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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Eugenics making a comeback? @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social would like a word 🎤 Her “The Return of Eugenics” talk at the British Science Festival got people talking 💬 Brilliant to see so much audience engagement, with people queuing to keep chatting to Rebecca 🙌

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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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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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LSE Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science @lsepbs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We're delighted to welcome two new colleagues to PBS: Dr Harry Lewis and Dr Fabian Dablander. Harry joins us as Assistant Prof in Social and Environmental Psychology. Fabian is Assistant Prof in Psychological and Behavioural Science of Sustainability, a joint appointment with @gsos-lse.bsky.social

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

4/ The winners will be announced in November, but being shortlisted already places Veena among the very best research supervisors in the UK. Huge congratulations Veena, Brunel Psychology is very lucky to have you 💙 #BrunelPsychology #THEAwards

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

3/ It also notes that three of her four completed primary supervisees at Brunel have won the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for Doctoral Research.

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

2/ The THE shortlist highlights that Veena has supervised 27 doctoral researchers to completion, with doctoral alumni now at institutions including Imperial, UCL, King’s, Oxford and Brunel.

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1/ Huge news for Brunel Psychology 🎉 Professor Veena Kumari has been shortlisted for Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year at the THE Awards 2026, a national recognition of exceptional doctoral supervision.

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THE Awards 2026

The THE Awards are the biggest celebration of UK and Irish higher education, recognising excellence across academia, professional services, leadership and management.

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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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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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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

4/ Congratulations to Stan and the full interdependence team 👏 A lovely example of Brunel Psychology contributing to big conversations in relationship science #BrunelPsychology #IARR #RelationshipScience #CloseRelationships

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

3/ The book explores how interdependence and mutual influence shape close relationships: the emotional, cognitive, behavioural and social processes through which people affect each other 💙

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

2/ The session brought together authors/presenters from Stan’s forthcoming edited book, **Understanding Interdependence in Close Relationships**, now in production with Edward Elgar and due by the end of 2026. Collaborative relationship science! 💪👏

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

1/ Great to see @brunelcce.bsky.social Dr Stanley O. Gaines, Jr. representing Brunel Psychology at the International Association for Relationship Research 💙 Stan converted his Past President’s Address into a collective session: “Theory blitz: Understanding interdependence in close relationships.”

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

4/ A nice reminder that cognitive tests can tell us more than the headline score. Sometimes the useful information is not just how many words someone produces, but how their responses unfold over time. #BrunelPsychology #Neuropsychology #DementiaResearch

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

3/ They found that people with aMCI showed a stronger pattern for word length As the task went on, their animal words tended to get longer, suggesting changes in lexical-semantic organisation. Tiny detail. Interesting cognitive signal

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

2/ The paper compares Italian individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment and people with no objective cognitive decline It asks whether word features (like frequency, typicality, age of acquisition and length) change as people move through the task

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

1/ New paper from CCN’s Dr Matteo De Marco in Neuropsychologia 🧠 It looks at category fluency: the classic “name as many animals as you can in one minute” task. But instead of only counting the words, the study looks at the order they appear in.

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

1/ 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...

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Menstrual cycle phase and its association with COVID-19 vaccine outcomes among period tracking app users - npj Women's Health

npj Women's Health - Menstrual cycle phase and its association with COVID-19 vaccine outcomes among period tracking app users

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

4/ A huge thank you to everyone involved: staff, students, reps, programme teams and education leads. League tables are never the whole story, but this is real progress in the places students actually feel it. Very proud of Brunel Psychology 💙

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

3/ We are also +9.3 points above benchmark for assessment and feedback overall - a huge area of work across the department. This reflects a lot of careful, collective effort to improve student experience, communication and support 🥳

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

2/ Some particularly lovely results: Students rated us +14.7 points above benchmark for feedback helping them improve their work 💪 And +10.5 points above benchmark for teaching staff making the subject engaging 🤓 Which is exactly the sort of thing we want to be good at

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

6/ Very proud of Brunel Psychology 💙 A department is built through research, teaching, inclusion, technical skill, public engagement, and a lot of work that usually happens quietly behind the scenes. Lovely to see so much of that recognised #BrunelPsychology #CHMLS

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

4/ @byroncreese.bsky.social won Mid-Career Researcher for internationally recognised work in dementia and neurodegenerative disease, major funding and collaborations, and public engagement that gets the research beyond the university walls 🧠

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

3/ @willgervais.com won Mid-Career Educator for leading a major redesign of nine core Psychology modules, building a clearer, skills-based curriculum and making challenging material properly engaging 🤓 Nine modules. NINE!!

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

2/ @nelliferenczi.bsky.social won the Inclusive Education Award for her work on inclusive and decolonised education, equity, anti-racism, accessibility and the awarding gap 🏳️‍🌈 Basically: doing the hard institutional work, not just putting “inclusive” on a slide and hoping for the best.

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

4/ 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? 🤔

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Modelling the emergence of open-ended cultural evolution

Abstract. Humans stand alone in terms of their potential to collectively and cumulatively change their culture in an open-ended manner. This open-endedness

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

📣🤩 The next @brunelpsy.bsky.social 'Ask a Psychologist' podcast is with Dr Matteo De Marco on AI, technology and memory 🤖🧠 enjoy and subscribe to see new episodes!

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"Does AI and technology ruin memory?" - Dr Matteo De Marco | Ask A Psychologist

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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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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 · 09/07/2026

5/ Great to see Brunel Psychology research helping shape health tech with real-world potential Huge congratulations to Byron and the wider team 🧦🧠 #DementiaResearch #HealthTech #SmartSocks #BrunelPsychology #InnovateUK

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

4/ The project brings together Brunel’s clinical dementia research expertise with Milbotix’s wearable tech: aiming to support more person-centred care and better ways of monitoring agitation

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

3/ Also worth saying: this was a seriously competitive Innovate UK round. 654 applications were submitted. Only 36 were funded 👏

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

2/ SmartSocks are designed to help recognise distress earlier in people living with dementia... especially when someone may not be able to clearly communicate what they’re feeling

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

1/ Brunel Psychology x industry collaboration in action 🧦🧠 Dr Byron Creese is continuing our partnership with Milbotix Ltd, with new Innovate UK funding to support SmartSocks technology for detecting and monitoring agitation in dementia

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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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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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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

5/ So… the stereotype that women are “better at multitasking” may partly come from what people can see and hear during multitasking If someone goes quiet while juggling tasks, observers may read that as struggling even if their practical performance is fine!

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

4/ Naïve observers watched videos of the participants and rated the men as less in control, performing worse, trying less and enjoying it less. These judgements strongly linked to how much they responded in the conversation task 💬

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

3/ They found that men and women performed similarly on the practical multitasking tasks But when asked to answer spoken questions too, men missed 27.7% of them, compared with 11.6% for women. So not worse at multitasking exactly. Just less chatty under pressure.

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Brunel Psychology @brunelpsy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

2/ New paper by André and Diana Szameitat in Psychological Research tested everyday multitasking using a much more realistic setup than the usual Participants juggled multiple activities across different tables, including pretend cooking, monitoring, interruptions and spoken questions

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