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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Aug 29

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 · Jul 3

🧵 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 📣🤩

The sociocultural ecology of resilience: A comparative study among women in the United Kingdom

Resilience is often framed as an internal, individual process. However, this perspective overlooks the complex relationship between individuals and th…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Apr 3

🧵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.

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Apr 3

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 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Jan 27

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 · Jan 24

The (Mis)conceptions exhibition with a session led by CCEs amazing @loraadair.bsky.social, Julieta Barker and Ayesha Ali has been a massive success 🥳❤️💅

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Jan 17

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 · Jan 17

🎨✨ 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 👇

(Mis)Conceptions: Belief & Bodies Beyond Fertility

A day of creative workshops, talks, and film led by an interdisciplinary team of researchers of fertility, history and women's health

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Jan 17

CCEs @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 🤩

Pairing scheme | Royal Society

This scheme builds bridges between parliamentarians, civil servants and some of the best research scientists in the UK.

royalsociety.org

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Abbey Page @abbeyepage.bsky.social · Jan 10

🧵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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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Dec 4

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 · Nov 29

🌟 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

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Nov 27

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 · Nov 27

CCEs @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 👀

Miss Natalie Asamoah Russell | Brunel University London

I am a doctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at Brunel University, London, as well as a consultant, facilitator, and Associate Lecture of Psychology at another University of London

www.brunel.ac.uk

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Nov 18

Coolest project, topic, and team ever 💜🔮💫

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Nov 18

1/ 4🧵 Curious about the spiritual community in Glastonbury??
Of course you are so let’s dive into the Spirits and Sources project! 👇✨

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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · Nov 13

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

www.skeptic.org.uk

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Nov 8

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

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Nov 8

CCE'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

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Alberto Acerbi @acerbialberto.com · Nov 7

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...

www.nature.com

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Nov 4

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 💙

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Sep 23

📢📢📢💫 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

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Oct 29

🌞 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

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Oct 20

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

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Oct 17

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 🧪

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.

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Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Oct 15

📢 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

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Sep 20

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

www.scientificamerican.com

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · Sep 3

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

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · Jul 31

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...

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

www.justgiving.com

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · Jul 8

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...

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

www.amazon.com

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Dr Lora Adair @loraadair.bsky.social · Jun 28

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 💙

Centre for Culture and Evolution @brunelcce.bsky.social · Jun 28

🥳 CCE's newest winner is Natalie Asamoah Russell ( @loraadair.bsky.social PhD student ofc) Natalie has won £5k grant via Brunel's Innovation Voucher scheme which promotes collaborative innovation with social enterprises and third sector organisations

www.brunel.ac.uk/business/Hel...

Innovation Voucher Scheme

The Brunel Innovation Voucher Scheme is a government grant for small businesses and is specifically designed to promote collaborative innovation between Brunel and UK SMEs. The vouchers are to be used...

www.brunel.ac.uk

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