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Maxime Derex @maximederex.bsky.social · 11h

One week left to apply!

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 12h

Ugly drafts, excellent company ✍️🙌 @brunelpsy.bsky.social Lora Adair, W+EBS Chair-Elect, and Ashley Coventry launch a monthly writing group for W+EBS members on 5th Oct! First up: free-writing. No editing allowed 👀 Join W+EBS: tinyurl.com/3svhmrn3 Sign up 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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W+EBS @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hi #WplusEBS! Interested in joining our October 5th writing group? See the attached flyer for more info & fill out this google form to receive a zoom link: forms.gle/RCkH3XaCF3Lq... Not a member yet? Join here: tinyurl.com/3svhmrn3

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Latest "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 🧠

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Alzheimer's Psychosis Explained: Hallucinations, Delusions, & Diagnosis | Ask a Psychologist

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

CE Job Alert! 🚨 Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology at Stanford University: culturalevolutionsociety.org/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Cultural Evolution Society

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Scientific 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.

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great NSS news for psychology 🎉💙 We’re in the top 30% of psychology departments in the UK 💪

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Brunel Psychology in the top 30% by NSS results!

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Webinar coming up today 👇 If you can't make it, check out Celso's work, including his ERC-funded project answering an important question: "The study of human genetic differences is rapidly changing science, but how can we study these differences without promoting racism and social harm?"

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

New research from a large collaborative team exploring what fathers think fathering is. Gendered expectations were clear, but so was some flexibility around these expectations, as well as variability in the fathering role associated with child's sex and age

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Vote for our amazing @loraadair.bsky.social for the chair elect in of @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social ❤️💙💜💚🧡🤍🩷

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W+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

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🔺Psychology Job 🔺 Assistant Professor in Psychology (Grade 8) at Durham Uni to support our new MSc Psychology (Conversion) You should use computational approaches, incl machine learning and artificial intelligence Closing date 30th Aug Please share! #Psychology #AcademicSky #PhDSky More info 👇

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Assistant Professor (Research %26 Education)

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

1/ Big #NSS moment for Brunel Psychology 🎉 This year we rose to 35th out of 118 Psychology departments nationally!! We are now above the sector benchmark in every single NSS theme 💙

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Duncan Stibbard Hawkes @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Children drive all sorts of things, including me, to distraction; but they also shape culture. Important theory piece.

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Dr Emily Emmott @ehemmott.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Exploring autophotography as a quasi-naturalistic observational method. In Evolutionary Anthropology, participant observations are super important - but sometimes, we can't follow people! Autophotography could work as one of the solutions to address these challenges. doi.org/10.1002/evan...

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Diversifying Methods in Evolutionary Anthropology: Autophotography as a Tool for Quasi‐Naturalistic Observation of Human Behavior

A comprehensive evolutionary account of human behavior demands simultaneous consideration of biology, local ecology, and culture. Historically, evolutionary anthropology integrated these dimensions t...

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A bunch of our lecturers have made videos about their modules so everyone can know what we teach here in Brunel 🎓🤓📽️ watch to learn more about neurodiversity, religion, evolutionary psychology, mindfulness and personality 💙

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/ 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 💪🤩

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

5/ 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

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/ 🧬⚖️ 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 🔗👇

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happening this thursday 16th July 🤩📣

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 New video on the @brunelpsy.bsky.social *Ask a psychologist podcast* with Francisco Gomezx Jimenez discussing his cross-cultural and evolutionary work on sexuality and gender diversity 🏳️‍🌈🌎🏳️‍⚧️

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"Why are some people gay?" - Francisco Gomez Jimenez | Ask A Psychologist

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 05/07/2026

In her blogpost on the paper we jointly co-authored on the significance of Man the Hunter, Haneul does a better job explaining the significance of Man the Hunter than we did in our paper on the significance of Man the Hunter (if that makes any sense!). Check it out #BioAnth 🧪

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Haneul Jang @haneuljang.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We are accepting expressions of interest or short abstracts (200 words) for both issue 1 and issue 2 until 31 August 💙 For further information or any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at haneul.jang@ird.fr or the editorial team at hgreditor+se@gmail.com

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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The #SpiritsandSources team from @brunelpsy.bsky.social were busy presenting new research at IACESR last week 🤩 Research includes use of musical sounds in ritual by grad student Sotirios Kolios 🎶

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Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New paper out! 🎉 “Godlessness in the Land of Gods: Unravelling Atheism in a Hindu Context” We interviewed 75 Hindus across caste groups and two linguistic communities in India and found that atheism is far from uniform. 🔗: secularismandnonreligion.org/articles/10.... @aiyanakoka.bsky.social

