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Mike Quayle

@mikeq.bsky.social
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Social psychologist @ University of Limerick. Views my own (such as they are), not employers, funders etc. All rights reserved to be confused and sometimes change my mind.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 29/09/2026
Social media has defined our attention landscape for two decades. It is now coming to its end. What comes next, and how will AI reshape the attention economy? 🧵 New essay for Informational Democracy informationaldemocracy.substack.com/p/after-soci...
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After Social Media
Visioning · Petter Törnberg on how AI is remaking the attention economy
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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People who feel optimistic about AI tend to agree with one another. But people who worry about AI? Not so much. A belief-network analysis of six questions about AI and technology reveals a striking asymmetry. 🧵
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Dino Carpentras @justanormaldino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our aim is to help researchers study not only what people believe, but also how beliefs cluster, evolve, bridge groups, and become part of collective identities. 👇👇👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Belief Network Theory: a measurement framework for complex identity belief systems
PDF | Understanding how people build and navigate complex belief–identity systems is central to research across the social sciences, data science, and... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Postdoc Opportunity — Rethinking Epidemic Models with Social Psychology We are looking for: • Experience in agent-based, computational or mathematical modelling • Strong programming skills (Python, R or C++) Please share www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Research Assistant | Istvan Kiss
📢 Postdoc Opportunity — Rethinking Epidemic Models We are looking for a Postdoc to join the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London on a new 3-year Leverhulme Trust-funded project:...
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Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
1 fully funded PhD position in UCD Sociology: www.ucd.ie/sociology/st...
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PhD Researcher Sociology of Computational Neuroscience and Neurotechnology - UCD School of Sociology
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reposts appreciated here for #PsychPhD opportunities at @micireland.bsky.social . Join us in Limerick! #PsychJobs
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
1/ At #EASP2026? Help demonstrate STIGMERGY by playing the INTERACTIVE GAME on my poster tomorrow Thur 2 July @ 10:50am (Poster 51) Choose a little homemade boat, help label it, and move the boats around. If it works, and if enough people pass by, this will become a stigmergic system. How?
A little handmade raft with a sail
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Charles Antaki @charlesantaki.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The better news is that a decent fraction of the social psychology community said "enough!" in the 70s and revolted. Rejected experimentation & moved over to (various) qualitative methods. Some dodgy, others now mature and productive (eg Discursive Psychology, Conversation Analysis).
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Excited to be launching a new MSc in Applied Social Data Analytics to give psychology & social science grads a skills to think about & analyze the complex social world we live in. A few places still open, apply here: www.ul.ie/gps/courses/... Please share if people follow you who may be interested!
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Applied Social Data Analytics - MSc
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 04/06/2026
New column: Now is the ideal time to make fossil fuel phase-out the organising principle of Ireland's energy and economic strategy. My piece in today's @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
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MSc Applied Social Data Analytics - UL @msc-social-data-ul.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Join us to learn more about the new MSc Applied Social Data Analytics offered by the Department of Psychology at the University of Limerick, commencing September 2026. This webinar will include a presentation about the programme and a Q&A session. We look forward to having you attend the event!
Webinar. Monday 25 May, 1 PM.
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MSc Applied Social Data Analytics - UL @msc-social-data-ul.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Applications are open! Go to www.ul.ie/gps/courses/... for more info. #StayCurious #StudyatUL
Promotional poster to apply for the master's programme
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 10/04/2026
That means putting the right supports in place now: charging infrastructure for heavy trucks, depot grid connections, purchase grants or leasing support. The government has very little control over the price of oil, but it can control over how dependent we remain on it.
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Ben McWilliams @bmcwilliams.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
European power prices are split since the US-Iran conflict. Gas-reliant markets like Italy and Ireland have seen high prices (€140/MWh) while renewable rich regions including Spain, Portugal and Sweden see far lower prices (€40/MWh). These are average wholesale daily prices (8am to 8pm).
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Green Collective @greencollective.io · 22/03/2026
Earlier this month, output from solar farms started exceeding 1GW for the first time. Yesterday, we saw another important record set: around 1pm, solar output was equal to almost a quarter of the island's electricity demand. ☀️ 🔋
A stacked area chart of the renewable electricity generation mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, biomass, waste-to-energy, hydro, solar, wind, oil, and gas. The y axis indicates the percentage of demand being met by each source.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMOA treemap of the electricity mix on the island of Ireland with the following fuel types: battery, biomass, hydro, solar, wind, oil, gas, and waste-to-energy.  Larger sources are annotated with the GWh and percentage of total generation that source comprised.

