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@david-j-hughes.bsky.social

Personality and organisational psychologist, psychometrician Facet MAP: https://facetmap.org Handbook of Psychometrics: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118489772 Profile: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/david.hughes-4

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Michael Grosz has just released a pre-print on this question/issue for the Big Five, that might be of interest: osf.io/preprints/ps...

06.08.2025 18:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route | Royal Society The Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for attracting mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK from overseas, providing up to Β£4m ov...

Fantastic opportunity for mid-career researchers who would like to relocate their lab to the UK

Faraday Discovery fellowships

royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

04.08.2025 08:36 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Global Talent Ireland - Research Ireland Global Talent Ireland aims to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. Researchers funded through this programme are required to transfer their rese...

As research continues to be attacked (destroyed) elsewhere, European countries are installing new programs to attract researchers from around the world. Here is one from Ireland (deadline in October):
www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

19.07.2025 05:37 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Lecturer in Organisational Psychology/Organisational Behaviour (Teaching & Research):Oxford Road

Tenure-track Lectureship (Assistant Professor) in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester. Come work with us!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

24.04.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Lecturer in Organisational Psychology/Organisational Behaviour (Teaching & Research):Oxford Road

Tenure-track Lectureship (Assistant Professor) in Organisational Psychology at The University of Manchester. Come work with us!
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

24.04.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Details : Postdoctoral Research Fellow (FEEL Lab) : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

09.04.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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🚨 Job alert - please share!

I'm looking for a doctoral researcher (3 years, 75%) to join my #ERC project #Loneliness across time and space (LOTIS) at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de, starting June 1 or later.

Details in thread πŸ‘‡

#PsychSciSky

08.04.2025 06:29 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

What is the most creative and inspiring personality research paper from the last few years that I could recommend to students to show how breakthroughs happen?

05.04.2025 11:18 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

A chapter I wrote a while back might be useful. Has been for colleagues and a good overview for students:
pure.manchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfil...

I review the history of validity theory and present a 2-stage process (along with evidence-types) to ensure psychometric Accuracy and Appropriateness

03.04.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Psychology Professor β€˜Honoured’ to Receive Prestigious Award Congratulations to Professor of Personality and Social Psychology RenΓ© MΓ΅ttus who was awarded the National Science Prize in the Field of Social Sciences by the Government of Estonia.

Congratulations to @renemottus.bsky.social on receiving the National Science Prize in Social Sciences for his research on personality psychology. Well-deserved recognition for impactful research! Read more here: edin.ac/3E0xN9s
#psychology #research #impact #researchimpact #personalitypsychology

02.04.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

Can’t say I disagree academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

08.03.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Along with time keeping, yes. Easy solution: Get the slides beforehand and make a single ppt file. Unless everyone uses different software there is no change

23.02.2025 00:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic RenΓ© and thoroughly deserved!

06.02.2025 21:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Students whose universities demand quicker feedback-turnaround by staff are barely (if any) more satisfied with their feedback. Who would guess it? My new paper πŸ™ƒ doi.org/10.1080/0260...

05.02.2025 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 30    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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Self-Control as a Performance-Enhancing Drug

Self-control is an all-purpose good like IQ: It predicts health, wealth, and all things good.

www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/self-contr...

03.02.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Teaching days are not researching days!

29.01.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wanna do a post doc in the U.K.? Look no further than the below

22.01.2025 23:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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FacetMap.org

Our Facet MAP might be useful for future cohorts: facetmap.org
And we’ll soon be surveying the field for suggestions of important missing traits, sounds like you might have unique insight via your students!

22.01.2025 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This paper is definitely not short, but there are short sections of relevance and Tables 1 and 2 that might do the job www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

18.01.2025 09:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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