@abbeyepage

Lecturer @brunelcce in @BrunelUni working on all things on reproduction and childrearing 💜

 London, England
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Joined February 2016
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Ever wondered if farmers do in fact have higher fertility than hunter-gathers? Or, how meaningful population level subsistence typologies are for individual's fertility? If yes, then I have the paper for you! 📢📢 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23… @PNASNews @CCE_Brunel @PSG_LSHTM

Women’s subsistence strategies predict fertility across cultures, but context matters | PNAS

While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence,...

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Well done Kenza!
Brunel Psychology@BrunelPsyJun 24
Brunel's @abbeyepage and @NicoleJWen supervised Medical student @_Kenza_David who just won the best poster award for their summer project learning about maternal mental health and infant feeding 🥳 well done Kenza! 🤍
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Brunel's @abbeyepage and @NicoleJWen supervised Medical student @_Kenza_David who just won the best poster award for their summer project learning about maternal mental health and infant feeding 🥳 well done Kenza! 🤍
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*Makes flippant comment undermining scientific research without meaningful engagement* Do check it out and critique on meaningful grounds. FWIW we often discuss things we find problematic and do not fully reproduce them not cause further harm. this is not novel, its ethics.
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@sentientistJun 19
A new paper in Evolutionary Human Sciences examines race memes on x but doesn't reproduce the original memes so readers don't have to be exposed to racism when reading a paper about racism. Here are the "ethically modified" memes.
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1/ 🧬⚖️ New Brunel CCE/CCN Shared Horizons talk: When is a methodological choice an ethical problem? Dr Celso Neto joins @Bruneluni Psychology to unpack ancestry, racial stigma and human population genetics Wed 24th June, 2-4pm | ESGW Beldam | also online via Teams 🔗👇
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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 Retraction notice from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications nature.com/articles/s41599-0…

Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioec...

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Retraction Note: Beyond GDP: national intelligence quotient as a catalyst for sustainable socioeconomic welfare

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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 👇
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📢 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 📣🧪
Brunel Psychology@BrunelPsyMar 25
📢 Participants needed Had a baby in the last 3 months? Researchers at @Bruneluni want to better understand parents’ expectations and experiences of infant feeding 🍼 A short 10-minute survey 👇 brunellifesc.eu.qualtrics.co…
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🧵 1/ Excellent and impactful work from CCE second in command @LoraAdair with Outcry Witness outcrywitness.com It’s an anonymous website where sexual-assault survivors can safely tell their stories. No names, no pressure. Just their r 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.

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Attention applicants for the May 1, 2025, deadline for Dissertation Fieldwork, Post Ph.D Research Grant and Hunt Fellowship: please check your email for updates on your application. If you have questions email, [email protected].
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🧵 1/ New paper from CCEs @RebeccaSear led by @hggaddy with @anthrolog challenging some common assumptions about polygyny (there are many…) it's open access 🔓 🧪 @BrunelResearch @Bruneluni
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Replying to @replicatedtypo @matcharbonneau1
Understanding long-term technological evolution is therefore going to require a fully articulated theory of how technological systems and spaces co-evolve over time. 🧵: 28/29
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🚨🚨 New preprint 📜 with Mathieu Charbonneau (@matcharbonneau1): Modelling the emergence of open-ended technological evolution (arxiv.org/abs/2508.04828). Feedback welcomed! #Evolution #Technology #Culture #OpenEnded #TechnologicalEvolution #CulturalEvolution 🧵: 1/29
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The Spirits and Sources folks attended the Goddess Conference last week 🧙‍♀️🪬🧚 lots of fieldwork 🏞️🔍, participant observation and ethnography 🧑‍🤝‍🧑📋🖊️, and community building 🌐🤝🏘️ as well as embodied experience 🙏💃🌀 @BrunelResearch @Bruneluni
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@BrunelPsy @Bruneluni hosted the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) on the topic of “Gender, Sexuality, and Relationships” last week with amazing representation from Brunel undergrad, MSc and PhD researchers ❤️🤩 all mentored by the 🌟@LoraAdair 🌟
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🧵 1/8 🌟Brand spanking new paper (again) by CCE’s @LoraAdair and ex-PhD student Tristin Agtarap on culture and the policies and procedures that regulate sex ed and abortion care in Sexuality Research and Social Policy 📢 link.springer.com/article/10…

Cultural Mindset and Social Policy: Mapping Sexual Health–Related Policies Across the USA

Sexuality Research and Social Policy - In the wake of post-Roe America, scholars increasingly evaluate the barriers associated with sex education and reproductive rights nationwide, probing the...

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🧵 1/ CCEs @MichelleAKline @NicoleJWen and Nachita Rosun all contributed to ….“Meet A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning” 📣💪🤩 edited by the lovely @sheinalew openbookpublishers.com/books… 🔓

A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning: Theoretical, Methodological,...

This volume addresses the critical gaps in developmental research on childhood learning by advocating for a more inclusive and cross-cultural approach. Recent studies highlight a concerning over-re...

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🧵 1/ 📣 ANOTHER new paper by CCE star @LoraAdair and colleagues on meanings of addiction among women in three countries published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 🤩💪 mdpi.com/1660-4601/22/7/1064

Reconstructing Cross-Cultural Meanings of Addiction Among Women from Three Countries

The gender gap in drug use is narrowing in regions where access to criminalized substances, such as opioids, is increasing. While research shows that substance use is gendered, less is known about...

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🧵 1/4 🥴 Enough with calling agnosticism the ultimate fence-sit - it's its own philosophical question! CCE’s Will Gervais et al pre-print shows religious metaphysics (theism vs. atheism) and epistemology (gnosticism vs. agnosticism) are totally orthogonal (fully unrelated)
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🧵 1/ New paper by CCE superstars Julieta Baker, Aneeka Shrestha, Ssanyu Kayser & @LoraAdair on abortion attitudes following experience of abortion in the UK published in Perspectives in Sexual and Reproductive Health pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

“It Makes It More Real to You”: Abortion Attitudes Following Experience and Contact With Abortion

When positioned as part of a cluster of related social and political attitudes, abortion attitudes are characterized as somewhat fixed from a young age. The extent to which abortion attitudes are...

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🧵 1/ Eugenics isn’t ancient history @RebeccaSear from @Bruneluni traces how the 19th-century idea of “improving” humanity through selective breeding keeps mutating - and why it never stopped threatening human rights 👇 thebritishacademy.ac.uk/podc…

The 21st Century Resurgence of Eugenics

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