Abbey Page
@abbeyepage.bsky.social
Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. 🩷💜💙🩵
Scientific racists like to claim that eminent geneticist David Reich agrees with them about genetically-determined racial differences in IQ (and even, hilariously, that he plagiarised them). He does not. Here's a handy explainer.
Eric Turkheimer@ent3c.bsky.social · last mo.Blog post. Richard Hanania on Race and Intelligence: In which he explains David Reich to David Reich.
Latest "ask a psychologist" podcast is out on the @Bruneluni psychology YouTube 📢 Today's star is Byron Creese whose research focuses on neuropsychiatric symptoms in dementia 🧠
Alzheimer's Psychosis Explained: Hallucinations, Delusions, & Diagnosis | Ask a Psychologist
YouTube video by Psychology @ Brunel
youtu.be
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
cambridge.org
🗳️ 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 · 2mo agoRunning 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...
Menstrual cycle phase and its association with COVID-19 vaccine outcomes among period tracking app users - npj Women's Health
npj Women's Health - Menstrual cycle phase and its association with COVID-19 vaccine outcomes among period tracking app users
nature.com
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”
Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Subjective selection needs socially transmitted goals and culturally evolving problems - Volume 49
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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 · 3mo agoAnd...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 · 3mo agoNew 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...
Mixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Mixing, migration and the lessons of history: Flinders Petrie's racial determinism and defining Jewishness in the 1920–30s
cambridge.org
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...
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience
cambridge.org
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
youtube.com
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 💪 🧪
Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare
nature.com
@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 · 6mo 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_...
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 · 6mo 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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