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📢 Applications are now open for the 4th ReSToRE (Researching Social Theories, Resources and Environment) Summer School. (📍29/06 - 03/07 2026 | UCD, Dublin) 🗓️ Application deadline: 1 December 2025 🔗 More information and application details: www.icrag-centre.org/restore/ (1/2)

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Undertaxing large and dangerous cars, such as so-called SUVs, exposes the public to harm and loses the Government around £2 billion in tax, says transport consultant @transportenvironment.org www.theguardian.com/money/2025/s...

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Do you remember Twitter/X before it went off the rails? Not too long ago it was a useful digital town square for public debate. We used it to track public opinion when the UK Emergency Active Travel Fund was introduced in May 2020 🔓Open access article can be found here👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tb... (1/)

#Banksy has just paid a visit to the Royal Courts of Justice in London. 🎯

A report analysing data from major cross-national #surveys on the #digital divide in Europe has been published today. The #data summary – produced for the Infra4NextGen project (@horizoneu.bsky.social 🇪🇺) – focuses on attitudes amongst younger people compared to older respondents.

Do you remember Twitter/X before it went off the rails? Not too long ago it was a useful digital town square for public debate. We used it to track public opinion when the UK Emergency Active Travel Fund was introduced in May 2020 🔓Open access article can be found here👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tb... (1/)

"Climate action does not just need good policy, it also needs good psychology" 📣 In an article for The Conversation UK (@uk.theconversation.com), CAST's Prof Wouter Poortinga (@wouterpoortinga.bsky.social) explains why some #ClimatePolicies are more popular than others. Read the article 👇

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Why some climate policies are more popular than others – a psychologist explains TLDR: Fairness By @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-some-cli...

This is what I did today! #BeeKeeping #HoneyExtraction

I wrote about this in @theconversation.com, in which I also mention work by the Net Zero partnership between ‪@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social and @cast-centre.bsky.social, and the ‪@climatebarometer.bsky.social‬ tracker. Read about it here: theconversation.com/why-some-cli...

Climate action does not just need good policy, it also needs good psychology.

Excellent article by @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social on drivers of climate policy support. Perception matters. Policies must be seen to be fair & effective. Ppl need to know they’re not alone in supporting climate action. “Climate action does not just need good policy, it also needs good psychology.”

This is excellent to see from Sadiq Khan. The evidence is clear on 20mph: “… the number of people killed or seriously injured on London borough roads reduced by 34% following the implementation of 20mph speed limits, with the number of children killed falling by 75% (from four to one).“

Letter of the day (in the Times)

After 3 desk rejects and 2 major rewrites (with a 17-page rebuttal (!), and cutting word count by 25%), I am pleased that my paper on policy appraisals and second-order beliefs in climate policy has found a home in @climate-policy.bsky.social: (1/) @cast-centre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1469...

The workshop offers a space to exchange ideas, receive feedback, and connect with peers. If you’re an ECR working at the intersection of people and environment, @iaps2026.bsky.social is an unmissable opportunity to share your work and join a vibrant, collaborative community! (3/3)

Did you know that each IAPS Conference has an Early Career Researchers’ Workshop? In 2026, the ECR Workshop will take place on Monday 29 June, just before the Opening Ceremony of the @iaps2026.bsky.social Conference in Surrey. (1/)

Feels about right www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

After 3 desk rejects and 2 major rewrites (with a 17-page rebuttal (!), and cutting word count by 25%), I am pleased that my paper on policy appraisals and second-order beliefs in climate policy has found a home in @climate-policy.bsky.social: (1/) @cast-centre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1469...

🔓 Policy appraisals + second-order beliefs can explain public support for #climatepolicies, finds @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social in new UK study 🇬🇧 More support for: ➡️ Non-coercive 'pull' measures ➡️ Regulatory measures Less support for: ➡️ Restrictive 'push' measures ➡️ Financial measures

We are recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work with Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd and WWT on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership! 🦉Join us as we inspire the next generation of nature lovers.🌳 krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

New CAST briefing: "Strengthening climate policy through social science: Co-developing behavioural indicators for climate action with the Welsh Government"📣 How do we strengthen #ClimatePolicy through social science? 👇 Read the briefing: cast.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Key messages thread 🧵

A new paper on #MomentsOfChange and #LowCarbonBehaviours has been published, looking at how major life events shape the way we act on climate change, co-led by CAST Director Prof Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE (@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social) & Dr Kaloyan Mitev (@kaloyanmitev.bsky.social). 📣 Key insights thread 🧵

Not many politicians in the UK tell the truth about farming or are brave enough to criticise the cakeism of the main farming unions. But Lee Waters MS does in this refreshingly honest speech. Almost every word of it applies to England as much as Wales. amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...

