Haylee Kelsall

Knowing without knowing: how false confidence shapes the world This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications collection explores the mechanisms and impact of false or misplaced confidence, and how it shapes the ...

Call for Papers: "Knowing Without Knowing: How False Confidence Shapes the World"

🗓️ Deadline: 23.4.2026
🔗 www.nature.com/collections/...

Co-Edited with: M. Adamus, S. Chen

#Misinformation #ConspiracyBeliefs #Polarization #ScienceDenial #Overconfidence 🧪

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My bad, it's also already up on the Vrankrijk website :)

vrankrijk.org/events/horro...

So come! Horror Vacui = one of my absolute favourite bands, I guarantee you it will be a great evening, and all monies raised are going straight to folks in Gaza who provide their communities with water & food.

Most of the people following me here probably aren't Amsterdam folks, but nonetheless: Coming up on the 12th of August at the Vrankrijk in Amsterdam we've got an amazing benefit show (funds going straight to a mutual aid initiative in Gaza). More info: radar.squat.net/en/event/ams...

Completely forgot to promote the panel I was part of this morning at #ISPP2025, but am looking forward to the coming four days, catching up with people and of course, all things poli psy 🤓

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

Have you seen the extra audience members on the walls at PhD defences in the Agnietenkapel... 😱

How it should be! Exciting news!

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

😍My first single-authored article just got published in @polstudies.bsky.social. I am so excited about this one! In this article, I discuss how Political Party Think Tanks (PPTTs) help parties to transcend daily political pressures, and focus on long-term political thinking and policy development

@cvargiu.bsky.social @philippmendoza.bsky.social did you polcomm/polpsy folks see this too?

:)

Our flagship dataset of the German Longitudinal Election Study is out. Get your computers ready for analysis of the latest German election💻. Big thanks to the amazing @gles.bsky.social team for preparing the data so quickly🚀!

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵:

Hey fellow lowlands ECR buddies - check this out!

This is what fascism looks like - using a conspiracy theory about a dehumanized outgroup as a pretext for seizing political power and wielding arbitrary authority. What you read about in the history books is happening right here, right now.

wracking my brains to think of someone who would have had access to a police uniform, a police-issue plate carrier, and a police car

.......

Wow Nico! Awesome, congratulations 🥳🥳🥳🥳

I completely forgot today is Trump's military parade

I don't know if I'm just getting old and remembering other times through a biased nostalgic lens but I swear **gestures at everything** wasn't like this before....

Awesome, congrats!!! 🥳🥳🥳

That Poundland was sold for a pound...

Actually I inherited my em dash love from my Mum. Some might say it was learnt, I say it's clearly genetic. Hands off the em dash

I am also an em dash lover and now I'm constantly wondering if people reading my writing think AI wrote it 😫

Gek hoe je in mediataal pas ‘burger’ wordt als je je discriminerend en intimiderend gedraagt. XR? Dat zijn ‘activisten’. Jongeren op straat? ‘Relschoppers’. Maar wie op asielzoekers jaagt, is ineens ‘bezorgde’ of ‘boze’ ✨burger✨

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

...and suddenly I'm still awake at 2am watching this all on social media like it's a telenova I can't turn off??

Help

I can't seem to look away from this but this is my favourite part so far....

Also WHY am I paying attention to this help

Peilingwijzer 2023-2025

In de @peilingwijzer.bsky.social staan momenteel drie partijen op gelijke hoogte aan kop: PVV, VVD en GL-PvdA. Maar tussen nu en nieuwe verkiezingen kan er nog veel gebeuren. Welke onderwerpen staan centraal? Welk frame over de kabinetsval domineert? peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/grafiek_tren...

I just went and annoyed my two and they both woke up and did a big stretch - one did a vertical big stretch and one did a long big stretch and it made me happy that I'm at home on a Friday night to witness this dual big stretching.