This selection of blog posts records and provides links to public discussions and content. Various aspects and achievements of my work as a researcher in evolutionary psychiatry are mentioned. Short-form content such as social media posts is excluded.

Tanay Katiyar is first author and I am co-first author on this recently published paper (credit to Tanay for doing the bulk of the writing though; this is a project that I have been working with him on since he visited our lab in Zurich). Here is a tweet thread on it. I'll replicate the text and images here. Australia just banned social media for under-16s. Will that help? Out in Psychological Review, our evolutionary analysis suggests why the ban will backfire. Despite som

I was invited to give a talk in Cambridge as a part of the newly established 'Bridging Mental Health' network, a seminar series inviting interdisciplinary researchers working on mental health to present key findings from their area. I was asked to present some of my more philosophical work on defining 'dysfunction', as seen in my PhD and this pre-print , with the title: 'Defining Mental Disorder: Is this dysfunction?'. The description was: "Dr Hunt’s work examines mental dis

I was honoured to be invited to give one of the talks at this years Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists' International Symposium in November. It's the main event of the year for the field, and I have watched online or attended every previous year, so it really was a pleasure and honour. My presentation was titled 'Evolved Traits of Personality and Psychopathology', based on my 2022 'Specialised Minds' paper, with some elements