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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 6d

Meticulously organised for you by our amazing ad-hoc events team on the committee!

Selin Tekin @drselintekin.bsky.social · 6d

@merveozturkey.bsky.social & I are organizing an event with the @bps-social-psych.bsky.social
Rising Together: How Collective Action Emerges in the Face of an Emergency
Our wonderful speakers:
Dr. Nihan Albayrak-Aydemir
Dr. Rim Saab
Prof. @lucygobag.bsky.social
Prof. @profjohndrury.bsky.social

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Philippa Carr @philippacarr.bsky.social · 9d

Great series of events planned by @bps-social-psych.bsky.social on collective action and emergencies. It's free to attend and online!

www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 8d

A @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bps-social-psych.bsky.social free online event, organized by @drselintekin.bsky.social :
'Rising Together: How Collective Action Emerges in the Face of an Emergency'

www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

Rising Together: How Collective Action Emerges in the Face of an Emergency | BPS

The first in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

www.bps.org.uk

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 8d

Rising together: how collective action emerges in the face of an emergency

Thursday (2nd Oct) 12-2pm

Attendance is free, but you need to register.

www.bps.org.uk/event/rising...

This is the first (of 3) session in our free online series designed as an open space to come together and share ideas

Rising Together: How Collective Action Emerges in the Face of an Emergency | BPS

The first in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

www.bps.org.uk

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Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · 14d

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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
👉 bsky.app/profile/prof...

Jonathan Potter @profjonathanpotter.bsky.social · Apr 28

Listening to Rest is Politics, Rest is Politics US, and reading respected commentators, it's striking how 'left-wing bias' in universities is now taken for granted. That matters, especially in the US, where academia faces political attack. Thoughts from having worked in US/UK universities. 🧵

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 27d

That's a wrap for the 2025 BPS social section conference in Oxford🎉

Thank you to those who came to present their latest contributions to social psychology!

Another thank you to our organisers @shelleymckeown.bsky.social @nascherme.bsky.social for making this conference possible!

Until next year!

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Last up in the climate session, Elise Badiu-haltrich and Sue Widdicombe discussing mobilising social identity and accounting for protest actions in broadcast news interviews with climate activists

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

In the climate activist session @metesefauysal.bsky.social turns to leadership in the climate movement by discussing the making of a movement and how climate activists perceive Greta Thunberg’s leadership

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 28d

At @bps-social-psych.bsky.social, @samreenchhabra.bsky.social presents her important PhD research on the psychological effects of youth climate activism in India

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

For the final talk of the symposium, @helenortheorymis.bsky.social discusses how microecological segregation is practiced in action by walking interview participants who negotiate social avoidance (and contact) in an urban context 🧵4/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Now @samreenchhabra.bsky.social presenting her research on the psychological impacts of climate activism in Indian youths

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Next, Ira Frejborg presents her critical discursive psychological analysis of news media comments to understand negotiations of everyday intergroup relations and the right to the city in a changing urban 🧵3/4

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 28d

A bit more on what being a journal editor is about here:

drury-sussex-the-crowd.blogspot.com/2019/12/ten-...

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Second up in the climate activism session is Miriam Remshard discussing misperceptions of climate action among climate-concerned individuals

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

The symposium starts with Sointu Leikas talking about experience of sampling the microecology of interethnic contact in Helsinki 🧵2/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

With social psychologists joining us from Helsinki, their symposium features studies bridging the methodological divide – particularly by offering complementary approaches to
studying microecological
ethnic segregation and contact
in an urban context 🧵1/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Last sessions for this years conference have started. In the Talbot room @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social starts off the Climate Activism session outlining identity and ethical tensions among environmentally engaged scientists in climate advocacy

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Now for a special session discussing Social Identity Theory 50 years later.

Steve Reicher highlights the importance of adapting the theory to the rapidly changing political climate.

We need only look to activism of the past to see how social identity has the power to enact social change.

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Antonis Gardikiotis wraps up the blitz session with a talk on his research looking at how misinformation can be understood as a minority influence process 🧵4/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Next, Nandita Dhanda talks about her PhD findings exploring underestimations surrounding global Carbon footprint inequality🧵3/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

First is Eylül Deran Atalay addressing the timely question: Are Conspiracy Beliefs for Losers? Eylül examines the extent of post election resentment and conspiracy beliefs 🧵2/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Blitz Session 4 is a collection of social psychology research on.issues concerning misinformation,
belief Systems, and Framing 🧵1/4

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

The session wraps up with Alessia Bacigalupo discussing women, borders and the nation by demonstrating how sexism can be understood as an antecedent of nationalism and immigration policy support 🧵5/5

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Our third speaker @alex-hunt-psych.bsky.social presented his research on how US far-right commentators used classical explanations of crowds (i.e., Le bon) as rhetoric to delegitimise anti-prejudice crowd events like BLM in order to preserve anti-Black racism 🧵4/5

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BPS Social Psychology Section @bps-social-psych.bsky.social · 28d

Finally, Berfin Acar discussed two studies that investigated the links between one’s own ideology, others’ ideologies, and outgroup attitudes.

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