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Social psychologist @ University of Limerick; working on network theory of attitudes. Views my own, not employers, funders etc... lowkey @mikeq.bsky.social

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Mike Quayle.
2 months
We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! .
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RT @HannahEDaly: Shouldn’t the defining challenge of our time be the defining topic in the upcoming Irish general election?. If you think t….
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The climate and biodiversity emergency (and the wider global polycrisis it represents) is entirely different from all other issues in this general election campaign. It is global in scope, raising...
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Mike Quayle.
10 months
UPDATE:.d/l extended to 15-Oct-24 for 5-yr postdoc in computational/mathematical modelling Deadline for other 5-yr posts (social psych; scientific research manager .5FTE) close tomorrow (1 Oct; 12 noon Irish time).
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
RT @iambatdan: I'm trying to recruit X users for my study, this seem the most appropriate place to do it! I only need about 20 more partici….
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
Just bumping this thread: deadlines approaching 🚂.
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
1/ Four posts related to ERC project starting Jan 2025:. Postdoc Soc. Psychology or related (DL: 1-Oct-24). Postdoc computational/mathematical modelling (DL: 1-Oct-24) Postdoc (.5FTE): Research Management (0.5FTE) (DL:07-Oct-24)
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11 months
RT @Quayle: 1/ Four posts related to ERC project starting Jan 2025:. Postdoc Soc. Psychology or related (DL: 1-Oct-24)..
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
A consolidated thread listing all four positions currently open for the project, and giving a bit more information on what it's about:
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
1/ Four posts related to ERC project starting Jan 2025:. Postdoc Soc. Psychology or related (DL: 1-Oct-24). Postdoc computational/mathematical modelling (DL: 1-Oct-24) Postdoc (.5FTE): Research Management (0.5FTE) (DL:07-Oct-24)
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
A consolidated thread listing all four positions currently open for this project, and giving a bit more information on what it's about:
@Quayle
Mike Quayle.
11 months
1/ Four posts related to ERC project starting Jan 2025:. Postdoc Soc. Psychology or related (DL: 1-Oct-24). Postdoc computational/mathematical modelling (DL: 1-Oct-24) Postdoc (.5FTE): Research Management (0.5FTE) (DL:07-Oct-24)
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
9/ None of these ideas are new of course (cf. stereotypes, schemas, heuristics, etc.) - but compression is a mathematical framework for making sense of it all in a new (& hopefully more integrated) way. Please get in touch if you have any questions; and of course please retweet
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
8/ If successful, ID-Compression will provide a unifying theory, linking basic psychology to macro social structure allowing us to understand, detect, quantify and (maybe) manage polarization.
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7/ People try to act comprehensibly in a given information system, thereby sustaining it. For example, an American wearing a red cap could look like a MAGA Republican, so Democrats avoid wearing red caps, amplifying the signal.
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6/ Identity compression produces information spaces where people can recognize friend or foe with minimal data, since the identity-information relations are highly redundant.
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
5/ We hypothesize that polarization exists when socially structured attributes align with group identities to create a compressible identity information space where knowing someone’s group identity allows you to guess related attributes. Conversely, knowing some attributes tells
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11 months
4/ Take a social example: in these Serbian protests, multiple attitudes like “sex before marriage is OK,” “men can love men,” or “God should be obeyed” are compressible as a single dichotomy – RELIGIOUS or LIBERAL: if you knew someone’s answer to one, you could guess them all.
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
3/ ID-Compression builds on a simple idea: that the link between social identity and polarization is compressibility, & compressibility exists when there is redundant information. For example we can capture key features of this painting with a fraction of the data, because a lot
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11 months
2/ This is a consolidated thread now all four posts advertised & open. We’re building a team of social scientists & mathematical modellers to develop information-theory approach to understanding social identity embedded in social information. Slides are from my ERC interview, so
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
1/ Four posts related to ERC project starting Jan 2025:. Postdoc Soc. Psychology or related (DL: 1-Oct-24). Postdoc computational/mathematical modelling (DL: 1-Oct-24) Postdoc (.5FTE): Research Management (0.5FTE) (DL:07-Oct-24)
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11 months
RT @jemb123: If you know of any Palestinians that might benefit from these scholarships in Ireland can you pass this on to them? Thank you….
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The Irish Government has launched the 2025 edition of its scholarship programme for people living in the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Mike Quayle.
11 months
Correction to 11: the contract is specific-purpose with fixed funding duration.
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