Mark Rubin

The following universities are delaying implementing a pay rise:

Dundee
Kent
Brunel
Coventry
Swansea

The following have yet to make a decision on the matter:

Aberdeen
Bangor
Bournemouth
Bradford
Buckingham
Cumbria
Lincoln
Plymouth Marjon

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These revelations comes in the wake of the VC's recent resignation...

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"In the last two years alone the ANU has made combined surpluses of nearly $250m, and, in turn, the audited accounts of the ANU show the organisation is stockpiling revenue from governments, students and philanthropy for some unstated future purpose."

The ANU’s hidden $90m budget surplus New analysis by The Australia Institute reveals there is no financial crisis at the Australian National University.

New analysis by The Australia Institute finds the Australian National University has a $90 million surplus, not a $142 million deficit!

"Sisi consistently invokes system threat in his official rhetoric and to explain away his regime’s mistakes, failed policies, and the difficulties it could reasonably be held responsible for within Egyptian society."

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Whatever the case, political leaders certainly know how to weild system threat to their benefit...

A social identity model of system attitudes (SIMSA): Multiple explanations of system justification by the disadvantaged that do not depend on a separate system justification motive System justification theory (SJT) assumes that social identity theory (SIT) cannot fully account for system justification by members of low-status (disadvantaged) groups. Contrary to this claim, we...

There are different ways of interpreting the effect of system threat. In my work with @chuma73.bsky.social et al., we argue that it can be viewed from the perspective of social identity theory "as a case of increased superordinate ingroup bias following a threat to the superordinate ingroup."

Interesting that "higher system justifiers were more affected by the infrastructure and identity system level threat treatments."

What explains the enduring popularity of authoritarianism and authoritarian leaders? In addition to theories rooted in regime performance, propaganda, and punishment, I propose system justification, a well-established socio-cognitive motive favoring established systems and stability, as a novel explanation for authoritarian support. I theorize the relationship between system justification and political behaviors in authoritarian contexts and test this in data from two original surveys of Egyptian citizens. After validating that the system justification scale reflects needs for certainty and structure in an authoritarian political setting, I show it is strongly associated with preferences for authoritarian governance. An embedded experiment shows that security, infrastructure, and identity systemic threats mobilize high system justifiers, further increasing support for authoritarian governance. Finally, additional analyses reveal that system justification predicts attitudinal and behavioral support for a specific authoritarian regime. The findings suggest a central role for individual psychological motivation in authoritarian persistence.

System justification predicts support for authoritarian governance and the Sisi regime in two samples of Egyptian adult citizens.

Thought-provoking new work by @ernugent.bsky.social

Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

"Hazel Rose Markus (2005 explains that: 'Social psychology is...the study of how people respond to and are influenced by other people' Algorithms, chatbots, LLMs, machines, models, inanimate objects are not people — they are the products of people (Guest, 2024, 2025)."

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"In this paper, we unpacked why we think psychologists need to be on high alert — not just to avoid another replication crisis, but to avoid the total collapse of our science."

Ed Miliband accuses Elon Musk of inciting violence

I don't get why it isn't a police matter for inciting violence!

A bit mad. Take a struggling industry whose core problem is relying on intl student fees for funding instead of stable funding... and tax that revenue to... pass it on to the uni's domestic students? The uni already sets domestic fees per what they can afford based on intl fee collections..

Yes it could be the last straw for many unis!

"A recent report from Public First warned that...over 77,000 students could be put off studying in the UK in the five years after the policy is implemented."

#AcademicSky #UKHE

"The government is assuming that the levy on institutions’ international income stream would be passed onto students as increased tuition fees, hiking the cost of coming to study in the UK."

International student levy to fund maintenance grants for disadvantaged British students Labour will use a proposed levy on UK universities’ international student fees to fund means-tested maintenance grants for domestic students.

The UK Government will tax universities on the income they receive from international students in order to fund maintenance grants for disadvantaged domestic students.

Royal Society rules out expelling Elon Musk after rally speech - Research Professional News Society president criticises billionaire’s “language of violence” but says organisation should not “police political opinions”

"The Royal Society has chosen for a second time to leave Elon Musk’s membership of the academy intact, despite reopening the debate over his fellowship following a speech he made at an anti-immigration rally in London...telling thousands of attendees that “violence is coming to you.”

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Pleasure Winnifred! And congrats on the book!👏👏👏

I'm joining the brilliant @jkarl.bsky.social as co-EIC at Europe's Journal of Psychology. ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop

EJOP is a generalist psych journal, and applies a diamond open access model (no APC). I'd love to see more submissions with rigorous methods & well-calibrated conclusions!

The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change Cambridge Core - Social Psychology - The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change

In the new book:

"The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change: A New Psychology of Intergroup Relations"

By @winnifredlouis.bsky.social et al.

#SocialPsyc #Psychology #AcademicSky

Temporal Cycles and the Psychology of Time (Chapter 9) - The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change - October 2025

From the book chapter "Temporal Cycles and the Psychology of Time"

A fourth point is that time is experienced on an emotional level as well as a cognitive one: experiences of the past, present, and future are associated with distinct emotions, and these emotions are associated with trajectories that link the past to the future via the present (e.g. Gautam et al., ; Miloyan et al., ; Thomas et al., ). Guilt, shame, regret, and nostalgia look back to the past; pride, joy, anger, and sadness are felt in the present; and hope, anxiety, and fear look to the future. These emotions matter, shaping the well-being consequences of experiences and the trajectories of actions.

"Time is experienced on an emotional level as well as a cognitive one"

"Guilt, shame, regret, and nostalgia look back to the past; pride, joy, anger, and sadness are felt in the present; and hope, anxiety, and fear look to the future."

October 2025 – Error Statistics Philosophy 1 post published by Mayo during October 2025

"Having long had one foot in philosophy of science and the other in foundations of statistics, I will zero in on the central philosophical issues that lie below the surface of today’s raging debates."

Deborah Mayo with excerpts from her 2018 book "Statistical Inference as Severe Testing"

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For how long have these colleagues been ’in scope’ already??? People can’t function with this amount of uncertainty for so long. How are managers allowed to inflict this prolonged harm upon staff.

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91 "Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

Jane Goodall has died.

She was truly a beacon of light in this world.

I had the good fortune of seeing her speak shortly before COVID arrived. She showed such warmth, compassion, integrity, and intelligence.

Jane, the animals thank you for your selfless work.

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Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins

Meanwhile, "UCU Cardiff spokesperson Andy Williams said the union has been told 187 staff remain in scope for redundancy. It was 'shameful' that they have begun another new term not knowing if their jobs are safe."

#UKHE #UCU

University of Dundee 'could face more job losses', MSPs told Richard Maconachie, from the Scottish Funding Council, says the institution may have to restructure.

More job losses possible at the University of Dundee...

Pleasure! May also be relevant to Perspectival Realism @michelamassimi.bsky.social

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Personality and Social Psychology Review - Volume 29, Number 4 Table of contents for Personality and Social Psychology Review, 29, 4

You can find the Special Issue articles here:

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