We're super excited - we have not one, not two, but THREE (3) forthcoming papers working their way through editorial systems right now. Watch this space - we'll tell you here (with links) when they're available! #ICUP #UndergraduatePsychology #Competences

We've updated our open-access educational resources! If you're looking for inspiration about how to teach using the #ICUP #UndergraduatePsychology #Competences framework, check out our #OSF site, and subfolders: osf.io/6y38x/overview

Exciting looking cfp for #qualitative researchers

New from Valentina Sorrentino and @susan-nolan.bsky.social a fab article for #psychology #undergraduate students about how the #InternationalCompetencesForUndergraduatePsychology #ICUP can help students to make the most of their degree: www.psichi.org/page/302Eye_... #PsychSky #PsySky #AcademicSky

We've probably all heard about the #WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic) problem in #psychology? We need to build a more inclusive, representative #psychology for humanity! Do we need to think our language? This article says yes, we do: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/one-...

Whoop! Delighted to welcome our co-founder to BlueSky! Do give @jackycranney.bsky.social a follow.

Do you teach undergraduate psychology programs? Would you be interested in helping us to better understand the competences that undergrad psychology students gain through their studies? If so, please consider completing our survey - full information is available here: https//shu.co1.qua...

When we can, the ICUPO team enjoys working with student interns - always good to hear their thoughts. Leah Westerman from @ntupsychology.bsky.social has blogged about her development of competences from the #ICUP model: ntupsychology.blog/2025/07/28/p...

The #ICUP model is recommended by the Psychological Association of the Phillippines (PAP)! Find out more about how the #ICUP can be used alongside your national, regional, or local frameworks for #Psychology #PsychologyEducation, see icupo.org #InternationalCompetencesForUndergraduatePsychology

We're delighted to see this paper out in the wild! The ICUPO ethos has always been and will continue to be very much built upon collaboration, collegiality, and cultural responsiveness. Find out more here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Proud to see our two founders and another committee member getting recognition for their work on #PsychologicalLiteracy in @psychmag.bsky.social courtesy of @maddipow.bsky.social - HT to @susan-nolan.bsky.social, Jacky Cranney & @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social

#Ubuntu is an African value system that upholds #humanity, interconnectedness and collective #wellbeing. Its philosophy can help lecturers to humanise the classroom, particularly when tech risks depersonalising #learning, explains Chipo Simbi of the University of Southampton: ow.ly/kw7950VGVA6

Do you teach undergraduate psychology programs? Would you be interested in helping us to better understand the competences that undergrad psychology students gain through their studies? If so, please consider completing our survey - full information is available here: https//shu.co1.qua...

🚨 Undergraduate psychology students! 🚨 If you're studying #psychology, please consider taking part in our anonymous survey to help us understand the competences you are developing through your studies. Full details here: shu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Have you seen our updated website?! It's looking super cool, improved navigation, and we've pulled out the #Competences for #Undergraduate #Psychology #ICUP model so you can see it easily. Check us out at icupo.org 🤩 - let us know what you think?

The Psychology Board of Australia will review the training of psychologists with the goal of reducing workforce shortages - a possible model for thinking about foundational education in our field! @icupo.bsky.social www.psychologyboard.gov.au/News/2025-03...

Interesting news at our ICUPO meeting now! Psychology Board of Australia announces a requirement for courses that allow psychologists to register as practitioners after just one degree. Looking forward to seeing how ICUP competences can inform the work ☺️ www.psychologyboard.gov.au/News/2025-03...

Another ICUPO committee member just joined the world of Bluesky. A warm welcome to @judithgullifer.bsky.social - do give her a follow! 🤩

Symposium on the ICUP, which includes undergraduate presenters, at the US Eastern Psychological Association today! www.easternpsychological.org/i4a/pages/in...

New paper! Considering cultural responsiveness in the creation of the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) model: What can psychology learn? SOTLiP: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

One of the questions we hear frequently, when we talk about our international competences in undergraduate #psychology (ICUP) model is: "How can I teach the competences?" We thought you might like to explore some case studies! Collated here: doi.org/10.17605/OSF... Do you have ideas to share?

Information about the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) for students, first-authored by a student! On the APA’s Psychology Student Network: www.apa.org/ed/precolleg...

