Thrilled to share my first publication in a Nature journal! Our new article in Nature Climate Change (@natclimate.nature.com) explores whether conversations with generative AI tools like ChatGPT may help shift climate scepticism.

The start of the algal bloom off the South Australian coast began like a horror film and only grew worse from there. I took a direct look at the role of climate change in making this disaster in my home state for @drilledmedia.bsky.social.

Positive tipping points for climate, like the UK phasing out coal, show how big steps toward a low-carbon future can suddenly become unstoppable. Can we identify where the next tipping points could happen, and figure out how to help trigger them? These researchers say YES. Read more:

"We used to consume fossil fuels to make ourselves power But now we just look to the sun for each kilowatt hour" This is the cutest and most encouraging video I've seen all week. Give it a watch - and share if you agree! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MgK...

Crowds & Identities -- a starter pack. Please share. bsky.app/starter-pack...

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” - Joanna Macy (1929-2025)

The Relationship Between Social Identification and System Justification: A Meta-Analytic Test of Relevant Moderators New from @markrubin.bsky.social and colleagues onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌡️ Hotter, wetter weather linked to more violent crime In South Africa, violent crime rises with heat, rain, and pollution. especially in warmer months. Researchers found climate factors now drive 60% of homicide-related social costs. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

#NewReport: The Global Wetland Outlook 2025 is now live! Dive into the latest global data on wetland extent, loss and restoration and discover the solutions we need to secure the future of these vital ecosystems. global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org

Why do people fight for or against climate action? Led by Prof. Matthew J. Hornsey, our new review article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences delves into the moral arguments of collective climate action—on both sides of the debate: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Schools are increasingly vulnerable to climate change & vital to advancing solutions. Our synthesis illustrates why efforts to create more resilient schools & a more sustainable future need to be a central focus of education research, policy & practice. edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1238 🧵

Delighted to help put this together - there’s excellent work in this collection that makes a big jump forward in religion + politics in American congregations.

Today kicks off the Global Tipping Points Conference at Exeter Climate Forum! Several Earth Commission members are there attending, speaking, and convening. Co-hosted by @exeter.ac.uk, @pik-potsdam.bsky.social, and @maxplanck.de of Geoanthropology. #TippingPoints

Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.

At a moment of rapid demand growth and a growing electricity affordability crisis, the Republican's One Big Horrible Bill will RAISE TAXES on wind & solar—the only new sources of electricity we are able to rapidly add to the US grid—in four different ways.

Explore social media insights at our 5-day Summer School, happening from 28 July to 1 August 🎯 One step closer to mastery Register Here: nuel.ink/a681yk #PhdChat #AcademicChatter

Many of Australia’s invertebrates, which include insects and other animals without backbones, are doing it tough. You can help by taking simple actions, like planting local native flowers, leaving part of your garden ‘wild’, or switching off outdoor lights 🐝 #invertebrates #insects

🧠 Parenthood in academia affects mental health – but not equally Academic mothers face a much higher risk of depression than fathers or non-mothers. Risk is greatest for those without support, or who are Black or have disabled children. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AcademicSky 🧪

Interested in key dimensions of integration in #interdisciplinary teams? Check out the helpful framework developed by Colleen Cuddy in this week’s i2Insights at i2insights.org/2025/06/24/t... #AcademicSky

Some of the most important projects of the Enlightenment are still very much works in progress: 1. One man’s whims can still throw entire nations into turmoil w/o having his power sufficiently checked. …

Final day of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference... Tjitske de Groot from @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social reviews the different effects of intergroup contact interventions on minority and majority groups.

Day 2 of the SASP-SPSSI “Peacebuilding through Conflict Transformation” conference @shelleymckeown.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk explaining that empathy is associated with more positive attitudes toward out‐groups in Northern Ireland, which in turn, is related to higher out‐group prosocial behaviors.

This is a gift to everyone in academia. And a lot of the rest of us. zenodo.org/records/1569...

Australia has a home insurance crisis and climate change is going to make it worse – @jack-thrower.bsky.social in @thenewdaily.bsky.social. "Between 2022-2023, the average home insurance premium in Australia rose by 14%, the biggest increase in a decade. A major reason for this is #climate change."

