📣 NEXT WEEK All welcome!

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A recent article using “national IQ” data to claim that a country’s “national intelligence” causes economic growth has been retracted @rebeccasear.bsky.social was among those who raised concerns - a good example of the importance of responsibility in science 💪 🧪

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 🧪

1/ 🎉 Huge congratulations to Prof Veena Kumari and colleagues on a new NIHR award for: Supporting the mental health of children through Stix innovation: A feasibility trial The project has been awarded funds to test an innovative approach to supporting children’s mental health 🧠

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 🧪

Reminder about this study for any new mums!

1/ 📢 Happening TOMORROW @ Brunel Psychology We’ve got Janet Rafner in for Shared Horizons talking: “Minds in the Loop: Metacognitive Design & Human Authorship in the Age of Agentic AI” 🤖🧠 📅 29 April | 🕑 2–4pm | 📍 ESGW 111 + online

📢 Shared Horizons seminar @brunelpsy.bsky.social We’ve got Mark Tarrant (Plymouth) coming in to talk about: How social identity can actually be used in clinical treatments for obesity 📅 27 May 🕑 2–4pm 🔓 Open to all in-person (with snacks!) in ESGW 111 or online

📢 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 📣🧪

📢 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_...

📢 Psychology study: Attachment & consensual non-monogamy Are you 18+ and fluent in English? Take part in a 15-20 min anonymous survey exploring how attachment styles relate to attitudes toward polyamory and open relationships 🧠 🔗👇

🌍🧠 Shared Horizons Seminar at @brunelpsy.bsky.social We’re excited to welcome Prof Quentin Atkinson (University of Auckland) to Brunel for a talk on: “The history of the world’s languages and why it matters for psychologists.” 📅 25 March 2026 🕑 14:00–16:00 📍 ESGW 111 + online

1/ 🍕🧠 Psychology Uncovered was a huge success! Fantastic to see such a strong turnout from Brunel students keen to explore what the future can look like with a psychology degree

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.

📣 Brunel students – want event experience? We’re supporting Nu Know to recruit up to 6 volunteers for the Parent-Teen Summit 📍 Boxpark Wembley 🗓 2nd April 2026 🔗

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 🔓

📣 @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 🔗👇

Excited to see this paper out, with @aiyanakoka.bsky.social, led by @brunelpsy.bsky.social alumnus Dr. Nachita Rosun, now a postdoc at @obu-hst-research.bsky.social. Summary in the thread 👇🏻

Brunel psychology officially opened our new common room for students today 🧠🤩🥳 Somewhere for students to relax, having coffee and socialise between lecturers 💙

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 🌏 🔗 👇

🧵 1/ 🧠📊 New paper in Brain Communications by Dr Matteo De Marco and colleagues uses network science to rethink how cognition changes in Alzheimer’s disease 🧪 🔗

🎉 Congratulations to Andrei Barbanta! 🎉 We’re delighted to share that Andrei Barbanta, our outstanding Technician at Brunel University of London psychology, has won a British Psychological Society Technician Award 🏆👏

🧠✏️ How does the brain actually design? Join us for a talk by Prof John S Gero (Drexel University) on what neuroscience reveals about designing: from architects to engineers, tools to AI Cohosted by CCN and @brunelcce.bsky.social 📅 4 Feb | 11-12 📍 Bannerman 109 + online Open to all 👋 👇 🔗

📢 Happening this time next week! Open to all! 🔓 📅29th January 2-4pm Brunel campus or online Further info 👇

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

Is the world becoming more religious? Is a Christian revival underway in the UK? I'll discuss these questions in London next week: Wed. at @ucl.ac.uk www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... Thur. at @brunelpsy.bsky.social students.brunel.ac.uk/whats-on/sha... & Thur. at Kings www.linkedin.com/pulse/really...

@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

1/ At Brunel Psychology, we’re excited to share a recent project and video featuring @byroncreese.bsky.social and the development of SmartSocks 🧦🤯 - wearable tech designed to help detect distress in people living with dementia in collaboration with health-tech start-up Milbotix 🎥 👇

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 🎥👇

EHBEA 2026 has extended the deadline till the 9th January #holidaymircale

1/ 🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr @byroncreese.bsky.social from @brunelpsy.bsky.social , whose NIHR-funded project has been featured in this month’s Leading Edge!

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? 🧪🏺 #evolpsy #evolanth #evolutionarybehaviouralsciences #culturalevolution

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

🧵 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 🏳️‍🌈 🎥👇

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 👇

1/ 🎉 New Brunel Psychology publication alert co-authored with Dr Pauldy Otermans and Sofia Barbosa Boucas, is now out in the European Journal of Education! “Students’ Views on Their Academic Skills Development” 📚✨

🧵 1/ Delighted to share that the edited volume Interprofessional Ethics Across the Life Course in Health and Social Care is now published with Brunel Psychology Sofia Barbosa Bouças as an contributor. 📘✨ #InterprofessionalEthics #BrunelResearch

1/ 🩸 New Research by former CCE Tristin Agtarap and CCE member Julieta Baker 📣👏 A new paper in *Sexuality Research & Social Policy* explores how menstrual product choices and menstrual-care practices shape empowerment, autonomy and connection to the body

📚 Brunel Psychology is thrilled to highlight the brilliant work of our colleagues @neuronerdsb.bsky.social and Dr Pauldy Otermans who contributed to a chapter “Co-produce belonging activities with staff and students” 👉 www.routledge.com/Student-Belo...

🧠👀 Dr Rachel Bennetts, our expert in face processing at Brunel psychology, shared her thoughts in @theguardian.com on a fascinating new study exploring what makes some people exceptional at recognising faces 😶‍🌫️ 🔗 👇

🤩 Methods, stats and critical thinking is getting a massive overhaul at @brunelpsy.bsky.social thanks to the hard work of CCE @willgervais.com @replicatedtypo.bsky.social @michealdebarra.bsky.social and @abbeyepage.bsky.social 💪💅

🧵 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 🗣️🛡️

🧵 1/ New paper from CCEs @rebeccasear.bsky.social led by @hggaddy.bsky.social with @anthrolog.bsky.social challenging some common assumptions about polygyny (there are many…) it's open access 🔓 🧪 @brunelpsy.bsky.social

On 16 September 2025, we were delighted to welcome students from Halliford School to our Psychology campus at Brunel 🤩 If you would like to arrange a visit for your students and discover what our Psychology Department has to offer, please get in touch 🧠

It’s time for the psychology pub quiz. The prize is this amazing Brunel mascot soft toy 🧸 🦖 so high stakes

It's the start of welcome week here at Brunel and the new Psychology undergrads are meeting their personal tutors and lecturers 👏 🎓

🧵 1/ New paper co-authored by Francisco Gomez Jimenez from the CCE and colleagues explores same-sex sexuality within an evolutionary framework published in Archives of Sexual Behavior 🧪