One of the PI of the project @aiyanakoka.bsky.social presented her exciting work with @loraadair.bsky.social on innovation in ritual 👏
Dr Lora Adair
@loraadair.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Brunel University | Feminist + Evolutionist | Reproduction/Abortion Research + Outreach
We're officially recruiting for our new Clinical MSc programme! Come join a group of incredible people doing rad and impactful work 🫶 www.brunel.ac.uk/study/course...
Clinical Psychology MSc | Brunel University of London
Develop clinical skills through applied learning, research‑informed training and an optional year‑long placement on Brunel’s Clinical Psychology MSc
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passion project - if you are an adult and were raised in the UK, please get in touch to book an interview! 🫶✨💛
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 7mo ago1/ 📢 Participants Needed: UK Gender & Sexual Healthcare Study Phase 2 of our research with Gendered Intelligence is now open - and we’re recruiting adults across the UK.
📣 @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 🔗👇
Nu Know
Working together to navigate adolescence.
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97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that! This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time. therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
Petition - Free Civil Legal Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence
Support free civil legal support for sexual violence survivors. Help create a fair, accessible path to justice when the system fails to act.
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Mark your calendars! 🫶
Brunel Psychology@brunelpsy.bsky.social · 9mo ago📢 Talk announcement bringing together @brunelcce.bsky.social and CCN research centres! 📢 Dr Conrad Hackett (Pew Research Center) joins us on 📆29th Jan, 2-4pm to unpack the latest global religion survey and how it diverges from Pew’s influential 2015 projections 🌍📊 Open to all! 🔓
So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators 🫶✨
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 12mo ago🧵 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @loraadair.bsky.social published in the New Metro over the weekend about Outcry Witness It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories. No names, no pressure. Just a record in their own words 🗣️🛡️
taking a social/relational perspective on resilience in recovery - super proud of this work and so grateful to our participants 🫶
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · last yr.🧵 1/ New Paper from CCE’s Julieta Baker and @loraadair.bsky.social and colleagues from @brunelpsy.bsky.social , Henry Ford Health and Tina's Haven on the “The sociocultural ecology of resilience” in SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 📣🤩
🧵1/ new project led by @loraadair.bsky.social is looking for participants for an exciting research project exploring experiences with gender-affirming healthcare in the UK! 🏳️⚧️🏥 In collaboration with Gendered Intelligence, the team are aiming to understand how healthcare can better support YOU.
we're looking for folks to share their experiences accessing (or struggling to access) gender-affirming healthcare and/or sexual and reproductive healthcare in the UK! feel free to share and get in touch if you're interested ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
What an incredible event - it is such a dream to be part of a team like this and to have such wonderful collaborators ✨💛
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y agoThe (Mis)conceptions exhibition with a session led by CCEs amazing @loraadair.bsky.social, Julieta Barker and Ayesha Ali has been a massive success 🥳❤️💅
If you have an interest in reproductive health/fertility, this will be such a fab opportunity to engage with these topics (and ourselves/each other) in an embodied, dynamic, and reflective way 💕
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y ago🎨✨ Join CCE researchers @loraadair.bsky.social, Julieta Barker and Ayesha Ali at the (Mis)Conceptions Exhibition! Explore fertility through art, spoken word and researcher talks 👩🏫 @ The Bomb Factory, Holborn, London WX2B 6QX 🗓️ 24th Jan 10am - 7pm Sign up here 👇
This scheme is so ✨rad✨ - I can’t wait to take part!
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y agoCCEs @loraadair.bsky.social has been selected for the highly competitive @royalsociety.org Pairing scheme It's a mentoring scheme which brings together the best (💅) research scientists with parliamentarians and civil servants 🤩
🧵1/ Our second chapter for the @ehbea.bsky.social textbook is on what makes a family and a household – basically it depends, of course 🙃 Led by the wonderful @anushe.bsky.social You can find the pre-print here 👇 @brunelcce.bsky.social @brunelpsy.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social
OSF
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what a privilege to discuss these critically important issues in a group of such lovely academics! if you couldn't attend live, a recording is available through the same Div 52 webinar link 💕
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y ago🌟 CCEs @loraadair.bsky.social is on a upcoming panel on Reproductive Justice as part of the APA International Psychology Webinar series 🌟 📅 3rd Dec 12pm ET, 18:00 CET To Register, Please Visit: div52.net//webinars
I couldn’t be prouder of Dr. Natalie Asamoah Russell! It has been such a joy to work closely with her and see her develop into such a bright, passionate, and talented academic. Her research and outreach is going to change the world 🩵😭
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y agoCCEs @loraadair.bsky.social PhD student 🤩 Dr Natalie Russell 🤩 defended her viva successfully yesterday No corrections 💅 Natalie is top tier researcher working with amazing passion and compassion on psychological abuse in black adolescents. Keep an eye out for her ✨work 👀
This is a killer article on HADD (Hyperactive Agency Detection Device) from fellow skeptic Kat Ford. HADD is an evo psych well that many of us have gone to while trying to explain everything from religious beliefs to conspiracy theories. Turns out there’s zero evidence it exists at all!
