Think you can catch a liar?

My recent article made the cover article for BBC @sciencefocus. It's about what 100 years of lie detection research has taught us.

I interviewed some of the world's biggest names in deception detection research. What they said surprised me 🧵 Dr Luke (@RabbitSnore) explained “The construct of deception is more complicated than a lot of people treat it”

We use ‘lie’ to refer to someone pretending an outfit looks good, a partner hiding an affair, or a murderer pretending to be innocent. But are these really comparable?

5 influential books on evil written by women over the past few decades with some of my favourite excerpts

A thread 1. Hannah Arendt. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963)

A political and philosophical exploration, and one of the most famous and controversial books on evil written in the 20th century.

Loving @LSEpublicevents on The Gay Liberation Front. Fascinating contributions about the early days of the GLF from Jeffrey Weeks, Angela Mason, Jacob Breslow, Gillian Murphy & Rishi Madlani.

Particularly love the handwritten gay liberation front demands from 1970 💜 #LSEGLF Dr Jacob Breslow currently speaking about bent bars, letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-variant, intersex, and queer prisoners in Britain. #LSEGLF bentbarsproject.org

It’s been an incredible month, with 3 English-language releases of “EVIL: The science behind humanity’s dark side” (aka #MakingEvil). THANK YOU for all your support. 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸

Here are some of my favourite articles featuring excerpts from various parts of the book 😈 (thread). An overall intro to some of the high-level ideas (and concerns) I have regarding the concept of evil. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…