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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New analysis from me at @politicalquarterly.bsky.social on electoral reform, examining the case for reform, the options we might pursue and why reform efforts failed before (despite twice coming very close to success): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Has the Moment for Electoral Reform at Westminster Finally Arrived?

The rise to power of Andy Burnham, a vocal critic of first past the post, has put Westminster electoral reform back on the political agenda. This article examines the case for reforming the voting sy...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Mark has kindly invited me to do this interview. How I got into metascience, how my path diverged from the mainstream and more if you're interested. I enjoyed thinking about his questions. Hope you enjoy reading!

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Mikyung Shin @mshin77.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📢TextAnalysisR is now on CRAN: an R package + Shiny app for text mining: topic models (STM/BERTopic), sentiment, and semantic networks. #rstats #NLP #LLM install.packages("TextAnalysisR") App: textanalysisr.org Doc: mshin77.github.io/TextAnalysisR/

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TextAnalysisR: A text mining workflow tool

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Fran Cavanagh @francavanagh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Still not over AV being promoted as a legitimate alternative to FPTP for proportional representation fans in the 2011 UK referendum, when it's just another majoritarian system and the Jenkins Commission in fact recommended AV+, which has a proportional top up element.

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Contact Research @contactresearch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Session 2A at #ICRN2026: how can new methods reveal where contact happens and how it can be designed? One take-away: while VR work on intergroup contact is very exciting, it is also difficult. Avatars' social identity is interpreted quite differently from that of human interaction partners. (1/3)

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Excellent presentation by @francavanagh.bsky.social today at #EASP2026 on developing a new scale of right-wing populist attitudes in the UK.

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Daniel Gilbert @danielgilbert.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

FPP brutally supressed UKIP in 2015 and Reform in 2024, but is boosting up Reform this week - they have passed the tipping point where the electoral system goes from deadly enemy to best friend

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Sohan Dsouza @sohandsouza.info · 03/05/2025

"Facebook’s infamous emotional-contagion study" was actually more ethical than this, given that the Facebook feed algorithm doesn't pretend to be a human, and there's no reasonable expectation of such.

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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Great turnout today on @ducu.bsky.social pickets. On strike to protect professional services staff jobs. An attack on one is an attack on all! Management tried to pit academics against professional services staff - they've failed! We are *all* the university!

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Durham Psychology @durhampsych.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Congrats Dr Patrick Kotzur, Prof Stefania Paolini @durhamuniversity.bsky.social & team for receiving International Best Paper Award from the Society of Existential Psychology for 'Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine - Nature Communications'👏 go.nature.com/3E5CmiF

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Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine - Nature Communications

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the global economy, environment, and political order. Here, the authors show that it also coincided with a temporary decline in psychological well-being ac...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

AfD overwhelmingly won votes from non-voters and the centre-right. This is a standard pattern. It is a myth that the radical right are mainly winning disaffected centre-left voters.

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Antje Otto @angie0.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left. www.ft.com/content/29fd...

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A new global gender divide is emerging

Young men and young women’s world views are pulling apart. The consequences could be far-reaching

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Vote choice by birth cohort and gender in the 2024 European election in Germany: - Increased gender gaps among young voters for several parties. - AfD share more than twice as high among young men (21% vs. 10%). - 49% of young men voted for the right-leaning parties, but only 32% of young women.

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Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️ @joachim.cidlab.com · 06/02/2025

Since everyone is talking about research funding, this perspective by the vice-president of the European Research Council might be of interest. Blue states: Consider joining a multinational research council.

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Alternative models of funding curiosity-driven research | PNAS

Funding of curiosity-driven science is the lifeblood of scientific and technological innovation. Various models of funding allocation became instit...

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 28/01/2025

With <4 weeks until election day, how strong is #Germany's #farright #AfD? I have compiled 19 months of polling data so that you don't have to. Several major scandals have done no lasting damage to their support. And the events & debates of the last 12 weeks have been a boon for them.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This multi-year, multi-country analysis shows that right-wing populist politicians spread more online misinfo than their mainstream counterparts and explains how “the rise of political misinformation is associated to the recent wave of radical-right populism.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Screenshot of a paper in the International Journal of Press/Politics. Title: When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries. Authors: Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri. Abstract: The spread of misinformation has emerged as a global concern. Academic attention has recently shifted to emphasize the role of political elites as drivers of misinformation. Yet, little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation—in part due to a dearth of cross-national empirical data needed for comparative study. This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6years and several election periods. The dataset is combined with external databases such as Parlgov and V-Dem, linking the spread of misinformation to detailed information about political parties and cabinets, thus enabling a comparative politics approach to misinformation. Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left- wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution.

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

Scholars argue whether rightists or extremists are more prone to conspiracies. A new analysis across 77 samples (and 18 countries) concludes "there is no single functional form" of the ideology-conspiracy relationship. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #socialpsych #psychscisky #polisky

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Very interesting and accessible take on probability worth a read! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Michael Inzlicht @minzlicht.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Stereotype threat: a once-dominant idea in social psychology that shaped how we think about identity and performance. But what happens when the evidence crumbles? A deep dive into the failed replications, the myths, and what it all means. Read my latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

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Revisiting Stereotype Threat

A Reckoning for Social Psychology

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Never assume your measures are doing what you think they’re doing, especially if you haven’t validated them using multiple populations.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 13/12/2024

Lots of puzzles to unpack here but not talked about so much is the shift in far right (recall) among young women Young men increased ~50% Young women increased ~100% (19v24) Gender gap remains (larger in consid. set) but trend is clear: rising far-right support among both young men & women

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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A scientist new to Bluesky? @steveharoz.com and @markrubin.bsky.social have put together some great resources to get you started!

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

New to BlueSky? Interested in Psychology? Click on this post and scroll up for a thread of 40 starter packs containing experts in different areas of psychology. #Psychology #AcademicSky #EduSky 🧪

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🦋 New to BlueSky? 🧪 Interested in science? 👀 Wanna find posts by scientists in specific fields? 📃 Click here for an ever-growing list of +230 science-related feeds and their hashtags: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #AcademicSky #PhDSky #EduSky

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

I am happy to stop saying Psych has a replication crisis. Instead I would say we are having a Methodology crisis where every aspect of the way we design studies, collect data and provide evidence for our results needs to be carefully examined and reconsidered in relation to the questions we ask

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

UK Government invests £10M in a new metascience unit to investigate issues like: 🔹️ "What makes a researcher more likely to make bold discoveries?" 🔹️ "How do we best incentivise replicable research?" #MetaSci #PhilSci #HistSci #STS 🧪

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Special issue: "Is psychology self-correcting? Reflections on the Credibility Revolution in Social and Personality Psychology." Edited by @simine.com and I. Check out the nine articles with diverse perspectives and approaches to examining the reform movement: spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/sp...

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Yes I will offer my online science-focused Statistical Rethinking course again starting in January 2024. Registration going up at the end of this month. All the course materials are already online though, so why wait? Update your posterior starting today 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdnM...

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Statistical Rethinking 2023 - 01 - The Golem of Prague

Full course details at https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2023Chapters:00:00 Introduction03:30 DAGs (causal models)17:50 Golems (stat models)43:06...

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