New initiative led by @lewan.bsky.social - SCL members Susilo Wibisono and @winnifredlouis.bsky.social contributed - all feedback welcome!

Proud to be a contributor to this new resource! I hope it is of use and welcome feedback.

JPR 7.2 is out! Complicit Testimonies by Ivan Stacy (ed.). Articles by Eunike Mutiara Himawan, Annie Pohlman & @winnifredlouis.bsky.social; @drjpersian.bsky.social; Michelle E. Anderson; Sofía Forchieri; Juliane Prade-Weiss; Sue Vice; Guido Bartolini jpr.winchesteruniversitypress.org/14/volume/7/...

New by Glasford & Brown in JSPP, on the inequalities in academia & imagining ways out of them: "Systemic Hierarchy Within Academic Disciplines: How Resource Capital and Social Capital Stratify Academics and Form the Basis of Disciplinary Group-Based Inequality" OA: jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/js...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

📲💬 Who sees climate ads on Facebook? A new study shows Facebook's ad algorithm can reinforce political divides in climate messaging. Ads calling for action tend to reach liberals – while contrarian ads are cheaper in conservative areas. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... #Facebook #SciComm 🧪

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

Keep tuned to 4ZZZ or follow our socials for details of the multitude of events which will unfold over the coming months. scenestr.com.au/music/4zzz-b...

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study #Climate

There's a lot to unpack about the Australian government's decision to allow Woodside Energy's North West Shelf project continue to 2070 In this briefing, we set out the implications of this decision on the #climate, Australia's energy security, and more #auspol 🧵 climateanalytics.org/publications...

The gas industry has had higher profit margins than ANY other sector in Australia over the last few years. That's unsurprising when you know how little tax they pay. A THREAD (1/5)

My student wants to conduct a multi-level mediation analysis. She has two grouping factors (i.e. rater and participant), however the mediation package only allows one. Are there other packages we can use to do causal mediation that support multilevel models with two grouping factors?

Excited to see the Australian Festival of Democracy and Human Rights coming together for next week! :)

Researchers at Harvard lost nearly 1,000 grants worth more than US$2.4 billion. Trump posed the possibility of never paying Harvard its allotment of grant money during a private luncheon. “Wouldn’t that be cool?” he asked.. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New work with @eranhalperin75.bsky.social, led by @ericmshuman.bsky.social! Advantaged identity management strategies differentiate 5 subgroups of white Americans (shorturl.at/LMFWy) A probability sample of Whites took our scale (shorturl.at/SkO96) assessing how dominant groups manage privilege 1

missed this last month: data science informing psych, sociology, polisci in Lyft data (222K drivers), Black or minority drivers get speeding tickets 1/3 more often **when they are known to be going the same speed** beautiful work, it's racial profiling, case closed www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

Fascinating article about how young adults' choices = imp, under-targeted for dementia prevention, incl partially modifiable risks: hearing loss, ld cholesterol, depression, physical inactivity

Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.

🧪 #AcademicSky

On #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, UNEP/CMS and UNEP/AEWA reminds us that we all have a part to play in supporting migratory birds! 🦆 🌍🧪Find out more about this day: www.worldmigratorybirdday.org

Contesting the World: Norm Research Theory and Practice, @antjewiener.bsky.social and my edited book with Cambridge University Press is available here: cambridge.org/au/universit... (you can save 20% using the code CTTW2024)

"For decades progressive voters have been told that Australians can’t have the nice things people in other developed countries take for granted because the Liberals and the Murdoch media would never accept such a progressive challenge... no need to be scared anymore." - @richarddenniss.bsky.social

Happy Labour day (in Qld)! A great day to remember that workers' rights & weekends took collective action to establish & keep on needing collective action to defend. Here's to a living wage and time for leisure and family - something too many in Qld & elsewhere still are struggling for. 🎉

One of the biggest citizen science studies ever conducted — if you logged an eBird sighting in N. America in the last 14 years, this paper represents your work and this alarm is all of our responsibility to sound: Avian life is slipping away. 🌎🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...