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John Drury
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Social psychologist @Sussex.ac.uk. Collective behaviour, crowds, emergencies, Covid http://tinyurl.com/anw6sxrs Member behavioural sub-group @independentsage.bsky.social Views my own.

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John Drury is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex. His core research is in the area of crowd psychology.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · Nov 15

Crowds & Identities -- a starter pack.

Please share.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 13h
At Viv Vignoles’s professorial lecture on selves & societies at @sussex.ac.uk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 19h
At the @sussex.ac.uk social psychology seminar, @samreenchhabra.bsky.social presents on her important work on the (ambivalent) experiences of Indian youth climate activists - results from her interview study

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21h
Get out, get your ballot, get it in and tell your colleagues. We’ve got this.

Tomorrow is the last safe day!
1 day left

Reposted by John Drury, Jill A. Jacobson

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Sarah Garfinkel @sarahgarf.bsky.social · 1d
** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 1d
Run, Hide, or Freeze: Social and
Emotional Influence on Behavior in an
Immersive School Shooting Simulation

www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevi...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
Re-reading, for something I'm reviewing

'Why are disasters not natural?
#NoNaturalDisasters – Hazards may be natural. Disasters are not'

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No Natural Disasters
A hazard can only become a disaster once it impacts on society or community. A hazard is natural, disasters are not.
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Reposted by John Drury, Ruairidh Milne

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 2d
Let’s never forget rationing ventilators and Zoom funerals. Boris Johnson and his cronies partied while our loved ones lay dying alone. COVID-19 was the worst public health crisis in a century. We should have locked down earlier. To some of us, PPE was not a get-rich-quick commodity.
Tweet announcing death of Trish’s mother from covid on 28 Dec 2020 Trish and her mum

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
Intergroup Contact With Refugees Shapes Levels of Social Fear of Crime

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2d
Arts, secular ritual, and health: combining (micro)sociology and the social cure to link the arts to health through interaction ritual

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Frontiers | Arts, secular ritual, and health: combining (micro)sociology and the social cure to link the arts to health through interaction ritual
Despite the early roots of arts and health as grounded within rituals and interest in ”community”– a term that is deeply laden with a history of rituals - th...
www.frontiersin.org

Reposted by John Drury, Lesley A. Hall, John Foot

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2
hlmurray.bsky.social Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 14d
RED ALERT: the University of Nottingham is threatening to close its Department of American Studies, putting all staff at risk of redundancy, and ending any American specialist knowledge in the Faculty of Arts.

Sign the petition here to save jobs:
www.change.org/p/save-ameri...
Sign the Petition
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
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Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, John Drury, Lesley A. Hall , and 4 more

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 2d
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk

Reposted by Michael Larkin

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 3d
"The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark"
from @casmudde.bsky.social

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The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 4d
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...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 4d
'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/

Reposted by John Drury, Fei Huang

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 4d
Only 5 days left.

Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.

Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.

#WeAreTheUniversity
5 days left

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 4d
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

Reposted by John Drury, Andrew Scott

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d
More than half of ethnic minority Brits say the England flag has now become a racist symbol, with Brits of all colours now tending to say the raising of the flag is mostly about expressing anti-migrant, or anti ethnic-minority sentiment

Reposted by John Drury, Elizabeth Stokoe, Christina Pagel

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 5d
8/ Obviously it's easy to be wise after the event, but everything we said at the time is on our web site for others to judge
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Independent SAGE – Independent scientific advice on the COVID-19 crisis, for the UK government and public.
Independent SAGE: Independent scientific advice on the COVID-19 crisis, for the UK government and public.
independentsage.org

Reposted by John Drury, Christina Pagel

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 5d
5/Social & Economic Harms
Inquiry: Critiques unclear messaging (Stay Alert); recommends transparent, accessible campaigns; integrate behavioural science.
IS: Advocated clear, consistent messaging; criticised confusing slogans; promoted behavioural insights and ventilation messaging early.

Reposted by Brigitte Nerlich, John Drury, Nicola J. Cooper , and 5 more

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 5d
1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
In the week that the Covid inquiry findings are published, here's what I said in 2022 about leadership in the pandemic -- the type we should have had and the types we actually got.

blogs.sussex.ac.uk/crowdsidenti...
Three forms of Covid leadership | Crowds and Identities: John Drury's Research Group
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 5d
Today's lecture: how participation in collective action can involve (transformative) experiences that can lead to further participation.

Key reading is @yasemingacar.bsky.social & Melis Ulug's fascinating study of prejudice reduction among Gezi Park activists

jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

Reposted by John Drury, Scott L. Greer, Jane Suiter

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 6d
This! 👇

It is also a good reminder that we are not experiencing polarization but right-wing radicalization!
ct-yankee.bsky.social GG @ct-yankee.bsky.social · 8d
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
Understanding Land Restoration Through Community Engagement: Insights from Monduli District, Tanzania

@ukri.org funded research & impact @sussex.ac.uk

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Understanding Land Restoration Through Community Engagement: Insights from Monduli District, Tanzania
In August 2025, our team travelled to Monduli District, Arusha, Tanzania, where we conducted research aimed at identifying social psychological...
www.sussex.ac.uk

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
The co-action effect is a thing. But what's the mechanism for this fascinating form of social influence?
cillianmchugh.bsky.social Cillian McHugh @cillianmchugh.bsky.social · 6d
We replicated one of the oldest experiments in Psychology (Triplett, 1898) as a registered report. Children completed a task faster in pairs than when they were alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Reposted by John Drury

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Cillian McHugh @cillianmchugh.bsky.social · 6d
We replicated one of the oldest experiments in Psychology (Triplett, 1898) as a registered report. Children completed a task faster in pairs than when they were alone.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 6d
'These group processes are much more in play at night'

Fascinating interview with Mark Levine

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...
'These group processes are much more in play at night' | BPS
Our journalist, Ella Rhodes, meets Mark Levine, Professor of Social Psychology at Lancaster University.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d
"Another student said they were concerned that working class and ‘non-traditional’ students could be shut out of PhDs in the capital"

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 7d
Student unions call on UKRI to increase PhD stipends in London.

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Student unions call on UKRI to increase PhD stipends in London - Research Professional News
Survey of doctoral students in capital finds high numbers living in “constant financial anxiety”
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 7d
'Reframing the Itaewon crowd crush: a systems analysis using Perrow’s framework'

It's behind a paywall but you can see the abstract. I read the original submission and it doesn't explain the crushing disaster in terms of crowd panic.

www.emerald.com/dpm/article-...
Reframing the Itaewon crowd crush: a systems analysis using Perrow’s framework
Purpose. This paper uses Charles Perrow’s normal accident theory (NAT) to analyze the 2022 Itaewon Halloween crowd crush, revealing systemic vulnerabilities and organizational failures involved in the...
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