🌍 Introducing the IAPS Qualitative Research Network — connecting researchers to grow qualitative work in people–environment studies Want to join or collaborate? Read more (IAPS Bulletin 52, p.57): iaps-association.org/wp-content/u... or contact @ellieradcliffe.bsky.social

The Journal of Environmental Psychology is looking for members of its Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) If you are interested in applying to join the Board, full details can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour... Applications will be accepted until the 15th of August 2025.

Johan Vollenbroek werd bekend toen hij de rechtszaak won die de Nederlandse regering dwong haar stikstofbeleid te herzien. Zijn broer Frans is minder zichtbaar, maar strijdt op de achtergrond mee voor het milieu. „Het lijkt of de regering alleen vatbaar is voor rechtszaken.” buff.ly/usURB6G

I love living in a country where "just go sit in a 1000 year old church!" is actually a perfectly reasonable bit of advice.

📢 Save the data 📢: the 29th @iaps2026.bsky.social Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Conference, which will take place from Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July 2026 at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK (1/)

⭐New paper!⭐ Experiences of car free living: Findings of a trial across four cities in England Really pleased to have led this alongside Lilli Waples, @stucap.bsky.social‬, @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social, Colin Davis & @clairehoolohan.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 1/

✨The news is here! ✨ Today, the Senedd Cross Party Group on Littering, Fly-tipping and Waste Reduction launched its manifesto proposals! 🚀 We hope all Welsh political parties will adopt these recommendations to help tackle the epidemic of litter and fly-tipping in Wales. 📝 🔗 bit.ly/4kXCIb1

Yesterday me & @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social held Academics as Agents of Change, a @cast-centre.bsky.social event at Cardiff Uni exploring climate action in universities, specifically by academics. 🧵 Great thread from @thierryaaron.bsky.social below with photos, key points and links from the event.

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Great speaking as the keynote speaker in Cardiff University for @cast-centre.bsky.social Academics as Agents of Change event led by @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social @brionylatter.bsky.social.

Wrapping up the day is Prof. Simon Rushton on "Project 1 in 5" an effort to get 20% of student projects to have a sustainability focus. That would be 100k projects a year in the UK alone! Universities could be huge catalysts for change... www.1in5project.info

Prof. Georgina Gough from UWE. The university staff have mapped over 100 of their programmes against the sustainable development goals and UWE has now chosen to make this compulsory. "Every discipline has a lot they can offer" As educators, we can be change agents.

Prof. Sara MacBride Stewart reflects on how her research applying equality mainstreaming to climate action plans has led to impact. As researchers we can be change-agents.

Kirstie O’Neill of Cardiff University presented her work with Charlotte Sinden critiquing neoliberal approaches to climate action practised at many universities www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

We're now hearing from @steveclimate.bsky.social on leading by example. What signals are accademics sending by their actions? If climate scientists fly to conferences what signal does that send?

Next up we have @brionylatter.bsky.social latter presenting results from a nation wide survay of UK accademics views about #climate action... journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Kick us off with the keynote is @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social of @lancasteruni.bsky.social. Key questions we need to consider are: -What & Where are loci of change -What is within your power -What is within our power?

Our free, inaugural online event 'Connecting People, Place & Practice in Environmental Psychology' is open to @bpsofficial.bsky.social members & the wider community interested in the intersection between people, places, and psychology. 02 July 2025 10:00am - 2:30pm www.bps.org.uk/event/connec...

We’ve got a ✨ big announcement ✨ coming up next week, but for now, here’s all you need to know. Earlier this year we were asked to join the Senedd Cross-Party Group on #Littering, #Fly-tipping and #Waste Reduction 🚯 But what is a Cross-Party Group and what does it do? ❌🎉👥

We’re pleased to share that Professor Adina Dumitru, President of the International Association for People-Environment Studies has been elected Vice-Chair of the he European Environment Agency’s (EEA) Scientific Committee. Congratulations Adina! www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/...