Another addition to our EHS special collection on scientific racism! @reubenfakoyabrooks.bsky.social Jordan O. Lafayette Tasmin Alexander & Bushra Abu-Helil assess the work of @reednetwork.bsky.social & outline a framework for institutional allyship: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

A Four-Pillar Framework for Advancing Racial and Ethnic Inclusion in the Life Sciences

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🗳️ 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

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/ 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/ 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

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 🔗👇

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! 🤍

Another new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences’ special collection on scientific racism, which explores archaeologist Flinders Petrie’s version of scientific racism - he believed in the benefits of the “right” kind of racial mixing and migration - and draws links to contemporary migration debates

Dr Sarah Myers@drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And...Mixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s - Eva Miller and @poisonchallis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cool new paper by @kenjiitao.bsky.social on universal patterns in the demographic transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper out analysing how memes circulating on X spread scientific racism: "Memes revive scientific racism by blending scientific aesthetics, primal-threat emotion, and transferable visuals to mask ideology"

Dr Sarah Myers@drsarahmyers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New addition to the EHS special issue of scientific racism! Memeing Scientific Racism: The Digital Reframing of Racialist Ideologies - Sarah Rodriguez-Louette www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And...Mixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s - Eva Miller and @poisonchallis.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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

YouTube video by Psychology @ Brunel

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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 💪 🧪

@brunelcce.bsky.social was well-represented at #ehbea2026. @replicatedtypo.bsky.social presented on ‘The cultural evolution of problem-solving’ and @abbeyepage.bsky.social on ‘When the village predicts the next baby: post-natal social support and fertility intentions in the UK’ (sadly no pic)

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 🧪

📢 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_...

@ehbea.bsky.social @abbeyepage.bsky.social @pablovarase.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social

COME AND JOIN OUR MEET & GREET! 📽️❤️‍🔥 Before the start of @ehbea2026.bsky.social , @abbeyepage.bsky.social talks to us about herself, her role in @ehbea.bsky.social, and how much she likes the job🤓 🙌 💯 Have a look and #MeetTheBoard 👇👇👇 youtube.com/shorts/Kmpjn...

Secretary of EHBEA - Abbey Page #MeetTheBoard

YouTube video by European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association

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Last day to register for EHBEA is tomorrow (1 April). The programme is now published and looks great! Really good to see so many papers focused on advancing methods and theory in the discipline 😊

EHBEA 2026@ehbea2026.bsky.social · 4mo ago

⏳ Blink, and you’ll miss it… Registration for #EHBEA2026 closes tomorrow (1 April) 🗓️ Your final chance to be part of four days of ideas, debate & discovery in Leiden 🇳🇱🧠🌷 Be there—or hear about it later 😉 👉 www.ehbea2026.com

📢 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_...

Behavioral ecology and sociobiology since 1975: The growth and diversification of the biology of adaptive social behavior (editorial from the editors of Behavioural Ecology & Sociobiology) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Behavioral ecology and sociobiology since 1975: The growth and diversification of the biology of adaptive social behavior - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology -

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Absolutely this. Power is an important concept to understand but power analysis for a sample size is almost always a random guess and it’s weird that we pretend it isn’t.

Gordon Pennycook@gordpennycook.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My own take on power analyses: I'm good with "we had xx power to detect effects as big as xx" but find "we made a pseudo-random guess about an effect size & determined that we need a sample of N=[some highly specific number]" to be too close to cosplay for me.

🌍🧠 Shared Horizons Seminar at @brunelpsy.bsky.social We’re excited to welcome Prof Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland) to Brunel for a talk on: “The history of the world’s languages and why it matters for psychologists.” 📅 25 March 2026 🕑 14:00–16:00 📍 ESGW 111 + online

Some have long thought that humans are universally attracted to specific features: think of symmetrical faces. Are these really universal? @adigitaltanay.bsky.social & Jay explore this and much more with @drboothroyd.bsky.social youtu.be/skwy9yKkytM

Are Attractiveness Preferences Universal? | Lynda Boothroyd

YouTube video by The Cognitations Podcast

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