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Social psychologist at University of Greenwich. Associate editor at Peace and Conflict. Views are my own.
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Fouad Bou Zeineddine @drfbzen.bsky.social · Oct 23
At a time when Western exceptionalism is proving illusory, there is much to learn from peoples who have fought for just peace & liberation for centuries. Our call for critical/Majority World research on resistance in psych of peace & conflict:
www.apa.org/pubs/journals/pac/resistance-peace-conflict
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canancoskan.bsky.social
📢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.

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TITLE: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violence AUTHORS: Ekin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkan ABSTRACT: Privileged representations of peace: Perpetuating systemic violenceEkin Birdir, Ludwin Molina, canan coşkanAbstractSocial psychological research typically focuses on promoting peace between groups in conflict by fostering intergroup harmony through prejudice reduction or advancing social justice through collective action. Unfortunately, these investigations rarely consider the mainstream discursive structures and epistemic engagement that normalize collective ethnic/racial violence. We addressed this gap with two mixed-method (i.e., qualitative and quantitative) studies in two contexts (Turkey and the United States), utilizing decolonial frameworks informed by liberation psychology, critical race theory and privileged ethnic/racial (Turkishness and White racial) contracts. Comparative analysis of meta-representations of peace among Turks (Study 1; N = 116) and White Americans (Study 2; N = 151) exposed the overlapping (i.e., negative peace and reliance on the nation-state order) and divergent (i.e., assimilative inclusion and neoliberal individuality) elements of privileged epistemic engagement with peace that align with Turkishness and White racial contracts, perpetuating collective violence. Furthermore, both Turks' and White Americans' ethnic/racial identity endorsement predicted higher perceptions of the state/military contribution to peace, suggesting the role of racial privilege in maintaining systemic violence. To our knowledge, this work is the first social psychological investigation of the Turkishness contract and the comparative analysis of privileged meta-representations of peace.
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 AM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Haven’t seen this reported in the UK news at all. My colleagues there report that faculty members were also stopped and prevented from entering campus.

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UPDATE: Three Palestinian students wounded as Israeli forces storm Birzeit University campus
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January 6, 2026 at 11:37 AM
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psychresist.bsky.social
Happening today!

Still time to register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
psychresist.bsky.social Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · Nov 3
The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, November 10:

We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests,
@yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants

To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
Beyond Dichotomies: Rethinking Protest Tactics and How They Shape Allyship by Mete Sefa Uysal (university of Exeter) Peer Review as Conversation (90 Minutes) Reviewers: Yasemin Gülsüm Acar (St Andrews University) and Carmen Marazzi (Clark University) Abstract: Allyship in social movements does not emerge in a vacuum. It unfolds in contested political and moral contexts where the tactics used by marginalised groups play a critical role in shaping support from the general public. Yet, existing scholarship often collapses diverse protest forms into binary categories like normative vs. nonnormative or conventional vs. radical. Recent studies on confrontational collective action (Uysal et al., 2024,2025) challenge existing categorisations that treat protest tactics as fixed and morally preferable over one another. It sees protest tactics as a continuum in which they coexist within activists’ repertoires of resistance and shifts the focus to the conditions under which individuals transition between tactics against repression. Following this critique, I aim to discuss when confrontational and disruptive actions hinder and catalyse solidarity and allyship, rather than treating them as inherently alienating. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/disruptive-protest Monday, November 10, 2025 Vancouver, Canada: 9:00; New York, United States: 12:00; London, United Kingdom: 17:00; Ramallah, Palestine: 19:00 The picture includes a headshot of Mete Sefa Uysal wearing glasses and a vertically striped shirt in a green leafy background. The picture also includes a QR code for the registration link also added to the original post.
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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drfbzen.bsky.social
At a time when Western exceptionalism is proving illusory, there is much to learn from peoples who have fought for just peace & liberation for centuries. Our call for critical/Majority World research on resistance in psych of peace & conflict:
www.apa.org/pubs/journals/pac/resistance-peace-conflict
Www.apa.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
drfbzen.bsky.social
I’ve voted ‘yes’ & ‘yes’ in the @ucu.org.uk ballot. Enough is enough. #WeAreTheUniversity
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
drfbzen.bsky.social
At a time when Western exceptionalism is proving illusory, there is much to learn from peoples who have fought for just peace & liberation for centuries. Our call for critical/Majority World research on resistance in psych of peace & conflict:
www.apa.org/pubs/journals/pac/resistance-peace-conflict
Www.apa.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
The concluding paragraph of #ScienceUnderSiege
(www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/micha...)
And so we choose to do battle against the forces of darkness, #ghting back against a malevolent movement that represents all that is bad in the world— fascism, authoritarianism, racism, misogyny, and bigotry— a movement that uses antiscienti#c disinformation as its preferred weapon. We do this not because our success is guaranteed. Given the forces mobilized against us, we are clearly the underdog. And no white wizard will come to our rescue. But we have truth and justice on our side. And the stakes simply couldn’t be greater. We #ght for a livable planet, for us, our children, and future generations. Because it’s worth #ghting for.8
September 18, 2025 at 1:56 AM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Join the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series on Oct 20 at 2pm UK time for a workshop on the Social Change Algorithm by Roxane de la Sablonniere, Diana Cardenas, and Jean-Marc Lina! Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/25bb20...

