Rebecca Sear
@RebeccaSear
Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London. President of the European Human Behaviour & Evolution Association
Four years on, the paper which prompted this thread was retracted but the ludicrous dataset the thread describes is still thriving in the academic literature (and beyond). Read our article and 🧵 below for examples statnews.com/2024/06/20/ric…
Do 'national IQ' datasets present accurate and unbiased data on average IQs in nation-states worldwide? A thread 👇 (Spoiler alert: NO) 1/n
Excellent explainer by Philip Ball on why now more than ever scientists need to resist the logic of "anticipatory obedience" chemistryworld.com/opinion/scient…
The Cultural Evolution Society has also put out a statement in solidarity with Stand Up For Science day culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-event…
Push against X's anti-knowledge algorithms and Stand Up For Science Today!! Find your local event and/orGet loud and tell everyone why you’re Standing Up for Science. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall (link in next tweet)
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science go.nature.com/4hzks6l
People focusing on current global fertility declines rely nearly only on period data. Cohort and period trends can however look very different. The declines in fertility in central & eastern Europe in the 1990s only resulted in quite modest eventual cohort TFR decline.
🚨🚨 @hopenothate exclusive 🚨🚨 A Russian-linked Telegram group is encouraging Nazi terrorist acts in the UK hopenothate.org.uk/2025/02/10/exc…
Next London Universities seminar 11 February, 13:00 LSE Room CON 1.01 - @MireilleLeGuen (INED), 'The dark side of birth control: Why men’s contraceptive use is understudied by demographers’ @PSG_LSHTM @CLScohorts Zoom link: lse.zoom.us/j/9867828543?p…
Elon Musk keeps boosting white nationalists on X motherjones.com/politics/2025/…
"Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos." nature.com/articles/d4158…
Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs. See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. ⬇️ scim.ag/42LPG5S
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP. It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next. 1/
Musk fellowship ‘debases’ Royal Society, warns climate scientist. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-cha…
The American Journal of Biological Anthropology (@AmJBioAnth), the official Journal of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists, published by Wiley, seeks a new Editor-in-Chief. The submission deadline is March 31, 2025. bioanth.org/jobs/editor-in…
Tuesday Aiyana Willard @aiyanakoka Brunel @CCE_Brunel speaking on “The practice and function of witchcraft in Mauritius and in the UK” @UCLanthropology DFL 3.30-5pm
Our Evolutionary Anthropology research seminars (Tuesday afternoons) are listed here - come along ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/e…