Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 29/08/2026@evangelospsych.bsky.social 011
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22/07/2026The Crowds & Identities webinar, expertly convened by @samreenchhabra.bsky.social, with Becky Davies presenting on her important PhD research on improving public engagement with triage in mass casuality incidents 144
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisTrish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...slate.comDrowning Doesn’t Look Like DrowningDrowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect. 253133939735
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisDaniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026When we think about disasters, we think of the individual (hoarding, prepping, etc.) or the government (evacuation orders, seawalls, and large concrete infrastructure). But the core of #resilience comes from our network, from the people we know www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4oY... 021
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 26/02/2026New re-vamped @crowdsidentities.bsky.social website, with new @sussex.ac.uk brand formatting -- looks good! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab... 1104
Reposted by Evangelos Ntontissamreenchhabra.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Crowds & Identities Feb 2026! Fantastic work by @evangelospsych.bsky.social on Crowds, awe, and ordeal: Experiences, psychological transformations and ideological reproduction. Great seeing everyone! @swedishprotests.bsky.social @dennisnigbur.bsky.social @yarazebian.bsky.social @pjsaaved.bsky.social 174
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisClare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...irishexaminer.comLearning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate thatChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning 616672
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Our study of three of the 2024 anti-asylum-seeker riots now accepted for publication at J of Community & Applied Social Psych. Link to pre-print below. www.qeios.com/read/17ASAPqeios.comUnderstanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case StudiesThe wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ... 0168
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisInternational Journal of Social Psychology @ijsocialpsychology.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Hello to the BlueSky community! ☀️We are @ijsocialpsychology.bsky.social, a bilingual (Spanish–English) journal that publishes empirical research across all areas of #socialpsychology. Read this thread to learn more about us 🔽 194
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisLorraine Miller @lorrainemiller7.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...commondreams.orgRichest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common DreamsA landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year 531061542
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisYasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Great news: finally Miles Hewstone is exposed. I stopped citing him years ago, I warned friends/colleagues when I saw them publishing together, I informed as many people as possible about him. We all did. Had this piece been published 15 years ago, everyone would have already known. Shame on Oxford. 14511
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 28/11/2025Public worry about Palestine Action ban’s impact on UK democracy, new survey finds Evidence that the ban affects: - willingness to protest - trust in government - perception of divisions in UK More here: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Full report: drive.google.com/drive/folder...drive.google.comMedia - Google Drive 11111
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisMark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 08/11/2025"Basic scientists consistently enhance scientific output quality, yet research and newly joining researchers have shifted toward applied orientations." Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2509.01530 #PhilSci #MetaSci #AcademicSky 🧪 13916
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 27/10/2025@evangelospsych.bsky.social @lindajbell.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @yarazebian.bsky.social @drannetempleton.bsky.social @loudavidson.bsky.social @kayleighsmith.bsky.social @klara-jurstakova.bsky.social @schreiber-julia.bsky.social 021
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisResistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, October 13: We start with an interactive workshop to diversify our methodological toolbox to better investigate forms of resistance and repression in different contexts. To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere... 054
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025This coming Monday at 7 am New York time, 13.00 Barcelona time, 21.00 Brisbane time! Join us for a research methods bazaar to swap methods for psychological research on resistance in violent and repressive contexts. Register here to get the zoom link: tinyurl.com/resistancere... 011
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 08/10/2025@evangelospsych.bsky.social 033
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New book just arrived in the post! Includes chapter by me & @evangelospsych.bsky.social on collective resilience as a process in emergent groups in emergencies. 1125
Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 22/09/2025On this day, seven years ago, I defended my PhD thesis. Can't believe it's been so long 🥲 @profjohndrury.bsky.social @richardamlot.bsky.social 081
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Re-reading this chapter by Carina Hoerst, @alexhaslam.bsky.social @evangelospsych.bsky.social @swedishprotests.bsky.social @fergusneville.bsky.social et al. for lecture preparation for the coming term. www.researchgate.net/publication/...researchgate.netThe Psychology of Crowds and Leadership in the 2021 Capitol Insurrection | Request PDFRequest PDF | On Aug 11, 2025, Carina Hoerst and others published The Psychology of Crowds and Leadership in the 2021 Capitol Insurrection | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGa... 032
Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 16/09/2025EASP advertises scholarships for research visits to Israel, which decimated Palestinian universities & killed its academics. I'm sure that benefiting from "cultural immersion that extends learning well beyond the lab or library" compensates for the genocide & the thousands of murdered people. 120
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025"This application of Adorno’s maxim 'never again Auschwitz' has made of it the opposite of what he intended: a tool of [Germany's] Staatsräson instead of resistance against it." Must-read, authoritative analysis of Germany's misguided response to Gaza, unearthing gems from Adorno's work and more! 083
Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 03/09/2025If you also want organisations with a spine who can speak truth to power when atrocities take place, then sign the petition and boycott the next #ISPP conference unless its current leadership decides to condemn the genocide in Gaza. Enough is enough. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comPetition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in PalestineEsteemed colleagues, We, the undersigned academics and scholars — including current and former members of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) as well as colleagues working in poli... 063
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisYasemin Gülsüm Acar @yasemingacar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I read ISPP's statement early this morning and I have been thinking about it since, trying to wrap my head around the goal of this second statement and what it actually says to its readers. 164
