Does affective polarization itself actually threaten democracy? Recent experiments from the US suggest maybe not. In our new @ejprjournal.bsky.social paper, we revisit this question comparatively with a survey experiment in 9 democracies (18,000 respondents). #polisky

I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

I was honoured to give the @IDS_UK Annual Lecture this spring, on capitalism, imperialism and ecology. A really wonderful group of researchers, students and staff, thank you all for welcoming me. The talk and discussion is available online here: ids.ac.uk/events/ids-a...

"capitalists generally loathe capitalism, especially its competitive constraint" I'm sorry, but that's just untrue. Capitalists (obviously!) love capitalism, _except_ its competitive constraint. There's a world of difference between those two formulations and their theoretical implications.

if you're really curious about the true state of reality, click below for the latest from @matthewmatix.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @robert-m-ross.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social, Martin, and me reported in the @aunz.theconversation.com

Lastly C) the people who said they do care about climate are not who the article just blithely assumes they are. The stereotype that greens are affluent latte-sipping white Brooklynites is nonsense. Ackshwally.... Poor Black people care most about climate. /15 www.brookings.edu/articles/bla...

I think it's important for neuroscientists to reinforce this too. It's the first thing I teach in my cog neuro class. A thing isn't more real just because it's found in the brain. Every psychological thing must be in the brain at some level

Happy to share our new paper in Ecological Economics with @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social & @kellykirkland.bsky.social! People in more unequal countries are more likely to view individuals rather than governments as responsible for climate change mitigation. (1/3) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Orleans will be swallowed by the sea. The process of relocating people should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” 2/2 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Can anyone recommend alternatives to OSF? I have not been able to log into my account for weeks, I don't receive password reset emails and links support send me don't work, and I have not been able to log in through ORCiD for months. Am I the only one finding it completely broken?

Final call: Our last two PhD studentship openings, based at our centre hub (University of Bath), will be closing for applications tomorrow, so be sure to apply today 👇

🚨 Entering the last 2 weeks to apply for one of these postdoc positions on children's political socialization in my team at Aarhus Uni 🚨 I'm looking for talented candidates w qual methods skills who want to understand the deep roots of political marginalization: international.au.dk/about/profil...

🚨JOB ALERT! 🚨 PLEASE RT! 🚨 7 four-year PhD positions (75%) in DFG-funded Research Training Group “Flexibility and Balance as Characteristics of Adaptive Self-Regulation” in Saarbrucken, Germany. Starting date October 01, 2026. Official job ad: tinyurl.com/3v8b4chm (1/3)

To reduce the cognitive load in data visualizations, directly label your data rather than using legends. This helps colorblind or visually impaired users. It also decreases the work of scanning back and forth trying to match the legend with the data.

“This article contributes to the broader discussion on the need to reframe openness not as a set of procedural norms or policy mandates, but as a relational and epistemically situated practice.” doi.org/10.3998/jep....

The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

"In total, the first two weeks of the conflict led to emissions of 5,055,016 tCO2e, equivalent to 131,430,416 tCO2e in a year" And here's me, a vegan who's composting food with a worm farm, making my own clothes from vintage fabric and riding an e-bike 🫠 Cool, cool 🫠 It's always been structural.

Statistical approximation is not general intelligence: https://osf.io/qjrhs

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

Now hiring at @ucddublin.bsky.social in #psychology ✅ Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... ✅ 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud... Part of @helpingkidslab.bsky.social Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Award www.ucd.ie/research/new...

“Not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable” New preprint by Felipe Vilanova and @flavioazevedo.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Glasgow Caledonian University is to cut around 100 jobs as part of £10m savings plan. "It follows a sharp drop in international student recruitment." #UKHE

Reflexivity and Positionality Statements in Quantitative Research "Choices about research questions, data sources, analytical techniques, and interpretation are all influenced by researchers’ epistemological commitments, their lived experiences..." By @maddipow.bsky.social & @scordoban.bsky.social

Maybe of interest: The submission guidelines of Psychological Science now demand an explicit statement on measures taken to reduce the risk of AI-generated responses for all online studies! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

I'm starting to find that papers mis-cite my own papers in really, really perplexing ways. It's quite obvious why if you just go to that one hyped up tool and ask it about your own work... ChatGPT got my supervisor's name right but changed me to be a "William" (lol) and gave the wrong number

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

One of our students is conducting interviews with academic staff to learn how we navigate our academic and labour identities - I think about this a lot especially when we navigate strikes. If you work at a Scottish Uni please consider participating and please share widely!

Paper on statistical power necessary for interaction effects doi.org/10.1177/2515...

How strong is the threat to academic freedom? If you are a publishing psychologist, please help us get a better understanding of the threats due to external pressure and self-censorship in the publication process by taking our 5-10 min anonymous survey: t1p.de/t1qof Results will be shared here!

"This article looks briefly at exclusive systems of knowledge production. I describe how the Open Science movement that was founded to reform science often recycles the same extractive dynamics of neoliberal capitalism described by dependency theory." magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-poli...

Postdoc Position in Social and Organisational Psychology at University of Cologne Application deadline: 15 February 2026 More info: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... #SocialPsyc #PhDSky

0.8 FTE 2-year postdoc in social psychology and communication sciences at the University of Groningen looking at "the conversational dynamics of polarization." Deadline: 16 February 2026 #SocialPsyc #PhDSky #AcademicSky

When survival becomes politics: Necessity activism and identity work under precarity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Kent Psychology is hiring 🎓We have two posts: 1) open area and 2) cog neuro. More details can be found here: jobs.kent.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with questions!

Do personal climate actions crowd out collective action and policy support? Evidence from a longitudinal study: https://osf.io/udqxn

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Since I've been seeing a lot of "switch to Ecosia for search they are sustainable and European" hints lately your evaluation might soon change: Their boss explicitly wants not just to add "AI" to search but go all in on more "AI" tools. (German article linked)

The partisans of the "center left" (aka the courtiers of Abundance) won't tell you this, or even try to account for it, but: Taylor Rehmet, who just flipped a district in TX that Trump took by 17 points, ran on "strong unions and worker power" as well as "environmental justice." 1/3

How can elite sport become a climate leader? Read more about the barriers and how to overcome them in our new study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Massive news: techno-genius Elon Musk has just invented an amazing new energy technology known as a "rooftop solar panel". Sunlight hits this "panel" and it generates electricity during the day. It's a huge bet but Musk is getting in early on this little-known technology

"[Epstein] was arrested in 2006 & pleaded guilty in 2008" "Ariely & Epstein met at least 7 times from 2010-2016" "Ariely is named 636 times in the more than 3 million additional files released" "Neither Ariely nor Duke responded to ... requests for comment" www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Psychology Job 🔸 Assistant Professor at Maastricht University 🔸 Focus on group dynamics, in particular teams #SocialPsyc #PsychJobs #AcademicSky

"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...

“The normalisation of One Nation, through reality TV, breakfast TV slots and inclusion as a serious political player in Australia has been media-driven, dressed up as the people’s choice,” writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social. Read Amy Remeikis’ full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4alz8EU

”There is a growing fear that climate change in the future won’t, as it has until now, happen gradually. It will happen suddenly, as formerly stable planetary systems transgress tipping points — thresholds beyond which things cannot be put back together again.“ e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...

I wrote about our recent paper for @uk.theconversation.com "...it does mean that judging these responses without understanding their cultural roots risks blaming individuals for navigating systems that were never designed to protect them." theconversation.com/why-some-peo...