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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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

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.”

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.

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 💙

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 💪🤩

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? 🤔

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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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 🔗👇

📣🤩 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!

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

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📢 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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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/ 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

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 🎶

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! 🤍

1/ 🚨 Important multitasking news from Brunel Psychology: Men can multitask as well as women. They just become… noticeably quieter when you ask them questions at the same time

Men talk less than women during multitasking - Psychological Research

Contrary to the widespread stereotype that women are better at multitasking than men, no consistent sex differences in multitasking abilities between males and females have been found. We developed a ...

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📣 Brunel psychology has a YouTube channel exploring the research from the department in shorts and long-form interviews Check it out!

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Welcome to Brunel University London's Psychology channel -- a window into how we think, learn and interact. On this channel, you'll find conversations with our researchers, glimpses of student life an...

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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 24th June, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇

🎥 Introducing Brunel Psychology’s new YouTube channel 🤩 because obviously what the internet needed was academics doing 40-minute deep dives. You’re welcome. Daniel sits down with Brunel’s @aiyanakoka.bsky.social to talk religion, gods and why humans are so committed to meaning-making 🧠✨

"Is society better without religion?" - Dr Aiyana Willard | Ask A Psychologist

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📣 NEXT WEEK All welcome!

Brunel Psychology@brunelpsy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 Shared Horizons seminar @brunelpsy.bsky.social We’ve got Mark Tarrant (Plymouth) coming in to talk about: How social identity can actually be used in clinical treatments for obesity 📅 27 May 🕑 2–4pm 🔓 Open to all in-person (with snacks!) in ESGW 111 or online

1/ Important retraction news 👇📰 A recent article using “national IQ” data to claim that a country’s “national intelligence” causes economic growth has been retracted @rebeccasear.bsky.social was among those who raised concerns - a good example of the importance of responsibility in science 💪 🧪

1/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology! We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September. Come and help shape what we’re building 👇 @brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪

1/ 🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof Veena Kumari and colleagues on a new NIHR award for: Supporting the mental health of children through Stix innovation: A feasibility trial The project has been awarded funds to test an innovative approach to supporting children’s mental health 🧠

Professor Veena Kumari | Brunel University London

Professor Veena Kumari obtained a PhD in Psychology from Banaras Hindu University, India in 1993 prior to joining the Institute of Psychiatry, London for post-doctoral research

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1/ 📢 We’re hiring at Brunel Psychology! We have ✨TWO sparkling ✨ new permanent roles in Clinical Psychology as we grow our clinical provision, including our new MSc in Clinical Psychology launching this September. Come and help shape what we’re building 👇 @brunelgradschool.bsky.social 🧪

Reminder about this study for any new mums!

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Re-upping this! 🧠👶 Had a baby in the last 3 months? Researchers at Brunel University of London want to better understand parents’ expectations and experiences of infant feeding 🍼 A short 10-minute survey 👇 Participants are rewarded for their time completing this survey 📣🧪

1/ 📢 Happening TOMORROW @ Brunel Psychology We’ve got Janet Rafner in for Shared Horizons talking: “Minds in the Loop: Metacognitive Design & Human Authorship in the Age of Agentic AI” 🤖🧠 📅 29 April | 🕑 2–4pm | 📍 ESGW 111 + online

📢 Shared Horizons seminar @brunelpsy.bsky.social We’ve got Mark Tarrant (Plymouth) coming in to talk about: How social identity can actually be used in clinical treatments for obesity 📅 27 May 🕑 2–4pm 🔓 Open to all in-person (with snacks!) in ESGW 111 or online

📢 Re-upping this! 🧠👶 Had a baby in the last 3 months? Researchers at Brunel University of London want to better understand parents’ expectations and experiences of infant feeding 🍼 A short 10-minute survey 👇 Participants are rewarded for their time completing this survey 📣🧪

Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Participants needed Had a baby in the last 3 months? Researchers at Brunel University of London want to better understand parents’ expectations and experiences of infant feeding 🍼 A short 10-minute survey 👇 brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...