Most climate adaptation plans look good on paper. The real test is whether they work in practice. I’ve curated a revamped LfS site section with annotated links to key open-access resources on adaptation – frameworks, tools, adaptive management & MEL. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/adaptation/

Indicators help track change, but often miss what matters. This LfS page update shares frameworks & examples for designing indicators that are credible, useful & connected to real-world decisions. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/developing-i... #Evaluation #Sustainability

🌱 New post: Social learning in action When challenges are complex, progress often comes from people learning their way forward together. Reflection, dialogue, and trust make collaboration possible. 🔗 medium.com/@will_allen/... #SocialLearning #SystemsChange

Standing Tall under Brooding Skies - Pukehou, Hawke's Bay, NZ. #photography #landscape #newzealand

🌱 New post: Social learning in action When challenges are complex, progress often comes from people learning their way forward together. Reflection, dialogue, and trust make collaboration possible. 🔗 medium.com/@will_allen/... #SocialLearning #SystemsChange

Although more researchers use #AI, its full potential for achieving global sustainability goals #SDGs is largely untapped. An new analysis of 792 peer-reviewed articles finds few combine advanced AI applications with deep #sustainability expertise: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @efesce.bsky.social

A great visualization of how focusing on the UN Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs can help guide the pillars of an #ESG strategy, representing the major global challenges that businesses can help to address. #responsiblebusiness #corporatesocialresponsibility

Golden Reflection - Lake Tutira, Hawke's Bay. #photography #landscape #nz #foggytrees

📢 HAPPENING NOW 📢 The IPBES Bureau has commenced its 24th meeting in Bonn, Germany! 🇩🇪 On the agenda: charting the course for future Plenary sessions, reviewing financial plans, and enhancing engagement with key partners. Wishing all a productive day of discussions #ForNature !

A powerful example of participatory systems thinking in education. Evidence as dialogue, not decree. 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/micro-... 🌍🧪 #Education #SystemsChange #ParticipatoryResearch

Great article. In a world saturated with mis- and disinformation, trust in science must rest not just on evidence, but on openness, care, and connection. 🌍🧪

💥New: We need social science as much as STEM in policymaking STEM steered the #COVID-19 response, but Sebastian Ludwicki-Ziegler ( @sebaszieg.bsky.social) & Lise Moawad @humboldtuni.bsky.social argue for integrated, interdisciplinary science advice beyond the #crisis 🤝

Raising awareness isn’t enough. Real change in sustainability depends on alignment, not just information. My latest post explores why collaboration, context, and practice matter more than persuasion. 🌍🧪 🧭 learningforsustainability.net/post/shiftin... #behaviourchange #sustainability

New resource hub on social learning in complex settings—tools, framings, and links to support reflection, collaboration, and adaptation. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/social-learn... #SocialLearning #SystemsThinking #Collaboration #Complexity #LfSinsights 🌍🧪

New blog post: Social learning in action 🌍🧪 In complex settings, progress depends on people learning together. This post explores how reflection, dialogue, and shared sense-making help teams adapt and move forward. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/social-... #LfSinsights

New resource hub on evaluation in complex settings 🌍🧪 Tools, framings, and approaches to support learning and adaptation. For practitioners, evaluators & facilitators working on systems change and sustainability. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/evaluation/ #Evaluation #Complexity #LfSinsights

🌍 Participatory action research (PAR) blends reflection, collaboration, and action. In this post I explore how it supports work on climate, equity, and systems change. 🧪 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/par-for... #PAR #collaboration #systemschange

Five opportunities for knowledge cumulation at science-policy interfaces. ✍🏻 Insights from a new paper by Benjamin Hofmann‪ and colleagues @eawag.bsky.social, @ethz.ch & @unibe.ch transforming-evidence.org/blog/cumulat...

🌍 Thinking about the future is essential—but terms like foresight, scenarios & visioning often blur together. This post shares a practical take on four futures approaches, incl. the 'wave' method for exploring change. 🧪 🌊🧭 learningforsustainability.net/post/explori...

How do we define 'successful' scale up? What influences this? In our latest paper we found that 'success' was a combination of scaling inputs, outputs, outcomes and contexts... Read more about it here: academic.oup.com/tbm/article/...