Footnote reads: All-island figures. Excludes rooftop solar. Source: EirGrid, SEMO
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 11/03/2026
Let's see why clean energy technologies are so much more energy secure than oil. A single solar panel (450W) costs about €100, same as a tank of petrol. How many EV kilometres can the solar panel power compared to the tank of diesel? Take a guess while I work it out on the back of an envelope.
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 11/03/2026
In my @irishtimes.com op-ed today I argue that our climate law is the best framework we have for making energy secure and affordable, because it tackles the root cause of our vulnerability to energy shocks - our dependence on fossil fuels. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...
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Hannah Daly: Irish people are again paying a high price for our reliance on fossil fuels
But renewable energy relies on resources that will never run out and cannot be cut off as act of aggression
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Paul Bertin @paulbertin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Want to come work with @olivierklein.bsky.social and me on a socially relevant topic in a warm research center full of amazing people, in the no-less international and vibrant city of Brussels? And for three years, full-time? Then apply by April 15! More details here: lnkd.in/erXmpcBm
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Laura K Taylor @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Now hiring at @ucddublin.bsky.social in #psychology ✅ Postdoc: search job ref 019423 here: my.corehr.com/pls/ucdrecru... ✅ 4-year fully funded PhD, details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud... Part of @helpingkidslab.bsky.social Funded by @erc.europa.eu ERC Consolidator Award www.ucd.ie/research/new...
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Dr Laura K. Taylor receives ERC Consolidator Award to explore how identity can influence peacebuilding
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The long 2010s are finally over
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@ajamesgreen.bsky.social
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Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Friends and colleagues in Irish academia! The wonderful Dr Mary McGill has asked me to circulate her @researchireland.ie - funded survey on Exploring experiences of gender-based online abuse among female academics in Ireland - please do share! forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 16/02/2026
How much land and power would it take to decarbonise Dublin Airport? Check out our new RTE Brainstorm article: www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...
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Paul Maher @paulmaher.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
🚨2 ERC-funded Postdocs🚨 IDENTITY ERROR combines computational & experimental approaches to model epistemic vulnerability. 2 posts are available in our supportive & interdisciplinary team. Further details: Computational: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul... Social Psych: my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
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
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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'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
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Mete Sefa Uysal @metesefauysal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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 · 30/06/2025
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 · 23/06/2025
#PsychJobs #PhDSky Social Psychology (especially social identity); Computational Social Science; Applied maths
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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
#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 · 19/06/2025
“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...
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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...
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Inés Martínez Echagüe @imartinezechague.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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 · 11/06/2025
“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 · 11/06/2025
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...
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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...
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Kleber Oliveira @kleber-ao.com · 05/06/2025
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.
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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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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
@unioflimerick.bsky.social
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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-...
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Blankets of Hope – Iris House Cork
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Marc Scully @marcscully.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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.
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irsp_rips @irsp-rips.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Are you an academic who ✳️ knows music theory, AND ✳️ writes academic papers in the social sciences (on any topic, not linked to music) DM me, I'd like to run something past you!
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Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 20/11/2024
A figure-ground reversal can turn a bounded territory into a white canvas where everything is possible — and once you’ve seen it like that, it is hard to unsee. We want to make interaction ‘hard to unsee’ for cognitive science. markdingemanse.net/beyond/figur...
Six circles representing traditional cogsci disciplines with cutouts representing supposedly 'marginal' areas. When those areas are turned towards the center —towards interaction, their common focus— a hexagon becomes visible. The hexagon evokes one traditional representation of cognitive science as fields arranged in a hexagonal network diagram. Interaction is at the heart of cognitive science.
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Dr. Aisling O'Donnell @draislingod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Call for papers! At BJSP we are having a special issue on the social psychology of Collective Racial and Ethnic Violence. Full information can be found here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...  #socialpsychology
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
⏰PSA: Deadline approaching!⏰
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
1/ Four 5-yr posts starting Jan ‘25: (Links @ thread end) 1. Postdoc (PD): Soc. Psyc or related DL:1-Oct-24 2. PD comp./mathematical modelling DL:1-Oct-24 3. PD: Research Management (0.5FTE) DL:07-Oct-24 4. Asst. Prof: Soc Psych. & Innovative Methods DL 27-Sep-24 @polpsyispp.bsky.social #jobfairy
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Mike Quayle @mikeq.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
1/ Four 5-yr posts starting Jan ‘25: (Links @ thread end) 1. Postdoc (PD): Soc. Psyc or related DL:1-Oct-24 2. PD comp./mathematical modelling DL:1-Oct-24 3. PD: Research Management (0.5FTE) DL:07-Oct-24 4. Asst. Prof: Soc Psych. & Innovative Methods DL 27-Sep-24 @polpsyispp.bsky.social #jobfairy
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