WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Chilling and unconstitutional” — @attorneynora.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.social

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

This was not an easy one to write, but here it is! 🎈🤡 Freshly published in Collabra: Psychology: the life and death of one of the coolest findings in my PhD dissertation. 🎈🤡 With the usual – and wonderful – Karen M. Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social. 1/11

I love when colleagues share amazing stories with me! Thanks @olivierklein.bsky.social They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...

New publication led by @kenzonera.bsky.social. A very instructive set of studies if you want to teach about transparency and replication.

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

“The paper warned that, in an extreme scenario, a highly persuasive AI chatbot ‘could benefit unscrupulous actors wishing, for example, to promote radical political or religious ideologies or foment political unrest among geopolitical adversaries.’” (I do not think this is an “extreme scenario”…)

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔

Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...

If you are interested in collective memory and plan to attend the EASP General Meeting in Strasburg, don't miss our preconference!

I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially @paulbertin.bsky.social who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper.

Yes the BBC edit was poor journalistic form but the research indeed shows that Trump's speech predicted riots, violence, and weapons use on January 6th.

Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon, @kenzonera.bsky.social, @rritabajraktari.bsky.social, Vincent Yzerbyt, @olivierklein.bsky.social, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project). OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid-19, l’autorité chargée de la politique vaccinale aux États-Unis se réunit à New York. Mais elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vaccins nommés par le premier d’entre eux, le ministre de la santé Robert Kennedy Jr. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Wow and wow and WE MUST ALL DO THIS!!

This post has not aged badly unfortunately.

“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine?

My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)

As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.

[Job] The Policy Lab at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social seeks to recruit a postdoctoral researcher (full time, 2 years) in the framework of the project 'Metropolitan internet meets post-growth' Deadline: 30 August

New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer. www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...

I'm quoted in this piece. In short: do not use ChatGPT or any generative AI as a “therapist.” It’s not sentient. It doesn’t care. It may even lead people toward harm. And nothing shared is protected by HIPAA or real privacy standards; it's fodder for the machine. www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...

"De grâce, que la Belgique ne réagisse pas trop tard. En commençant par manifester une indignation commune devant des menaces envers les magistrats, car cette indignation est le premier bouclier pour protéger les défenseurs de l’Etat."

Clear advice from @catherinedevries.bsky.social on clear writing. Who could argue with such solid advice? (he naively asks the internet)

Is there a difference between falsification and refutation? Popper used the former in the book about logic of scientific discovery and the latter in the last (conjecture and refutation). And I never understood the difference.

Very sad to learn that Helen De Cruz, who had been a constant online presence for me on Twitter and then here, passed away. Read her last blog post. A little gem on what we leave to others.

La Pride de Budapest interdite par Orban. Rien n’arrête les libertés. Surtout pas le fascisme

Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor!

Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor!

Great post on the many bad effects of measles. That Roald Dahl letter of his daughter's death gets me every time tho 😔

Best image of the day:

"Simpson's gender-equality paradox" surely deserve some award for best title 👑 The gender-equality paradox seems really central to some narrative people have constructed (and successfully sold). I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if it turned out 100% confounding.> www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I often see Ioannidis' paper 'Why most published research findings are false' on reading lists. And by all means - I found it educational when I first read it. But you might also want a summary of the criticisms on the paper, and we dive into these in our @nulliusinverba.bsky.social podcast episode.

Entendu à un colloque: selon une enquête faite sur un échantillon français (supposé représentatif), on arrête d’être jeune à 42 ans et on devient âgé à 64 ans…

It can be interesting to read why so many psychological scientists have raised concerns - which twice led to a crisis - about (social) psychology for over half a century. There are important lessons we can learn from our history about why these concerns have not been solved.

Great talk by @rritabajraktari.bsky.social at @bapsciences.bsky.social 2025, with a proud supervisor @olivierklein.bsky.social!

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

"You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language." —Joseph Brodsky

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

“ we have nothing to lose but our chains” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Resistance is NOT futile

Goldman: "Think about whether any of us want to vote a certain way but bc we fear for our personal safety, we decide to vote differently. We are no longer representing our constituents. We are representing something else more like the bully threatening us. That is more like Vladimir Putin operates"