Centre for Culture and Evolution
@brunelcce.bsky.social
Exploring the intersection of culture, evolution, psychology and anthropology. We study how culture and evolution shape human behaviour and society
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Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...
STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s...
STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.
STEPS To It
Announcing a new program, called STEPS, to simulate the dynamics of evolving microbial populations.
telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com
January 20, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Looking for something new to integrate into an #evolution or #microbiology course? Useful for lectures, labs, homework?
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
Have a look at our STEPS program, which simulates bacterial evolution, including the #LTEE. Easy web-based interface & lab manual w/ exercises to help develop students' intuition.
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I noticed my BEC talk is up on youtube: "Planck's Principle, Price's Theorem and the Forces of Cultural Evolution".
Bret Beheim: Planck’s Principle, Price’s Theorem, and the Forces of Cultural Evolution
YouTube video by UCLABEC
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:15 AM
I noticed my BEC talk is up on youtube: "Planck's Principle, Price's Theorem and the Forces of Cultural Evolution".
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"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution
Abstract. The societal effects of children’s learning in cultural evolution have been underexplored. Here, we investigate using agent-based models how a pr
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 22, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"The relationship between childhood exploration and population-level innovation in cultural evolution" with @ndersen.bsky.social @sheinalew.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social out in Proc B
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Aaaand we're back!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
January 22, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Aaaand we're back!!
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
Two Postdocs in Philosophy of Mind (one ot two years), Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp
- to work with me!
Deadline: March 20, 2026
More info on PhilJobs
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Our new review of beluga sociality and culture just dropped at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! Some of our key conclusions summarized 🧵
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org
January 21, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Our new review of beluga sociality and culture just dropped at Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology! Some of our key conclusions summarized 🧵
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
@marine-valeria.bsky.social @dmennill.bsky.social @raincoast.org
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Science comms drowning in PISS?
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 22, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Science comms drowning in PISS?
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If you've heard anyone make claims such as 100 South Koreans will only have 6 great-grand-children, here's why that claim is population scaremongering: generations exist in families, not populations
New post: "Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)"
Thread:
Baby-slapper Malcom Collins says: “For every hundred Koreans there’s only going to be six great-grandchildren.” Math of 0.8 TFR:
100 = 50 couples, 40 kids -->
20 couples, 16 grand -->
8 couples, 6.4 great-grand
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Thread:
Baby-slapper Malcom Collins says: “For every hundred Koreans there’s only going to be six great-grandchildren.” Math of 0.8 TFR:
100 = 50 couples, 40 kids -->
20 couples, 16 grand -->
8 couples, 6.4 great-grand
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Inflaming population decline with math (generations bonus edition)
When reasonable math grossly distorts social life.
familyinequality.wordpress.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:57 AM
If you've heard anyone make claims such as 100 South Koreans will only have 6 great-grand-children, here's why that claim is population scaremongering: generations exist in families, not populations
📢 Happening this time next week!
Open to all! 🔓
📅29th January 2-4pm Brunel campus or online
Further info 👇
Open to all! 🔓
📅29th January 2-4pm Brunel campus or online
Further info 👇
📢 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! 🔓
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! 🔓
January 22, 2026 at 12:13 PM
📢 Happening this time next week!
Open to all! 🔓
📅29th January 2-4pm Brunel campus or online
Further info 👇
Open to all! 🔓
📅29th January 2-4pm Brunel campus or online
Further info 👇
🧵 1/ ✊📣 Andreea Groenendijk-Deveau, founder of Outcry Witness has launched a UK Parliament petition calling for a government-funded scheme to provide free civil legal support for survivors of sexual violence based on research in @brunelpsy.bsky.social with @loraadair.bsky.social
Petition - Free Civil Legal Support for Survivors of Sexual Violence
Support free civil legal support for sexual violence survivors. Help create a fair, accessible path to justice when the system fails to act.
