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Paul Maher

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Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Limerick (UL)

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Finally, here is a press release that is our briefest summary of the program and findings. Go here if you want to spend <5 minutes on SCORE: www.cos.io/about/news/l...
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Large-Scale Collaboration Releases New Findings on Research Credibility
Findings from the Systematizing Confidence in Open Research and Evidence (SCORE) program—a collaborative effort among 865 researchers—have been published in Nature. SCORE offers new evidence on resear...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.
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Conor O'Mahony @conorom.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Student numbers have increased dramaticaly without any corresponding increaase in physical facilities for teaching etc, making timetabling impossible... and now the Govt wants universities to condense timetables because of accommodation shortsges. Go figure. www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...
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Colleges to be asked to cut on-campus days to ease student accommodation crisis
Government to ask third-level institutions to condense students’ time on campus to minimise the number of commuting days
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
New Gist: The Promise of No Change "Ireland's recent economic success is based around a very simple model. We hold a burlap sack open under a pipe attached to Apple and Microsoft " www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...
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The Gist: The Promise of No Change
For every action needed, why is there an equal and opposite inaction? This is the Gist.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/01/2026
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
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White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...
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David C. Vaidis @vaidis.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📢 Post-doc position – Toulouse (France) 🇫🇷 A post-doctoral position (12 months) is open at CNRS in Toulouse to work with me on the relationship between signal detection theory, conspiracy beliefs, and perceptions of corruption... 🔗 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Feel free to share!
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - PhD contract on ANR COPYCAT : "Study of the relationship between conspiracist beliefs and perceptions of corruption" M/F
Assurez-vous que votre profil candidat soit correctement renseigné avant de postuler
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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social
Photo of Trinity College Dublin taken by Stefan Müller
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Bastian Jaeger @bxjaeger.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Three preregistered experiments with prolific participants (N = 2,254) found no evidence for experimenter demand effects osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Ben Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
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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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Tobia Spampatti, PhD @tspampatti.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In this new Commentary in @natclimate.nature.com, I reflect on the recent focus on truth discernment in #misinfo research and argue that this outcome alone may not be beneficial to society if interventions do not improve behaviour and other outcomes because... 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Truth discernment may not help to overcome misinformation
Nature Climate Change - Scientists increasingly assess interventions against misinformation mainly via truth discernment. However, pursuing truth discernment may not be sufficiently beneficial to...
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Social Psychological Bulletin @socialpsychbull.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🟡 We are delighted to share that Social Psychological Bulletin has Impact Factor of 2.0! 🏅 Another big milestone for the once small and locally published journal - with more to come in the future. @pspspl.bsky.social @psychopengold.bsky.social
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Paul Maher @paulmaher.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
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Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour
Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired
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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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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Psychological inoculation is a very popular intervention against online misinfo, but it hasn't been tested using real-world outcomes in realistic scenarios. In a new paper just published in PNAS Nexus, this is what we did: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Short version: It didn't really work.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“The self-categorization model of mental health….predicts that intervention will be more likely to succeed where it helps to repair a particular component of the social self-system: inclusivity, positivity, or context sensitivity.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1037/rev0... #SocialPsyc #AcademicSky 🧪
The self had a central role in early theories of psychopathology and has long been of interest to mental health practitioners. However, these early theories typically made what we consider to be two key errors: they conceptualized mental ill-health as constituting discrete categories of illness, and they conceptualized the self as inherently individualized and stable. There is a growing recognition in psychiatry and clinical psychology of the former error, with a change well underway to reconceptualize psychopathology in terms of transdiagnostic continua of symptoms rather than as discrete categories. At the same time, modern understandings of self-processes acknowledge their fluid, socially structured, and context-sensitive nature. Here, we argue that the integration of these two perspectives—into a self-categorization model of mental health with a healthy social self-system at its core—can provide new insights into both the nature of mental health and ill-health and the relevant focus for intervention. We illustrate this by exploring the implications of our analysis for three conditions (depression, schizophrenia, and autism) and report the findings of a verification study with experts in both social identity theorizing and clinical practice. We conclude by proposing key priorities for future research on self-categorization in mental health.
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University of Limerick Department of Psychology @ulpsych.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Psychology for a permanent post! Salary scale is €47,955 - €65,244 p.a. Closing date is Noon Irish time on Friday, 30th May More information at www.ul.ie/vacancies Informal enquiries to eric.igou@ul.ie
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Join the team in UL
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/04/2025
5. Today, we are facing disinformation campaigns around science and medicine. These are coming from within our own government and are being carried out on a massive scale. Researchers who study these dynamics are being harassed; funding is gone; universities are scared to hire in this area.
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Don't stand for political bullying of disinformation scholars | Editorial
Among the targets of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan is the co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Is the consensus among mainstream journalists that the White House slandering a man they delivered into slavery using a crudely manipulated photo in the president’s grasp in the Oval Office is just not a very newsworthy event?
White House tweet with Trump holding a clearly manipulated photo purportedly of Abrego Garcia’s hand. MS 13 is written on his knuckles (in what I believe to be the ios default photo editor font).
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sigh another day, another colleague falls foul of post-hoc power calculation requests by a grant reviewer @lakens.bsky.social 's blog page comes in handy for this nonsense #episky daniellakens.blogspot.com/2014/12/obse...
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Observed power, and what to do if your editor asks for post-hoc power analyses
This blog post is now included in the paper "Sample size justification" available at PsyArXiv. Observed power (or post-hoc power) is th...
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I wrote about the biggest paradox of 21st century governance: that the democratization of information production is killing democracy. Trump’s America is the canary in the coal mine for how badly things can break when voters inhabit different realities from a steady diet of informational sludge.
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The Democratization of Information Production is Killing Democracy
The way we receive information about our world is unlike any previous generations of humanity. Paradoxically, it's destroying democracy—and Trump's America is the main canary in the coal mine.
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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/01/2025
As I wrote last week: "As other information sources fall, Wikipedia’s stubborn independence becomes more vital than ever. The attacks from [the right] aren't just about an online encyclopedia — they're part of a broader assault on any information source that refuses to be controlled."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/01/2025
How is this production technology? Here's Google Gemini potentially getting someone killed. Ten energy drinks is typically 1600-3000 mg of caffeine.
Google search for "caffeine per day" AI Overview gives potentially deadly advice, suggesting that 10 energy drinks per day is 400mg caffeine. It's actually around 2000.

"The recommended daily caffeine intake for healthy adults is up to 400 milligrams (mg). This is equivalent to about four cups of brewed coffee or 10 cans of energy drinks. 
However, individual caffeine tolerance varies, and some people may experience negative effects at lower doses. It is important to listen to your body and adjust your caffeine intake accordingly. 
Pregnant women, children, and people with certain medical conditions may need to limit their caffeine intake further. Consult with a healthcare professional for personalized advice."
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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Campaign Gist: Building a Wall The six constituencies with the greatest risk of far-right gains and the best candidates in each place to vote for to block them. www.thegist.ie/campaign-gist-buildi…
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