'a fragmented approach, a lack of accountability with regard to advice (eg on ‘behavioural fatigue’), under-utilisation of SPI-B... the expertise of SPI-B and government behavioural science teams ought to be drawn upon in pandemic planning' UK #CovidInquiry covid19.public-inquiry.uk/reports/

Re-reading this review of wellbeing effects of music events for something I'm working on, and it's a key reading for my project student and crowd behaviour students this term journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

It was an honour to be asked to do this BBC Look North West tribute to Mani youtu.be/23N1ds3vl74?... via @YouTube

A well-attended Crowds & identities, expertly convened by @freyamills.bsky.social, with presentation on his important work on collective action for Uyghur Muslims in China among Muslims in Turkey and the United Kingdom, by @metesefauysal.bsky.social

Phil Manzanera: The John Robb interview, the legendary Roxy Music guitarist whose style melted sound and guitar tradition talks to John Robb about his new album. ‘Soho Live’ and Roxy Music louderthanwar.com/phil-manzane... via @louderthanwar

Crowd Behaviour and Public Order: Reflections on the 2024 Riots and Violence - a @bpsofficial.bsky.social webinar www.bps.org.uk/event/crowd-...

Acclaimed Joy Division play returns for biggest tour yet louderthanwar.com/new-dawn-fad... via @louderthanwar

New Book Monday! With a few weeks to spare before this year’s Social Psychology of Crowds lecture. @metesefauysal.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social

Writing my first-year lecture on trait personality theory is ... interesting. Galton - Eugenicist Myers-Briggs - bogus Cattell - eugenics& 'he preached Nazi racial theories(while trying to obscure their origins)' (Southern Poverty Law Centre) Hans Eysenck next! :) www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

Stephen Reicher's letter to the Chief Constable of Scotland, published in The Scotsman: www.pressreader.com/uk/the-scots...

'Reading historical examples of person change in collective action, one is struck by the profound sense of revelation, & the significant downstream consequences, in terms of future activities, relationships, &life choices.' With @swedishprotests.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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

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I was thrilled today to come across an article by @metesefauysal.bsky.social, @profjohndrury.bsky.social and @yasemingacar.bsky.social that really engages with our triple-A framework on efficacy beliefs! Their results carry theoretical and practical relevance:

Paper on the Kahramanmaraş earthquake, led by our Syrian refugee colleagues and supported by @cara1933.bsky.social , now accepted in International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction with @drselintekin.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

See also bsky.app/profile/chri...

5 ALARM FIRE 🔥 A message from senator Chris murphy Senator Chris Murphy asks us to post this statement to our public walls. ****** Report from the Senate Floor: “Last night in the Senate, something really important happened. /1

working people. Oh and by the way, any tax cuts for working people are going to be washed out by higher costs for basic necessities, like health care and food. It’s a fundamental injustice. Thanks to your pressure and support, many of my Democratic colleagues have joined my effort to do /10

My presentation today, with Holly Carter @ukhsa.bsky.social , for the UK fire service National Resilience course Further reading: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

'Over the past 24 hours, the following articles increased their @altmetric.com Attention Score significantly: 'Everyone for themselves? A comparative study of crowd solidarity among emergency survivors' 1-day score: 16 All time score: 115' bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1348/...

Other countries have watched their democracies slip away quietly, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.

A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

Can group-based strategies increase community resilience? Longitudinal predictors of sustained participation in Covid-19 mutual aid and community support groups @ukri.org funded doi.org/10.1111/jasp...

Independent Research Fellow University of Sussex - School of Psychology Closes 15th May www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN512/i...

In early March, I wrote about the proto-authoritarian attacks on science and universities by the Trump administration and listed some warning signs to look out for in the coming weeks. Now six weeks later and those warning signs are being realised. christinapagel.substack.com/p/warning-si...

Barry Blitt’s first 100 days cover for the New Yorker.

‘Nothing to lose or a world to win’: Reconsidering efficacy, in confrontational collective action New from @metesefauysal.bsky.social @yasemingacar.bsky.social & me Funding: @polpsyispp.bsky.social Scholars Under Threat bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Great Vinyl Record Buying Swindle Martin Gray offers his unreserved views on the current state of the vinyl record buying circus. louderthanwar.com/the-great-vi... via @louderthanwar

'Rampant profiteering at the expense of other people's distress. Makes me sick.' @matthew-wright.bsky.social is repulsed by the steep rise in hotel room prices after Heathrow Airport's closure.

Trump is picking off the universities one by one and they are caving very quickly. www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Worth reposting this article i wrote the other week. christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

Brian James appreciation in quotes and 10 great songs This week we lost the founder of the The Damned...an appreciation plus a playlist of his classics louderthanwar.com/brian-james-... via @louderthanwar

Social Movements as Parsimonious Explanations for Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

'This years Flu season has started early and hospital admissions are rising fast.' Weekly Covid report from Bob Hawkins bhawkins3.substack.com/p/covid-situ...

'Why crowd behaviour matters - for psychology and society' Recording of my Professorial Lecture. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pBZ...

'Your paper, "UNDERSTANDING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND WELLBEING IMPACTS OF THE 2023 EARTHQUAKES IN TURKEY ON SYRIAN REFUGEES", was listed on SSRN's Top Downloads list today for: Conflict Studies, Migration, Security & Safety (Topic).' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

'Explaining a collective false alarm: Context and cognition in the Oxford Street crowd flight incident' Barr, Bell et al. @lindajbell.bsky.social Now with page numbers! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Fantastic postdoc opportunity for someone, working with the brilliant @ayseuskul.bsky.social and being part of the team at Sussex Psychology. Please share. jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/11fef29b...

1987 is probably my favourite year for social psychology -- I can't think of a better one for books on exciting new theory.

1/ Support today for journalists fighting for the future of The Observer, threatened by The Scott Trust’s plan to sell to Tortoise Media. Tortoise, though respected, is a small, loss-making venture and the sale risks The Observer becoming a stripped-down website behind a paywall. Worse..

The deadline for submitting an abstract for the inaugural International Conference on Social Identity and Leadership and Followership (ICSILF) is TOMORROW. Come and join us in Prague! tinyurl.com/mf5v6wjw

Great to see the engagement led approach of GMP yesterday with our ENABLE project in the UK led by my colleague Mike Hope. The Bodo fan march through the city before their picture with Manchester United, here being managed by PLTs and OFOs. We appreciate these opportunities for embedded research.

It's 'Black Friday'. Read what happened in Oxford Street on Black Friday 2017 and why we think there won't be a repeat this year. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

It’s that time of year, so the Sussex pre-Advent Xmas trees are here, one with a star already on the top

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER! #literacy #libraries #librarians

Now published in the latest issue of the BJSP with volume and issue numbers: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy heavenly birthday to the late and great Mark Lanegan, who would have been 60. It was a pleasure to tour with you in 2019 and also to do this in conversation with you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP7U...