Evangelos Ntontis
@evangelospsych.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in Social Psych at the Open University; Deputy Editor, BJSP; Amateur 📸; Posts nerdy academic stuff, political ranting & the occasional memes. Own views
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"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 🧪
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530
#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"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 🧪
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530
#PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪
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@evangelospsych.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @yarazebian.bsky.social @drannetempleton.bsky.social @loudavidson.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @klara-jurstakova.bsky.social @schreiber-julia.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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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...
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...
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
October 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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...
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London's Fire Brigade has recorded its busiest wildfire summer since the record-breaking 2022 heatwave, tackling more than 80 incidents across England's capital city between June and August.
The figures highlight the growing risks of hotter, drier summers for communities,
London's Fire Brigade has recorded its busiest wildfire summer since the record-breaking 2022 heatwave, tackling more than 80 incidents across England's capital city between June and August.
The figures highlight the growing risks of hotter, drier summers for communities,
October 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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
September 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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
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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/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
The Psychology of Crowds and Leadership in the 2021 Capitol Insurrection | Request PDF
Request PDF | On Aug 11, 2025, Carina Hoerst and others published The Psychology of Crowds and Leadership in the 2021 Capitol Insurrection | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGa...
www.researchgate.net
September 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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/...
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.
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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.
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"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!
An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
September 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine
Esteemed colleagues,
We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli...
docs.google.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A response by former ISPP leadership to this statement below on Gaza and Israel published last week by current ISPP leadership: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
September 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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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.
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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.
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Cannot even tire myself by using elegant words — complete BS and shameless puke.
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Cannot even tire myself by using elegant words — complete BS and shameless puke.
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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.
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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.
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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"
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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"
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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.
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‘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.
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ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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.
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‘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.
August 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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
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
ISPP Special Statement on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza and Israel – August 25, 2025
August 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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
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
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"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."
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
America Tips Into Fascism
Today is different than before.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
August 25, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"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."
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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...
✳️ increased climate concern (among liberals)
✳️ DECREASED climate concern (among conservatives)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Climate Privilege: Defensive disbelief in climate change science
Two studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger th…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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...
✳️ increased climate concern (among liberals)
✳️ DECREASED climate concern (among conservatives)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
If you face the paywall, try the pre-print version instead:
www.qeios.com/read/K26NKZ
August 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
If you face the paywall, try the pre-print version instead:
www.qeios.com/read/K26NKZ
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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.
July 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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.