JenniferRaff presents paleogenomic analysis of population history in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Texas. #AAPA2018
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Kate Fox retweeted
1 Mar 2018
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 ? x.com/aliciablumross/status/…
28 Feb 2018
Why the very idea of ‘screen time’ is muddled and misguided blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di… via @Livingstone_S @NKucirkova
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25 Feb 2018
Philip Pullman meeting Sara Banerji's splendid sculpture of his Armoured Bear.
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25 Feb 2018
Philip Pullman's Armoured Bear by my lovely friend, brilliant sculptor Sara Banerji.
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13 Dec 2017
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. x.com/DrKateLovett/status/88…
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30 Oct 2016
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. x.com/DannyAnth/status/79156…
27 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. x.com/UCLpress/status/791307…
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8 Oct 2016
#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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