For yesterday's #WorldReligionDay, consider our research showing what religion can tell us about human nature. Religious rituals may seem like either stifled Sunday mornings or exotic events in lands far away, but neither capture the reality of these events 🧵

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Thinking about studying MSc psych? Discover what it’s like to study Psychology at Oxford Brookes (@obu-hst-research.bsky.social), meet members of the course team & gain a deeper understanding of the curriculum & learning experience. Find out more and register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oxford-bro...

We're looking for participants for a 10-15 minute survey asking about your favourite fiction genre, interests, worries & coping styles. brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We're trying to better understand how engagement with fiction relates to how you engage with the world - let us know!

We're looking for participants for a 10-15 minute survey on your favourite TV/film or book genre, as well as your interests, worries, and coping styles. I promise to report the results back here so you can reflect on what this says about you.. Thanks! brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

To me it seems more like deeply engrained feudalism; either way, it is as frustrating.

Relevant to research on true crime and related fiction: We love the feeling of insight we get from finding or hearing the solution to whodunits, crossculturally!

179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message: Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared. New global consensus just dropped. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… 🧵

A #crab in a fish tank discovered the air pump… and turned it into a personal jacuzzi. Crabs are curious creatures and often interact with their environment in surprisingly playful ways.

Great talk at #ehbea2025 by @paulajasheppard.bsky.social on family size and child health: inconsistent findings across populations, which would be expected if we focus on asking 'under what conditions/context do we see X', rather than expecting one answer.

Ayesha Ali from @brunelcce.bsky.social presenting on the importance of Spiritual-But-Not-Religious practices providing community for people in Glastonbury, including a slide with the first quote from a male witch I’ve seen so far at #ehbea2025

Great presentation from @brunelcce.bsky.social’s Julieta Baker on how a high proportion of parents in post-industrial settings have little experience of parenting before having their own kids, and frequently experience parenting problems they don’t know how to solve #ehbea2025

Did you know that crows participate in true crime investigations? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdR8RvNy/ Are you a fan of true crime? Participate in our 5-10 minute survey on fiction genre preferences, interests & coping styles! brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... We're still looking for +50 ppl; thnx!

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Thanks to all who have taken part already! We now have a large number of scifi & thriller fans 🛸🧟, but true crime, horror, drama, and fantasy fans are lagging (among others) 👮👹🧝 - where these fans at? Take part to tell us why your genre is your favourite & take a 5-10 min break from scrolling!

📺 Feel like a small break from scrolling to tell us about your favourite TV/movie genre?🎞️ Here is a 5-10 minute survey for our latest research project project on understanding the functions of fiction: brookeshls.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Thanks very much for participating (&/or RT/likes)!

EvoDemoS 2025 website is now live. The 10th Evolutionary Demography Conference will be held 22-24 September 2025, at Oxford University, organised by @robsalgo.bsky.social and colleagues evodemo2025.weebly.com

It's so hard to believe it's true, but here we are.

Post Doctoral Research Assistant ‘50 Years of Becoming A Mother’ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

“She’s in this orange prison outfit,” he said. “She just feels so isolated and desperate, you can imagine, she’s saying, ‘I want to come home’.” She is safe, he said, but living “in horrendous conditions” and had not had access to legal representation. Stop traveling to the U.S, It’s not safe.

I think it's time as a society that we face the implicit agreement we've made that if you don't financially contribute to the economy, you're not afforded the same human rights. It's horrific, and shows that we largely live in economies, not societies.

James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died. www.npr.org/2025/03/03/n...

😒 ugh. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

As I sit home with a terrible cold, I can’t help but be pissed that we decided as a society that we’re just cool with getting sick. We applied technology to water-borne and food-borne illness, and you generally don’t get sick that way anymore. But airborne? Nah, let’s keep getting sick.

Unbelievable but true. My son's nursery keeps refusing air purifiers, even after all staff got sick and a child ended up in hospital a couple of months ago.

We really need to get better at spotting abuse.

Religion data for reuse! Those stories about U.S. religion you're currently seeing in the news? They're from the Pew 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study. While anyone can explore the data with their online tools, Pew has also shared the underlying dataset: doi.org/10.58094/3kw...

Very cool study finding that people engaged with negative content longer when it was presented as art vs non-art 🎨 I agree with the study's leading author that it's time we're embracing art's other functions beyond mere aesthetics. We discuss this aesthetic cognitivism in doi.org/10.31234/osf...

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

An important reminder: a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance or it will fail.

Our new paper in PNAS Nexus. County morals > politics for carbon footprints? 🤯 We find that county-level values predict actual green behavior (emissions!), not just attitudes. Stronger than political leaning.

How can we sustain both our planet and ourselves? Drawing on a new review of research by @matthewibillet.bsky.social, @abaimel.bsky.social, and colleagues - as well as faith and climate scientist leaders like @katharinehayhoe.com, my article for @psychologytoday.com explores what we can do.

George Dale, newspaper editor, fights back against the Klan 🔥 A great example, and a great story; link below.

Bit of a belated post, but hopefully still new exciting news for some! We are delighted to announce that the next Cultural Evolution Society Conference will be in Rabat, Morocco, provisionally 11-13 May 2026, at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

If you're considering grad school (:cough: outside 🇺🇸), @brunelcce.bsky.social has a Psychology, Culture, & Evolution MSc with absolutely top-notch staff. Plenty of expats to help plug you into UK life & academia, MSc -> PhD & beyond. Stay tuned for upcoming announcements & feel free to email w/ Qs!

I don't know the Scholar(s), but this PhD position at Durham sounds fantastic: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ057/f...

This is a great website that generates answers for all the most Covid COVID minimizer questions & retorts!

Every. Time! So lazy! ..or is it intentional ragebait? Glancing over the 3.1k reposts of this post..oops

I think about this often - I don't think it would even cost that much in the end. Also, fewer cars on the road means it's safer for people to walk and cycle, too.

Opportunity for ECRs interested in patience (state, trait, or virtue conceptualizations thereof) to get in on the ground level of a big team science project on patience in adversity: brights.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/patience-adv...

The Human Relations Area Files is pleased to announce a one-year internship in honor of Melvin Ember, President of HRAF from 1987 until his passing in 2009. The intent of the internship is to learn about cross-cultural research through practical experience. hraf.yale.edu/hraf-interns...

How to have a good trip. | https://buff.ly/3CGRaDH @herebehumans.bsky.social argues that the ritualistic context of exploring psychedelic drugs can induce a lasting, transformative experience. #consky

Some silliness left over from Valentine's, but you know, I think it kind of works? 😆 thetab.com/2025/02/12/s...

Experiencing awe during planetarium films significantly boosts viewers' interest in science topics, suggesting that awe can effectively catalyze deeper engagement with scientific material.

PhD opening in the UK: cognitive, computational, and sociocultural basis of pro-environmental decision-making www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

It'd be nice to get less hate as cyclist: "The data clearly demonstrates that it’s vital for Oxford’s health that suitable measures are introduced to help reduce the volume of private vehicles on the city’s roads to achieve improvements in air quality.” www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2493344...

Or in other words, one engages in sharing information on the basis of identity, and one on the basis of facts. Which one speaks to people is what we've now found out.

Anyone else getting #OSF errors? #OpenScienceFramework #AcademicSky