Passed my viva with minor revisions today. So, apparently I'm a doctor now! Thanks to my supervisors, @anamariab99.bsky.social and Yuki Kamide, my examiners Mirona Gheorghiu and Christopher Benwell, and the viva coordinator Josephine Ross!

This looks really interesting. Definitely going on the "to read" list

Presented at #ISPP2025 in Prague last week: www.linkedin.com/posts/ana-ma...

Big June announcements: 1: Thesis submitted!🎉 2: My first two preprints...preprinted? Huge thanks to @anamariab99.bsky.social, both my PhD supervisor and co-author on both papers. Preprints in following posts...

We created the Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale In 10 studies (N~6,000) we combined 10 existing measures into 1 measure that assess how humble people are as individuals & in groups Summary www.centerconflictcooperation-newsletter.com/p/the-collec... Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

@minzlicht.bsky.social I'm listening to the latest episode of two psychologists (rarely) four beers a bit late, so just heard you're in Japan for a month. I lived there for 12 years, so if you're after any info send me a DM, and I'll help as much as I can

So, Britain is becoming more dishonest, because... self-report measures say so. Anyone see the flaw in this inference? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Presented our research (with @anamariab99.bsky.social and Ihsan Yılmaz) on civilisational populism within Indian and Turkish diasporas in Australia today at the Japan Society of Quantitative Political Science winter meeting today

Final day of term! This term I've taught academic writing at Roehampton, stats at Birkbeck, and a guest lecture on social media & psychology at Regent's. Tomorrow off to Japan to see the in-laws, where I'll also be presenting at JSQPS on civilisational populism in Indian/Turkish diasporas!

Hi #SocialPsyc feed. I’ve removed “social psychology” as a tag phrase for this feed to try to make its posts a bit more intentional and relevant. So, from now on, the only hashtags that will get posts included in this feed are: #socialpsyc & #socpsyc (neither one case sensitive)! 👍

When academics regularly express their political opinions online, it under undercuts their credibility with the public. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

I got quite a few follow-backs from this, thanks a lot! Might be a good moment to say, we just got an op-ed out: www.populismstudies.org/how-identity...

Productivity tip of the day: when deciding which of many tasks to do, pick the one without a looming deadline. You'll find time for the ones with deadlines because you have to. Do the one you'd be putting off otherwise! (I did this today, will update if I miss any deadlines! 😅)

Trying to get the last ~20 participants for my study. Longer description in the screenshot below 👇 surveyswesternsydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It's not every day that you can say you've been punished in Nature. I, of course, still can't say that, but my supervisor @anamariab99.bsky.social now can!🎉 #psychology #socialpsycholog www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I'm giving a virtual talk on the THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF MISINFORMATION for the United Nations You can join virtually on July 18th from 1-2pm. Sign up here: social.desa.un.org/issues/world...

@anamariab99.bsky.social rounding out our session on cross cultural perspectives on populism at #ISPP2024

Just reupping this in case anyone is interested...

Any participants or reposts appreciated for social psychology study: surveyswesternsydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social Just listened to your appearance on DTG. Your book is definitely now on my list, but I wanted to ask about the idea that physics isn't entirely deterministic. Is this something discussed at length in the book? Is there anything else you can recommend to read on the idea?

I wrote about why humans don’t have tails and why we don’t lay eggs — and how the answers to both questions shine a light on arbitrary forces that made us who we are, as well as teaching us powerful lessons for modern society. www.forkingpaths.co/p/why-dont-h...

New Paper!! Led by the inspiring Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello and with @felixchung.bsky.social Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hello Bluesky people! My first article on #populist #environmental #discourse from a lay perspective has been published in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Please take a look, leave a comment, or share this article with someone who might be interested! 👇 doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

🚨 New article out at Nature Scientific Reports 🚨 Using experiments from a four-country study, we show that framing fact-checks as *confirming* accurate information rather than *refuting* misinformation elicits higher engagement rates on social media! link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals. These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wtf, this is mental? How have I not seen this news everywhere?

Oh. “In 2021, during Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial, Bill Ackman lauded Rittenhouse—who shot three Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020—as a “civic-minded patriot.”

This is worth reading to understand both the level of organisation going into anti-woke campaigning, and the sheer bigotry of (at least some of) those involved.

You are... your profile? "... the dynamic interplay between social media users and the cyber audience in the co-construction of a digitally extended self." #psychology #technology

Surprised? Not really😏

What? We've got working fusion now have we? Must have missed that one!

In this metaphor I'm still in the factory waiting to have my edge created😅

First year on here, let's end it with a list of books I read this year, each of which I will try to encapsulate in a single post review. Let's go!

When people post misinformation and it's tagged as misinformation by a single person, the poster retreats into echo chambers, but when the post receives a collective tag (e.g., community notes), the poster is less likely to retreat into such an echo chamber, finds Kim et al., doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Prolific publication on the rise: "Up to four times more researchers pump out more than 60 papers a year than less than a decade ago." #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪

The Internet is Worse Than Ever Now What? Credit: Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell #internet #socialMedia #polarization #tribalism #algorithms #psychology

I teach quant methods to psych students. I miss good algebra-free intro materials on causal inference. So I have decided to make some and post them on my blog. Here is the first, in which I explain *why* we warn that "correlation does not equal causation": pedermisager.org/blog/why_doe...

The comments when you share a scientific article on social media:

I'm taking new PhD students from autumn 2024. Sussex Psychology also has a small number of studentships (funded places) available. For more details, see here: sussex.ac.uk/schools/psyc...

The Twitter Files clowns made up a “”censorship”” apparatus to rail against — brave warriors charging their readers $9.99/mo to follow their work fighting to ‘take down’ a thing that doesn’t exist. Meanwhile…washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/08/india-twitter-online-censorship/

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MSc student looking for participants for a very interesting study. Please help if you can, #psychology #socpsy x.com/cogniteev/st...

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