Reposted by Abbey PageRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Scientific racists like to claim that eminent geneticist David Reich agrees with them about genetically-determined racial differences in IQ (and even, hilariously, that he plagiarised them). He does not. Here's a handy explainer. 0114
Reposted by Abbey PageBrunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Latest "ask a psychologist" podcast is out on the @Bruneluni psychology YouTube 📢 Today's star is Byron Creese whose research focuses on neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia 🧠youtu.beAlzheimer's Psychosis Explained: Hallucinations, Delusions, & Diagnosis | Ask a PsychologistYouTube video by Psychology @ Brunel 055
Reposted by Abbey PageThe Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This EP spotlights research from @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social and @jaeggiadrian.bsky.social @ehbea.bsky.social @abbeyepage.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @pablovarase.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Abbey PageDr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Another addition to our EHS special collection on scientific racism! @reubenfakoyabrooks.bsky.social Jordan O. Lafayette Tasmin Alexander & Bushra Abu-Helil assess the work of @reednetwork.bsky.social & outline a framework for institutional allyship: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgA Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge CoreA Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences 1104
Reposted by Abbey PageW+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026🗳️ W+EBS elections are coming up! We're voting for two positions: Chair Elect and Secretary. Ballots go out by email tomorrow to #WplusEBS members only and are due July 31st. Not a member yet? Join before the ballot drops to make sure you get your vote 👇 linktr.ee/w_plus_ebs 157
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Vote for our amazing @loraadair.bsky.social for the chair elect in of @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social ❤️💙💜💚🧡🤍🩷 054
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 22/07/20261/ Does your menstrual cycle affect how vaccines work? 🩸 New paper from @poppycooper.bsky.social and colleagues, including Brunel CCE’s @rebeccasear.bsky.social , in njp Women’s Health asks "does menstrual cycle phase affect COVID-19 vaccine outcomes?" Turns out, possibly yes...nature.comMenstrual cycle phase and its association with COVID-19 vaccine outcomes among period tracking app users - npj Women's Healthnpj Women's Health - Menstrual cycle phase and its association with COVID-19 vaccine outcomes among period tracking app users 174
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/20261/ New Brunel CCE commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by @replicatedtypo.bsky.social and @matcharbonneau.bsky.social 🧠🌍✨ “Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems”doi.orgSubjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge CoreSubjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems - Volume 49 164
Reposted by Abbey PageBrunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 14/07/20261/ Big week for Brunel Psychology at the CHMLS Awards 🎉 Huge congratulations to our Psychology winners: Nelli Ferenczi, Will Gervais and Byron Creese - recognised across inclusive education, teaching excellence and research leadership 💪🤩 144
Reposted by Abbey PageBrunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 14/07/20265/ Big shout-out too to Psychology @brunelcce.bsky.social runners-up @abbeyepage.bsky.social, Andrei Barbanta, @loraadair.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social 👏 Great recognition across research, teaching, technical support, external partnerships and public engagement 143
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/20264/ Also in the issue is a new paper from @replicatedtypo.bsky.social and @matcharbonneau.bsky.social on “Modelling the emergence of open-ended cultural evolution” This asks why does human culture not just accumulate, but keep opening up new problems, new goals and new ways of thinking? 🤔doi.orgModelling the emergence of open-ended cultural evolutionAbstract. Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively change their culture in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness 134
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/20261/ Some very nice CCE news 📢 A new Philosophical Transactions B theme issue on The evolution of collective intelligence is out, co-edited by @replicatedtypo.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social 🧠🧬👇royalsocietypublishing.orgVolume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal SocietyInfluential themed journal issues across the life sciences. 166
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/20261/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 29th July, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇 183
Reposted by Abbey PageBrunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Brunel's @brunelcce.bsky.social @abbeyepage.bsky.social and @nicolewen.bsky.social supervised Medical student @kenzadavid.bsky.social who just won the best poster award for their summer project learning about maternal mental health and infant feeding 🥳 well done Kenza! 🤍 0145
Reposted by Abbey PageRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Another new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences’ special collection on scientific racism, which explores archaeologist Flinders Petrie’s version of scientific racism - he believed in the benefits of the “right” kind of racial mixing and migration - and draws links to contemporary migration debates 096
Reposted by Abbey PageBret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Cool new paper by @kenjiitao.bsky.social on universal patterns in the demographic transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 0104