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Godlessness in the Land of Gods: Unravelling Atheism in a Hindu Context | Secularism and Nonreligion

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A bibliometric analysis of the interdisciplinary field of cultural evolution, from 2018: "results reveal an increase in productivity and collaboration over time and research subcommunities with differential levels of integration, citation sharing and subject diversity" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Figure from the paper showing the largest connected co-authorship network in the dataset, which demonstrates several clusters:
“biological anthropology and archeology” in red; “mathematical modeling and dual-inheritance theory” in green; "cognitive linguistics and experimental cultural evolution” in blue; “cross-cultural and phylogenetic studies” in yellow; “computational biology and cultural niche construction” in purple; “evolutionary psychology” in cyan; “behavioral ecology and birdsong” in orange

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

CES paper alert 🚨

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

CES postdoc and PhD alert! 🚨

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A (badly needed!) success story for UK academia: we received the most ERC Advanced Grants this year (62). Other stats: success rate was 9.6%; applications up 31%; proportion awarded to women isn't provided but looks fairly low (~20% in life and physical sciences, ~35% social sciences and humanities)

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ERC Advanced Grants: Nearly €840 million to support Europe’s leading researchers

The European Research Council (ERC) has today announced the winners of its latest Advanced Grant competition. The funding, worth €838 million, will go to 319 leading researchers across Europe. The Adv...

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

📣 @brunelpsy.bsky.social Centre for Culture and Evolution is hosting Linking Labs and Local Lives it's a community partnership event bringing academics, outreach/charity workers and policy makers into the same room to talk about research that actually lands 💬

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Brunel'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! 🤍

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This event had been cancelled due to the extreme weather 🥵 Will reschedule do a new date soon so watch this space!

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Cool new paper by @kenjiitao.bsky.social on universal patterns in the demographic transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

New 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"

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Dr Sarah Myers @drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Excited 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...

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Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience

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Anne Pisor @annepisor.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Run to become a leader of @w-plus-ebs.bsky.social! We work closely with evolutionary social & behavioral science societies -- HBES, CES, and EHBEA -- to foster spaces supportive of women and sexual and gender minorities. As incoming W+EBS president, I'm happy to chat if you have questions! 📞

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

'It was not a huge surprise to find myself in the Epstein files...' My investigation into the scientists bewitched by money and the dilettante superficiality of Jeffrey Epstein's need to be near clever men. newhumanist.org.uk/articles/a-t...

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A twisted breed

Jeffrey Epstein attempted to gather the best minds of science around him. His interests were rooted in a perverse, eugenic fantasy

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Ashley J Coventry @ashleyjcoventry.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Come join us on the leadership team of #WplusEBS!

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 04/06/2026

Replication As Assessment (aka Was God Watching?) Episode 4 of the ol' blog series, this time about using replications as assessment tools in my methods class! It was fun and you should read about it! willgervais.com/blog/2026/5/... #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

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Replicaiton as Assessment: Was God Watching — Will Gervais

In which my student assessment was a replication study of a 1900 cite Psych Science classic!

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 29/05/2026

"The Cultural Ecology of Social Media" is finally out! This article put together a series of thoughts I had in the past years, and that found a productive theoretical background in the ecological approach to culture developed by Baumard and André. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The Cultural Ecology of Social Media | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

The Cultural Ecology of Social Media

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

GRANT APPLICATION 📣 @ehbea.bsky.social opens the call for applications for its WORKSHOP & OUTREACH GRANT! We are funding workshops and public engagement activities that advance rigorous, pluralistic, and integrative science. Deadline? 11/09/‘26 More information? 👇 www.ehbea.org/pages/worksh...

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Workshop & Event Grant | EHBEA

Sharing research, building networks, & empowering members.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🚨 CES Elections 2026–2029 🚨 We’ve extended the nomination period for SIX Executive Committee positions: President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, 2x Executive Ordinary Members and Student Rep! 🗓 Nominations close: Jun14 🗳 Voting: Jun24–Jul8 📢 Results announced this summer forms.gle/9yX2SLcf82Vk...

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Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2026: Nomination Form

Please use this form to submit your nomination(s) for the Executive Committee's open positions. On this page we will ask you for general details. The next pages allow you to choose the position(s) ...

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

1/ 🧬⚖️ 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 🔗👇

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

An ERC-funded philosopher at Ghent University appears to be openly adopting Richard Lynn’s strategy of “hav[ing] a go at the rehabilitation of eugenics”

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