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Evangelos Ntontis

@evangelospsych.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. in Social and Organisational Psych at Panteion University; Deputy Editor, BJSP; Amateur 📸; Posts nerdy academic stuff, political ranting & the occasional memes. Own views

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The 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
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every 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...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
When 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...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New re-vamped @crowdsidentities.bsky.social website, with new @sussex.ac.uk brand formatting -- looks good! www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...
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samreenchhabra.bsky.social @samreenchhabra.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Crowds & 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
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Chatbots 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...
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Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that
ChatGPT 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
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Our 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/17ASAP
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Understanding the 2024 Summer Riots in the UK: Three Case Studies
The 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 ...
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International Journal of Social Psychology @ijsocialpsychology.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Hello 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 🔽
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Lorraine Miller @lorrainemiller7.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined www.commondreams.org/news/world-i...
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Richest 0.001% Now Own Three Times More Wealth Than Poorest Half of Humanity Combined | Common Dreams
A landmark report on global inequality shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year
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Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Great 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.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Public 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...
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Mark 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 🧪
Despite broad acclaim for basic research, science is undergoing an applied shift that marginalizes basic scientists. This gap reflects an incomplete understanding of their distinctive roles, which prevents translating philosophical appreciation into effective support. We introduce a scalable metric--the application score--to position research along the basic-applied spectrum and apply it to 62 million publications (1970-2023) to reveal the distinctive contributions of basic scientists. We find a structural asymmetry: involvement of basic scientists substantially increases citation impact, even more so in applied contexts, while applied scientists show no such effect in basic domains. This asymmetric effect arises from their intellectual leadership in conceptualization, writing, and experimental design, amplified in large, multidisciplinary, and intermediate career teams. Yet basic scientists remain concentrated in historically prestigious institutions, while new entrants shift toward applied work, indicating critical undersupply. These findings provide large-scale evidence for the indispensable role of basic scientists, guiding policy and institutional strategy to sustain the foundations of discovery and innovation.
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John 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
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Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The 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...
Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar
Interactive Workshop (90 mins)
Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coşkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt)
Monday, Oct 13, 2025
Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressed– in part because of the methodological limitations and rigidities in the field, in addition to practical and ethical considerations. For example, how does one examine covert resistance under conditions of surveillance and risk, how does one access forms of everyday resistance that may not be articulated as such, how does one conduct research on resistance that is under repression without creating further risk or harm to the participant and/or to the research team, how does one access information about resistance under extremely violent and most repressive conditions, such as genocide? 
This session is an interactive methods workshop, a bazaar of ideas and research experience, where participants will share and swap knowledge about underutilized methods that have been or could be used to examine different forms of resistance (above all those forms of resistance that are understudied) in various contexts of violence and repression. The organizers will bring examples of a relevant, underutilized research method and share it with participants in a brief (5 min) blitz presentation. We also invite participants (optional, not required for participation) to bring along their methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two. We will also discuss more general, overarching questions related to methodological limitations in research on resistance and repression and ways to address these. 
7.00 am NYC, 8.00 Santiago (Chile), 12 (noon) London, 13.00 Barcelona, 14.00 Ramallah & Istanbul, 16.30 New Delhi, 19.00 Manila, 21.00 Brisbane.
Registration link in the original post.
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Johanna Ray Vollhardt @jrvollhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This 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...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New book just arrived in the post! Includes chapter by me & @evangelospsych.bsky.social on collective resilience as a process in emergent groups in emergencies.
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Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
On this day, seven years ago, I defended my PhD thesis. Can't believe it's been so long 🥲 @profjohndrury.bsky.social @richardamlot.bsky.social
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Re-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/...
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The Psychology of Crowds and Leadership in the 2021 Capitol Insurrection | Request PDF
Request 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...
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Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
EASP 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.
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Johanna 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!
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Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
If 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...
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Petition: Demanding recognition of the genocide and ending scholasticide and complicity in Palestine
Esteemed 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...
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Yasemin Gülsüm Acar @yasemingacar.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I 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.
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Hakan Çakmak @hakancakmak.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Cannot even tire myself by using elegant words — complete BS and shameless puke.
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Syed Muhammad Omar @nafsiatmahir.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
When 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.
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Yasin Koc @spyasin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I 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"
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David Clarke @daclarkecruz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Human 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)
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Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This 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.
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Evangelos Ntontis @evangelospsych.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Complete 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
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Brendan 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."
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Reminding 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...
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Climate Privilege: Defensive disbelief in climate change science
Two studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger th…
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Now 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
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I 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.
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Crowd psychology post at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Fantastic opportunity for someone. @crowdsidentities.bsky.social www.fz-juelich.de/en/careers/j...
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PhD Position – Social Psychology / Crowd Psychology
The 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...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 21/07/2025
A 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 🧪
This is figure 2. The plot shows the distribution of work hours at baseline (in red) and at endpoint (in green). Panel a presents company-level average work hours. Panel b presents individual-level work hours.
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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
do 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
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Among 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.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Remember 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.
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Daniel Aldrich @danielaldrich.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Fire 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...
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I wrote about Trump, Epstein, TV, and why this scandal feels different johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/may-the-be...
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May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive
On Trump, Epstein, and TV
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 12/07/2025
the 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...
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FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 18/07/2025
The 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/...
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Royal Society suggested to Elon Musk he consider resigning science fellowship
Exclusive: Fellows called on academy to act over Tesla owner’s role in Trump administration’s attacks on research
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/07/2025
The 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:
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After the Flood
When 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.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not 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
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Here 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.
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What's in a Concentration Camp? | The Name Game | Andrea Pitzer | Next Comes What
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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Dr Mhairi Bowe @mhairibowe.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A 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
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