Rebecca Sear

Director of the Centre for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London @brunelcce.[bsky.social](http://bsky.social )

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2026-10-31 08:30:45 UTC

Call in the Lancet to treat the manosphere as a commercial determinant of health:
“Men’s problems are framed [in manosphere] as the result of feminism rather than structural conditions & masculine identity is commodified through products & paid content that normalise health-harming masculinities”
[Manosphere and online misogyny...](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/oct/29/manosphere-online-misogyny-public-health-policy-lancet-report )

2026-07-30 12:00:12 UTC

"Today’s biggest AI startups make no shortage of bold promises. Yet a new preprint suggests many of these firms barely participate in one of science’s most fundamental practices: publicly documenting discoveries in scientific literature so other researchers can evaluate and build on them"
[AI’s top startups are barely p...](https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research )

2025-06-16 10:16:08 UTC

“Historically, no one lived past age 35”
"I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"
[There Were Still Old People Wh...](https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/there-were-still-old-people-when?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=5dvpqp&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email )

2025-02-17 08:32:31 UTC

“The census is inherently political: its original purpose was reapportionment of political representation, and in virtually every decade, winners and losers of the demographic contest have debated the legitimacy of the results”
[academic.oup.com/jah/article/...](https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/107/1/19/5862178 )
[Census Technology, Politics, a...](https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/107/1/19/5862178 )

2025-01-16 16:12:14 UTC

Gender roles have always been complex and flexible; time to retire for good the idea of “traditional” gender roles [www.theguardian.com/science/2025...](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/15/iron-age-men-left-home-join-wives-families-dna-study-reveals )
[Iron age men left home to join...](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/15/iron-age-men-left-home-join-wives-families-dna-study-reveals )

2024-12-05 18:03:46 UTC

Women with PhDs 1
Musk’s troll army 0
[www.bbc.com/news/article...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxvpzp9wvo )
[Academic trolled for Cambridge...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgxvpzp9wvo )