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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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13h
I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽

Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.

youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...
Jesse Jackson’s - Wattstax Music Festival Opening Speech (1972)
YouTube video by Nightloop
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Sumedh Rao @sumedhrao.bsky.social · 1d
Pleased to share my new (and first sole‑authored) article on how people in Northern Ireland experience identity in fluid, complex ways. Interviews in Derry–Londonderry show why “two‑community” narratives fall short.
Kudos summary: link.growkudos.com/1e8u77s464g
DOI: psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...
How people in Northern Ireland understand and live their identities after conflict
This study explores how people in Northern Ireland think about and experience their identities in everyday life. Instead of assuming that people fit neatly into fixed groups like “Protestant” or “Cath...
link.growkudos.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4d
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

Reposted by Brian J. Enquist, Koen Frenken, Andrew Livingstone , and 3 more

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 5d
On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 5d
The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.
Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.

Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Stephan Lewandowsky, David Lazer , and 9 more

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 5d
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 5d
Did you miss the session on "Prefigurative Politics in Repressive Contexts" with activists and researchers from Lebanon, Serbia and Turkey?

Here's the recorded session, now available in the Resistance Psychology Network's Youtube channel:
youtu.be/Q0S65MPOu8E
Acting as if we were free: Prefigurative politics in repressive contexts
YouTube video by Resistance Psychology Network
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 6d
LLMs good performance on medical exams does not translate to accurate performance in real-world settings (preregistered n~1,300 study). This can't be explained by current standard benchmarks for medical knowledge & simulated patient interactions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study - Nature Medicine
In a randomized controlled study involving 1,298 participants from a general sample, performance of humans when assisted by a large language model (LLM) was sensibly inferior to that of the LLM alone ...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Charles Antaki, Andrew Livingstone

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Lara Warmelink @larawarmelink.bsky.social · 6d
New paper on AI in Psychology assessments in the Journal of Academic Ethics. Congratulations, in particular, to Matthew Ivory and Sam Finnerty, who worked very hard on the project link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The Integrity of Psychology Assessments in the AI Age: A Critical Examination - Journal of Academic Ethics
Journal of Academic Ethics - Generative artificial intelligence’s (Gen-AI) increasing prevalence within higher education raises concerns over its usage by students, particularly over their...
link.springer.com

Reposted by Martin Tomko, Andrew Livingstone

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 7d
There is long and entertaining lecture by Bell Burnell on the ytube about her discovery of pulsars and quasars. She says the term "pulsar" was invented by a journalist because "pulsating radio source" was too boffin (explained at ~47min mark). www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1G...
screenshot of slide from presentation. title: First build your radio telescope (through hail, rain and sunshine)

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Andrew Livingstone

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 7d
Today is Plimsoll Day, an annual celebration of the life of social reformer and MP Samuel Plimsoll (born 1824), and his radical campaign to improve ship safety and protect seafarers' lives. (1/6)
Photograph of a man sat facing to the side. He has a large bushy beard and hair pushed back from his face. He is wearing a suit and thickly knotted tie. The photograph is in an oval setting.

Reposted by Andrew Livingstone, Mark Robinson

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 9d
‘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...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Juliane Degner @julianedegner.bsky.social · 11d
New Publication!
https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/cdp0000792

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Andrew Livingstone

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Emmet Ó Briain @emmet.quiddity.ie · 13d
#emca on the timeline - Charles Goodwin’s Professional Vision

Rodney King Trial: “the main evidence used in the defense of the policemen was the tape showing them beating Mr. King.” - presented as an example, *when seen properly*, “of careful police craft work”…
pages.ucsd.edu/~johnson/COG...

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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 13d
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 · 14d
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 · 14d
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'

Reposted by Colin Harvey, Kelly Smith, Wilson McLeod , and 3 more

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 15d
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 · 16d
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 · 16d
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 · 19d
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 · 19d
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 · 22d
🚨 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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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 26d
The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
www.amnesty.org.uk

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 27d
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

Reposted by Gordon Hodson, Andrew Livingstone, Sofia Stathi

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 27d
'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 · 27d
The banality of virtue
garius.bsky.social John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 27d
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 · 27d
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.

Reposted by Rebecca Sear, Andrew Livingstone

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Will Gervais @willgervais.com · 29d
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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