Not what most people are calling out here, but I think you'll see that those grey circles over with in the North America space are most of the cities in New Zealand and Australia 😭

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Read about our experience at the @smartcityexpo.bsky.social www.iscycle.ie/news#h.jh3tg... @ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social @pafhul.bsky.social @seai-ie.bsky.social

Our Scientific Committee has been busy shaping plans for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference! 🎉 💡 Don't forget the call for abstracts is open until 15 December 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... 👏 Thanks to Co-Chairs Marta Marques & Felix Naughton & all Committee members for their expertise

Stumbled across this today. As someone who has tried to improve their garden soil, by adding tandem trailer loads of stuff, and barely adding a few mm, 3 inches across all of the UK is just MASSIVE

@annabarrero.bsky.social & @ajamesgreen.bsky.social travelled to Warsaw for the kick-off of #JustMobi – Digitalising Education for an Inclusive Mobility Transition 🚲🌍 @ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social @hri-ul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social www.iscycle.ie/news#h.jh3tg...

Evergreen

I haven't seen any news sources cover this yet, but I hear that the more moderate candidate Tufan Erhürman has defeated the hardline incumbent Ersin Tatar in a landslide in the presidential election in Northern Cyprus. Thinking very much of my Cypriot friends on both sides of the Green Line tonight.

Have you been watching House of Guinness? I was in Dublin visiting our funder (SEAI) yesterday, and their offices overlook Iveagh Gardens. Edward, the second (sensible) brother from the show was made Earl of Iveagh #houseOfGuinness

More evidence that biking is really good for you: After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

This is why I wrote a paper on count regression, and in general am a big proponent of generalised linear models. Almost nothing is 'normal'/gaussian. Days off sick are very obviously a count (whole numbers only, never below zero) doi.org/10.1080/2164...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

ISCycle is on the move! From Groningen to Glasgow and Nottingham. Check out our latest updates here: www.iscycle.ie/news#h.vvo24... @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social #iscycle #activetravel #ebikes

Exciting clean energy breakthrough if you missed it: Finland launches world's largest sand battery in Pornainen! 13m tall, stores 100 MWh of renewable power as heat in sand at 450°C for weeks. Heats homes/offices/schools, cuts CO2 by 70% vs old woodchip plant. www.independent.co.uk/tech/sand-ba...

Last week, our team headed to Groningen, where bikes outnumber cars, for the @ehps.bsky.social Read more at www.iscycle.ie/news#h.vvo24... @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social

We're recruiting for a postdoc, suitable for psychologist, health services researcher, health economist or related discipline. The researcher will be employed on @researchireland.ie-funded project to evaluate treatments for depression & their costs my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @fdoyle4.bsky.social

Carol Sobral using machine learning to develop a model to predict cycling mixed share in European cities. Segregated cycle lanes, lack of vacant dwellings, women in work, and lack of hills key predictors #CyclingAndSociety2025

First talk at #CyclingAndSociety2025 - Graeme Hawker modelling whether a transition to cycling could reduce the number of new power stations required in the future, especially at times of peak demand

tl;dr: open research has been co-opted by tedious corporate interests and state-led regulatory exercises. Let's reclaim the experimental spirit of open licensing and do some cool DIY and community-led stuff. Let's build our own shit. #OpenFest25

Proton claims their “Lumo” to be a fully open course AI chatbot. Luckily, there is @dingemansemark.bsky.social ’s European Open Source AI Index that makes clear that Lumo is in fact “the least open 'open' model” that they have seen so far. osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr...

A parenting win.

