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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 · 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 🔗👇

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Nu Know

Working together to navigate adolescence.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

A sincere thank you to all the candidates who stood for election and to the CES membership for their active participation in the voting process. We were fortunate to have many excellent candidates, making this election a strong reflection of our membership’s commitment and talent.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

We are pleased to announce our newly elected committee members of the Cultural Evolution Society: Minhua Yan @minhuayan.bsky.social Helena Miton @helenamiton.bsky.social Wataru Toyokawa @watarutoyokawa.bsky.social & Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social Welcome and congratulations!!

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

The voting window for the CES officer elections has been extended until Friday 23:59 BST. CES members, don't forget to vote and have your say in the running of your society! Check your inbox for the voting link, or if you didn't receive one, contact the society (details below).

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

If you are an active member of @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social, please go vote for our new Executive Ordinary Members. You will have received an email with voting instructions. Voting closes Tuesday!

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 05/06/2025

Join us on the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee! Shape the field of cultural evolution alongside amazing colleagues @maximederex.bsky.social, @nicolewen.bsky.social, @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social, @lucymaplin.bsky.social, @ferylbadiani.bsky.social & incoming President Fiona Jordan

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We have extended the nomination period to this Friday 11th July. If you are a @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social member, consider running from Secretary or Executive Ordinary Member! Happy to answer any questions if you have them!

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Alex Mesoudi @alexmesoudi.com · 30/06/2025

Nominations are still open for the @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social executive committee roles of Secretary (non-male) and Ordinary Members (any gender). It’s not too much work and very rewarding!

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Don't forgot to nominate for positions in our Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025! Nomination period now closes July 11th, see the nomination form below for more information: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Cultural Evolution Society Elections 2025: 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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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

@abbeyepage.bsky.social, Harleen Dhami, and I are doing a study to understand new mums' experiences with infant feeding. If you know someone who has had a baby recently, please share our study!

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Jen Clegg-Petz and I presented on cultural variation in first- and third-party imitation and attention. #SRCD2025

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Sylvia Pinheiro @sylpi.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Today! Excited to join this awesome symposium! I will be talking about my research about how children from Canada and Brazil shared coins in a virtual Dictator Game-like task and discuss effects of subjecive-SES and Inequality! Collab work between UFRN, UFPA and Queen's!

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

📢 Come to our symposium TODAY at #SRCD2025! We'll be discussing challenges and best practices for cross-cultural dev psych work! 🕒 4:40 PM📍200H Talks by Sarah Pope-Caldwell, @sylpi.bsky.social, & Yitong Wang Discussant: Tanya MacGillivray Chairs: @nicolewen.bsky.social & @brucerawlings.bsky.social

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Great to talk about rituals in childhood at the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social lunch and learn! Thank you for having me, @drzacharywalker.bsky.social and @drrebeccagordon.bsky.social!

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Lovely recent CCE social in the *always sunny* London 🌞🤩🎡 If this doesn't sell us.... 🤷‍♀️ @loraadair.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social @rebeccasear.bsky.social @nicolewen.bsky.social @michelleakline.bsky.social @matthewmgervais.bsky.social ❤️

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you want to understand why we do the things we do, being trained in cross-cultural and evolutionary perspectives is a pretty good start 😊 excellent thread from CCE's @abbeyepage.bsky.social on our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution, now accepting applications 👇

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

📣 The next CCE talk is by 🤩 Dr Willem Frankenhuis 🤩 on "The evolution of plasticity and learning" 📅 26th March - 12:45 (In person for food, 13:00 online) to 14:15 🔓 Open to all online or in person - come join us Teams link 👇 or DM for an invite

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

13/ 🎈 Meet Dr Nicole Wen @nicolejwen.bsky.social - @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Early Career Award winner 🏆 for her work on childhood rituals Nicole studies how culture shapes kids' learning, cooperation, & social bonds - basically, how little humans become awesome group members! 👧🌍👦

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Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

1/ 🌟📢 Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture & Evolution at @brunelpsy.bsky.social @brunelgradschool.bsky.social are OPEN for 2025/26 🎓 📢 Ever wondered how culture 🌍 and evolution 🧬 shape human behaviour? 🤔 This interdisciplinary program might be for you 🧵

brunel.ac.uk

Psychology, Culture and Evolution MSc | Brunel University of London

A research-intensive psychology master's course, allowing you to understand how culture and evolution can influence human behaviour.

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EHBEA @ehbea.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Please see below for EHBEA's statement in solidarity with Stand Up For Science Day ✊

Statement in support of Stand Up For Science Day

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

CES offers its full support to the Stand Up For Science rallies in the U.S. on March 7 2025.

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We are please to release Transmissions Ep 1, featuring Dr Cristina Moya @hyperadapthyrax.bsky.social in conversation with Feryl Badiani @ferylbadiani.bsky.social Cristina and Feryl chat about Cristina's work in Peru and discuss CE in human and non-human societies: youtu.be/2otT0PkhPkw?...

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Transmissions Episode 1 with Dr Cristina Moya

YouTube video by Cultural Evolution Society

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Dr Michelle Ann Kline @michelleakline.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Very happy to be a coauthor on this paper, supported by @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social at the workshop phase and pushed ahead by my @brunelcce.bsky.social colleague @nicolejwen.bsky.social !

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Bruce Rawlings @brucerawlings.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Come check out our new paper on the challenges of ensuring our measures are doing what they’re meant to in cross-cultural work, and some proposed solutions - full breakdown and team below 👇

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

This is a very serious issue. I have done a morn of cross cultural work and I have often worried about this. Recently I an systematically testing for measurement invariance when I use a scale. It isn’t always glorious even for well established scales in the West.

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Natália B. Dutra @nataliabdutra.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Being part of this was delightful. Great team, fantastic leadership.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The looks great: “cross-cultural developmental research poses distinct problems for ensuring high construct validity, owing to the nuances of working with children; the standard approach of transporting protocols designed & validated in one population to another risks low construct validity”

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Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

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Nicole Wen @nicolewen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Construct Validity in Cross-Cultural, Developmental Research: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

✨📢 To all the new people joining 💙 BlueSky 💙 in recent days I think a introduction is in order The Brunel Uni Centre for Culture and Evolution is a hub of world-leading (yes I do say myself 💅) researchers in evolutionary and cross-cultural approaches to psychology and behaviour We DO IT ALL (ish)

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Centre for Culture and Evolution (CCE)

Centre for Culture and Evolution (CCE) at Brunel explores powerful influences on human behaviour

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Durham Cultural Evolution Research Centre @durhamdcerc.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

We are kicking off our afternoon session with our second keynote Nicole Wen, recipient of the CES New Investigator award 2022! #CESDurham2024 @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social

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Lynda Boothroyd @drboothroyd.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Second plenary @ #CES2024Durham - Nicole Wen on ritual in childhood. Children recognise ritual actions from infancy, and learning group rituals increases group identity behaviours and affiliation (where opportunities to form individual bonds via exposure are more limited). #CulturalEvolution

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 09/09/2024

🏆⭐️👑⭐️🏆 @nicolejwen.bsky.social

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

CCE members are presenting at CES in Durham ✨ @nicolejwen.bsky.social is the afternoon keynote today as the Early Career Award winner for @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social on Rituals in Childhood 🤩✨

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