"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations." Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530 #PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪

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The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, October 13: We start with an interactive workshop to diversify our methodological toolbox to better investigate forms of resistance and repression in different contexts. To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...

This coming Monday at 7 am New York time, 13.00 Barcelona time, 21.00 Brisbane time! Join us for a research methods bazaar to swap methods for psychological research on resistance in violent and repressive contexts. Register here to get the zoom link: tinyurl.com/resistancere...

New book just arrived in the post! Includes chapter by me & @evangelospsych.bsky.social on collective resilience as a process in emergent groups in emergencies.

On this day, seven years ago, I defended my PhD thesis. Can't believe it's been so long 🥲 @profjohndrury.bsky.social @richardamlot.bsky.social

Re-reading this chapter by Carina Hoerst, @alexhaslam.bsky.social @evangelospsych.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @fergusneville.bsky.social et al. for lecture preparation for the coming term. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

EASP advertises scholarships for research visits to Israel, which decimated Palestinian universities & killed its academics. I'm sure that benefiting from "cultural immersion that extends learning well beyond the lab or library" compensates for the genocide & the thousands of murdered people.

"This application of Adorno’s maxim 'never again Auschwitz' has made of it the opposite of what he intended: a tool of [Germany's] Staatsräson instead of resistance against it." Must-read, authoritative analysis of Germany's misguided response to Gaza, unearthing gems from Adorno's work and more!

If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers.

Cannot even tire myself by using elegant words — complete BS and shameless puke.

When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology.

I don't think I have been more disgusted by anything recently as much as this statement. I'd rather they said "we don't give a fuck about the ongoing genocide"

Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians. ‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region. Shame on the signatories. (1/2)

This is what our politicians and scientific societies are openly covering for and excusing. Meanwhile, Israeli politicians go full out, not even trying to keep up the pretences.

Complete cowardice from one of the biggest societies to name things for what they are: Israel's genocide in Gaza. Especially after what happened in the year's conference in Prague, this shows the board is unwilling to fix the internal problems they themselves acknowledged that exist in the society

"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different."

Reminding Americans that US contributes much to #climatecrisis (and benefits from heavy consumption) ==> ✳️ increased climate concern (among liberals) ✳️ DECREASED climate concern (among conservatives) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published in Annual Review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... If you face the paywall, try the pre-print version instead: www.qeios.com/read/K26NKZ

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Crowd psychology post at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Fantastic opportunity for someone. @crowdsidentities.bsky.social www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...

A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists

Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism.

Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent.

Fire sale on my book Building Resilience! When disasters strike, what factors matter most for surviving and thriving? Using data from the US, India, and Japan I show that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - are critical www.amazon.com/Building-Res...

I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...

the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...

The Royal Society defending science by bringing marshmallows to a chainsaw massacre. Money quote: "However, one fellow with knowledge of Smith’s email described the society’s stance as “terrible cowardice”. www.theguardian.com/...

The flooding in Texas “was not a divine punishment with an in-built moral design, but rather a catastrophe half engineered by humanity, lacking in moral design altogether,” Elizabeth Bruenig writes:

Not that anyone thought QAnon believers were intelligent but it’s almost comical how this community has been so invested in Epstein for years and couldn’t put two and two together that Trump was actually his bestie

Here it is: A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it. From Andrea Pitzer, drawing from her global history of concentration camps, a history of how humanity turned to camps and what it takes to turn away from them.

A huge thanks to my #ISPP 2025 co-presenters @nuriamartinez.bsky.social and @evangelospsych.bsky.social & our discussant Sandra Obradovic for making our sysmposium: 'The Role of Mass Events in Shaping Societal Identities: Studies of the Crowds After the Death of Queen Elizabeth II' so enjoyable

I was interviewed for BBC Radio Sussex today about the 20th anniversary of 7/7 to talk about the research I did with @profjohndrury.bsky.social into the collective resilience of those affected by the explosions. My bit starts at 1.13.30 in link below www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#ISPP2025 is over. It was lovely meeting friends & discussing the roles that our discipline & societies can play in current events. The most heartwarming moment was our collective organising to demand transparency, the democratisation of processes, & a clear position on the g3ñøc1d3 from ISPP.

1/10 On this day 20 years ago, I was with @chriscocking.bsky.social and Steve Reicher at the Royal Society summer exhibition in London, presenting our work on how people behave in emergency evacuations. As I tried to travel to the exhibition venue, I was part of a crowd of

Fontaines DC speaking the truth

How many people will die because two corrupt men are trying to stay out of jail?

The Ayatollah’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.

Goodbye beloved Brighton, it's been 11 fantastic years ❤️ to all the people that made my stay in the UK such a wonderful experience, thank you - you know who you are. A new adventure begins in Athens 😊

So it begins. 10-year outsourcing contracts for private hospitals? It’s a sell-off. You don’t lock in health equity with private contracts to those who profit from illness. You lock out the public. The corporate takeover of our health system is now official policy. #PublicHealthCrisis #NZPol

The NIHR HPRFA ORB: Outbreak related behaviours We are a new @nihr.bsky.social funded research team focused on understanding how people respond during infectious disease outbreaks and how public health strategies can better support them. Follow for updates on our work, findings, and opportunities

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

'Secondary stressors and their psychosocial impacts on healthcare staff: lessons from a qualitative systematic review from the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK' New from @evangelospsych.bsky.social & colleagues www.cambridge.org/core/journal...