Eddie Clarke
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher - Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Social/political psychology. Interested in climate change responsibilisation, structural attributions, and status quo challenge. DOB: 348 CO2 PPM
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Eddie Clarke
@eddieclarke.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Extremism at the center: Uncovering political diversity among midpoint responders on the left–right self‐placement item
The midpoint of the left-right self-placement item is hiding important political diversity, and may be conflating moderate responders with populists and other political sub-groups. Survey researchers...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Extremely pleased to see this work published! Thank you so much to my excellent collaborators @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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any filmmakers on here interested in remaking Falling Down (1993) but instead of a traffic jam on a hot day the catalyst is trying to log in to editorial manager on literally any sort of day whatsoever?
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
any filmmakers on here interested in remaking Falling Down (1993) but instead of a traffic jam on a hot day the catalyst is trying to log in to editorial manager on literally any sort of day whatsoever?
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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For everyone watching #TheAshes a shout out to Australia’s “platinum partner Origin Energy, which is the largest institutional investor in everyone’s favourite “renewables company” Octopus Energy, and one of Australia’s most aggressively expanding fossil gas producers
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
For everyone watching #TheAshes a shout out to Australia’s “platinum partner Origin Energy, which is the largest institutional investor in everyone’s favourite “renewables company” Octopus Energy, and one of Australia’s most aggressively expanding fossil gas producers
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"Politicians might say that they can't be bought, but over the years, some have clearly been rented when donations were big enough."
-The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM on the presence of fossil fuels lobbyists at COP #auspol
-The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM on the presence of fossil fuels lobbyists at COP #auspol
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"Politicians might say that they can't be bought, but over the years, some have clearly been rented when donations were big enough."
-The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM on the presence of fossil fuels lobbyists at COP #auspol
-The Hon. Mike Rann AC CNZM on the presence of fossil fuels lobbyists at COP #auspol
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
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Universities have played a central role in democracies…but then we started trying to run them like businesses…Great piece by the VC of University of Western Sydney, Prof George Williams in @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
From culture wars to AI disruption, universities face a reckoning over their role in society
High fees, student dissatisfaction and repeated governance issues dominating the headlines have fuelled an intense political climate for universities. Well before President Donald Trump was re-elected...
thepoint.com.au
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Universities have played a central role in democracies…but then we started trying to run them like businesses…Great piece by the VC of University of Western Sydney, Prof George Williams in @thepointau.bsky.social
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
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(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨
In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨
In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon.
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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"It is typically epistemically harmful to hide dissent, even when there exists an agent purposefully producing biased dissent."
New work by @coatesmatthew.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/psa....
#PhilSci #Epistemology
New work by @coatesmatthew.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/psa....
#PhilSci #Epistemology
November 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"It is typically epistemically harmful to hide dissent, even when there exists an agent purposefully producing biased dissent."
New work by @coatesmatthew.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/psa....
#PhilSci #Epistemology
New work by @coatesmatthew.bsky.social
Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/psa....
#PhilSci #Epistemology
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I'll entertain technical arguments about the Summary Offences Act (NSW) when someone can explain how Police can kettle and move on small groups protesting climate issues but somehow this out front of state parliament renders them powerless. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
What we just witnessed was state-sanctioned Nazism
What on earth did the NSW Police think a rally organised by the National Socialist Network would be about?
www.smh.com.au
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
I'll entertain technical arguments about the Summary Offences Act (NSW) when someone can explain how Police can kettle and move on small groups protesting climate issues but somehow this out front of state parliament renders them powerless. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
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WHAT A WIN❗WHAT A WIN‼️✊✊✊
Reminder: you can go to @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List & search 'university' to bring up the long, long list of programs fossil fuel corps sponsor at Australia's higher education institutions
Be like @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social, start your own campaign‼️
Reminder: you can go to @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List & search 'university' to bring up the long, long list of programs fossil fuel corps sponsor at Australia's higher education institutions
Be like @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social, start your own campaign‼️
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
WHAT A WIN❗WHAT A WIN‼️✊✊✊
Reminder: you can go to @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List & search 'university' to bring up the long, long list of programs fossil fuel corps sponsor at Australia's higher education institutions
Be like @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social, start your own campaign‼️
Reminder: you can go to @pennytangey.bsky.social's Chumps List & search 'university' to bring up the long, long list of programs fossil fuel corps sponsor at Australia's higher education institutions
Be like @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social, start your own campaign‼️
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Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Pop-up AI defacing your article critical of AI captures a lot of what it feels like to work in this space.