HADD its day: there’s no evidence for an inherited hyperactive agency detection device
That our superstitious beliefs can be explained by an inherited trait for hyperactive agency detection is simple, elegant… and not remotely evidence-based
skeptic.org.uk
Had a blast discussing my work with the lovely people at Oxford Brookes this week! 🩵
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y agoCCE's @loraadair.bsky.social was invited to Oxford Brookes this week to present her 🌟amazing 🌟research on women's health from psychological and evolutionary perspective 🧠🧬 @brunelpsy.bsky.social #womenshealth
It feels like cultural evolution is going back to the idea that humans are in fact smarter than other animals (which does not seem that crazy indeed…) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human culture is uniquely open-ended rather than uniquely cumulative - Nature Human Behaviour
How did human culture become ecologically dominant? Morgan and Feldman re-examine existing theoretical accounts and propose that, contrary to previous belief, cumulative change and high transmission f...
nature.com
Participants needed for our research project on support for survivors of sexual assault/violence. Interviews take place via Zoom/phone and we can offer a £20 Amazon gift card for your time. Findings will inform the support resources that Outcry Witness extends to survivors. Feel free to share 💙
📢📢📢💫 CCE's seminar series is kicking off in November with some amazing speakers lined up 💫📢📢📢 These are 🔓 open to all - in person and online - joining information shared closer to the date 📅 ⏲️ Talks are scheduled between 12:30 - 14:00 @Bruneluni
🌞 1/4: What makes Glastonbury a spiritual and cultural magnet? 🔮 From ancient legends to modern practices, the #SpiritsAndSources project is exploring the beliefs, stories, and experiences that give Glastonbury its mystical reputation. #Glastonbury #SpiritualResearch
No low-fertility country has ever raised its fertility rate as much as Somalia’s has fallen in the last quarter century. familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/p...
Pronatalism’s tough math
History confirms that economic development and related policies can produce huge declines in birth rates — declines that dwarf any actually-existing policy effects in the opposite direction.
familyinequality.wordpress.com
Our article “Exploratory hypothesis tests can be more compelling than confirmatory hypothesis tests” is now fully published. Open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951... #PhilSci #Psychology #MetaSci 🧪
📢 The second speaker in the CCE seminar series in 2024 is Professor Monique Borgerhoff Mulder 📢 📅 13th November 12:45 - 14:15 🔓 Open to all - online or in person on the Brunel campus 💫 Save the date and reply for a Teams invite
Centre for Culture and Evolution@brunelcce.bsky.social · 2y ago📢📢📢💫 CCE's seminar series is kicking off in November with some amazing speakers lined up 💫📢📢📢 These are 🔓 open to all - in person and online - joining information shared closer to the date 📅 ⏲️ Talks are scheduled between 12:30 - 14:00 @Bruneluni
Great new opinion piece by @bscelza.bsky.social: “In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science” www.scientificamerican.com/article/here...
Here’s What the ‘Manosphere’ Gets Wrong about Cuckoldry
In online forums the term “cuck” has become synonymous with “sucker” and “loser.” But this use distorts its history and meaning, creating a baseless moral panic that harms both women and science
scientificamerican.com
Wanna follow some great folks in & around the human evolutionary sciences (psych, anth, etc)? Come one, come all: it's the Culture & Evolution Nerds starter pack! Please like & subscribe. Errr..retweet? Whatever they're called here this month.🧪 go.bsky.app/8yXwjAn
Book is out! Catch yourself one in the wild! also, if you buy a copy quick you’ll hold a copy of it before I do (later UK release date + shipping SNAFU). I hope it feels appropriately hefty! 🧪 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species: Gervais Ph.D, Will M.: 9781633889248: Amazon.com: Books
Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species [Gervais Ph.D, Will M.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species
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Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 2y agoI’ve got a book out soon, grandiosely entitled “Disbelief: The Origins of Atheism in a Religious Species.” What’s my book all about, you ask? A thread 🧵👇 www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...
Adam is cycling from London to Brighton to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society - I'm sure he'd appreciate your support 🩵 if you'd like to donate, you can here: www.justgiving.com/page/adam-ad...
Adam's fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society
Help Adam Adair raise money to support Alzheimer's Society
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