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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Amazing paper I'm honoured to be a part of! It's a motivational and evolutionary framework of the psychology of stories. Go check it out!

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Back at Space Park Leicester to hear @herebehumans.bsky.social on 'Imagining the final frontier'. Here she is on 'the unreal in everyday life'. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Use your imagination! The unreal in everyday life… On the eve of World Imagination Day, @herebehumans.bsky.social showcases a framework for understanding the importance of fiction and imagination. www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Use your imagination! The unreal in everyday life… | BPS

On the eve of World Imagination Day, Dr Valerie van Mulukom showcases a framework for understanding the importance of fiction and imagination.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

For yesterday's #WorldReligionDay, consider our research showing what religion can tell us about human nature. Religious rituals may seem like either stifled Sunday mornings or exotic events in lands far away, but neither capture the reality of these events 🧵

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Thinking about studying MSc psych? Discover what it’s like to study Psychology at Oxford Brookes (@obu-hst-research.bsky.social), meet members of the course team & gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum & learning experience. Find out more and register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-bro...

OPEN EVENING 2026

MSc Psychology Conversion Course

Discover what it’s like to study Psychology at Oxford Brookes, meet members of the course team, and gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum and learning experience.

📅 Thursday 26 February
🕔 5.00pm to 7.00pm
📍 Headington Campus, Sinclair Building, Room 4.01

Find out more and register

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We're looking for participants for a 10-15 minute survey asking about your favourite fiction genre, interests, worries & coping styles. brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We're trying to better understand how engagement with fiction relates to how you engage with the world - let us know!

Research poster which says: "What does your favourite literary genre say about you? Help us find out! This 10-15 minute survey for an Oxford Brookes University research project asks questions about books you like to read/listen to, as well as some of your interests, worries & coping styles. https://tinyurl.com/Brookesfictionsurvey" on a background image of books.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We're looking for participants for a 10-15 minute survey on your favourite TV/film or book genre, as well as your interests, worries, and coping styles. I promise to report the results back here so you can reflect on what this says about you.. Thanks! brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Research poster asking for participants: What does your favourite TV/film genre say about you? Help us find out! This 10-15 minute survey for an Oxford Brookes University research project asks questions about TV/film genres you like to watch, as well as some of your interests, worries & coping styles. https://tinyurl.com/Brookesfictionsurvey

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

To me it seems more like deeply engrained feudalism; either way, it is as frustrating.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Relevant to research on true crime and related fiction: We love the feeling of insight we get from finding or hearing the solution to whodunits, crossculturally!

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵

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Emily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.

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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Great talk at #ehbea2025 by @paulajasheppard.bsky.social on family size and child health: inconsistent findings across populations, which would be expected if we focus on asking 'under what conditions/context do we see X', rather than expecting one answer.

Speaker standing in front of projected slide.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Ayesha Ali from @brunelcce.bsky.social presenting on the importance of Spiritual-But-Not-Religious practices providing community for people in Glastonbury, including a slide with the first quote from a male witch I’ve seen so far at #ehbea2025

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Great presentation from @brunelcce.bsky.social’s Julieta Baker on how a high proportion of parents in post-industrial settings have little experience of parenting before having their own kids, and frequently experience parenting problems they don’t know how to solve #ehbea2025

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Did you know that crows participate in true crime investigations? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdR8RvNy/ Are you a fan of true crime? Participate in our 5-10 minute survey on fiction genre preferences, interests & coping styles! brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We're still looking for +50 ppl; thnx!

An image depicting a crow dressed up as a Sherlock Holmes with a magnifying glass and deer hunter cap. The artwork is called "Charlek crow Holmes", by illustrator ahlemkhedri (https://medibang.com/author/5450119)

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thanks to all who have taken part already! We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at? Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite & take a 5-10 min break from scrolling!

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

📺 Feel like a small break from scrolling to tell us about your favourite TV/movie genre?🎞️ Here is a 5-10 minute survey for our latest research project project on understanding the functions of fiction: brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!

A picture of a woman watching TV, with text superimposed, saying: "What does your favourite TV/movie genre say about you? Help us find out!". Additional text states: "This 5-10 minute survey for an Oxford Brookes University BSc research project asks questions about TV/movie genres you like to watch, as well as some of your interests, worries, and coping styles." and finishes with the URL and the statement: "This survey has received ethical approval from the Psychology Research Ethics Committee at Oxford Brookes University."

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

EvoDemoS 2025 website is now live. The 10th Evolutionary Demography Conference will be held 22-24 September 2025, at Oxford University, organised by @robsalgo.bsky.social and colleagues evodemo2025.weebly.com

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EvoDemoS 2025

EvoDemoS 2025 International Conference. The local organising committee welcomes you to the 10th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, hosted at Pembroke College, Oxford, bet...

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It's so hard to believe it's true, but here we are.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“She’s in this orange prison outfit,” he said. “She just feels so isolated and desperate, you can imagine, she’s saying, ‘I want to come home’.” She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation. Stop traveling to the U.S, It’s not safe.

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British tourist detained by US authorities for 10 days over visa issue

Backpacker Rebecca Burke was handcuffed and taken to a detention facility in Washington state

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I think it's time as a society that we face the implicit agreement we've made that if you don't financially contribute to the economy, you're not afforded the same human rights. It's horrific, and shows that we largely live in economies, not societies.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/02/2025

As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore. But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Unbelievable but true. My son's nursery keeps refusing air purifiers, even after all staff got sick and a child ended up in hospital a couple of months ago.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

We really need to get better at spotting abuse.

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Religion data for reuse! Those stories about U.S. religion you're currently seeing in the news? They're from the Pew 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study. While anyone can explore the data with their online tools, Pew has also shared the underlying dataset: doi.org/10.58094/3kw...

