Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Thank you, Marlene! And congrats for the great work. 010
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026La psychologie francophone a perdu une de ses “voix”. Une spécialiste de la psychologie du numérique qui s’était notamment distinguée par ses talents de médiatrice scientifique. Quelle tristesse! 071
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Je suis atterré d’apprendre cette nouvelle. J’appréciais beaucoup son travail et avais eu des échanges très riches et chaleureux avec elle. Toutes mes condoléances. 000
Reposted by Olivier KleinKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 11/04/2026An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death 311101714494
Reposted by Olivier KleinMilgram de Savoirs @milgrampodcast.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Face à une actualité anxiogène, comment accompagner les enfants à y faire face? @olivierklein.bsky.social, professeur en psychologie sociale de ULB nous donnent quelques éléments de réponse à travers ce nouveau 100g 🤩 👉https://milgram.ulb.be/100g/episodes-100g/enfants_actualite/ 📷 Fer Troulik 013
Reposted by Olivier KleinPaul Bertin @paulbertin.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Want 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/erXmpcBmlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 066
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Ça fait plaisir de vous retrouver ici. Ça fait longtemps! 110
Reposted by Olivier KleinGenavee Brown @genaveebrown.bsky.social · 20/02/2026HDR Defended ✅ Thank you to everyone for all your support during the process. Special thanks to my jury members @olivierklein.bsky.social @majabecker.bsky.social Maire-Pierre Fourquet-Courbet, Bo Sanisito, Pascal Huguet and Nicolas Michinov. 041
Reposted by Olivier KleinEric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/01/2026WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... 53281622934
Reposted by Olivier KleinCraig Aaron @notaaroncraig.bsky.social · 24/12/2025“Chilling and unconstitutional” — @attorneynora.bsky.social @freepress.bsky.socialnytimes.comU.S. Bars 5 European Tech Regulators and Researchers 415346
Reposted by Olivier KleinPaul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 22/12/2025The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵 2819171104
Reposted by Olivier KleinKenzo Nera @kenzonera.bsky.social · 17/12/2025This was not an easy one to write, but here it is! 🎈🤡 Freshly published in Collabra: Psychology: the life and death of one of the coolest findings in my PhD dissertation. 🎈🤡 With the usual – and wonderful – Karen M. Douglas, @paulbertin.bsky.social, and @olivierklein.bsky.social. 1/11 186
Reposted by Olivier KleinLaurence Dierickx @ohmyshambles.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I love when colleagues share amazing stories with me! Thanks @olivierklein.bsky.social They Droned Back - Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast www.digitaldigging.org/p/they-drone...digitaldigging.orgThey Droned BackYoung journalists expose Russian-linked vessels circling off the Dutch and German coast 121
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 16/12/2025New publication led by @kenzonera.bsky.social. A very instructive set of studies if you want to teach about transparency and replication. 021
Reposted by Olivier KleinBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/12/2025This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it. 11736318
Reposted by Olivier KleinLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/12/2025“The paper warned that, in an extreme scenario, a highly persuasive AI chatbot ‘could benefit unscrupulous actors wishing, for example, to promote radical political or religious ideologies or foment political unrest among geopolitical adversaries.’” (I do not think this is an “extreme scenario”…) 34215
Reposted by Olivier KleinJosh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research 38770390
Reposted by Olivier KleinLinda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 20/11/2025knowing many directly affected, I personally asked some senior male colleagues to speak out about this during my earlier years as a professor, as i felt too vulnerable due to my stage of career.. it was shocking how much this was 'common knowledge' among women and how few male colleagues knew 😔 02812
Reposted by Olivier KleinFiona Kazarovytska @zakfio.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Join us for the EASP 2026 Preconference: "Social Psychological Processes of Collective Memory" @easp2026.bsky.social ✨ With @olivierklein.bsky.social @jrvollhardt.bsky.social @michelletwali.bsky.social @elifsandal.bsky.social @laurentlicata.bsky.social Submit here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/cal...easp.euCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EASP 2026 PRECONFERENCESSocial Psychology News Articles 0139
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 20/11/2025If you are interested in collective memory and plan to attend the EASP General Meeting in Strasburg, don't miss our preconference! 020
Reposted by Olivier KleinSydney Levine @sydneylevine.bsky.social · 14/11/2025I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...sites.google.comSydney Levine - Open PositionsGraduate Students (PhD program) I will be accepting PhD students through the NYU psychology department for the current application cycle (for admission in Fall 2026). My lab is joint between the Co... 13821
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 15/11/2025New publication. Congrats to the whole team, and especially @paulbertin.bsky.social who led this effort. Thanks also to the editor (Nicolas Sommet) and reviewers, who desserve credit for improving our paper. 192
Reposted by Olivier KleinSander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Yes the BBC edit was poor journalistic form but the research indeed shows that Trump's speech predicted riots, violence, and weapons use on January 6th. 35317
