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

Awful lot of older white academics would would rather have a convicted pedophile as a friend than a lefty as a colleague

"[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...

Do you really believe that? Examining the prevalence and predictors of belief in conspiracy theories when accounting for insincerity: https://osf.io/9ntf2

As Bill Gates recommends a “strategic pivot” away from climate change, the Gates Foundation made record investments in fossil fuel companies in 2024, despite its 2019 pledge to divest. No one should ever listen to Gates about climate change again.

📢Fresh article out: Comparing the White racial contract (Mills) in the U.S. and the Turkishness contract (Ünlü) in Turkey through mixed-methods, Ekin, Ludwin and I exposed how "peace" is used to maintain the status quo rather than achieve justice. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you think the fossil fuel corporations trashing our climate should pay for the damage they cause... instead of YOU! Support our call for a Climate Disaster Levy on fossil fuel exports. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...

I tried to warn people. They even signalled it. Labor is little better than the other mob when it comes to emissions.

I remember getting a job offer mid-way through the review process of a paper. My response to reviewers instantly changed. I switched from desperate willingness to accept any criticism to a more robust defence of my position. The paper was published & was better for it.

"It’s fine to titter about middle-aged sex and shit on the patriarchy and politicians, but stray into the right of all humans to dignity, freedom and an existence free from oppression and you’ve gone too far" 🔥@amyremeikis.bsky.social in @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/09/p...

Surely the days of psychology individualising institutional distrust are over. Surely.

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

Testing the socio-functional model: Does precarity cause conspiracy belief? TLDR; probably not huge thx: Antipodean Misinformation and Conspiracies Club @matthewmatix.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social & students osf.io/nq3y7/

Data reveals disparate treatment of peaceful climate activists versus violent far-right agitators.

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...

Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack. No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.

Minority Power "Marginalized groups develop sophisticated alternative conceptualizations of power as collective resistance, cultural preservation and mutual aid that enable transformation despite structural disadvantages." #SocialPsyc

Climate protesters win groundbreaking class action against Victoria police over use of pepper spray

HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

So I asked the head of Ecosia about this and he referenced a blog post that doesn't contain any relevant information. So I take that as a pretty huge Yikes Confirmation

years ago I took some interest in the notion of precarity–the subjective experience of permanent insecurity rising from objective material strain–causing conspiracy belief. along with my undergraduate students (over 2 yrs), and my antipodean collaborators we tested this theory osf.io/preprints/ps...

As we follow the trajectory of the student at OU who wrote an essay citing zero sources and making no argument, got the instructor fired by claiming her 1A rights were violated, went on a tour of rw media and now seems poised to become a part of the TPUSA speaker circuit: (1/4)

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

🚨new article🚨 "Polarisation" has become one of those terms commonly used to discuss the dire state of politics and democracy today Here @juanroch.bsky.social, @daniel-balinhas.bsky.social and I argue that this simplistic framing is counterproductive 🧵Thread🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Haidt is "stunned" that ChatGPT asked how it would threaten youth reveals that its plan would be what Haidt has argued in his books. The secret plan! There should be some way to rescind the doctorate of any commentator on digital media who interprets ChatGPT output like this. I am not joking.

can we just say this out loud? Climate change = horny male media editors going absolutely nuts with the skimpy fun-in-the-sun pics

What a great headline

'Not calling out these politics for what they are can only legitimise them. This is done through euphemism (calling them “populist” for example), by absorbing and mimicking them or accepting them as “legitimate grievances” from “the people”.'

My favourite is that the direct disruptive actions can inspire joy 😹 Great to see this work out!

our dear leader @matthewmatix.bsky.social has posted on what the Antipodean Misinformation and Conspiracies Club has been up to over the past few years www.royalsociety.org.nz/research/new...

Korean-owned coal mines were stopped in NSW by local groups. Korea is now phasing out coal. This is why stopping coal and gas projects in Australia is so important! IT WORKS!! My piece on @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/251126-...

any filmmakers on here interested in remaking Falling Down (1993) but instead of a traffic jam on a hot day the catalyst is trying to log in to editorial manager on literally any sort of day whatsoever?

Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

For everyone watching #TheAshes a shout out to Australia’s “platinum partner Origin Energy, which is the largest institutional investor in everyone’s favourite “renewables company” Octopus Energy, and one of Australia’s most aggressively expanding fossil gas producers

"Politicians might say that they can't be bought, but over the years, some have clearly been rented when donations were big enough." -The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM on the presence of fossil fuels lobbyists at COP #auspol

This is obscene. The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds. While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.

Universities have played a central role in democracies…but then we started trying to run them like businesses…Great piece by the VC of University of Western Sydney, Prof George Williams in @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...