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2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Dataset Archives

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Very cool study finding that people engaged with negative content longer when it was presented as art vs non-art 🎨 I agree with the study's leading author that it's time we're embracing art's other functions beyond mere aesthetics. We discuss this aesthetic cognitivism in doi.org/10.31234/osf...

A quote from the linked PsyPost artice: "These findings suggest that art acts as a kind of buffer when we engage with difficult or negative subjects. The aesthetic qualities of art and the sense that we are in a slightly removed, “as-if” world when experiencing art, may reduce the emotional impact of negative content, making it more approachable. This reduced emotional cost, combined with the appeal of aesthetic appreciation and thought-provoking perspectives, makes people more willing to explore negative themes through art than through non-art media."

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

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Dutch pension fund ABP sells all Alphabet and Meta shares, CEO tells newspaper FD

ABP, the Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in tech companies Meta and Alphabet , its CEO told Dutch newspaper FD in an interview published on Monday.

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

An important reminder: a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance or it will fail.

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Morteza Dehghani @mdehghani.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Our new paper in PNAS Nexus. County morals > politics for carbon footprints? 🤯 We find that county-level values predict actual green behavior (emissions!), not just attitudes. Stronger than political leaning.

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Andy Tix @andytix.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

How can we sustain both our planet and ourselves? Drawing on a new review of research by @matthewibillet.bsky.social, @abaimel.bsky.social, and colleagues - as well as faith and climate scientist leaders like @katharinehayhoe.com, my article for @psychologytoday.com explores what we can do.

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The New Science of Ecospirituality

How can we sustain both our planet and ourselves? The new science of ecospirituality has some ideas and some suggestions to try.

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

George Dale, newspaper editor, fights back against the Klan 🔥 A great example, and a great story; link below.

A quote from George Dale's letter in his newspaper about how we need to fight the Klan.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Bit of a belated post, but hopefully still new exciting news for some! We are delighted to announce that the next Cultural Evolution Society Conference will be in Rabat, Morocco, provisionally 11-13 May 2026, at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

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Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 22/02/2025

If you're considering grad school (:cough: outside 🇺🇸), @brunelcce.bsky.social has a Psychology, Culture, & Evolution MSc with absolutely top-notch staff. Plenty of expats to help plug you into UK life & academia, MSc -> PhD & beyond. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements & feel free to email w/ Qs!

overview of our MSc programme

Fall: Quant Methods, Qualitative Methods, and a survey of the evolutionary human sciences

Spring: Cross cultural and evo methods, Cross-cultural psychology, Evolutionary perspectives on culture

flier for our MSc. Bowerbird bower and Delhi's Lotus Temple pictured at top. England's Lionesses (football) lower left. Chimps chilling lower right. In the middle is a pic of some cave art.

Text: How do millions of years of genetic evolution, millennia of cultural evolution, and years of individual experience shape human cognition and behaviour?

Come learn about evolutionary psychology, cultural evolution, human behavioural ecology, and cross-cultural psychology

What can you learn?
Foundations of evolutionary theory
Psychological building blocks of culture
Data analysis and visualization in R
Agent-based modeling
Field work and cross-cultural comparison
Qualitative & quantitative methods
Survey & experimental design

Research on:
Gender & sexuality; religion; morality; atheism; cultural learning; child development; ritual; health choices; conflict & cooperation; cultural identities; etcetera

Who are we?
Rebecca Sear (Director)
Will Gervais (MSc Programme Lead)
Lora Adair (Deputy Dir.)
Michéal De Barra
Nelli Ferenczi
Stanley Gaines
Matthew Gervais
Toshie Imada
Francisco Gomez Jiminez
Michelle Kline
Jordan Moon
Abbey Page
Nick Pound
Michael Price
Nicole Wen
Aiyana Willard
James Winters

Questions?
Will.Gervais@brunel.ac.uk

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

This is a great website that generates answers for all the most Covid COVID minimizer questions & retorts!

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Every. Time! So lazy! ..or is it intentional ragebait? Glancing over the 3.1k reposts of this post..oops

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I think about this often - I don't think it would even cost that much in the end. Also, fewer cars on the road means it's safer for people to walk and cycle, too.

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Nicholas Gibson @njsgibson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Opportunity for ECRs interested in patience (state, trait, or virtue conceptualizations thereof) to get in on the ground level of a big team science project on patience in adversity: brights.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/patience-adv...

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Request for Proposals for Psychology Early-Career Scholars

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Human Relations Area Files at Yale University @hraf755.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The Human Relations Area Files is pleased to announce a one-year internship in honor of Melvin Ember, President of HRAF from 1987 until his passing in 2009. The intent of the internship is to learn about cross-cultural research through practical experience. hraf.yale.edu/hraf-interns...

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HRAF Internship in Honor of Melvin Ember 2025-2026

The Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University is pleased to announce a one-year internship in honor of Melvin Ember. Melvin Ember was President of HRAF from 1987 until his passing in 2009. ...

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Valerie van Mulukom @herebehumans.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Some silliness left over from Valentine's, but you know, I think it kind of works? 😆 thetab.com/2025/02/12/s...

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Serial players to hopeless romantics: Here's each Russell Group uni as a romcom lead

Cher SCREAMS Exe-tah

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PsyPost @psypost.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Experiencing awe during planetarium films significantly boosts viewers' interest in science topics, suggesting that awe can effectively catalyze deeper engagement with scientific material.

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A key psychological factor helps explain how planetarium films boost interest in science

Experiencing awe during planetarium films significantly boosts viewers' interest in science topics, suggesting that awe can effectively catalyze deeper engagement with scientific material.

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