Reposted by Olivier KleinPaul Bertin @paulbertin.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Shout-out to the best possible team of co-authors: Elisa Tognon, @kenzonera.bsky.social, @rritabajraktari.bsky.social, Vincent Yzerbyt, @olivierklein.bsky.social, and Klein Pit (who originally started this project). OA here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy BeliefsConspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im... 0102
Reposted by Olivier KleinKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/10/2025A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfVt.cohttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN... 14480521922
Reposted by Olivier KleinEdwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Cinq ans après la pandémie de Covid-19, l’autorité chargée de la politique vaccinale aux États-Unis se réunit à New York. Mais elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vaccins nommés par le premier d’entre eux, le ministre de la santé Robert Kennedy Jr. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...mediapart.frÉtats-Unis : les antivax prennent le pouvoir sur la santéL’autorité sanitaire chargée de la politique vaccinale se réunit jeudi et vendredi à New York. Mais cinq ans après le début de la pandémie de covid-19, elle est désormais composée d’opposants aux vac… 33714
Reposted by Olivier KleinBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone. 10569150
Reposted by Olivier KleinAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/): 1739611332
Reposted by Olivier KleinJessica Eaton @jessicaeaton.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Wow and wow and WE MUST ALL DO THIS!! 012118
Reposted by Olivier KleinAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 27/08/2025“Chicago has long helped to keep alive tiny fields & esoteric areas of humanistic study... Without the univ’s support, & the continued training of grad students who can keep these bodies of kn going, entire spheres of human learning might eventually blink out.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...theatlantic.comIf the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages 626493
Reposted by Olivier KleinVincent Lemire @vincent-lemire.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Plus envie d'argumenter, plus envie de documenter. Tout est là, sous nos yeux. Mais comment faire prendre conscience de ce qu'est une famine? 6258183
Reposted by Olivier Kleinsamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/08/2025My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today) 25739
Reposted by Olivier KleinBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/08/2025As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word. 22563201
Reposted by Olivier KleinSciencepo ULB @sciencepoulb.bsky.social · 31/07/2025[Job] The Policy Lab at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social seeks to recruit a postdoctoral researcher (full time, 2 years) in the framework of the project 'Metropolitan internet meets post-growth' Deadline: 30 August 001
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Merci pour ce gigantesque travail, qui n’a pas l’écho qu’il mérite. 1100
Reposted by Olivier KleinJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 28/07/2025New blog post! Calculating a correlation is easy enough. But let's say you calculated two of them and they happen to differ. What follows from that? Turns out there are too many moving parts for an easy answer. www.the100.ci/2025/07/28/w...the100.ciWhat’s in a correlation?Correlation may not imply causation, but let’s just ignore that for a second. Correlations are standardized effect size metrics and as such have some quirks by design. These are benign enough when you... 88627
Reposted by Olivier KleinJulie Carpenter, PhD @jgcarpenter.com · 26/07/2025I'm quoted in this piece. In short: do not use ChatGPT or any generative AI as a “therapist.” It’s not sentient. It doesn’t care. It may even lead people toward harm. And nothing shared is protected by HIPAA or real privacy standards; it's fodder for the machine. www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture...dazeddigital.comAI is transforming how we communicate in relationships‘All I wanted was to feel seen, heard and understood by him, but instead, he was sending me a robot’s questions’ 2270117
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 26/07/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/w...nytimes.comNo Proof Hamas Routinely Stole U.N. Aid, Israeli Military Officials Say 030
Reposted by Olivier KleinCaroline Van Wynsberghe @carobxl.eurosky.social · 15/07/2025"De grâce, que la Belgique ne réagisse pas trop tard. En commençant par manifester une indignation commune devant des menaces envers les magistrats, car cette indignation est le premier bouclier pour protéger les défenseurs de l’Etat." 172
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Great! And thanks for curating this list. Super useful and it’s indeed where the action happen(ed)s. 000
Reposted by Olivier KleinGordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Clear advice from @catherinedevries.bsky.social on clear writing. Who could argue with such solid advice? (he naively asks the internet) 2229
Reposted by Olivier KleinAdrien Fillon @adrienfillon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Is there a difference between falsification and refutation? Popper used the former in the book about logic of scientific discovery and the latter in the last (conjecture and refutation). And I never understood the difference. 331
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 09/07/2025Dan Simons had one. But not sure it’s still accessible. 110
Olivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Very sad to learn that Helen De Cruz, who had been a constant online presence for me on Twitter and then here, passed away. Read her last blog post. A little gem on what we leave to others. 171
Reposted by Olivier KleinUltimes scories @panettonepazzo.bsky.social · 28/06/2025La Pride de Budapest interdite par Orban. Rien n’arrête les libertés. Surtout pas le fascisme 7577177
Reposted by Olivier KleinOlivier Klein @olivierklein.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Lucky BJSP, who has gained a wise, enthusiastic and witty new associate editor! 021
