Thank you, @markrubin.bsky.social, for sharing our paper! Others, please have a look at our paper where we discuss a bias in research of (dis)trust in science!

Mark Rubin@markrubin.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"There is an asymmetry in the study of trust in science: instead of examining the full spectrum from extreme distrust to extreme trust, it is heavily skewed towards the distrust end." By Petar Lukić and @iriszez.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s111...

I don't think this science communication resource gets enough love. OpenMoji offers 4,000+ free, #opensource emojis (CC BY-SA 4.0), with categories for healthcare, climate, UI... Challenge: find Greta Thunberg and a Viennese coffee house. ☕ 🔗 openmoji.org #SciComm #Design

Thrilled & grateful to launch the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab @NYUAbuDhabi: tinyurl.com/4dw6h29r We'll be looking at how phenomena at the societal level (from polarization to extreme inequality) reflect & shape psychological functioning. Stay tuned for research & events!

✨Who says dreams can’t come true?✨ 5 yrs ago, I emailed Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington asking if she'd take me on as a PhD student. She rightly declined. 5yrs later, she is taking me on as a postdoc in Psychology in Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) lab at NYU Abu Dhabi (probably shouldn't have)!

🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior? Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression. 🧵Findings from our 45-country study:

🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉 Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]🧵

Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour

In this Registered Report, Gligorić et al. find that liberals in the USA tend to have higher trust in most scientists compared with conservatives. However, they find no evidence that a series of inter...

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Excellent study by @vukasin.bsky.social (2025) finds US liberals trust scientists more than conservatives across all fields. Despite generally high trust levels overall, the gap is largest for climatologists. 5 interventions failed to increase trust, suggesting attitudes resistant to interventions 🧪

To academics in Netherlands (and especially Amsterdam), we are organizing a symposium *Social sciences and the System: Challenging or Upholding the Status Quo* that includes John Jost, Enzo Rossi and Marija B. Petrović on 18th February in Amsterdam! register here: forms.gle/NSzoNxu2EKMf...

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Social Sciences and the System: Challenging or Upholding the Status Quo? It is widely acknowledged that neoliberal capitalism has led to rampant socioeconomic inequalities, wars, and ecological crise...

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Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Psychological stimulus sets and datasets

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Our latest research on who is likely to harass scientists has been featured in two recent interviews! 📰✨ 📌 PsyPost: Psychopathy, cynicism & threat perception linked to harassment www.psypost.org/heightened-p... 📌 Folia: Who is behind hate mail to scientists? www.folia.nl/en/wetenscha...

Heightened psychopathy, cynicism, and threat perception linked to harassment of scientists

New research indicates that distrust in scientists, perceiving them as threats, and personality traits like narcissism and psychopathy contribute to the harassment of scientists.

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In the past several years, and especially in the first few years of COVID-19, scientists have experienced harassment - from unwanted emails and doxxing to death threats and even lynching attempts. But who wants to harm scientists? Find out in our new paper just published in Scientific Reports! 🎉💥✨

This has to be the project filled with the most innocence and purity I've ever taken part in. It all started ab 6 years ago while we were still undergraduates and were starting our very first research project on analytic/intuitive thinking and conspiracy theories... 1/2

Bojana Većkalov@bojanaveckalov.bsky.social · 3y ago

Analytic thinking is related to lower belief in conspiracies. So can analytic thinking decrease belief in conspiracy theories? We don’t really know, as the one set of studies in support of this does not seem to replicate. With @marijapetrovic.bsky.social, @vukasin.bsky.social #socialpsyc #PsychSci

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