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Dr Lora Adair

@loraadair.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer at Brunel University | Feminist + Evolutionist | Reproduction/Abortion Research + Outreach

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let's support each other as we put our ideas out into the world! Can't wait to see you there 🧡
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the PI of the project @aiyanakoka.bsky.social presented her exciting work with @loraadair.bsky.social on innovation in ritual 👏
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
We're officially recruiting for our new Clinical MSc programme! Come join a group of incredible people doing rad and impactful work 🫶 www.brunel.ac.uk/study/course...
brunel.ac.uk
Clinical Psychology MSc | Brunel University of London
Develop clinical skills through applied learning, research‑informed training and an optional year‑long placement on Brunel’s Clinical Psychology MSc
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
passion project - if you are an adult and were raised in the UK, please get in touch to book an interview! 🫶✨💛
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Centre 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.uk
Nu Know
Working together to navigate adolescence.
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that! This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time. therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
therightwordsproject.org
Petition - Free Civil Legal Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence
Support free civil legal support for sexual violence survivors. Help create a fair, accessible path to justice when the system fails to act.
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Mark your calendars! 🫶
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators 🫶✨
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
taking a social/relational perspective on resilience in recovery - super proud of this work and so grateful to our participants 🫶
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🧵1/ new project led by @loraadair.bsky.social is looking for participants for an exciting research project exploring experiences with gender-affirming healthcare in the UK! 🏳️‍⚧️🏥 In collaboration with Gendered Intelligence, the team are aiming to understand how healthcare can better support YOU.
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
we're looking for folks to share their experiences accessing (or struggling to access) gender-affirming healthcare and/or sexual and reproductive healthcare in the UK! feel free to share and get in touch if you're interested ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
What an incredible event - it is such a dream to be part of a team like this and to have such wonderful collaborators ✨💛
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
If you have an interest in reproductive health/fertility, this will be such a fab opportunity to engage with these topics (and ourselves/each other) in an embodied, dynamic, and reflective way 💕
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This scheme is so ✨rad✨ - I can’t wait to take part!
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🧵1/ Our second chapter for the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook is on what makes a family and a household – basically it depends, of course 🙃 Led by the wonderful @anushe.bsky.social You can find the pre-print here 👇 @brunelcce.bsky.social @brunelpsy.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
what a privilege to discuss these critically important issues in a group of such lovely academics! if you couldn't attend live, a recording is available through the same Div 52 webinar link 💕
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I couldn’t be prouder of Dr. Natalie Asamoah Russell! It has been such a joy to work closely with her and see her develop into such a bright, passionate, and talented academic. Her research and outreach is going to change the world 🩵😭
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Coolest project, topic, and team ever 💜🔮💫
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This is a killer article on HADD (Hyperactive Agency Detection Device) from fellow skeptic Kat Ford. HADD is an evo psych well that many of us have gone to while trying to explain everything from religious beliefs to conspiracy theories. Turns out there’s zero evidence it exists at all!
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HADD its day: there’s no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device
That our superstitious beliefs can be explained by an inherited trait for hyperactive agency detection is simple, elegant… and not remotely evidence-based
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Had a blast discussing my work with the lovely people at Oxford Brookes this week! 🩵
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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · 07/11/2024
It feels like cultural evolution is going back to the idea that humans are in fact smarter than other animals (which does not seem that crazy indeed…) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative - Nature Human Behaviour
How did human culture become ecologically dominant? Morgan and Feldman re-examine existing theoretical accounts and propose that, contrary to previous belief, cumulative change and high transmission f...
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Participants needed for our research project on support for survivors of sexual assault/violence. Interviews take place via Zoom/phone and we can offer a £20 Amazon gift card for your time. Findings will inform the support resources that Outcry Witness extends to survivors. Feel free to share 💙
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
📢📢📢💫 CCE's seminar series is kicking off in November with some amazing speakers lined up 💫📢📢📢 These are 🔓 open to all - in person and online - joining information shared closer to the date 📅 ⏲️ Talks are scheduled between 12:30 - 14:00 @Bruneluni
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
🌞 1/4: What makes Glastonbury a spiritual and cultural magnet? 🔮 From ancient legends to modern practices, the #SpiritsAndSources project is exploring the beliefs, stories, and experiences that give Glastonbury its mystical reputation. #Glastonbury #SpiritualResearch
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 20/10/2024
No low-fertility country has ever raised its fertility rate as much as Somalia’s has fallen in the last quarter century. familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/p...
