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Andrew Livingstone
@andrewlivingstone.bsky.social
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Husband, dad, and social psychologist at Uni. of Exeter. Intergroup relations, conflict, emotion, collective action. Student evaluation: 'like an idiot savant'

https://worldmakingthings.org/

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 1d
‘They are lovely men’: Compassionate exclusion used to justify a protest outside asylum seeker accommodation

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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
This study employed critical discursive and rhetorical psychology to analyse the discourses drawn upon to justify an arguably violent protest outside a previously disused hotel in rural Ireland, wher...
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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · 4d
New Publication!
https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000792

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 6d
Incandescent. One of the best pieces I've read about what university means to people and their communities - and what will happen to a city and people after one closes. The *Labour* government and Jaqui Smith in particular should be ashamed of themselves and shamed into doing something. Deplorable.
‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university?
When Essex University’s Southend campus opened, it was a message of hope for a ‘left behind’ UK seaside town. Its closure will be felt far beyond its 800 students, some of whom will not get their degr...
www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Livingstone @andrewlivingstone.bsky.social · 7d
Here's the second-hand Susan Sontag quote, courtesy of Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's summary of what Susan Sontag saw as the lesson of the Holocaust

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Andrew Livingstone @andrewlivingstone.bsky.social · 7d
Just re-read the last paragraph of my and Megan Birney's chapter on Milgram in this great volume. Written a year and a half ago; might as well have been yesterday.
Concluding paragraph from chapter revisiting Milgram's obedience studies, emphasising the importance of agency and resistance as well as 'obedience'

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 7d
In the UK academic recession, you will be at one of these stages since many unis buy the same cuts model from the same consultancies. It is always the same process:
*Talk of belt-tightening
*Incidental savings (e.g. printing, refreshments)
*Travel budgets cut
*Promotion freeze (1/4)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 9d
This reminded me of when I went to London to read for the Irish Literary Society and called in at the wrong super-posh hotel. The manager looked at me and rushed out to check what I was up to: I told him and he replied. "I can assure you, sir, there will be no poetry reading in THIS hotel tonight!"

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 12d
Edinburgh. Aberdeen. Dundee. Strathclyde. Different campuses same reality. Staff are stretched, students lose out.
#SaveOurUniversities #UCU #Scotland #HigherEducation

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 12d
With student loans the UK government has become a loanshark. Trapping poorly paid graduates in decades of “debt” that they can realistically never repay. If it were a commercial deal the govt would be trying to regulate the company out of business.

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Emily Kubin @emilykubin.bsky.social · 15d
🚨 New Pre-Print🚨
Very excited to share new work w/ Victoria Parker. Here we think about big questions regarding the limitations and barriers affective polarization interventions face in being translated from research to practice
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Barriers to Bridging Divides in the Real World: A Framework for Addressing Challenges in Affective Polarization Intervention Research
PDF | Affective polarization is rising across democratic societies, prompting a growing body of research on interventions to reduce partisan animosity.... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 19d
I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊

Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
Part 1: How do LLMs work?
YouTube video by Andrew Perfors
www.youtube.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 19d
'The Psychology of Crowd Behavior', Annual Review of Psychology

Final, peer-reviewed version now available open access.

Please share.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
The Psychology of Crowd Behavior
This review describes the social identity approach to crowd behavior. Research based on the social identity approach to crowds has grown significantly in the last 20 years, both quantitatively and qua...
www.annualreviews.org

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Andrew Livingstone @andrewlivingstone.bsky.social · 20d
The banality of virtue
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20d
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 20d
The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up.

Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵
old couple (Robert and his wife Inga), dressed in smart clothes. both look unassuming and like they could be anybodies' grandparents.

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 22d
Dusted off the ol' blog after years of heavy disuse because I'm h*ckin' excited to tell y'all about some of the exciting things we're trying in our stats/methods/skills curriculum at Brunel!

