🚨 PhD position open — apply by 15 March 2026 Fully funded PhD on social influence, social networks, segregation, and the spread of attitudes & behaviors (start Oct 2026). 🔗 Details: www.muni.cz/en/about-us/... 📬 Please share! #PhD #AcademicJobs #Psychology #SocialScience #SocialNetworks

PhD Position: Groups, Social Influence, and the Spread of Attitudes & Behaviors | Masaryk University

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There's the way Trump is gleefully happy to accept someone else's Nobel prize, and then there's the way Richard Feynman viewed Nobel prizes.

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🚨 Deadline approaching (Dec 15) I’m hiring two postdocs to join me in Brno and help launch a new project on how segregation (clustering) shapes the spread of behaviors, within the Behaviors of Individuals and Groups (BIG) lab at Masaryk University. 📌 Two positions 5-year postdoc 3-year postdoc

🤯 Excited (and grateful) to have been awarded two grants: the GAČR Junior Star and the MASH Junior award from Masaryk University. They will support new research on how segregation shapes the spread of attitudes and behaviors, and how we can better integrate psychology with a social network approach.

This—on my former university, department, and advisor—is harrowing but required reading for all social psychologists. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say

The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.

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The deadline for the meeting on counterfactuals is coming up. Don't forget to send in your contribution.

Kai Epstude@kaiepstude.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We're organizing an EASP small group meeting on counterfactuals in March 2026. More details can be found here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...

1/4 📢 New paper in PSPB with Andreas Flache! How do attitudes & behaviors spread? #SocialInfluence among #adolescents isn’t just passed from friend to friend — it also flows through group norms. Both channels shaped academic drive, #prejudice, #religiosity. 👉DOI: 10.1177/01461672251366388

Does anyone know of a direct comparison between EU countries in terms of metrics used to evaluate universities and/or academic researchers? I'm especially interested in whether one can contrast countries that use N publications with those that don't. I suspect it's not so simple though

🚨 3-year postdoc opening in Brno (Czechia)! Join Sylvie Graf and me to study polarization & intergenerational relations. Start: Sept 2025 (flexible) 📅 Deadline: June 30 More details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/349285 Please help spread the offer. #postdoc #psychology

3-Year Postdoc Position on the EU co-funded project „On our own: opportunities and risks of individualising society” at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno

3-Year Postdoc Position on the EU co-funded project „On our own: opportunities and risks of individualising society” at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno Deadline: June 30...

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Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

🚨 3-year postdoc opening in Brno (Czechia)! Join Sylvie Graf and me to study polarization & intergenerational relations. Start: Sept 2025 (flexible) 📅 Deadline: June 30 More details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/349285 Please help spread the offer. #postdoc #psychology

3-Year Postdoc Position on the EU co-funded project „On our own: opportunities and risks of individualising society” at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno

3-Year Postdoc Position on the EU co-funded project „On our own: opportunities and risks of individualising society” at the Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences in Brno Deadline: June 30...

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Check out our registered report @ispp-pops.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/pops..., in which we present a four-wave field experiment combined with network analysis. We cannot make it without our social network expert @tzingora.bsky.social and my PhD supervisors @pruthie.bsky.social and Daan Scheepers!

The network dynamics of antiprejudice norms: A field experiment testing antiprejudice interventions in real groups

Individuals' attitudes toward members of ethnic and national outgroups can be shaped by peer norms within social networks. However, little is known about the interplay between such spontaneous normat...

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📢 Call for Abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the Network for Empirical-Analytical Social Research on Muslims (NAFS) on September 15 & 16 @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt, Germany. Call is here: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170436331/Cf...? Thanks for sharing! 👍

📢 PhD Opportunity at Masaryk University! 🎓 We seek 2 PhD students for the PRINS project on partnership trajectories & intergenerational relations. Apply by 31.03.2025! More info here: soc.fss.muni.cz/aktuality/jo...

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2 PhD Vacancies “Partnership Trajectories and Intergenerational Relations”

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

King's College London launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets, in partnership with @wellcometrust.bsky.social / @mqmentalhealth.bsky.social, a free platform with over 1,600 datasets, to support mental health research worldwide. 🌍 Read more and learn how to access: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

King's launches the Atlas of Longitudinal Datasets to support mental health research

Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s College London have launched a new free platform to allow people to discover hundreds of longitudinal mental hea...

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1/5 ⚡️Paper alert🧩Puzzle: social network studies (SAOM) often find no effect of having outgroup friends on prejudice in schools.💡Reason? Accounting for the social influence of friends. 🔍An outgroup size was linked to lower prejudice. [Link](https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12797).

1/4 ⚡️Preprint⚡️I put into question the effect of intergroup friendship on outgroup attitudes in schools while showing the importance of social influence and exposure to outgroup peers. It highlights the benefits of social network analysis and SAOM. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zdc9j