Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for @carbonbrief.org providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Being a PI is just one of many things you can do with your PhD. And doing *any* of those things is a successful outcome of your training and graduate school time. The fact that a school or lab produces more of one of those things doesn't make it better.

I now have a bunch of conversations lined up! The offer still stands, by the way

📚A must-read 📚 for academics who are desperately trying to master the day-to-day job demands: Just finished the thought-provoking book “Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals” by Oliver Burkeman. Highly recommended! 🔥 #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

Our food system is broken. Here are five ways to help fix it. ukparliament.shorthandstories.com/food-diet-obes… via @HLFoodObesity

This is genius. This is so much better than the Outlook auto suggestions.

Advice to (junior) academics: please keep some web presence updated (website, Google Scholar, etc.). At several points throughout the year, there are opportunities to nominate you for things, and it is helpful in those nomination processes to be able to point to evidence of your awesomeness.

Advice for a young investigator Matt Hill style. The culmination of a fantastic journey through Matt’s career from wannabe novelist to translational neuroscientist.

Good morning #episky #publichealth #academicsky #medsky #womeninSTEM

The greatest story ever told

Grad student me: I'm kinda interested in this vision science thing. Person who would become my advisor: Step 1 is to read David Marr.

I'm fascinated by the cognitive dissonance necessary to be "pro-car" and "anti-smoking" so vociferously at the same time. It's almost as if we didn't know that diesel exhaust is carcinogenic. If we put nicotine in petrol, would it change his mind?

This, and despite trying every tip, strategy and lifehack out there, it's a truth I struggle very hard to break free from.

Hello Bluesky! New here and looking for the food / psychology / UK reproducibility peeps!