Here’s why scientists put a teeny tiny hat on a bird. (Also, I absolutely saved the best til last 🦃) Here are the studies if you want to know more: A Taste for the Beautiful: Latent Aesthetic Mate Preferences for White Crests in Two Species of Australian Grassfinches, by Nancy Tyler Burley and Richard. Symanski (1988). An Eye for Detail: Selective Sexual Imprinting in Zebra Finches, by Nancy Tyler Burley (2006) Stimuli eliciting sexual behaviour, by M.W. Schein and E.B. Hale (1965) #birds #hats #science #hannahfry
I have actually been using this sentence myself for about three years, and I feel GREAT. And if that’s not scientific proof I don’t know what is. Oh. That’s right. Actual papers. So here’s the paper on lottery winners – its an absolute classic: Lottery winners and accident victims, Brickman 1978 And a nice paper on the effect of gratitude: Counting blessings versus burdens, Emmons and McCullogh 2003 Please do add your favourite papers below. #happiness #hannahfry #science #psychology
This idea for this (admittedly quite heteronormative) study came when the scientist, James Coan, was studying brain function of those suffering from PTSD. One war veteran was really struggling with the MRI machine and asked if his wife could be present. When he started getting agitated, his wife held his hand and his brain calmed down.❤️❤️ So it’s not just women who benefit from hand holding sometimes. Even big strong men too. 💪 Here’s the original study: Lending a Hand: Social Regulation of the Neural Response to Threat. James A. Coan, Hillary S. Schaefer, and Richard J. Davidson The replication study: Relationship status and perceived support in the social regulation of neural responses to threat. James A Coan, Lane Beckes, Marlen Z Gonzalez, Erin L Maresh, Casey L Brown, Karen Hasselmo. And the ice bath hugs study: Romantic partner embraces reduce cortisol release after acute stress induction in women but not in men. Gesa Berretz, Chantal Cebula, Blanca Maria Wortelmann, Panagiota Papadopoulou, Oliver T. Wolf, Sebastian Ocklenburg, Julian Packheiser. #manvsbear #hugs #romantic #menvswomen #hannahfry
Introducing Armado the cat. Terrible actor, but very good at being aloof and superior on cue 😻 For more information, take a look at these studies: The quality of being sociable: The influence of human attentional state, population, and human familiarity on domestic cat sociability, by Kristyn Vitale and Monique Udell (2019) The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication, by T. Humphrey, L. Proops, J. Forman, R. Spooner, and K. McComb (2020)
This is proper science, people!🥄 Here is the study: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute, by Megan Lim, Margaret Hellard, and Campbell Aitken (2005). #disappearing #teaspoons #teatime #science #hannahfry
If you’re gonna have a motto, might as well make it one worth remembering 🌟
When I had my hysterectomy, one of my friends made a leaving card for my uterus & addressed it to ‘The womb with a view’🤭 #hannahfry #science #hysterectomy #uterus #womb #patriarchy #feminism
Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us 🧠 And if you’d like to read more: Aging and Alzheimer’s disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (2003) Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)
There’s an amazing experiment where they take people into a room, sit them down and distract them by getting them to listen to some kafka. All the while, the psychologists Achim Schützwohl and Rainer Reisenzein decided to really freak people out, by quickly reconfiguring the exit into a brightly lit green room, unfurnished except for a single red chair with a stranger sitting in it,staring them down. Every single participant was surprised. Every single participant said they were surprised. But only one in five people actually pulled the classic 😱😯 face. The vast majority of people had some other expression altogether. Of course, some people smile when happy. Of course some happy people smile. But not always. And it’s dangerous to pretend that you can predict how an individual is feeling based on the movement of their facial muscles alone. There’s a brilliant book on this topic that i thoroughly recommend: How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett. #algorithm #hannahfry #hitchcock
One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
One bank holiday weekend in numbers 🫱 ✅ 11 courses at the poshest restaurant I’ve ever been to ✅ 2 absolute plonkers dancing to benny hill in my kitchen ✅ 4 fistfuls of gel trying to make my hair go curly (I failed) ✅ 1 beautiful bomber jacket from @sophie_darling_ ✅ And a bum shuffling baby ❤️
P.S. fruit flies don’t spontaneously spawn from a lonely banana. (they sneak through cracks in your window). If you want to know more about spontaneous generation, you can try: Things Come to Life by Henry Harris (I haven’t actually read it though – so don’t blame me if it’s bad)
I like to describe my natural skin tone as ‘white with a hint of blue’ 💙 #accidentaldiscovery #hannahfry #invention #faketan #redhair
Important to add, seeing as I’m from Harlow, this is actually my native tongue 💅🏻 #essexgirl #hannahfry
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Have I just spent tens of thousands to be involved in an elaborate tech bro joke? 🫠
Part 2 Here’s what a gift from 678 nuns can teach us about dementia. 🧠 And if you’d like to read more: Aging and Alzheimer’s disease: lessons from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (1997) Healthy aging and dementia: findings from the Nun Study, D A Snowdon (2003) Linguistic ability in early life and cognitive function and Alzheimer’s disease in late life: Findings from the Nun Study, by D A Snowdon, S J Kemper, J A Mortimer, L H Greiner, D R Wekstein, and W R Markesbery (1996)
Yes, okay if you really want to be a stickler about it, i’ll admit. The particle physicists probably overall had a slightly bigger impact on the outcome of ww2.. 💣 But im still taking this as a win for the mathmos. 🪖 EDIT: You’ll notice the audio is a bit off in this one – my apologies. It’s because, even though your girl can do second order partial differential equations with her eyes closed, she apparently doesn’t know the difference between stereo and mono audio channels when it comes to editing videos. It will never happen again I promise. 🙏 Read more about the German Tank Problem and its clever mathematical trick here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-023-10274-6 A Bayesian Treatment of the German Tank Problem, by Cory Simon (2023) #ww2 #panzers #math #mathematician #hannahfry
What are the chances of a coincidence? Here are three questions you can ask yourself. (Cos often things are much less coincidental than they look) Here’s a lovely little book on the topic if you want to read more: The Improbability Principle – by David Hand
Imagine deciding you want to sail a ship full of frozen water to a part of the world that has NEVER SEEN ICE 🧊 If you want to know more, here are some books you might like: Ice King: Frederic Tudor and His Circle by Carl Seaburg and Stanley Paterson (2003) The American Ice Harvests: An Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918 by Richard O. Cummings (1949) #iceking #caribbean #historical #hannahfry
@fryrsquared pays tribute to her “modest” friend and colleague Dr Michael Mosley, recalling an incredible story of him saving a woman’s life. #TheOneShow #iPlayer
