🌍 World Environmental Health Day The air we breathe, the food we eat, and the climate we live in all directly affect our health. Check our LinkedIn post on this year’s theme “clean air, healthy people”. 🍃💙 🔗 lnkd.in/e_z-h_k4. www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-de...

🫀Read our #PolicyBrief “Protecting Europe’s Hearts in a Changing Climate: Addressing Cardiovascular Health Impacts of Air Pollution and Temperature Changes”, where we outline how hot temperature shifts strain the body’s ability to regulate itself. 📖 Read more at project-trigger.eu/policy-briefs/

Did you know that traffic accounts for up to 30% of human-caused heat in cities? 🚗🌇🥵 I just received a fact sheet on traffic-induced urban heat stress by an Austrian organization specialized in mobility (VCÖ): vcoe.at/files/vcoe/u...

😔 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New paper out in Global Environmental Change - And I’m genuinely so thrilled to see this one published!! 🍾 @martaolazabal.bsky.social @imagineadapt.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Follow #TRIGGER to learn more on how we can prevent and address health impacts of climate change. 🌍☀️

Understanding the health impacts of climate change #climatechange effects include sea level rise, extreme weather events, food and water shortages and infectious diseases New summary in the @futurehealthj.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are you a climate hothead, easily angered and caught up in heated debates and protests about climate change? 🥵 Oilwell.app helps you let go, tune out, and live a mindless, carefree life on a fully realized Hothouse Earth. 💥🌎

1. This is a thread about why Food Waste is so often, and wrongly, identified as the major problem with the food system. Yes, it's an issue, but in the rich world, it's far smaller than many others. It’s massively over-emphasised, while other, far more important problems, are ignored and avoided. 🧵

1. There has been a major effort by that old combination – big business and the far right – to diss foods derived from plants. The meat lobby invests big time in misinformation. And the far right hates “soyboys”, while associating itself with red meat-eating. It's a match made in hell. 🧵

New paper from @fdabl.bsky.social @maiensachis.bsky.social & @swaziadam.bsky.social. They find that scientists can engage in protest without compromising their credibility - good news. However, we must temper expectations that such actions have the desired impact either. Social change is difficult.

Most people enjoy meat—but rarely think about the animals behind it. So what happens when they do make that connection? 🐖 If you're curious, check out our new study: "‘Meating’ the animal and moral emotions" 🔎 doi.org/10.1016/j.ap... 🧵👇 (1/10) #MoralPsychology #MeatParadox #AnimalCruelty

Technology could play an important role in environmental protection, but this is not the way. The same with investing resources in terraforming Mars, while making Earth less liveable. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Did you know that 40% of Europe is covered by forests? 🌳 🌲 Yet, these vital ecosystems don’t get the attention they deserve. On this International Day of Forests, let’s take a moment to appreciate the lungs of nature & all the invaluable benefits they provide. #InternationalDayOfForests #ForestsDay

📢Share a story about your actions for the environment! We’re today launching an initiative called 🌱 #OurEnvironmentOurFutureEU 🌱 asking EU citizens to tell us about actions you take to make a positive difference for you and those around you: www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/... #EuropesEnvironment2025

🍏🍊🍇🍌🥦🌶️🥬🧅🧄🥕🍆🥜🥗🥘 A healthy plant-based diet: ❤️ Lowers risk of diabetes, heart disease & metabolic issues 🌿 Counters inflammation 💪 Rich in antioxidants, micronutrients & fiber 🦠 Improves gut microbiome diversity 🧠 Supports cognitive function & well-being 🔎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Despite progress, 94% of EU urban residents are still exposed to harmful PM2.5 levels above WHO guidelines. 😷 Many areas meet the 2030 EU air quality targets, but more action is needed, especially in cities, to protect public health. 🏙️💚 #AirQuality #EUenvironment www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/...

"While the event horizon of a black hole shields the observer outside the hole from the violence of the singularity, the big bang singularity lies within our cosmological horizon. An expanding universe is like a black hole turned inside out and upside down." - Thomas Hertog youtu.be/6akmv1bsz1M?...

