La psychologie francophone a perdu une de ses “voix”. Une spécialiste de la psychologie du numérique qui s’était notamment distinguée par ses talents de médiatrice scientifique. Quelle tristesse!

Anne Cordier@annecordier.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Bonjour à tous.tes Nous avons l'indicible douleur de vous faire part du décès de Séverine Erhel, survenu ce lundi 13 avril 2026 à Rennes. (information diffusée à la demande / avec l'autorisation de la famille)

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

The UnPopulist@theunpopulist.net · 4mo ago

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Face à une actualité anxiogène, comment accompagner les enfants à y faire face? @olivierklein.bsky.social, professeur en psychologie sociale de ULB nous donnent quelques éléments de réponse à travers ce nouveau 100g 🤩 👉https://milgram.ulb.be/100g/episodes-100g/enfants_actualite/ 📷 Fer Troulik

Want to come work with @olivierklein.bsky.social and me on a socially relevant topic in a warm research center full of amazing people, in the no-less international and vibrant city of Brussels? And for three years, full-time? Then apply by April 15! More details here: lnkd.in/erXmpcBm

HDR Defended ✅ Thank you to everyone for all your support during the process. Special thanks to my jury members @olivierklein.bsky.social @majabecker.bsky.social Maire-Pierre Fourquet-Courbet, Bo Sanisito, Pascal Huguet and Nicolas Michinov.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Chilling and unconstitutional” — @attorneynora.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social

U.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers

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The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

This was not an easy one to write, but here it is! 🎈🤡 Freshly published in Collabra: Psychology: the life and death of one of the coolest findings in my PhD dissertation. 🎈🤡 With the usual – and wonderful – Karen M. Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social. 1/11

Collabra: Psychology@collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Does Being Confronted With Internal Attributions for an Ingroup’s Sufferings Foster the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories? New in social psychology, from @kenzonera.bsky.social, Karen Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

I love when colleagues share amazing stories with me! Thanks @olivierklein.bsky.social They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

They Droned Back

Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast

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New publication led by @kenzonera.bsky.social. A very instructive set of studies if you want to teach about transparency and replication.

Collabra: Psychology@collabrapsychology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Does Being Confronted With Internal Attributions for an Ingroup’s Sufferings Foster the Endorsement of Conspiracy Theories? New in social psychology, from @kenzonera.bsky.social, Karen Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1525/coll...

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

“The paper warned that, in an extreme scenario, a highly persuasive AI chatbot ‘could benefit unscrupulous actors wishing, for example, to promote radical political or religious ideologies or foment political unrest among geopolitical adversaries.’” (I do not think this is an “extreme scenario”…)

David Ingram@davidingram.bsky.social · 8mo ago

NEW: AI chatbots used inaccurate information to change people’s political opinions, study finds www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔

Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

If you are interested in collective memory and plan to attend the EASP General Meeting in Strasburg, don't miss our preconference!

Fiona Kazarovytska@zakfio.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially @paulbertin.bsky.social who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper.

Paul Bertin@paulbertin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon, @kenzonera.bsky.social, @rritabajraktari.bsky.social, Vincent Yzerbyt, @olivierklein.bsky.social, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project). OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Yes the BBC edit was poor journalistic form but the research indeed shows that Trump's speech predicted riots, violence, and weapons use on January 6th.

Stephan Lewandowsky@lewan.uk · 9mo ago

This article provides a minute-by-minute analysis of how Trump (Granger) causally contributed to violence on J6 doi.org/10.1098/rsif... @anthonymkreis.bsky.social In light of sum of evidence I remain unconvinced that BBC got things (very) wrong @jagolinzer.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social

Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon, @kenzonera.bsky.social, @rritabajraktari.bsky.social, Vincent Yzerbyt, @olivierklein.bsky.social, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project). OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs

Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im...

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A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid-19, l’autorité chargée de la politique vaccinale aux États-Unis se réunit à New York. Mais elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vaccins nommés par le premier d’entre eux, le ministre de la santé Robert Kennedy Jr. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

États-Unis : les antivax prennent le pouvoir sur la santé

L’autorité sanitaire chargée de la politique vaccinale se réunit jeudi et vendredi à New York. Mais cinq ans après le début de la pandémie de covid-19, elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vac…

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Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

Wow and wow and WE MUST ALL DO THIS!!

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

This post has not aged badly unfortunately.

Olivier Klein@olivierklein.bsky.social · 2y ago

As anti-vax RFK will become US health secretary, now may be a good time to read our little book on the psychology of vaccination. www.routledge.com/The-Psycholo...

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?

Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages

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Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?

My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)