@lmesseri.bsky.social
@lmesseri.bsky.social
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No one needs any of these things. 🙃
Climate intervention may not be enough to save coffee, chocolate and wine, new study finds - IOP Publishing
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters reveals that even advanced climate intervention strategies may not be enough to secure the future of wine grapes, coffee and cacao. These crops ...
ioppublishing.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
No one needs any of these things. 🙃
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Are you looking for a PhD at the University of Exeter? If you’re a citizen or permanent resident of China consider applying to this scheme: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Check out the PhD projects that Exeter Psychology and I offer: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...
Check out the PhD projects that Exeter Psychology and I offer: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Are you looking for a PhD at the University of Exeter? If you’re a citizen or permanent resident of China consider applying to this scheme: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Check out the PhD projects that Exeter Psychology and I offer: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...
Check out the PhD projects that Exeter Psychology and I offer: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res...
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
Extremely pleased to see this work published! Thank you so much to my excellent collaborators @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Extremism at the center: Uncovering political diversity among midpoint responders on the left–right self‐placement item
The midpoint of the left-right self-placement item is hiding important political diversity, and may be conflating moderate responders with populists and other political sub-groups. Survey researchers...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Extremely pleased to see this work published! Thank you so much to my excellent collaborators @fmsmallfield.bsky.social @scicomguy.bsky.social @srhastraea.bsky.social @lingtax.bsky.social @mdmarques.com @matthewmatix.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Here's something that's not talked about enough
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Here's something that's not talked about enough
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year
1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628) | University of Oslo
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science (3-4 years) (288628), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, November 17, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
October 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
We are hiring PhDs and postdocs to work on the ERC project GETGOV, where I am the PI.
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
We will investigate governing elites since 1789. I am sure that it will be a lot of fun and result in great research!
Postdocs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
PhDs: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
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Very cool: Lisa Spitzer has made a deviation from preregistrations template, which you can find here: apps.leibniz-psychology.org/prp-dev/
PreReg: Deviation Template
PreReg: Deviation Template
apps.leibniz-psychology.org
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Very cool: Lisa Spitzer has made a deviation from preregistrations template, which you can find here: apps.leibniz-psychology.org/prp-dev/
Political correctness
www.reuters.com/business/eu-...
This is an absurd, protectionist waste of time. Get on the ball, EU. We have actual problems.
This is an absurd, protectionist waste of time. Get on the ball, EU. We have actual problems.
www.reuters.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Political correctness
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Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.
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"The scientists who alerted the world to the climate and
ecological crises have a moral duty to join the popular movements demanding political action."
Call by @charliejgardner.bsky.social and Claire Wordley in @natecoevo.nature.com, 2019.
scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/defaul...
ecological crises have a moral duty to join the popular movements demanding political action."
Call by @charliejgardner.bsky.social and Claire Wordley in @natecoevo.nature.com, 2019.
scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/defaul...
September 30, 2025 at 5:05 AM
"The scientists who alerted the world to the climate and
ecological crises have a moral duty to join the popular movements demanding political action."
Call by @charliejgardner.bsky.social and Claire Wordley in @natecoevo.nature.com, 2019.
scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/defaul...
ecological crises have a moral duty to join the popular movements demanding political action."
Call by @charliejgardner.bsky.social and Claire Wordley in @natecoevo.nature.com, 2019.
scientistswarning.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/defaul...
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🚨New Publication Alert! 🚨
Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly*
Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology
*Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n
doi.org/10.1177/1089...
Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly*
Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology
*Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n
doi.org/10.1177/1089...
Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - Carlie D. Trott, 2025
Psychology as a discipline has been slow to engage with capitalism as a lens through which to understand and explain the human experience, yet neoliberal capita...
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🚨New Publication Alert! 🚨
Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly*
Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology
*Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n
doi.org/10.1177/1089...
Ecopolitical Psychology at the Capital-Climate Nexus: A Research Agenda for the Capitalocene - by yours truly*
Article in Special Issue on "The Next Big Ideas in Psychology" in Review of General Psychology
*Link to free download, end of 🧵 1/n
doi.org/10.1177/1089...
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Report on Australian Higher Education finds:
🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities
🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms
🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency
🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified
🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities
🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms
🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency
🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified
September 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Report on Australian Higher Education finds:
🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities
🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms
🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency
🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified
🔹️ Council members have no lived experience of universities
🔹️ Council members have COIs with consultancy firms
🔹️ Council meetings are closed affairs that lack transparency
🔹️ Leaders' exorbitant salaries could not be justified
Reposted by Eddie Clarke
Just noting that climate activists — and, indeed, researchers into climate communication, science, and politics — have been saying this about our opponents for years.
So much of the crisis is the fact that liberals are unwilling to describe what's happening, because they're scared to say that their opponents are lying, are operating in bad faith, want evil or harmful policy, and don't share our basic goals about what society should look like
September 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Just noting that climate activists — and, indeed, researchers into climate communication, science, and politics — have been saying this about our opponents for years.