Reposted by Abbey PageRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026New paper out analysing how memes circulating on X spread scientific racism: "Memes revive scientific racism by blending scientific aesthetics, primal-threat emotion, and transferable visuals to mask ideology" 22617
Reposted by Abbey PageDr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 19/06/2026And...Mixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s - Eva Miller and @poisonchallis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgMixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge CoreMixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s 2133
Reposted by Abbey PageDr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgImpediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge CoreImpediments to countering racist pseudoscience 14423
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 03/06/20261/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? @celsoneto.bsky.social joins @brunelpsy.bsky.social to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 24th June, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇 173
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 22/05/2026🎥 Introducing Brunel Psychology’s new YouTube channel 🤩 because obviously what the internet needed was academics doing 40-minute deep dives. You’re welcome. Daniel sits down with Brunel’s @aiyanakoka.bsky.social to talk religion, gods and why humans are so committed to meaning-making 🧠✨youtube.com"Is society better without religion?" - Dr Aiyana Willard | Ask A PsychologistYouTube video by Psychology @ Brunel 277
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 06/05/20261/ Important retraction news 👇📰 A recent article using “national IQ” data to claim that a country’s “national intelligence” causes economic growth has been retracted @rebeccasear.bsky.social was among those who raised concerns - a good example of the importance of responsibility in science 💪 🧪nature.comRetraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare - Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsHumanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare 13415
Reposted by Abbey PageRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 18/04/2026@brunelcce.bsky.social was well-represented at #ehbea2026. @replicatedtypo.bsky.social presented on ‘The cultural evolution of problem-solving’ and @abbeyepage.bsky.social on ‘When the village predicts the next baby: post-natal social support and fertility intentions in the UK’ (sadly no pic) 0124
Reposted by Abbey PageBrunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 02/05/20261/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology! We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September. Come and help shape what we’re building 👇 @brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪 1813
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 10/04/2026📢 Re-upping this! 🧠👶 Had a baby in the last 3 months? Researchers at Brunel University of London want to better understand parents’ expectations and experiences of infant feeding 🍼 A short 10-minute survey 👇 Participants are rewarded for their time completing this survey 📣🧪 057
Reposted by Abbey PageThe Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 02/04/2026@ehbea.bsky.social @abbeyepage.bsky.social @pablovarase.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Abbey PageEHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 09/04/2026COME AND JOIN OUR MEET & GREET! 📽️❤️🔥 Before the start of @ehbea2026.bsky.social , @abbeyepage.bsky.social talks to us about herself, her role in @ehbea.bsky.social, and how much she likes the job🤓 🙌 💯 Have a look and #MeetTheBoard 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/Kmpjn...youtube.comSecretary of EHBEA - Abbey Page #MeetTheBoardYouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association 052
Reposted by Abbey PageRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Last day to register for EHBEA is tomorrow (1 April). The programme is now published and looks great! Really good to see so many papers focused on advancing methods and theory in the discipline 😊 097
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 25/03/2026📢 Participants needed Had a baby in the last 3 months? Researchers at Brunel University of London want to better understand parents’ expectations and experiences of infant feeding 🍼 A short 10-minute survey 👇 brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 046
Reposted by Abbey PageRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Behavioral ecology and sociobiology since 1975: The growth and diversification of the biology of adaptive social behavior (editorial from the editors of Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology) link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comBehavioral ecology and sociobiology since 1975: The growth and diversification of the biology of adaptive social behavior - Behavioral Ecology and SociobiologyBehavioral Ecology and Sociobiology - 072
Reposted by Abbey PageAiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social · 14/03/2026Absolutely this. Power is an important concept to understand but power analysis for a sample size is almost always a random guess and it’s weird that we pretend it isn’t. 032
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 13/03/2026🌍🧠 Shared Horizons Seminar at @brunelpsy.bsky.social We’re excited to welcome Prof Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland) to Brunel for a talk on: “The history of the world’s languages and why it matters for psychologists.” 📅 25 March 2026 🕑 14:00–16:00 📍 ESGW 111 + online 1115
