Adam Hunt

@RealAdamHunt

Researcher @Cambridge_Uni. PhD in evolutionary psychiatry. Explaining neurodiversity, improving methods & stigma. 'Evolving Psychiatry' podcast host.

Cambridge, England

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Joined February 2019

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Adam Hunt
@RealAdamHunt
May 7
🚨Just published in the British Journal of Psychiatry!🚨 Evolutionary explanations of anxiety rated as 5x more useful for patients and 3x more useful for clinicians than genetic explanations of anxiety! Our paper is the largest RCT of evolutionary explanations to date!
Adam Hunt
@RealAdamHunt
Jul 31
Stian's defence of the UKRI shift towards research with potential impact and away from curiosity-driven research is worth reading. One point of note from 'inside' which defends his position from a different angle - the scope of potential research directions are essentially
Stian Westlake
@stianwestlake
Jul 31
I’m reluctant to get into an argument with @ProfBrianCox, who is a great advocate for science. But I would like to stand up for UKRI’s strategy here, which I think is trying to do something really important – both for curiosity-driven research and for the wider benefits that
Adam Hunt
@RealAdamHunt
Jul 31
Sorry Leapold 🥺
Adam Hunt
@RealAdamHunt
Jul 28
Recently I've flipped from being bullish to being bearish about AI. I think I'm updating my bearishness to be more solidly bearish. Early thoughts (which I hope to be disproven in the next year or so, I would prefer progress) and my reasoning: The whole 'it turns out if you
Adam Hunt
@RealAdamHunt
Jul 28
Recently I've flipped from being bullish to being bearish about AI. I think I'm updating my bearishness to be more solidly bearish. Early thoughts (which I hope to be disproven in the next year or so, I would prefer progress) and my reasoning: The whole 'it turns out if you
Adam Hunt
@RealAdamHunt
Jul 25
The centrality of evolution to the human question always seemed logical to me - we like sweet food, we like sex, we largely agree these are evolved. Why ever stop the evolutionary analysis there?