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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Passed my viva with minor revisions today. So, apparently I'm a doctor now! Thanks to my supervisors, @anamariab99.bsky.social and Yuki Kamide, my examiners Mirona Gheorghiu and Christopher Benwell, and the viva coordinator Josephine Ross!

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This looks really interesting. Definitely going on the "to read" list

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Big June announcements: 1: Thesis submitted!🎉 2: My first two preprints...preprinted? Huge thanks to @anamariab99.bsky.social, both my PhD supervisor and co-author on both papers. Preprints in following posts...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

We created the Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale In 10 studies (N~6,000) we combined 10 existing measures into 1 measure that assess how humble people are as individuals & in groups Summary www.centerconflictcooperation-newsletter.com/p/the-collec... Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...

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The Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale: New Preprint

We give you a sneak peak a new preprint where we discuss how Intellectual Humility is measured + we created a consolidated scale.

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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

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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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

@minzlicht.bsky.social I'm listening to the latest episode of two psychologists (rarely) four beers a bit late, so just heard you're in Japan for a month. I lived there for 12 years, so if you're after any info send me a DM, and I'll help as much as I can

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Presented our research (with @anamariab99.bsky.social and Ihsan Yılmaz) on civilisational populism within Indian and Turkish diasporas in Australia today at the Japan Society of Quantitative Political Science winter meeting today

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Final day of term! This term I've taught academic writing at Roehampton, stats at Birkbeck, and a guest lecture on social media & psychology at Regent's. Tomorrow off to Japan to see the in-laws, where I'll also be presenting at JSQPS on civilisational populism in Indian/Turkish diasporas!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Hi #SocialPsyc feed. I’ve removed “social psychology” as a tag phrase for this feed to try to make its posts a bit more intentional and relevant. So, from now on, the only hashtags that will get posts included in this feed are: #socialpsyc & #socpsyc (neither one case sensitive)! 👍

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a man standing in a park with the words " a little more precise " on the bottom

ALT: a man standing in a park with the words " a little more precise " on the bottom

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

When academics regularly express their political opinions online, it under undercuts their credibility with the public. warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Productivity tip of the day: when deciding which of many tasks to do, pick the one without a looming deadline. You'll find time for the ones with deadlines because you have to. Do the one you'd be putting off otherwise! (I did this today, will update if I miss any deadlines! 😅)

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Trying to get the last ~20 participants for my study. Longer description in the screenshot below 👇 surveyswesternsydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

I'm giving a virtual talk on the THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF MISINFORMATION for the United Nations You can join virtually on July 18th from 1-2pm. Sign up here: social.desa.un.org/issues/world...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

@anamariab99.bsky.social rounding out our session on cross cultural perspectives on populism at #ISPP2024

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 22/05/2024

Just reupping this in case anyone is interested...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Any participants or reposts appreciated for social psychology study: surveyswesternsydney.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 09/03/2024

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social Just listened to your appearance on DTG. Your book is definitely now on my list, but I wanted to ask about the idea that physics isn't entirely deterministic. Is this something discussed at length in the book? Is there anything else you can recommend to read on the idea?

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

I wrote about why humans don’t have tails and why we don’t lay eggs — and how the answers to both questions shine a light on arbitrary forces that made us who we are, as well as teaching us powerful lessons for modern society. www.forkingpaths.co/p/why-dont-h...

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Why don't humans have tails or lay eggs? Adventures in evolutionary randomness.

A new study explains why humans don't have tails. It shines a bewildering light on the role of chance in the evolutionary trajectory of how we became ourselves—and why "good enough" often works.

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 25/02/2024

New Paper!! Led by the inspiring Victoria Oldemburgo de Mello and with @felixchung.bsky.social Twitter (X) use predicts substantial changes in well-being, polarization, sense of belonging, and outrage www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Helenor Tormis @helenortheorymis.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

Hello Bluesky people! My first article on #populist #environmental #discourse from a lay perspective has been published in the British Journal of Social Psychology. Please take a look, leave a comment, or share this article with someone who might be interested! 👇 doi.org/10.1111/bjso...

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

🚨 New article out at Nature Scientific Reports 🚨 Using experiments from a four-country study, we show that framing fact-checks as *confirming* accurate information rather than *refuting* misinformation elicits higher engagement rates on social media! link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

New research across 30 countries (N = 15,202) finds that online hostility is driven by a small number of status-seeking individuals. These folks are more hostile in situations of inequality (both online and offline) as a strategy to gain social status. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Wtf, this is mental? How have I not seen this news everywhere?