Reposted by Abbey PageThe Cognitations podcast @cognitations.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Some have long thought that humans are universally attracted to specific features: think of symmetrical faces. Are these really universal? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with @drboothroyd.bsky.social youtu.be/skwy9yKkytMyoutu.beAre Attractiveness Preferences Universal? | Lynda BoothroydYouTube video by The Cognitations Podcast 165
Reposted by Abbey PageDr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 25/02/2026passion project - if you are an adult and were raised in the UK, please get in touch to book an interview! 🫶✨💛 032
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 25/02/20261/ 📢 Participants Needed: UK Gender & Sexual Healthcare Study Phase 2 of our research with Gendered Intelligence is now open - and we’re recruiting adults across the UK. 134
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 22/02/20261/ 🎮🌍 Shared Horizons Seminar Series We’re delighted to welcome Dr Patricia Kanngiesser (University of Plymouth) to Brunel Psychology for: “Games for the future: Using experimental games to study sustainable behaviour across ages and populations.” 🗓 25 Feb 2026 | 2-4pm open to all 🔓 1104
Reposted by Abbey Pageces2026 @ces2026.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Post 1/13 📢🧵 Call for activities proposals ! You are invited to submit proposals for three activities to be held during the upcoming CES2026 conference: 2119
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 12/02/2026 📣 @brunelpsy.bsky.social and the @culturemindslab.bsky.social with @nicolewen.bsky.social and @loraadair.bsky.social is excited to support Nu Know’s Parent-Teen Summit 2026 at Boxpark Wembley 🧡 📣 🗓 Thursday 2nd April 2026 🔗👇nuknow.co.ukNu KnowWorking together to navigate adolescence. 177
Reposted by Abbey PageAiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Call for papers closes tomorrow Feb 6th! iacesr.com/conferences/ 032
Reposted by Abbey PageAiyana Koka Willard @aiyanakoka.bsky.social · 05/02/2026New paper lead by Dr Nachita Rosun that I am super proud of! We look at religious changes in Mauritius and find that differences in religious socialisation matter the more in predicting religiosity as material security gets higher www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comExistential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in MauritiusDespite the central role of religion in human history and its continued global growth, an increasing number of individuals identify as secular or athe… 062
Reposted by Abbey PageEHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 05/02/2026🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏 3229
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 05/02/20261/ New paper from @brunelpsy.bsky.social CCE in Evolution & Human Behavior looks at secularisation in Mauritius 🇲🇺 Nachita Rosun, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social have been testing big theories outside the usual Western settings 🌏 🔗 👇sciencedirect.comExistential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in MauritiusDespite the central role of religion in human history and its continued global growth, an increasing number of individuals identify as secular or athe… 1116
Reposted by Abbey PageWill Gervais @willgervais.com · 19/01/2026Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel! Read! Share! Tell us what you think! #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teachingwillgervais.comDon’t Send A Magician To Do A Scientist’s Job: A New Blog Series About Our Experiments In Teaching Science to Young Scientists — Will GervaisWe’re doing some exciting and innovative things with our methods, stats, and skills curriculum and we want to tell y’all about it! Debuting our new bespoke 9-module statistics, methods, and skills cu... 43312
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 19/01/2026@willgervais.com wonderfully showcasing the work of CCE members @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social in re vamping the research methods at @brunelpsy.bsky.social 💙 We’re learning as we go but dead excited 📚☠️🤗 Follow for updates 🧪 083
Reposted by Abbey PageBrunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026📢 Talk announcement bringing together @brunelcce.bsky.social and CCN research centres! 📢 Dr Conrad Hackett (Pew Research Center) joins us on 📆29th Jan, 2-4pm to unpack the latest global religion survey and how it diverges from Pew’s influential 2015 projections 🌍📊 Open to all! 🔓 155
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 19/12/20251/ 👩🎓 Big shout-out to Brunel PhD student Hannah Mays and supervisor @nelliferenczi.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social for contributing written evidence on misogyny in the manosphere and online content to a major policy consultationbrunel.ac.uk 3134
Reposted by Abbey PageWill Gervais @willgervais.com · 15/12/2025Had a really fun chat with James Hodgson at Humanism Now about my book Disbelief....check it out! www.buzzsprout.com/2246305/epis... Book here, bound to make a confusing Christmas gift for many children on your list! www.globepequot.com/978163388925...buzzsprout.com57. Will Gervais on the Origins of Religion, Disbelief, and Morality - Humanism Now | Secular Ethics, Curiosity and Compassionate Change“Humans didn’t evolve to believe in gods — we evolved to learn from culture, and sometimes culture points away from gods.”Dr Will M. Gervais, psychologist and author of Disbelief, joins Humanism Now t... 054
Reposted by Abbey PageCentre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 15/12/20251/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪 Watch the full talk here 🎥👇youtube.comThe 21st Century Resurgence of EugenicsYouTube video by The British Academy 15437
Reposted by Abbey PageDuncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 12/12/2025My nursery bill is nearly double my mortgage... 3233