New preprint (with @profjohndrury.bsky.social ) on prefigurative politics in Chile’s 2019 social explosion, based on interviews with participants in demonstrations and cabildos🧵: 

New re-vamped @crowdsidentities.bsky.social website, with new @sussex.ac.uk brand formatting -- looks good! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...

Interested in the psychology of disruptive behaviour at music events? Well have a read of this. Highlights include me, @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @sanjeedah.bsky.social throwing ourselves around in mosh pits for science (plus in-depth interviews & a big old survey). dx.doi.org/10.1111/asap...

New from @daclarkecruz.bsky.social and colleagues - towards a new way of thinking about and studying collective action

Our latest piece "Prefigurating Democracy: The Pro-Palestinian Student Camps as Eventful Protests" is just out in @socquarterly.bsky.social!! 💫🇵🇸 doi.org/10.1080/0038...

Call for contributions for the small meeting on the social psychology of prefigurative politics is open! 🤩 This is a slightly different conference, check out the info sheet to learn more - even if you haven't worked on prefiguration yet 😉 So excited about this! drive.google.com/file/d/1nsof...

Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :) @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social

Crowds & Identities and friends gather to wish a temporary farewell to @daclarkecruz.bsky.social at Eat Central, @sussex.ac.uk

Political psychology exists to expose dehumanisation, moral disengagement, and complicity in oppression. #ISPP’s leadership enacts them. A society that will not call genocide by its name has abandoned its foundations. Sign the petition 👇

If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians. ‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region. Shame on the signatories. (1/2)

Anas Al-Sharif was one of the most remarkable reporters of his generation. For 673 days, he defied Israeli threats to kill him. Al Jazeera now confirm their crew in Gaza City have all been assassinated: RIP reporters Anas Al-Sharif & Mohammed Qareqea and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher & Mohammed Nofal

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

Vegans! Please consider participating in our online study on communicating about veganism 🌱 prize draw £25 voucher universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

New publication alert! Our latest article is now published in the Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 🎉 “Collective Memory, Social Identity and Collective Future Imagination in the Crowd: A Case of Anti-Right-Wing Protests in Germany” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us Sunday morning at #ISPP2025 to talk about prefiguration with @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

@drselintekin.bsky.social @adriennewhitworth.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social

A vital blog exposes how “visa walls” quietly shape who gets heard at academic conferences. As the authors argue, “we must design our spaces to reflect the diversity of the world we hope to sustain.” Change begins with confronting what keeps people out, not through empty promises to include them.

1. Starmer was warned and warned that his benefits cuts were not just cruel and unfair, but a political disaster. He dismissed the warnings, even this week, as no more than "noises off". Now, as the disaster materialises, he's desperately backtracking. Here's an idea: how about listening? 🧵

Fantastic PhD studentship opportunity for someone -- please share. Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Elite Sport (Co-funded by Brighton & Hove Albion FC) www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

Israel kills innocent Palestinians. Activists spray-paint a plane. Guess which the UK government calls terrorism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The U.S., notoriously passive and bombing another country because someone made us do it

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

Today marks the 8th anniversary of the #GrenfellTower fire. At 6:00pm, #Grenfellcommunity members are holding a #SilentWalk starting from Notting Hill Methodist Church. All supporters are invited. During my PhD research, I and @profjohndrury.bsky.social conducted ethnographic fieldwork ++

Just about to put these two @crowdsidentities.bsky.social systematic reviews on the School display board - @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @freyamills.bsky.social

‘What if this wasn’t the only boat? What if thousands set sail, from every Mediterranean port? What if fishers, sailors, students and parents rose to say: not in our name?’

News report on our new pre-print on the summer 2024 anti-immigrant riots. @ukri.org @behaviourresuk.bsky.social funded www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New from Drury & Vestergren. The chapter synthesises decades of research on how participation in collective action transforms people, challenges the field’s focus on predictors, and calls for methods to trace these transformations. It also highlights prefiguration as a key future research direction.

Crowds & Identities and friends celebrate @daclarkecruz.bsky.social’s birthday at Eat Central @sussex.ac.uk, with @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @sanjeedah.bsky.social @jaz-kane.bsky.social @monicabarnard.bsky.social @mitakshara-medhi.bsky.social @schreiber-julia.bsky.social

🚨 Expressing intentions is not climate action 🚨 In behavioral science & environmental psychology, we often measure intentions — people saying they intend to drive less, eat plant-based, or join a protest — rather than actual behavior. There are two big problems with this: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

Important polling evidence. Confirms previous census-based analysis that deprivation is a clearer driver of social distrust than is diversity. In fact, diverse areas have *higher* feelings of social cohesion and that people get along locally (once controlling for deprivation)

'Understanding and Enhancing Felt Safety at Live Music Events through Group Psychology' by @harrymlewis.bsky.social Now on Blogspot drury-sussex-the-crowd.blogspot.com/2025/05/unde...

“When we allow language like 'island of strangers' to define our national discourse, we legitimise the idea that migrants, regardless of their contributions, citizenship, or lived experiences, remain permanent outsiders”

With @adriennewhitworth.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @harrymlewis.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social @loudavidson.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

The Crowds & identities webinar, expertly chaired by @freyamills.bsky.social . This week, @daclarkecruz.bsky.social presents his important work on the psychology of emergent prefigurative politics in social movements

It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Crowd events involve different groups where (unexpected) change is possible, in perceptions/beliefs, meta-perceptions, group boundaries, motivations, and subjective power.”

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

While traditional structures that once claimed to provide stability are increasingly losing legitimacy, people are turning to prefigurative initiatives: efforts to embed the changes they wish to see in wider society within their present ways of organising. Read more about my PhD research here:

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Excited to share my first paper, published in #JCASP🎉 (open access). With @profjohndrury.bsky.social, we engage with the rise of prefigurative politics - movements that embody desired societal change in their present practices (1/3)

So excited to be attending @profjohndrury.bsky.social's professorial lecture! 😊

It's the Crowds & Identities monthly seminar/ meeting, expertly convened by Freya Mills, including Evangelia Vergouli's presentation on hard-to-reach residents' access to healthcare.