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

Oh. “In 2021, during Kyle Rittenhouse’s homicide trial, Bill Ackman lauded Rittenhouse—who shot three Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020—as a “civic-minded patriot.”

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The Campaign Against D.E.I.

For critics of the former Harvard president Claudine Gay, a larger goal was always in sight.

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

This is worth reading to understand both the level of organisation going into anti-woke campaigning, and the sheer bigotry of (at least some of) those involved.

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

In this metaphor I'm still in the factory waiting to have my edge created😅

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

First year on here, let's end it with a list of books I read this year, each of which I will try to encapsulate in a single post review. Let's go!

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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 17/12/2023

When people post misinformation and it's tagged as misinformation by a single person, the poster retreats into echo chambers, but when the post receives a collective tag (e.g., community notes), the poster is less likely to retreat into such an echo chamber, finds Kim et al., doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Fig 1. Misinformation Tagging and Outcomes Measurement. a, Individual misinformation tagging in
which individuals cite PolitiFact fact-checking articles. Collective misinformation tagging through
Community Notes platform, which selectively exposes verified misinformation tags that receive diverse
votes as helpful. b, Operationalization of tweet political and content diversity. Political diversity captures
whether a poster cites a source with opposing political stance (binary 0/1), assessed from the aggregate
stances of referenced sources. Content diversity captures whether a post discusses topics unfamiliar to the
author’s historical tweets (continuous), assessed with the distance between the poster’s average tweet and
a particular tweet within a contextual embedding (sentenceBERT pre-trained on Twitter)

Fig. 2. Political and Content Diversity Changing with the Intervention of Individual and Collective
Misinformation Tagging. a, Results from Interrupted Time Series (ITS) analysis. The x-axis denotes the
timeline of tweets posted before and after tagging, with negative values the number of weeks before
posting tagged tweets and positive values the number of weeks after. The y-axis denotes political and
content diversity, with dots capturing the average diversity score of the corresponding week, and error
bars indicating 95% confidence intervals. Solid lines connect the dots revealing trends of political and
content diversity before and after tagging, with gray dotted lines tracing the counterfactual trend if factchecks had not occurred. b, Illustration of political and content diversity dynamics before and after
tagging. Before individual and collective tagging, posters exhibit increased political and content diversity,
which increases the likelihood of encountering a fact-checker.

Fig. 3. Delayed Feedback (DF) Analysis. a, Pre- and post-treatment periods. Post-treatment (t1)
represents the time window when “treated” tweets are tagged but control tweets are not. Pre-treatment (t0)
represents the time window with equal duration of t1 when both treatment and control tweets remain
untagged. b, The effects of individual and collective misinformation tagging on political and content
diversity, which are estimated by the difference in pre-post changes (treatment - control) of the outcomes.

Fig. 4. Linguistic Characteristics of Fact-checking Messages. We present a univariate kernel density
function for continuous variables (toxicity, sentiment, length, delay) and a histogram for the categorical
variable (reading ease). The purple line represents the distribution within individual misinformation
tagging; the yellow line represents the distribution within collective tagging.

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

I teach quant methods to psych students. I miss good algebra-free intro materials on causal inference. So I have decided to make some and post them on my blog. Here is the first, in which I explain *why* we warn that "correlation does not equal causation": pedermisager.org/blog/why_doe...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

The comments when you share a scientific article on social media:

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

I'm taking new PhD students from autumn 2024. Sussex Psychology also has a small number of studentships (funded places) available. For more details, see here: sussex.ac.uk/schools/psyc...

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

The Twitter Files clowns made up a “”censorship”” apparatus to rail against — brave warriors charging their readers $9.99/mo to follow their work fighting to ‘take down’ a thing that doesn’t exist. Meanwhile…washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/08/india-twitter-online-censorship/

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How India tamed Twitter and set a global standard for online censorship

The government has sharply increased the demands it makes of Silicon Valley firms to take down posts and accounts, in particular those that criticize the prime minister and the ruling BJP party.

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Ben Meghreblian @benmeg.com · 24/11/2023

For anyone interested, the website can be found here: registeredreports.cardiff.ac.uk/feedback/das... Authors/reviewers of Registered Reports manuscripts can add their feedback too!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a regularly-updated list of 190 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

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BlueSky Science-Related Feeds

Sheet1 Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list 11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...

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Danny Courtney @dannycourtney.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

MSc student looking for participants for a very interesting study. Please help if you can, #psychology #socpsy x.com/cogniteev/st...

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 07/11/2023

short titles are better www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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