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>

🚨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...

🟡 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

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

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...

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 [email protected]

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.

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

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...

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.

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."

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/