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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · Jul 28

Join us and our fetching collection of academic robes by the banks of the broad, majestic Shannon for the 2025/6 academic year!

We promise:
- an atmosphere of collegial conviviality!
- friendly and engaged students!
- a rich cultural hinterland!
- free coffee!

#HEJobs #PsychSky

niamhestack.bsky.social @niamhestack.bsky.social · Jul 28

Come work with us!

We are recruiting for a 1 year fixed term Assistant Professor in Psychology

@micireland.bsky.social has a beautiful campus right in the heart of Limerick city & MICPsych is a small but beautifully formed welcoming & supportive department

www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · Jul 23

'Children tell their parents they want to go to heaven, because at least heaven has food'

A letter signed by 109 agencies including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam International and Amnesty International says the Israeli government is blocking humanitarian organisations from effectively distributing life-saving aid

dlvr.it

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jul 23

Sounds very interesting -- do you have a preprint or conf paper you could share? Would like to cite!

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jul 9

905 now -- you might never leave

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Mete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · Jun 30

ECRs who are going to attend #ISPP2025 in Prague! @polpsyispp.bsky.social

We have 3 professional development events. Don't miss them!

1) “The Dissertation is Done, Now What?” (Fri, 3:40)
2) Navigating Challenges as ECRs (Sat, 9:10)
3) How to Talk about Your Research (Sat, 11:05)

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Jun 30

Job Fairy Reminder! Closing Thursday 4 July
@iscycle.bsky.social is hiring ~ 2 post-docs and for a research assistant post, relating to ebikes/sustainable mobility /1

#iscycle #ebikes #ebike #sustainableMobility

my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

woman in a cool green cardie riding a bike in an urban environment

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 23

#PsychJobs #PhDSky Social Psychology (especially social identity); Computational Social Science; Applied maths

Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

An image of a description for ID-COMPRESSION PhD Studentships 2025
Studentship 1: Social Sciences with an Interest in Social Identity
Studentship 2: Applied Maths/Stats/Computational Social Science

Full text PDF available at link

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you!

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 23

@maxfalken.bsky.social was this recorded, or do you have a pub or preprint you could share?

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · Jun 20

#jobFairy 💚🚴🏽
We're looking for people to join our @iscycle.bsky.social team, promoting ebikes as a healthy and climate-friendly alternative to driving. We have scope to employ at least two post-docs off this ad, and RA posts as well #ebike #sustainableMobility my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Jun 19

“Hype” seems to have become a core feature of Big Tech – seen in the rise of hype men like Elon Musk and Sam Altman.

But why? What is the role of hype in contemporary capitalism?

My new paper answers these questions, and argues the creation of a Critical Hype Studies. 🧵

doi.org/10.1177/0163...

Hype, financial narratives, and self-fulfilling prophecies in surveillance capitalism - Petter Törnberg, 2025

The rise of platforms has transformed our understanding of contemporary capitalism, with the critical literature describing how these firms leverage unprecedent...

doi.org

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Inés Martínez Echagüe @imartinezechague.bsky.social · Jun 17

Happy to share my new publication in @sfjournal.bsky.social!📣
Why is household equality so hard? Unequal scripts mean that equality takes work—often falling to women, even when men say they want it.
Paradoxically, for women, doing less still means more work.
doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Jun 11

“Attitudes function to: (1) produce affiliation; (2) define and differentiate social groups; and (3) position people.”

New work by @mikeq.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1046...

#SocialPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪

People holding attitudes are a social information system that can be modelled as a bipartite social identity network, where people are bound into groups via jointly held attitudes; and attitudes into clusters when jointly held by people. Attitude-based groups and group-related attitudes thus form a recursive dynamic structure where attitude expressions simultaneously produce a dynamical social field and position people within it (described as interactionism in social psychology and duality in sociology). Attitudes function to: (1) produce affiliation; (2) define and differentiate social groups; and (3) position people. Dynamic fixing occurs when network structures stabilize to associate certain attitudes and identities, producing a compressible social information system where identity is readable from attitudes, and people are positioned by the attitudes they express. Attitudes are thus coupling points between the individual and the social, and a key interface between social identity and individual psychology.

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you know potential PhD candidates who'd be interested, please link them to Studentships currently advertised on our ERC ID-Compression project (one social psychology; one applied maths/computational social science): @markrubin.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 11

At 66 pages, it's a bit of a monster, so unlikely to be popular with lab groups & literature clubs; but I have tried to write a paper that I would have liked to read as a PhD student. I hope it's interesting and useful to someone! I'm very grateful to the many collaborators on the work reviewed.

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 11

Social Identity Networks are theoretically anchored between social identity and social representations theory. The mathematical representations are carefully mapped to theory, and the approach has empirical support across multiple scales from micro-processes to macro-outcomes. @spspnews.bsky.social‬

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 11

10 years work has led to this:
Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system & bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them. European Review of Social Psychology. @polpsyispp.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1046...

Social identity networks: People holding attitudes are a collective social identity information system and bipartite networks are a useful way to represent them

People holding attitudes are a social information system that can be modelled as a bipartite social identity network, where people are bound into groups via jointly held attitudes; and attitudes in...

doi.org

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Kleber Oliveira @kleber-ao.com · Jun 5

Fully-funded PhD positions to work with a fantastic team (and me 🫠) in a beautiful campus. Please share it with people who may be interested! Deadline on the 10th of July.

Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Jun 5

We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · May 29

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Brendan Speedie Smith @speediecelt.bsky.social · May 29

What looks like a piece of equipment from a 1930s-1940s science fiction film is now installed & operational in our #computermuseum. Designed & made by Pat Murphy in 1987 for his B.Tech in Education at Thomond College #Limerick #UL, its actually a computer desk for #Commodore64 computer & accessories

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · May 22

A personal post & something I've not mentioned on Bluesky before. My mother died a few months ago. In her final months, one of the projects she was quite taken by, was the Blankets of Hope initiative organised by Iris House Cork Cancer Support: irishousecork.ie/blankets-of-...

Blankets of Hope – Iris House Cork

irishousecork.ie

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Dec 15

New cultural experience unlocked!

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · Dec 14

Wait, do French people dunk croissants?

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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · Dec 11

A few thoughts on academic civility, the paradigm ceasefire, and the challenge posed to critical social psychology by the misdiagnosis of the replicability crisis.

Based on the idea that the Harré quote below would be seen as terribly poor form if uttered by a prominent social psychologist today.

Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · Dec 10

“Experiments are worse than worthless since by breaking up the structure of social action they destroy the phenomena under study.”

Don’t hold back, Rom, tell us what you really think!

The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · Dec 9

"Remember they are wasting their time and that since their work is literally worthless, they should be regarded with a kind of sadness." - have added a letter from Rom Harré to MarkMcDermott to his tribute… likely of interest to #PsySciSky qual methods in particular!
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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irsp_rips @irsp-rips.bsky.social · Nov 27

The International Review of Social Psychology is now on Bluesky ☀️🥳.

IRSP is a #socialpsychology journal with:
✅ no APCs,
✅ #openaccess,
✅ Q1 ranking and 5-years IF = 3.3.

Follow us, submit your work, and check out our latest publications!

👉 rips-irsp.com

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