familyinequality.wordpress.com
Pronatalism’s tough math
History confirms that economic development and related policies can produce huge declines in birth rates — declines that dwarf any actually-existing policy effects in the opposite direction.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Our article “Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests” is now fully published. Open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #PhilSci #Psychology #MetaSci 🧪
Preregistration has been proposed as a useful method for making a publicly verifiable distinction between confirmatory hypothesis tests, which involve planned tests of ante hoc hypotheses, and exploratory hypothesis tests, which involve unplanned tests of post hoc hypotheses. This distinction is thought to be important because it has been proposed that confirmatory hypothesis tests provide more compelling results (less uncertain, less tentative, less open to bias) than exploratory hypothesis tests. In this article, we challenge this proposition and argue that there are several advantages of exploratory hypothesis tests that can make their results more compelling than those of confirmatory hypothesis tests. We also consider some potential disadvantages of exploratory hypothesis tests and conclude that their advantages can outweigh the disadvantages. We conclude that exploratory hypothesis tests avoid researcher commitment and researcher prophecy biases, reduce the probability of data fraud, are more appropriate in the context of unplanned deviations, facilitate inference to the best explanation, and allow peer reviewers to make additional contributions at the data analysis stage. In contrast, confirmatory hypothesis tests may lead to an inappropriate level of confidence in research conclusions, less appropriate analyses in the context of unplanned deviations, and greater bias and errors in theoretical inferences.
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
📢 The second speaker in the CCE seminar series in 2024 is Professor Monique Borgerhoff Mulder 📢 📅 13th November 12:45 - 14:15 🔓 Open to all - online or in person on the Brunel campus 💫 Save the date and reply for a Teams invite
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Great new opinion piece by @bscelza.bsky.social: “In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science” www.scientificamerican.com/article/here...
scientificamerican.com
Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry
In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 03/09/2024
Wanna follow some great folks in & around the human evolutionary sciences (psych, anth, etc)? Come one, come all: it's the Culture & Evolution Nerds starter pack! Please like & subscribe. Errr..retweet? Whatever they're called here this month.🧪 go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 31/07/2024
Book is out! Catch yourself one in the wild! also, if you buy a copy quick you’ll hold a copy of it before I do (later UK release date + shipping SNAFU). I hope it feels appropriately hefty! 🧪 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
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Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species: Gervais Ph.D, Will M.: 9781633889248: Amazon.com: Books
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species [Gervais Ph.D, Will M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 24/07/2024
Adam is cycling from London to Brighton to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society - I'm sure he'd appreciate your support 🩵 if you'd like to donate, you can here: www.justgiving.com/page/adam-ad...
justgiving.com
Adam's fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society
Help Adam Adair raise money to support Alzheimer's Society
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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 08/07/2024
I’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask? A thread 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
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Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species: Gervais Ph.D, Will M.: 9781633889248: Amazon.com: Books
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species [Gervais Ph.D, Will M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 28/06/2024
Natalie is amazing - this is just one of the many ways that her work is going to make a positive impact in people's lives 💙
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Dr Tris is a star - she also won the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Research! 🤩
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 25/06/2024
my heart just grew three sizes - thrilled to receive this acknowledgement for my work with the incredible students at @brunelcce.bsky.social
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture and Evolution are open for 24-25 at Psychology in Brunel University brunel.ac.uk/study/postgr... interested in an interdisciplinary take on psychology and behaviour using cross-cultural and evolutionary approaches? Then come study with us 🤓
brunel.ac.uk
Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University London
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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Current projects in CCE include: Alternative belief systems in Glastonbury led by the amazing @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Michelle Kline @loraadair.bsky.social and @matthewmgervais.bsky.social
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 19/02/2024
UK/EU PhD Studentships (fully funded)💜 we're hiring funded PhD students for Glastonbury project. Study how people learn and transmit alternative spiritual beliefs with @michelleakline.bsky.social, @aiyanakoka.bsky.social, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social, and me! careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/fund...
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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Ever wondered if farmers do in fact have higher fertility than hunter-gathers? Or, how meaningful population level subsistence typologies are for individual's fertility? If yes, then I have the paper for you! #BioAnth #anthropology #archaeology #demography #evolution 🧪👩‍🔬
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Matthew Gervais @matthewmgervais.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Application deadline for our PhD studentships is Monday 23 October. Come study the emergence and transmission of alternative spiritual beliefs in Glastonbury, England with @michelleakline.bsky.social, @loraadair.bsky.social, @aiyanakoka.bsky.social and me at Brunel CCE 🤓
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
Our community engagement group is hosting our next event in November - please join us! 💕 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/periods-st...
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
More exciting news! Funded PhD studentships to study the transmission of alternative spiritual beliefs in Glastonbury with a great team 🫶
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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Could not be more excited to share this - come work with the coolest people (@michelleakline.bsky.social, @aiyanakoka.bsky.social, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social, and me!) on the coolest project (transmission of alternative spiritual beliefs in Glastonbury) 🫶
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
Hidden in plain sight: A systematic review of coercion and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives - "the evidence supports the conclusion that coercive practices surrounding LARC programs always target marginalized, disadvantaged & excluded population(s)" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Hidden in plain sight: A systematic review of coercion and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive meth...
In recent years there has been extensive promotion of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) globally to increase access to what is widely considered a highly effective contraceptive method. Yet...
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