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisHakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Cannot even tire myself by using elegant words — complete BS and shameless puke. 051
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisSyed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 26/08/2025When the scientists don't have anything unique to add apart from toeing the line of establishment liberals, tells you all you need to know about 'whitestream' Psychology. 051
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisYasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025I don't think I have been more disgusted by anything recently as much as this statement. I'd rather they said "we don't give a fuck about the ongoing genocide" 093
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisDavid Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Human rights orgs: Israel is committing genocide and using starvation as a method of war against Palestinians. ‘Foremost’ political-psych society: dialogue is the answer; we are concerned by the, ehm, suffering that has "transpired" mysteriously in the region. Shame on the signatories. (1/2) 1143
Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 26/08/2025This is what our politicians and scientific societies are openly covering for and excusing. Meanwhile, Israeli politicians go full out, not even trying to keep up the pretences. 061
Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Complete cowardice from one of the biggest societies to name things for what they are: Israel's genocide in Gaza. Especially after what happened in the year's conference in Prague, this shows the board is unwilling to fix the internal problems they themselves acknowledged that exist in the society 010
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisBrendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"many ... wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is exactly how it happens — a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning and our country is different." 19556229
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisGordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Reminding Americans that US contributes much to #climatecrisis (and benefits from heavy consumption) ==> ✳️ increased climate concern (among liberals) ✳️ DECREASED climate concern (among conservatives) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comClimate Privilege: Defensive disbelief in climate change scienceTwo studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger th… 153
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Now published in Annual Review: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... If you face the paywall, try the pre-print version instead: www.qeios.com/read/K26NKZ 23215
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi. 69120232808
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJohn Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Crowd psychology post at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Fantastic opportunity for someone. @crowdsidentities.bsky.social www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...fz-juelich.dePhD Position – Social Psychology / Crowd PsychologyThe aim of our research at the Institute for Advanced Simulation – Civil Safety Research (IAS-7) is to better understand complex dynamics in crowds and thus make large gatherings safer and more comfor... 013
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisNature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/07/2025A study in Nature Human Behaviour finds that four-day work weeks without a reduction in income boost workers’ job satisfaction and physical and mental health, driven by enhanced work performance, lower levels of fatigue and fewer sleep problems. go.nature.com/3Um75MP #econsky 🧪 17331
Reposted by Evangelos Ntontisskelly @iid.bsky.social · 20/07/2025do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists 1171172004
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Among yesterday's arrestees is Deborah Hinton, an 81-year old retired magistrate with an OBE. That's Yvette Cooper's idea of a terrorist. Language has been turned on its head. The law has been turned on its head. Murdering children is righteous. Trying to stop it is terrorism. 351934673
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Remember all that fulminating in the billionaire press about "free speech" (ie their freedom to abuse Muslims, trans people etc with impunity)? Now that people are being arrested for speaking about an issue of the utmost gravity, the self-appointed guardians of liberty have fallen strangely silent. 441761578
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisDaniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Fire sale on my book Building Resilience! When disasters strike, what factors matter most for surviving and thriving? Using data from the US, India, and Japan I show that #socialcapital - the ties that bind us - are critical www.amazon.com/Building-Res... 032
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...johnpaulbrammer.substack.comMay the Beast You Rode in on Eat You AliveOn Trump, Epstein, and TV 221162250
Reposted by Evangelos Ntontiswhet moser @whetmoser.com · 12/07/2025the times is reporting that fema let call center operator contracts expire on july 5, the day after the texas flood, and calls answered went from 99.7% that day to 36% the next to 16% the next www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...nytimes.comFEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show 37964533079
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisStephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 18/07/2025The Royal Society defending science by bringing marshmallows to a chainsaw massacre. Money quote: "However, one fellow with knowledge of Smith’s email described the society’s stance as “terrible cowardice”. www.theguardian.com/...theguardian.comRoyal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowshipExclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on research 1219
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisThe Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/07/2025The flooding in Texas “was not a divine punishment with an in-built moral design, but rather a catastrophe half engineered by humanity, lacking in moral design altogether,” Elizabeth Bruenig writes:bit.lyAfter the FloodWhen the earth drinks in the last of the waters, the places that remain will be different than they were before—turned sacred by overwhelming loss. 319030
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Not that anyone thought QAnon believers were intelligent but it’s almost comical how this community has been so invested in Epstein for years and couldn’t put two and two together that Trump was actually his bestie 472059204
Reposted by Evangelos Ntontis🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Here it is: A guide to understanding our new concentration-camp era and how to fight it. From Andrea Pitzer, drawing from her global history of concentration camps, a history of how humanity turned to camps and what it takes to turn away from them.youtube.comWhat's in a Concentration Camp? | The Name Game | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes WhatYouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer 18348174
Reposted by Evangelos NtontisDr Mhairi Bowe @mhairibowe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025A huge thanks to my #ISPP 2025 co-presenters @nuriamartinez.bsky.social and @evangelospsych.bsky.social & our discussant Sandra Obradovic for making our sysmposium: 'The Role of Mass Events in Shaping Societal Identities: Studies of the Crowds After the Death of Queen Elizabeth II' so enjoyable 6133