Dr Lora Adair

🧵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 ✨💛

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 💕

This scheme is so ✨rad✨ - I can’t wait to take part!

🧵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

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 💕

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 🩵😭

Coolest project, topic, and team ever 💜🔮💫

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

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!

Had a blast discussing my work with the lovely people at Oxford Brookes this week! 🩵

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

Preregistration has been proposed as a useful method for making a publicly verifiable distinction between confirmatory hypothesis tests, which involve planned tests of ante hoc hypotheses, and exploratory hypothesis tests, which involve unplanned tests of post hoc hypotheses. This distinction is thought to be important because it has been proposed that confirmatory hypothesis tests provide more compelling results (less uncertain, less tentative, less open to bias) than exploratory hypothesis tests. In this article, we challenge this proposition and argue that there are several advantages of exploratory hypothesis tests that can make their results more compelling than those of confirmatory hypothesis tests. We also consider some potential disadvantages of exploratory hypothesis tests and conclude that their advantages can outweigh the disadvantages. We conclude that exploratory hypothesis tests avoid researcher commitment and researcher prophecy biases, reduce the probability of data fraud, are more appropriate in the context of unplanned deviations, facilitate inference to the best explanation, and allow peer reviewers to make additional contributions at the data analysis stage. In contrast, confirmatory hypothesis tests may lead to an inappropriate level of confidence in research conclusions, less appropriate analyses in the context of unplanned deviations, and greater bias and errors in theoretical inferences.

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

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

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...

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!

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www.amazon.com/Disbelief-Or...

Adam's fundraiser for Alzheimer's Society Help Adam Adair raise money to support Alzheimer's Society

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...

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

I’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...

Natalie is amazing - this is just one of the many ways that her work is going to make a positive impact in people's lives 💙

Dr Tris is a star - she also won the Vice Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Research! 🤩

my heart just grew three sizes - thrilled to receive this acknowledgement for my work with the incredible students at
@brunelcce.bsky.social

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Applications for our MSc in Psychology, Culture and Evolution are open for 24-25 at Psychology in Brunel University

brunel.ac.uk/study/postgr...

interested in an interdisciplinary take on psychology and behaviour using cross-cultural and evolutionary approaches?

Then come study with us 🤓

Current projects in CCE include: Alternative belief systems in Glastonbury led by the amazing @aiyanakoka.bsky.social Michelle Kline @loraadair.bsky.social and
@matthewmgervais.bsky.social

UK/EU PhD Studentships (fully funded)💜 we're hiring funded PhD students for Glastonbury project. Study how people learn and transmit alternative spiritual beliefs with @michelleakline.bsky.social, @aiyanakoka.bsky.social, @matthewmgervais.bsky.social, and me! careers.brunel.ac.uk/vacancy/fund...

Ever wondered if farmers do in fact have higher fertility than hunter-gathers? Or, how meaningful population level subsistence typologies are for individual's fertility? If yes, then I have the paper for you!

#BioAnth #anthropology #archaeology #demography #evolution 🧪👩‍🔬