#psychology #socialsciences #socialpsych #socialchange
October 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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psychresist.bsky.social
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...
Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar Interactive Workshop (90 mins) Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coşkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt) Monday, Oct 13, 2025 Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressed– in part because of the methodological limitations and rigidities in the field, in addition to practical and ethical considerations. For example, how does one examine covert resistance under conditions of surveillance and risk, how does one access forms of everyday resistance that may not be articulated as such, how does one conduct research on resistance that is under repression without creating further risk or harm to the participant and/or to the research team, how does one access information about resistance under extremely violent and most repressive conditions, such as genocide? This session is an interactive methods workshop, a bazaar of ideas and research experience, where participants will share and swap knowledge about underutilized methods that have been or could be used to examine different forms of resistance (above all those forms of resistance that are understudied) in various contexts of violence and repression. The organizers will bring examples of a relevant, underutilized research method and share it with participants in a brief (5 min) blitz presentation. We also invite participants (optional, not required for participation) to bring along their methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two. We will also discuss more general, overarching questions related to methodological limitations in research on resistance and repression and ways to address these. 7.00 am NYC, 8.00 Santiago (Chile), 12 (noon) London, 13.00 Barcelona, 14.00 Ramallah & Istanbul, 16.30 New Delhi, 19.00 Manila, 21.00 Brisbane. Registration link in the original post.
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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psychresist.bsky.social
This is an interactive "methods bazaar". Thus, you can also bring along your methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two (optional, not required for participation).

Remember to register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...
psychresist.bsky.social Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · Oct 6
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...
Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar Interactive Workshop (90 mins) Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coşkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt) Monday, Oct 13, 2025 Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressed– in part because of the methodological limitations and rigidities in the field, in addition to practical and ethical considerations. For example, how does one examine covert resistance under conditions of surveillance and risk, how does one access forms of everyday resistance that may not be articulated as such, how does one conduct research on resistance that is under repression without creating further risk or harm to the participant and/or to the research team, how does one access information about resistance under extremely violent and most repressive conditions, such as genocide? This session is an interactive methods workshop, a bazaar of ideas and research experience, where participants will share and swap knowledge about underutilized methods that have been or could be used to examine different forms of resistance (above all those forms of resistance that are understudied) in various contexts of violence and repression. The organizers will bring examples of a relevant, underutilized research method and share it with participants in a brief (5 min) blitz presentation. We also invite participants (optional, not required for participation) to bring along their methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two. We will also discuss more general, overarching questions related to methodological limitations in research on resistance and repression and ways to address these. 7.00 am NYC, 8.00 Santiago (Chile), 12 (noon) London, 13.00 Barcelona, 14.00 Ramallah & Istanbul, 16.30 New Delhi, 19.00 Manila, 21.00 Brisbane. Registration link in the original post.
October 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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psychresist.bsky.social
The 3rd year of the Psychology of Resistance (in violent, repressive contexts) Virtual Meeting Series is starting this month - here is the schedule for the academic year 2025/26. More information, recordings, and form for mailing list to receive registration links here:
resistancepsych.blogspot.com
The image contains the schedule of the planned events for the Psychology of Resistance Network. The schedule can be found online: https://resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html
October 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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drsofiastathi.bsky.social
Interested in state-of-the-art methodologies to study social change? My brilliant colleague @drfbzen.bsky.social is hosting Dr. Agnieszka Rychwalska next week, funded by British Academy! 👉 resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in... Come and learn all things functional connectivity analysis! 🧐
September 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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anne-urai.bsky.social
Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone.

@clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991

But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇
Doughnut academia. Adapting the “doughnut” model of economics to the academic world enables us to visualize the inner social foundations that universities should provide, and the outer human and planetary boundaries that universities need to avoid overshooting. Note that the ordering of elements within the inner and outer rings is random; there is no direct pairing between foundations and ceilings. Adapted from Raworth, 2017 under a CC-BY-SA license. Seven ways to think like a 21st century scientist. 1. Change the goal: from a business that produces papers and graduated students, towards a university that works towards the inside space of the academic doughnut. 2. Get savvy with systems: from feeling like a cog in the university machine, towards being gardeners of our academic system. 3. See the big picture: from academics who look out over the world from their ivory tower, towards scholarship which accepts its own embeddedness in (and dependence on) society and the planet. 4. Create to regenerate: from a rat race where we tread water, towards “slow scholarship” that values community building, deep thinking and rest crucial for intellectual work. 5. Nurture human nature: from the lone genius, towards team science. 6. Design to distribute: from a funding system where the rich get richer, towards a fair distribution of opportunities and resources. 7. Be agnostic about growth: from a focus on increasing numbers of papers, citations and students, towards rebuilding trust in our own academic communities and with society.
February 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Free BA-funded workshop by Dr Agnieszka Rychwalska on using functional connectivity analysis to analyse complex social systems on Sep 23 & 24! For details & registration: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in...
#psychology #socialsciences #socialpsych #socialchange
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September 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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alleal.bsky.social
Great piece by Maja Kutlaca, Helena Radke & Melis Uluğ on moving psychology beyond selective allyship toward consistent global action. Well worth a read. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Psychology should move from selective allyship to empowered actions to tackle global crises - Communications Psychology
Psychology is committed to the principle of nonmaleficence. This Comment argues that psychology as a discipline and psychological associations as its representatives should uphold their ethical respon...
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August 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Last chance to register! Free workshops on computational & network approaches to research on social change! Sep 1-2: Prof. Simon Angus. Sep 4-5: Dr. Joshua Uyheng. More details here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in...
#psychology #socialsciences #socialpsych #socialchange #researchmethods
Methods in Social Change Workshops
This is a methods series that Dr. Fouad Bou Zeineddine (University of Greenwich) is organizing in parallel with the Psychology of Resistance...
resistancepsych.blogspot.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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drfbzen.bsky.social
In September, we have 3 brilliant scholars providing free methods workshops on computational and network approaches to research on social change. Registration is now open for in-person and online attendance. More details here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in...
Methods in Social Change Workshops
This is a methods series that Dr. Fouad Bou Zeineddine (University of Greenwich) is organizing in parallel with the Psychology of Resistance...
resistancepsych.blogspot.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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jrvollhardt.bsky.social
Call for presentations and sessions in the next round of the Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meeting Series, September '25 - June '26! Details and formats as well as proposal submission form here: forms.gle/jcs2XEx9igdS... and more information about the series in the thread!
Resistance Psychology Virtual Session Proposals
After the successful conclusion of the third round of our Psychology of Resistance in Repressive and Violent Contexts meeting series, we are excited to launch the submission form for sessions in 2025-...
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August 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
drfbzen.bsky.social
In September, we have 3 brilliant scholars providing free methods workshops on computational and network approaches to research on social change. Registration is now open for in-person and online attendance. More details here: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in...
Methods in Social Change Workshops
This is a methods series that Dr. Fouad Bou Zeineddine (University of Greenwich) is organizing in parallel with the Psychology of Resistance...
resistancepsych.blogspot.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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drfbzen.bsky.social
Third workshop of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series is coming up on Tuesday June 3! Ismael Puga and Cristobal Moya will discuss methods to examine ideological inversion, a key factor in inertia. For more, see: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in-societal-change-and-inertia.html
resistancepsych.blog
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Third workshop of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series is coming up on Tuesday June 3! Ismael Puga and Cristobal Moya will discuss methods to examine ideological inversion, a key factor in inertia. For more, see: resistancepsych.blogspot.com/p/methods-in-societal-change-and-inertia.html
resistancepsych.blog
May 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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drfbzen.bsky.social
Second workshop of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series is Thursday, May 29! Emma Thomas (Flinders) will be showing us new approaches to using person-centred analyses in collective action research. Register here: tinyurl.com/MSCI25No2
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May 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Second workshop of the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series is Thursday, May 29! Emma Thomas (Flinders) will be showing us new approaches to using person-centred analyses in collective action research. Register here: tinyurl.com/MSCI25No2
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May 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
drfbzen.bsky.social
Join the Psychology of Resistance meeting series on Friday at 14.30 UK time to hear Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink discuss her fascinating work on “Dissident Reasoning in the Arab World”. To register: tinyurl.com/dissidents-arab
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Virtual Meeting Series on Resistance in Repressive and Violence Contexts, session with Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink. After registering, you will receive a...
Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink: "Dissident Reasoning in the Arab World" *This session will be recorded.* This presentation explores the psychology of resistance in repressive settings across the ...
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April 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM