Dr Laura Dean for BPS President! Laura is an exceptional colleague and leader, supportive, hugely capable, inclusive and committed. If you're a British Psychological Society member please give her your vote!

First paper from our lab on LLMs and emotional support (led by Joanna Z. Li): Skill but not effort drive GPT overperformance over humans in cognitive reframing of negative scenarios. Short thread of the results ⬇️ osf.io/preprints/psya…

Congratulations to Jeremy Dawson (Jeremy Dawson) who is one of 30 new Fellows elected to the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the only one from the UK this year.

Really nice reflections today from Prof Ilke Inceoglou on her research collaborations on work well-being and engagement with our late Prof Peter Warr at ⁦Occupational PsyUK⁩ #DOPConf in Sheffield.

Had a fantastic time cycling at Kidical Mass Sheffield with hundreds of young people! 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️ Loved discussing the importance of Active Travel and safer streets with such passionate advocates

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The IWP/AMBS dinner has grown since EAWOP 😁 Current, ex, and affiliated members shared a great meal after the first day at European Academy of Occ Health Psychology (EAOHP)! We may need a whole restaurant for our next get-together! 😊 #EAOHP2024 IWP AMBS Organisational Psychology Alliance MBS

They'll never be a more devastating read than kids imagining what it's like to be 40

It has been quite the election, so here are my WTF TV election moments from 2024 ✨

NEWS The end of privilege in government Private school Cabinet members Keir Starmer’s lowest in history Starmer : 4% - 1 person Sunak: 63%

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🚨HE finances update alert🚨 New research on the latest state of HE finances now available. Summary piece in The Conversation today plus fully analysis with CRAFiC_UOS. Short 🧵with in graphs & charts on why we need to end marketisation 📉👇 1/ theconversation.com/university-fin…

To the 5 people who showed up to the fascist march in Sheffield city centre, can Sheffielders make their position any clearer? #sheffieldissuper

We're at the huge anti-fascist rally in Sheffield city centre. Around half a dozen far-right activists were here earlier, but were quickly driven out of Barker's Pool by a crowd of around 500 Sheffielders.

Prof Stephen Reicher, "I would appeal to you to not call these people protestors. They're not protestors" "To call them protestors is profoundly misleading. It is to discredit a long tradition of perfectly legitimate and peaceful and important protest that has made our society

I better go superviral for this...