Dr Emma Bridger

Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...

This is definitely worth a read. The electoral implications of two deprivations: "In the parts of the country where you can get a good job, you can’t get a good house; in the parts of the country where you can get a good house, you can’t get a good job."

If you have experienced #bereavement in the past 12 months?
Please consider taking part in our research on the impact of #money problems on grief.

#Grief #Debt #MentalHealth #CostofLiving

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this!!

really interesting analysis (and beautiful data visualisations) from @profjanegreen.bsky.social. take-home for me: "Reform are starting to make substantial in-roads in Labour areas ... but it is not true that they are doing so by making substantial in-roads among Labour’s recent **voters**"

What happens when everything can become a bet?

Based on British Academy-funded research by @sarah-mills.bsky.social, this article explores the rapid rise of prediction markets – and what they mean for regulation, public trust and democracy. 👇

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

can't wait to see what comes out of this project to determine the best predictive model of the onset of depression - deadline now extended to mid March so consider re-sharing and submitting your model!

We extended the deadline of our machine learning competition by a few weeks until mid March! Still time to participate. We currently have 233 participants with 111 total submissions (some of them will be test submissions etc).

Spoiling a lot of takes but begging a large number of other questions... "Worsening graduate fortunes, it turns out, are a particularly British problem"

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How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

A very recognizable and useful read.

Not everyone gets energized by endless political debate or outrage!

you might also be interested in @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social upcoming summer school oxfordpns.com

Network Psychometrics with R: A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists A systematic, innovative introduction to the field of network analysis, Network Psychometrics with R: A Guide for Behavioral and Social Scientists provides a comprehensive overview of and guide to bot...

this is a great guide on this www.routledge.com/Network-Psyc...

Ouch! Far-right Reform Party almost as big as the parties that have been the foundation of Britain's two-party system, Labour Party and Conservative Party.

Congratulations, You've Discovered Fatigue Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

"It would have been nice to skip the detour through countless replication failures, but sometimes that’s how the meandering path of progress goes."

1/2 'In social psychology, the current ease of online surveys, vignette experiments and so on only reinforces a point made 20 years ago that studies of "behaviour" are rare compared to studies of self-report....'

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)!

This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026.

To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com

A brief thread 🧵

🔺 New preprint 🔺
Why does poverty increase time discounting?
With W. Frankenhuis and @danielnettle.bsky.social, we argue that current models do not account for discounting in *persistent* poverty, and show that a desperation threshold can!

A quick 🧵

With big thanks to @mgsesrcdtp.bsky.social all of the next round of funded studentships can be found here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: From Scarcity to Persistence: Early Environments, Partial Reinforcement and Problematic Gambling at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership Apply for a ESRC DTP Strategic Joint Studentship: From Scarcity to Persistence: Early Environments, Partial Reinforcement and Problematic Gambling. Discover a wide range of PhD opportunities at jobs.a...

Excited to be recruiting for an ESRC-funded #PhD studentship examining gambling persistence and early life environments/adversity.

The project is joint between @sopvs.bsky.social at University of Leicester and Aston University

Application deadline: 23rd Feb

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF033/e...

@hcrichardson.bsky.social wrote about a 1945 US leaflet on how to spot fascism in America.

I thought it might be worth screenshotting the relevant bit.

ALL of the these warnings have come to pass in the past year. 1/2

Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

and for anyone who needs a reminder, @iwriteok.bsky.social has a good primer on how this went last time round podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

held up by parental leave and weeks of industrial action, finally managed to get this preprint up. we apply a perceived causal relations approach to lay views of the interplay between "biopsychosocial" causes, exploring how this differs for groups based on their symptoms, finances + pol orientation

Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months

"Exiting the market" is such a soulless way of describing threats to people's livelihoods and the loss of training and opportunity for so many
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More than half of ethnic minority Brits say the England flag has now become a racist symbol, with Brits of all colours now tending to say the raising of the flag is mostly about expressing anti-migrant, or anti ethnic-minority sentiment

@leicesterchem.bsky.social dream team taking a stand ✊ Some of these fine minds are directly in the firing line! ☠️ 🪓 saveleicesteruni.com