We’re wrapping up with a roundtable discussion on Realising Open Infrastructures with @emmajnorris.bsky.social, @ajamesgreen.bsky.social, @mayabraun.bsky.social. Some key takeaways 👇

This made me mad earlier today. A electric two-wheel dirt bike that can do 75km/h is *not* an ebike...

i’m not saying those predicting an AI bubble are mistaken. i’m saying predictions can’t solely be based on valuation of a given company & have to look at reality outside bsky bubble. even if that company fails, numerous institutes are putting in plenty of investment to make it "work" regardless 5/

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

Mostly by avoiding Bayes and imputation, nothing I do every takes long... though this was mostly keeping my rate of requests down

I've never run some r code that is going to take so long that I should run it now and go to bed #rstats #lifeGoals

Motherfucking wind farms…

Come work with us! We are recruiting for a 1 year fixed term Assistant Professor in Psychology @micireland.bsky.social has a beautiful campus right in the heart of Limerick city & MICPsych is a small but beautifully formed welcoming & supportive department www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇

Capel St. for the win! @tomflood.bsky.social #Dublin #Ireland

In all the discussion around AI, I wonder if Google Maps added the "road" in Western Australia that Carolina Wilga drove down, based on a path being visible in satellite imagery. I say this, because usually Open Street Maps has better trail coverage than Google, but in this case OSM has nothing

As rural areas grow more car-dependent through processes of automobility and neoliberal roll back (of, amongst other things, bus services), community transport has been rolled out to fill the gap left by a retreating state—while itself facing cutbacks.

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“I never actually thought about it”: a novel dialogical approach to qualitative interviewing combining audio-visual elicitation and member reflection techniques Lucy Prodgers, Brendan Gough & Anna Madill www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ISCHP2025

Job Fairy Reminder! Closing Thursday 4 July @iscycle.bsky.social is hiring ~ 2 post-docs and for a research assistant post, relating to ebikes/sustainable mobility /1 #iscycle #ebikes #ebike #sustainableMobility my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

#jobFairy 💚🚴🏽 We're looking for people to join our @iscycle.bsky.social team, promoting ebikes as a healthy and climate-friendly alternative to driving. We have scope to employ at least two post-docs off this ad, and RA posts as well #ebike #sustainableMobility my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

1/ 🚨 New preprint alert! We (@lisawarner.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social and myself) estimated the carbon footprint of air travel associated with >20 international conferences (2023–2025) in psychology & behavioral medicine. Spoiler: it’s a lot. 🛫🌍🧠 Preprint 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

I have some good news. OSF search functionality has improved. This includes the ability to nest and use Boolean operators. I've updated the Preprint Repository Search Syntax table. lib.uvic.ca/preprintsear... (Thanks for the heads up, @katiecorker.bsky.social )

Research funding income is also far too often used as a lazy metric of "success"

This is what the exponential phase of the growth curve looks like. The future will be electric because it makes economic sense. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

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#jobFairy 💚🚴🏽 We're looking for people to join our @iscycle.bsky.social team, promoting ebikes as a healthy and climate-friendly alternative to driving. We have scope to employ at least two post-docs off this ad, and RA posts as well #ebike #sustainableMobility my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

And yet Wiley, with their rejection of the @peercommunityin.bsky.social review model, will only be increasing wasted researcher time...

This is bad from Wiley. Actively digging in against preprints, not being transparent about it, and doing it without engaging with editors, editorial boards etc.

Fantastic article. “While driving had been habitual for most participants, going car free disrupted their routines and participants’ positive experiences raised their capacity to become less reliant on their cars” But, some found a lack of travel infrastructure and services impeded car free travel

Using the multiphase optimization strategy (MOST) framework, this study tested optimized mHealth-delivered interventions for reducing recreational sedentary screen time in adults by at least 60 min/day doi.org/10.1186/s129...

UL’s Dr Yvonne Ryan discusses the waste handling side of e-bikes and ways to reduce the environmental cost. Read on: theconversation.com/e-bikes-are-... #StudyAtUL #StayCurious @yvonneryan.bsky.social

Do you you think there's a sort of... content creation apocalypse coming? Like this sort of thing: 1) People have limited eyeball time. You can increase it marginally, but certainly not an order of magnitude above what it is now (people have to sleep!) 2) Media creation has gotten ever easier