Here's my plan to save animals on YouTube 👇 youtu.be/dYT2QY37F4k

Ik zou hier toch weer eens voorzichtig willen opperen dat het wellicht beter is geen vis meer te eten mensen. Je doet gewoon mee met ecocide

"De academische gemeenschap moet tonen waar zij voor staat: objectieve feiten en ethische integriteit zonder politieke inmenging." www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-...

Just watched a video in which paradoxes were ranked from least to most paradoxical. I was thinking: what about the meat paradox, i.e. caring about animals, but eating meat. How paradoxical is it? youtu.be/1vJsWKg2o1w?...

What is "energy"? 🤔 It may seem unreal because it's not a concrete thing that can be measured directly. Instead, it represents a combination of properties of a system in one quantity that is somehow conserved, and therefore practically useful. I think vm.tiktok.com/ZNeod8veC/ explains it well.

Extension until 6th of February. Looking forward to it!

Consciousness serves a biological function. It allows us to flexibly respond to a complex environment that can threaten or support our survival. Feeling pain alerts us to potential harm, motivating harm avoidance, while pleasure reinforces actions that benefit our survival.

Onlangs kwamen koeien in het nieuws die door de bodem van de stal waren gezakt en bijna verdronken in de mestput. Bijzonder was niet dat dit gebeurde, maar dat het in het nieuws kwam. De tragische waarheid is dat dit in onze veehouderij 5 à 6 x per week gebeurt. Dat is niet moeilijk te verklaren:1/5

68% vd wereldbevolking leeft onder een autocratie. Wij nog niet, maar rechtspopulisten trekken wel die richting op. Hoe behouden autocraten hun macht? Onderzoek⤵️ Ze gebruiken combinaties van strategieën. Het meest effectief lijken media-indoctrinatie en onderdrukking van burgerlijke vrijheden.

🧵 Many people enjoy eating meat, but don't want to harm animals. How do people deal with this so-called "meat paradox"? The study introducing this term found that eating meat may cause people to perceive the animals they eat as unfeeling and unworthy. 1/16 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20488214/#:~...

Animal-based diets are criticized for their impact on animal welfare, the environment and human health. Yet, vegetarian and vegan (veg*n) advocacy is often resisted. Our paper provides insight into ideological resistance to veg*n advocacy. 🔎 doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

De beelden van koeien die bijna verdronken in de mest, illustreren de waanzin v deze sector. Zoveel mest dat een koe erin kan verzuipen. Als de luchtwassers in zo’n stal uitvallen, stikken ze in de ammoniak. Maar vlees is heel natuurlijk hè? Arme dieren. Arm land met een kabinet dat híer trots op is

In the past several years, and especially in the first few years of COVID-19, scientists have experienced harassment - from unwanted emails and doxxing to death threats and even lynching attempts. But who wants to harm scientists? Find out in our new paper just published in Scientific Reports! 🎉💥✨

“We basically have 3 choices: mitigation, adaptation & suffering. We’re going to do some of each. The question is what the mix is going to be. The more mitigation we do, the less adaptation will be required & the less suffering there will be” - Prof. John Holdren, 2007 What will we choose in 2025?

Was lovely to chat with Jared from the Phair Society to discuss my research on science, activism, and the climate and ecological crisis phairsociety.org/2025/01/13/b... #ClimateCrisis #Science #Psychology

Perspective-taking reduces ingroup bias & polarization. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

📣 Excited to announce the PHAIR Animal Advocacy Conference 2025! July 2–5, 2025 at the University of Edinburgh The conference brings together researchers from the social & behavioural sciences, and animal activists and advocates from around the world Info and updates: phair2025.co.uk

When forming an evaluation of another person's moral character participants placed most weight on the traits of honesty, helpfulness, compassion, loyalty, & responsibility & seemed to aggregate trait information in a linear fashion. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...