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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! 🫶✨💛

1/ 📢 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.

1/ 🎮🌍 Shared Horizons Seminar Series

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Patricia Kanngiesser (University of Plymouth) to Brunel Psychology for:

“Games for the future: Using experimental games to study sustainable behaviour across ages and populations.”

🗓 25 Feb 2026 | 2-4pm open to all 🔓

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Call for activities proposals !

You are invited to submit proposals for three activities to be held during the upcoming CES2026 conference:

Nu Know Working together to navigate adolescence.

📣 @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

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Call for papers closes tomorrow Feb 6th! iacesr.com/conferences/

Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius Despite the central role of religion in human history and its continued global growth, an increasing number of individuals identify as secular or athe…

New paper lead by Dr Nachita Rosun that I am super proud of! We look at religious changes in Mauritius and find that differences in religious socialisation matter the more in predicting religiosity as material security gets higher www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

EHBEA wants to congratulate @tvpollet.bsky.social
on earning the EHBEA Award on Services to the Community 👏

Existential security and the cultural evolution of secularisation in Mauritius Despite the central role of religion in human history and its continued global growth, an increasing number of individuals identify as secular or athe…

1/ New paper from @brunelpsy.bsky.social CCE in Evolution & Human Behavior looks at secularisation in Mauritius 🇲🇺

Nachita Rosun, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social have been testing big theories outside the usual Western settings 🌏

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Don’t Send A Magician To Do A Scientist’s Job: A New Blog Series About Our Experiments In Teaching Science to Young Scientists — Will Gervais We’re doing some exciting and innovative things with our methods, stats, and skills curriculum and we want to tell y’all about it! Debuting our new bespoke 9-module statistics, methods, and skills cu...

Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel!

Read! Share! Tell us what you think!
#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

@willgervais.com wonderfully showcasing the work of CCE members @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social in re vamping the research methods at @brunelpsy.bsky.social 💙

We’re learning as we go but dead excited 📚☠️🤗

Follow for updates 🧪

📢 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! 🔓

1/ 👩‍🎓 Big shout-out to Brunel PhD student Hannah Mays and supervisor @nelliferenczi.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social for contributing written evidence on misogyny in the manosphere and online content to a major policy consultation

57. Will Gervais on the Origins of Religion, Disbelief, and Morality - Humanism Now | Secular Ethics, Curiosity and Compassionate Change “Humans didn’t evolve to believe in gods — we evolved to learn from culture, and sometimes culture points away from gods.”Dr Will M. Gervais, psychologist and author of Disbelief, joins Humanism Now t...

Had a really fun chat with James Hodgson at Humanism Now about my book Disbelief....check it out!

www.buzzsprout.com/2246305/epis...

Book here, bound to make a confusing Christmas gift for many children on your list! www.globepequot.com/978163388925...

YouTube video by The British Academy The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics

1/ In a recent @britishacademy.bsky.social video @rebeccasear.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social takes a clear-eyed look at the 21st‑century rise of eugenics - an ideology that should have been left behind, yet is now re‑emerging in a number of troubling ways ⚠️🧬 🧪

Watch the full talk here 🎥👇

My nursery bill is nearly double my mortgage...

EHBEA 2026 has extended the deadline till the 9th January

#holidaymircale

I think timing is important here as well, and exactly how nursery costs work out over a short period of time make it impossible to pay for more than 1 child plus late age at first birth so it just delays.

I think this dynamic is different to resource transfers in small scale situations

So the traditional explanation for fertility decline - that fertility declines once children become net consumers rather than producers - isn't quite right, though part of the explanation is likely increased costs of children over time

Paper here books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...

YouTube video by Templeton Religion Trust Understanding Illness & Treatment Through Supernatural Beliefs | A. Willard & M. De Barra, Brunel

@michealdebarra.bsky.social and @aiyanakoka.bsky.social discuss all about this research in this short video 📹

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1/ 🧵 New PNAS paper by CCE’s @michealdebarra.bsky.social @aiyanakoka.bsky.social with Angel V Jiménez and Nachita Rosun🎉

📄 Why do people turn to religious or supernatural cures?
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#evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution

Dr Josie looking very happy as she cuts her celebration cake

Many congratulations to the newly-minted Dr Baafi @josephineabaafi.bsky.social 🎉🥳 who passed her PhD viva yesterday! A very positive experience thanks to examiners Monica Magadi and @joestrong.bsky.social, and Chair @1verofilippi.bsky.social 🙏

YouTube video by Gender Diversity Across Cultures Testing Biological Evolutionary Patterns Amongst Muxes: A Chat with Dr. Francisco Gómez Jiménez

🧵 1/ Excited to share this work from CCEs Francisco Gómez Jiménez, whose research explores gender diversity across cultures 🌍

Francisco introduces the muxes of the Istmo Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexico - a remarkable example of longstanding, culturally grounded gender diversity 🏳️‍🌈
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Belief as explanation: a motivation-based theory of agency and anthropomorphism in religious belief Supernatural agent beliefs are ubiquitous across cultures, yet many theories aimed at explaining this fact have not held up to scrutiny. The most famous of these, the Hyperactive Agency Detection D...

1/ 🎙️ New paper by Dr Aiyana Willard argues it’s time to retire HADD = “we’re hardwired to see agents EVERYWHERE” and replace it with something that *actually* fits the evidence 🪦➡️📚

@brunelpsy.bsky.social

🔗 Read it 👇

Data questions myths about multiple wife marriages, men and violence A new study analyzing 84 million census records reveals that polygyny does not increase the number of unmarried men. In many societies where polygyny is common, men are actually more likely to be marr...

Brunel's press release about our (@hggaddy.bsky.social @anthrolog.bsky.social) recent publication, showing that high levels of polygyny don't necessarily lock men out of the marriage market

www.brunel.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

The deadline has been extended - there is still time to get your abstracts in to join us in Morocco!

🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🚨

#EHBEA2026 will be held in Leiden!

Do not forget to submit your abstract before December 15th in order to attend and share your research!

More in the official account:
@ehbea2026.bsky.social

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I *think* 'all or menstruate" is a gender neutral term rather than referring to the universality of the results which are very much context dependent to the UK

(if I'm getting your point right 🙂)

For a while (many years!) back, @eseb.bsky.social gave us €€€ to form a Special Topic Network. Formally, the network no longer exists, but informally for sure AND we can now pick the fruits of our labours! Here is one and the next post shows another... Thank you ESEB! 🙏