Dr Lora Adair
@loraadair.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Brunel University | Feminist + Evolutionist | Reproduction/Abortion Research + Outreach
97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that!
This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time.
therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time.
therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
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
February 4, 2026 at 12:31 PM
97% of r@pists walk free in the UK. Survivors don't. Let's change that!
This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time.
therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
This petition calls for free civil legal support for survivors, creating a real route to accountability where criminal justice often fails - and helping prevent repeat harm over time.
therightwordsproject.org/petition-fre...
Mark your calendars! 🫶
📢 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 2:56 PM
Mark your calendars! 🫶
So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators 🫶✨
🧵 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 🗣️🛡️
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 🗣️🛡️
Home - Healing starts when people bear witness
Outcry Witness is the platform where survivors of sexual violence keep an anonymous record of their experience, always under their control.
outcrywitness.com
October 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
So proud of this work and so grateful for my participants and my incredible collaborators 🫶✨
taking a social/relational perspective on resilience in recovery - super proud of this work and so grateful to our participants 🫶
🧵 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
August 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
taking a social/relational perspective on resilience in recovery - super proud of this work and so grateful to our participants 🫶
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🧵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.
In collaboration with Gendered Intelligence, the team are aiming to understand how healthcare can better support YOU.
April 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🧵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.
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 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍
April 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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 ✨💛
The (Mis)conceptions exhibition with a session led by CCEs amazing @loraadair.bsky.social, Julieta Barker and Ayesha Ali has been a massive success 🥳❤️💅
January 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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 💕
🎨✨ 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 👇
@ 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
January 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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!
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 🤩
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
January 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This scheme is so ✨rad✨ - I can’t wait to take part!
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🧵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
Led by the wonderful @anushe.bsky.social
You can find the pre-print here 👇
@brunelcce.bsky.social @brunelpsy.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social
OSF
osf.io
January 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🧵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
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 💕
🌟 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
📅 3rd Dec 12pm ET, 18:00 CET
To Register, Please Visit: div52.net//webinars
December 4, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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 🩵😭
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 👀
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
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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 💜🔮💫
1/ 4🧵 Curious about the spiritual community in Glastonbury??
Of course you are so let’s dive into the Spirits and Sources project! 👇✨
Of course you are so let’s dive into the Spirits and Sources project! 👇✨
November 18, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Coolest project, topic, and team ever 💜🔮💫
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
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
November 13, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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! 🩵
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
@brunelpsy.bsky.social #womenshealth
November 8, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Had a blast discussing my work with the lovely people at Oxford Brookes this week! 🩵
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
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
November 7, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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 💙
November 4, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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 💙
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
📢📢📢💫 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
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
September 23, 2024 at 2:25 PM
📢📢📢💫 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
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
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
🌞 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
October 29, 2024 at 12:28 PM
🌞 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
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
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...
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
October 20, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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...
familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/10/20/p...
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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 🧪
Open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
#PhilSci #Psychology #MetaSci 🧪
October 17, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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 🧪
Open access: doi.org/10.1080/0951...
#PhilSci #Psychology #MetaSci 🧪
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
📢 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
📅 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
October 15, 2024 at 2:32 PM
📢 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
📅 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
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
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
September 20, 2024 at 6:22 AM
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...
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
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
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
September 3, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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
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
Reposted by Dr Lora Adair
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...
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...
July 31, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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...
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...