Read! Share! Tell us what you think!
#psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching
Don’t Send A Magician To Do A Scientist’s Job: A New Blog Series About Our Experiments In Teaching Science to Young Scientists — Will Gervais
We’re doing some exciting and innovative things with our methods, stats, and skills curriculum and we want to tell y’all about it! Debuting our new bespoke 9-module statistics, methods, and skills cu...
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 24d
NEWS! Keir Starmer flies to US to give Donald Trump his cycling proficiency badge
Keir Starmer flies to US to give Donald Trump his cycling proficiency badge
Sir Keir Starmer has flown to Washington on an overnight transatlantic mission to present Donald Trump with the highest honour he currently has available: a cycling proficiency badge he earned in t…
buff.ly

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25d
This is an Underground Railroad style operation. This is what I mean that we should study UR history, tactics, and strategy.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 25d
In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 25d
Your read of the day. So much out there about how ICE is marauding its way through Minneapolis but very little about grass roots resistance. Here I speak to a teacher on the front lines and he breaks down the *numbers* of people involved in resisting ICE. Chills.

www.thenation.com/article/acti...
A Minneapolis Teacher Wants the Whole Country in the Streets Confronting ICE
Dan Troccoli, a public middle-school teacher, says everyone should start “emulating” Minneapolis’s resistance to the Trump regime.
www.thenation.com

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 25d
I can't stress enough the importance of NOT using AI to write
sensitive or personal letters or emails, particularly if it's about managing wellbeing or care.

Even more important, if you decide to do this, proof it first.

At best it feels insincere, at worst inaccurate. Both are upsetting.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 26d
A few years ago analysts were writing that AI would devastate the workplace by replacing drivers with self driving cars.

Today the drivers still have their jobs, but the analysts have been replaced.
pickardje.bsky.social Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 26d
My FT splash today:

Sadiq Khan, the London mayor, will warn that AI risks destroying huge numbers of jobs in the capital and “usher in a new era of mass unemployment” unless ministers take proactive measures.

www.ft.com/content/6f92...
Sadiq Khan to warn AI could cause ‘mass unemployment’ in London
Mayor concerned that capital will be at ‘sharpest edge of change’ given dependence on white-collar jobs
www.ft.com

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Flora Cornish @floracornish.bsky.social · 26d
A first for me today, I offered a walking tour of North Kensington to a group of international housing scholars on the workshop "Epistemes of non-dominant habitation".

Thanks to Paroj Banerjee for the invitation, I had a great time with the group!
A group of people stand in a circle on a street corner listening as a white woman gestures up the street, holding notes in her other hand. Everyone wears warm coats, the sky is grey. A tree bears yellow flowers.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27d
I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch.

It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · Jan 8
JUST IN: Vice President JD Vance says the ICE agent who killed American citizen Renee Good can’t be touched. Absolute immunity. Murder sanctioned by the federal government.

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Hema Preya Selvanathan @hemapreya.bsky.social · Jan 7
Introducing our edited book, Political Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies! @jolanda-jetten.bsky.social
Each chapter considers an influential early study in the field with a fresh perspective. Published by SAGE: au.sagepub.com/en-gb/anz/po...

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Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social · Jan 3
I’ve taught State Failure & Statebuilding @warstudieskcl.bsky.social at King’s for the past 13 years.

There are MANY reasons why it’s a bad idea for the US to ‘run’ Venezuela.

An economy in crisis. Disintegrating infrastructure. Nonstate armed groups deeply embedded into the state.
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Dr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · Jan 2
Whether we look at it through Shamima Begum’s case or what is happening in USA with mass deportations/targeting of naturalised status, the terrifying reality is this: if you have dual heritage or “foreign” roots your citizenship rights are not secure. From 2019 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain deports people who grew up here. This racialised system must end | Zubaida Haque
Citizenship is being denied to people whose home is the UK, says Dr Zubaida Haque, deputy director of the Runnymede Trust
www.theguardian.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Dec 30
Today's opinion poll news in context. The longer term trend has been away from ethno-nationalism.

Source:
Butt S, Clery E, Curtice J, editors (2022). British Social Attitudes: The 39th Report. National Centre for Social Research.

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rogier kievit @rogierk.bsky.social · Dec 18
I've used Lavaan almost every (work)day for 15 years, but this open source labour of love has never received proper institutional support. I'm delighted to be a small part of an 1.5M OpenScienceNL award, led by Jorgensen, to completely revamp and futureproof Lavaan www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-p...