UL Psychology has been building expertise in innovative methods for exploring social systems with networks and computational social science. The attached image of issue coordination among political party supporters in the US is an example that got lots of attention. Paper: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

Applications are open! Go to www.ul.ie/gps/courses/... for more info. #StayCurious #StudyatUL

Finally, here is a press release that is our briefest summary of the program and findings. Go here if you want to spend <5 minutes on SCORE: www.cos.io/about/news/l...

Large-Scale Collaboration Releases New Findings on Research Credibility

Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort among 865 researchers—have been published in Nature. SCORE offers new evidence on resear...

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Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Student numbers have increased dramaticaly without any corresponding increaase in physical facilities for teaching etc, making timetabling impossible... and now the Govt wants universities to condense timetables because of accommodation shortsges. Go figure. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

Colleges to be asked to cut on-campus days to ease student accommodation crisis

Government to ask third-level institutions to condense students’ time on campus to minimise the number of commuting days

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New Gist: The Promise of No Change "Ireland's recent economic success is based around a very simple model. We hold a burlap sack open under a pipe attached to Apple and Microsoft " www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

The Gist: The Promise of No Change

For every action needed, why is there an equal and opposite inaction? This is the Gist.

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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest

Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...

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📢 Post-doc position – Toulouse (France) 🇫🇷 A post-doctoral position (12 months) is open at CNRS in Toulouse to work with me on the relationship between signal detection theory, conspiracy beliefs, and perceptions of corruption... 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Feel free to share!

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>

Adam Music@musicadamt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Respond with the same actor as a hero and villain.

🚨2 ERC-funded Postdocs🚨 IDENTITY ERROR combines computational & experimental approaches to model epistemic vulnerability. 2 posts are available in our supportive & interdisciplinary team. Further details: Computational: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul... Social Psych: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

In this new Commentary in @natclimate.nature.com, I reflect on the recent focus on truth discernment in #misinfo research and argue that this outcome alone may not be beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes because... 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation

Nature Climate Change - Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to...

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🟡 We are delighted to share that Social Psychological Bulletin has Impact Factor of 2.0! 🏅 Another big milestone for the once small and locally published journal - with more to come in the future. @pspspl.bsky.social @psychopengold.bsky.social

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Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour

Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.

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Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.

10 years work has led to this: Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system & bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them. European Review of Social Psychology. @polpsyispp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1046...

Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system and bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them

People holding attitudes are a social information system that can be modelled as a bipartite social identity network, where people are bound into groups via jointly held attitudes; and attitudes in...

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Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.

“The self-categorization model of mental health….predicts that intervention will be more likely to succeed where it helps to repair a particular component of the social self-system: inclusivity, positivity, or context sensitivity.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1037/rev0... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Psychology for a permanent post! Salary scale is €47,955 - €65,244 p.a. Closing date is Noon Irish time on Friday, 30th May More information at www.ul.ie/vacancies Informal enquiries to eric.igou@ul.ie

5. Today, we are facing disinformation campaigns around science and medicine. These are coming from within our own government and are being carried out on a massive scale. Researchers who study these dynamics are being harassed; funding is gone; universities are scared to hire in this area.

Don't stand for political bullying of disinformation scholars | Editorial

Among the targets of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan is the co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.

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Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Rebekah Tromble@rebekahtromble.bsky.social · last yr.

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Sigh another day, another colleague falls foul of post-hoc power calculation requests by a grant reviewer @lakens.bsky.social 's blog page comes in handy for this nonsense #episky daniellakens.blogspot.com/2014/12/obse...

Observed power, and what to do if your editor asks for post-hoc power analyses

This blog post is now included in the paper "Sample size justification" available at PsyArXiv. Observed power (or post-hoc power) is th...

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I wrote about the biggest paradox of 21st century governance: that the democratization of information production is killing democracy. Trump’s America is the canary in the coal mine for how badly things can break when voters inhabit different realities from a steady diet of informational sludge.

The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy

The way we receive information about our world is unlike any previous generations of humanity. Paradoxically, it's destroying democracy—and Trump's America is the main canary in the coal mine.

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."

Arno Rosenfeld@arnorosenfeld.bsky.social · 2y ago

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

How is this production technology? Here's Google Gemini potentially getting someone killed. Ten energy drinks is typically 1600-3000 mg of caffeine.

Campaign Gist: Building a Wall The six constituencies with the greatest risk of far-right gains and the best candidates in each place to vote for to block them. https://www.thegist.ie/campaign-gist-building-a-wall/