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

Brunel Psychology in the top 30% by NSS results!

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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?"

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 3w ago

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 🔗👇

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

Evolutionary Demography of Religion@evodemreligion.bsky.social · 2w ago

New preprint from the team, using qualitative data from Bangladesh, Malawi, Tanzania and the Gambia, to explore what fathers think are their roles in raising children: What is a father’s role? Men’s perspectives on their contributions to raising children in four countries osf.io/preprints/so...

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

W+EBS@w-plus-ebs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Running for Chair Elect: Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social The chair elect works closely alongside incoming Chair @annepisor.bsky.social over the next 2 years, before stepping into the Chair role. Check the flyer for more on Lora and what they would bring to W+EBS. #WplusEBS

🗳️ 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

🔺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 👇

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...

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 💙

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

Sheina Lew-Levy@sheinalew.bsky.social · 3w ago

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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...

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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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 💙

1/ New Brunel CCE commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences by @replicatedtypo.bsky.social and @matcharbonneau.bsky.social 🧠🌍✨ “Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems”

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 💪🤩

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

1/ Some very nice CCE news 📢 A new Philosophical Transactions B theme issue on The evolution of collective intelligence is out, co-edited by @replicatedtypo.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social 🧠🧬👇

Volume 381 Issue 1948 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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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 🔗👇

Happening this thursday 16th July 🤩📣

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 @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 💬

📢 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 🏳️‍🌈🌎🏳️‍⚧️

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

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Why do human societies adopt rigid moral rules? Our new paper, led by @jliep.bsky.social, proposes a new model in PNAS @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules: The efficiency–robustness trade-off | PNAS

Humans are capable of remarkably flexible moral judgment. Yet societies rely on rigid rules—obligations and prohibitions that apply categorically, ...

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Julien Lie-Panis@jliep.bsky.social · 4w ago

Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵

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 🧪

Haneul Jang@haneuljang.bsky.social · last mo.

Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...

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

Haneul Jang@haneuljang.bsky.social · 2mo ago

💙 Call for contributions! 💙 To mark 60 years since the Man the Hunter conference (1966), Hunter Gatherer Research is curating a two-part special issue on “Lessons and Reflections from Hunter-Gatherer Research” www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/hgr A thread on the two issues & formats👇

I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M_tQgoqV4ivpfEClh9qs9f2KQN2O1G3Jpda2aoHfQ/edit?usp=sharing I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026

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 🎶

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

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...

CES paper alert 🚨

Björn Lindström@bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Semantic knowledge is key for human innovation and cultural evolution! Our paper (thread in repost), led by fantastic @anilyaman.bsky.social & rising star @ts-brain.bsky.social is out in @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... I will present this work at APS Barcelona (29/5), happy to chat!

CES postdoc and PhD alert! 🚨

Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦@sobchuk.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

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)

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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📣 @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 💬

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! 🤍