therightwordsproject.org
January 22, 2026 at 12:05 PM
🧵 1/ ✊📣 Andreea Groenendijk-Deveau, founder of Outcry Witness has launched a UK Parliament petition calling for a government-funded scheme to provide free civil legal support for survivors of sexual violence based on research in @brunelpsy.bsky.social with @loraadair.bsky.social
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Excellent piece on Lynn’s “national IQ” dataset:
“If you can convince people that “scientific racism” is an oxymoron – that science deals only in truth, and truth cannot be racist – then you can launder a centuries-old ideology of racial hierarchy through the prestige of science itself”
“If you can convince people that “scientific racism” is an oxymoron – that science deals only in truth, and truth cannot be racist – then you can launder a centuries-old ideology of racial hierarchy through the prestige of science itself”
Bad Science, Good Politics
Richard Lynn and the rehabilitation of blood hierarchy for the internet age
shaemclaughlin.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Excellent piece on Lynn’s “national IQ” dataset:
“If you can convince people that “scientific racism” is an oxymoron – that science deals only in truth, and truth cannot be racist – then you can launder a centuries-old ideology of racial hierarchy through the prestige of science itself”
“If you can convince people that “scientific racism” is an oxymoron – that science deals only in truth, and truth cannot be racist – then you can launder a centuries-old ideology of racial hierarchy through the prestige of science itself”
@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 🧪
We’re learning as we go but dead excited 📚☠️🤗
Follow for updates 🧪
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
Read! Share! Tell us what you think!
#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching
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...
willgervais.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:25 PM
@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 🧪
We’re learning as we go but dead excited 📚☠️🤗
Follow for updates 🧪
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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...
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...
Is the world becoming more religious or less religious?
Join this event to hear Conrad Hackett explore the conflicting narratives about religion in the UK and around the world.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 5:49 PM
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...
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...
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📢 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! 🔓
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! 🔓
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 AM
📢 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! 🔓
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! 🔓
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Early view of our Special Issue on the Anthropology of Adolescence at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is now available!
Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue:
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue:
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
doi.org
January 9, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Early view of our Special Issue on the Anthropology of Adolescence at the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute is now available!
Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue:
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Take a look at our introduction here, which also provides summaries of all the papers in the special issue:
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
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UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Evolutionary Anthropology seminars
Exploring the evolutionary roots of human behaviour, biology, and culture through interdisciplinary research and debate.
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 9, 2026 at 10:23 AM
UCL Evolutionary Anthropology seminars starting up again for the new term every Tuesday pm. Anthropology Dept. 14 Taviton St. DFL 3.30-5pm followed by 🍷. All welcome.
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
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🚨🚨Last reminder for abstract submission!🚨🚨
⏰ Abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes on 9 Jan (AOE effectively Saturday noon).
📌 Exception(!): papers part of a symposium (EvApecognition, AIvolution, etc.).
For details, check our website! 👉www.ehbea2026.com
⏰ Abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes on 9 Jan (AOE effectively Saturday noon).
📌 Exception(!): papers part of a symposium (EvApecognition, AIvolution, etc.).
For details, check our website! 👉www.ehbea2026.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
🚨🚨Last reminder for abstract submission!🚨🚨
⏰ Abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes on 9 Jan (AOE effectively Saturday noon).
📌 Exception(!): papers part of a symposium (EvApecognition, AIvolution, etc.).
For details, check our website! 👉www.ehbea2026.com
⏰ Abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes on 9 Jan (AOE effectively Saturday noon).
📌 Exception(!): papers part of a symposium (EvApecognition, AIvolution, etc.).
For details, check our website! 👉www.ehbea2026.com
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IACESR call for paper closes Feb 6th. Come join us to talk about the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion in Brno in July! iacesr.com/conferences/
Conferences - IACESR
We are delighted to announce that the 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences of Religion (IACESR) will be held at Masaryk University in Brno...
iacesr.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
IACESR call for paper closes Feb 6th. Come join us to talk about the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion in Brno in July! iacesr.com/conferences/
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Abstract submission for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference closes tomorrow, 9 January 👇
⏳ONE WEEK LEFT⏳
We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟
Submit now: ehbea2026.com
#EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution
We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟
Submit now: ehbea2026.com
#EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution
Overview | EHBEA2026
The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026.
EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...
ehbea2026.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Abstract submission for the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association conference closes tomorrow, 9 January 👇
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The International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health will hold its annual meeting 28-31 July in Kiel, Germany. Abstract submission deadline 1 March isemph.org/page-18356
ISEMPH - 2026 in Kiel, Germany
isemph.org
January 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
The International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health will hold its annual meeting 28-31 July in Kiel, Germany. Abstract submission deadline 1 March isemph.org/page-18356
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🚨 CONFERENCE DEADLINE 🚨
9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social
See you in April! 😊
9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social
See you in April! 😊
⏳ONE WEEK LEFT⏳
We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟
Submit now: ehbea2026.com
#EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution
We hope you’re rested and ready for an exciting new year!🚀 Don't forget: abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 closes THIS FRIDAY, 9 January—don’t miss your chance to present your work in Leiden, 14-17 April 2026!🌟
Submit now: ehbea2026.com
#EHBEA2026 #BehaviouralScience #AIvolution
Overview | EHBEA2026
The upcoming conference of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association will take place in Leiden, The Netherlands, 14th-17th of April 2026.
EHBEA conferences bring together researchers applyi...
ehbea2026.com
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🚨 CONFERENCE DEADLINE 🚨
9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social
See you in April! 😊
9 January is the last day to submit your abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social
See you in April! 😊
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PhD position - COOLNET: COOperation in Large-scale NETworks. Video game experiments to find ways to promote cooperation www.tudublin.ie/research-inn... #EHBEA
COOLNET
www.tudublin.ie
January 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
PhD position - COOLNET: COOperation in Large-scale NETworks. Video game experiments to find ways to promote cooperation www.tudublin.ie/research-inn... #EHBEA
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The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics offers jobs for Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines.
Deadline for application: January 23, 2026
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Deadline for application: January 23, 2026
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
January 5, 2026 at 7:17 PM
The Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Toulouse School of Economics offers jobs for Postdoctoral Researchers with a PhD in psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, or related disciplines.
Deadline for application: January 23, 2026
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Deadline for application: January 23, 2026
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
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2x CE related (evolving languages) PhD opportunity 🚨
I'm hiring! 2 x PhD positions to work at Uni Zurich with me on "Evolutionary Semantics" for an ERC-funded project. semantically curious MA grads from linguistics, cog psych, anthro encouraged to apply
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
evolvinglanguage.ch/studying-the...
Studying the Evolution of Abstract Thought - NCCR Evolving Language
In the new ERC-funded project, “Conceptual Diversity and the Evolution of Abstract Thought” (CONCEVO), Mansfield will lead a team of researchers to develop a method for reconstructing the evolution of...
evolvinglanguage.ch
January 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM
2x CE related (evolving languages) PhD opportunity 🚨
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And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
January 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
And we're live, Lecture A1 is online. Introduction to Bayesian workflow, generative models, estimands, estimators, estimates, error checking, beginnings of probability theory and Bayesian updating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztbY...
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“A better understanding of how cultures evolve—how info is transmitted & modified, how we make decisions, how culture interacts with biology & other species—is a pressing issue in an increasingly interdependent world where cultural activities are causing rapid, drastic social & environmental change”
In this blog post, Guest Editor @rachkendal.bsky.social discusses their #PhilTransB issue, 'Transforming cultural evolution research and its application to global futures': royalsociety.org/blog/2025/12...
December 20, 2025 at 7:56 AM
“A better understanding of how cultures evolve—how info is transmitted & modified, how we make decisions, how culture interacts with biology & other species—is a pressing issue in an increasingly interdependent world where cultural activities are causing rapid, drastic social & environmental change”