My new professional home 😊 Delighted to be taking up the post of Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution at Brunel University London. Check out the amazing people I’ll now be working with (along with several new hires not yet on the website!) brunel.ac.uk/research/Centr…

Here’s an argument that scientists should tackle pseudoscience head on: “In a world filled with people sceptical of science, we need to see these opportunities, not as debates but spectacles. We need to speak up strategically & share our expertise in our post-truth world”

I’ve not seen the term “scientific sexism” used in the same way as “scientific racism”, maybe because the former is more often promoted by mainstream scientists rather than those on the fringes of science (like scientific racists?)

Very pleased to share our latest pre-print 'Asking the right questions: How PMS question phrasing impacts responses in an English speaking, online sample'.
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Alex Alvergne
researchsquare.com/article/rs-161…

Revamped British Academy aims for modern role in UK’s global mission: “Social sciences & the humanities have never been more necessary. How can a technological age move forward without pausing to think? If it doesn’t stop & breathe, society is diminished” theguardian.com/education/2024…

'Last month, the Committee on Publication Ethics updated its guidelines on how publishers and universities could communicate better, including that institutions, not publishers, should perform integrity or misconduct investigations' nature.com/articles/d4158…

Demographic change once again being used to justify the rise of the far-right. This piece about declining population - America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population - ends 'The worse things get, the more votes Mr Trump will win' 🤷‍♀️
economist.com/briefing/2024/…

Bargaining between the sexes: 'we find remarkable equality in division of leisure time within households in immediate-return hunter-gatherers; suggest roles of sex-egalitarian norms & behaviors, non-substitutability of subsistence labour & bilocality' osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Charles Darwin and His Correspondents: A Lifetime of Letters - 'The 30th(!) & final volume of the print edition of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin was published last year, completing an endeavor begun in the mid-1970s...involving some 15,000 letters' daily.jstor.org/charles-darwin…

How Kinship & Marriage Customs Influence Nutritional Outcomes: 'patrilocality contributes to higher BMI among males cf males in other settings & females. Matrilocality contributes to higher BMI among females cf females in other settings but not males' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Announcing a revised preprint Ken Richardson and I co-authored on 'The Bell Curve.' It will appear in the edited book 'The Heredity Hoax: Challenging Flawed Genetic Theories of Human Development,' forthcoming with Routledge. R. M. Lerner & G. Greenberg, eds.

osf.io/preprints/psya…

New paper out from the Evolutionary Demography of Religion team in Royal Society Publishing ! This one summarizes lessons from building and running our cross-cultural mixed-methods project. We hope it will be helpful to others!

🔗 find the OA paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…
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'We found no clear evidence of an association between breastfeeding duration and educational attainment in rural Uganda'

Britain | A silent scandal. ...

'...the number of unascertained deaths in England and Wales increased five-fold between 1992 and 2022, even as overall mortality rates were falling.'

To read the full paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The Economist Report:

economist.com/britain/2024/0…

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Submit your abstracts on fertility and sexual and reproductive health for #BSPS2024 !

Joe Strong and I can't wait to read them 🤓

Join our next webinar with PSG LSHTM to hear from Jamie Perin Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who will discuss cause-specific neonatal mortality trends across India.

Webinar details ▶️lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…