New paper! Considering cultural responsiveness in the creation of the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) model: What can psychology learn? SOTLiP: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

It’s been busy times for the ICUPO team as 2025 got underway. We can’t wait to share all the recent news, developments, and publications with you…but we’re going to have to, for just a little while longer!!

You can find Crowds & Identities blogposts, podcasts, and videos on the psychology of crowd behaviour on our website! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...

Best of 2024: Jim Dickinson gets into the GTI/Cibyl polling underpinning the UPP Foundation's Student Futures 2 report - and finds collective strategic challenges for universities' growing group of Disabled students

Whoop! Delighted to announce this forthcoming paper #ICUP #PsySky #CulturalResponsiveness Considering Cultural Responsiveness in the Creation of the International Competences for Undergraduate Psychology (ICUP) Model: What can Psychology Learn? Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology

Fab 18th meeting of our ICUPO committee this morning. So much exciting work and publications to share with you very soon! 🤩 #PsySky

And we keep growing - on the 3rd Starter Pack! #PsychSky. Welcome to all interested.

Hello everyone! We're looking to connect with our wonderful psychological community here on Bluesky. Whether you're a psychologist, you work in an adjacent field, you're studying psychology or simply have an interest in the field, we'd love to hear from you. Tell us a bit about yourself. 🤗

Wishing a very happy thanksgiving to our friends in the US.

Welcome to BlueSky to our friends @efptateachpsych.bsky.social 👋🏻 Do give them a follow!

I've decided to title my keynote for QRS: "Rigour with Vigour: Redefining Open Science for Qualitative Research” ❤️‍🔥 I'll talk about how qual research should be assessed on its own terms (aka not by inappropriately translating quantitative standards from mainstream #OpenScience conversations).

Fascinating perspective on indigenous wisdom: open.spotify.com/episode/0FfF...

If you have a colleague or friend with psych-related interests who joined Bluesky this week and hasn't found us yet, please add them below ⬇️

Here’s a list of Indigenous (to US/Canada) follows on BSky. I’ve added a dozen more people since the first version. Let me know if I missed anybody. go.bsky.app/22LJsC3

A small starter pack of school/depts/institutes of psychology here on bluesky So... (1) Let me know if you run your dept account and I'll add you (2) Tell your dept social media people to leave the other place and come here instead. It's where the science is now 😊 Pls share go.bsky.app/FmgYgVj

Are you a #psychology academic or department/school teaching undergrad psychology students? We’d love to give you a follow, especially if you’re in the global south. #AcademicSky

At last, there's a searchable directory of Bluesky starter packs, courtesy of @mubashariqbal.com! Just one more way third-party developers are helping to make this place better. Search starter packs by keyword, and sort by "Uses" to see which ones people are finding the most helpful

I have written a guide for how to use AI to write multiple choice questions that follows best practices. sway.cloud.microsoft/lZANk0W69G9j... Feedback welcome! #AcademicSky

Also check out @maddipow.bsky.social's recent work asking: "Is replication 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒 in qualitative research? A response to Makel et al. (2022)." doi.org/10.1080/1380... #MetaSci #Methodology 🧪

Amazing seminar by @maddipow.bsky.social speaking about gender and open science and expressing many of the thoughts I have had over the years, with much more eloquence and nuance than I could ever muster. #AcademicSky

Latino Students Face Major Barriers to Higher Ed Access A new survey of Latino students found two-thirds considered stopping out of college. Students reported significant challenges, including rampant food insecurity. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hgLEXS

New to BlueSky? Want to follow some academic psychologists? Here's a thread of psychology-related starter packs (scroll up)... #Psychology #AcademicSky 🧪

“Critical psychology turns the gaze of the psychologist back on the discipline. Psychologists usually study people outside who they treat as the non-psychologists. We now study the psychologists.” Ian Parker (2007). Few quotes follow 🧵 doi.org/10.1111/j.17... #Psychology

One of our co-founders has joined #AcademicSky - welcome, @susan-nolan.bsky.social, it's lovely to see you here! I wonder which other #ICUPO members have joined - @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social is here, anyone else?

We're new to #AcademicSky #PsychSky! Please give us a follow & share. We're developing a culturally responsive framework of #undergraduate #Psychology #competences, and you can find us here: blogs.shu.edu/icupo/. Click on the link to the OSF preprint to read the competence framework!