Co-design in complex settings isn’t about finding the perfect process—it’s about working well together in real time. 🌍 I shared this short reflection a couple of months back. Still finding it useful. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/co-desi... #codesign #systems #evaluation 🧪

🌍 Thinking about the future? I’ve updated my Futures Thinking resource page to help make sense of different approaches—foresight, scenarios, and visioning—and share practical guides, frameworks, and papers. 🧪 Take a look: learningforsustainability.net/futures-thin...

Do you ever read qualitative social science; sociology, psychology, criminology, and the like, and get a sense that the methods just don't give enough insight into what actually happened? Yep, me to, esp in relation to where scholars' ideas came from. More here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🌍 Learning for Sustainability I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning. 📄 Worth revisiting: Evaluation in complex settings: reflections on practice and evaluator roles 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/evaluat... 🧪 #LfSinsights

🌍 Learning for Sustainability I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning. 📄 Worth revisiting: Social learning in practice: Strengthening collaboration amid complexity 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/social-... 🧪 #LfSinsights

Glocal Evaluation Week begins tomorrow! 🙌 ✅ 390+ knowledge-sharing events happening online & in person around the 🌏 ✅ Lots of opportunities to gain new knowledge & insights on #evaluation & #development topics you care about 👀 Explore the #glocal2025 agenda & sign up for events: glocalevalweek.org

"The global launch of #glocal2025 is an invitation to reimagine #evaluation & how it can serve as a foundation for building bridges, fostering meaningful dialogue, & restoring trust. Join us in exploring how evaluation can help shape a more just, resilient, & connected world." #MandE #Eval #gLocal

🌍🧪 New post: Exploring complexity In messy, real-world settings, practices like evaluation, co-design, systems thinking & participatory research often overlap. This post weaves blog threads on learning, collaboration & systems into a shared picture. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/explori...

May’s newsletter is here - with some of my AI reading this month 👇🏻 aixinsights.substack.com/p/may-roundu...

Evaluation's Journey towards the Future, Part 5. The Liminal space of Not-Yet Futures zendaofir.com/evaluations-...

✨ Join #gLOCAL2025 from 2-6 June! @unicef.org #Evaluation colleagues will present key insights & innovations in #evaluation across a series of featured sessions. For a comprehensive list of UNICEF-led sessions, visit our page: www.unicef.org/evaluation/u... 👈 @gei-globaleval.bsky.social #gLOCAL

Just out: "Organizational readiness for change: A systematic review of the literature" Explores how healthcare organisations assess and build readiness for change. Highlights the importance of collective commitment and capacity. 📚 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #ChangeManagement

Entry points for driving systemic change toward a more sustainable future: One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

In complex settings, evaluation needs to do more than measure results. This post shares 5 grounded patterns from complexity-aware MEL—and reflects on what this asks of evaluators. 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/evaluat...

| International Day of Plant Health | (1/5) Today, we observe the International Day of Plant Health. Protecting plant health is essential for ensuring food security, supporting rural livelihoods, and fostering climate resilience. #PlantHealthDay

🌱 Happy International Day of Plant Health! Today we are launching Year 3 of the #PlantHealth4Life campaign 🌿 Whether you travel responsibly ✈️, plant smart 🌼, or teach kids about nature 🧒 - your everyday actions can help keep plants healthy. Let’s spread awareness together: europa.eu/!TpFdCX

Beam me up, Scotty. #forest #woods #beamsoflight #lightbeams #sunlight #eveninglight #nature #peaceful #trees #smartphonephotography #photography

The sun is setting and the fountain is a bit less powerful, but still a fantastic show. They've recently zoomed in. Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5z...

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...

🌍 Learning for Sustainability I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning. 📄 Worth revisiting: Systems thinking and systemic design: working with complexity 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/systems... 🧪 #LfSinsights

Today's post reflects on the recent wildfires in the UK and how we talk or don't talk about them in a changing climate reality blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

Passing time

🌍 Learning for Sustainability I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning. 📄 Worth revisiting: Social learning in practice: Strengthening collaboration amid complexity 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/social-... 🧪 #LfSinsights

Captivating moods

🌍 Learning for Sustainability I post on systems thinking, facilitation, co-design & evaluation — grounded in practice and shared learning. 📄 Worth revisiting: Social learning in practice: Strengthening collaboration amid complexity 🔗 learningforsustainability.net/post/social-... 🧪 #LfSinsights

A Wednesday perspective from Nathaniel Barr & @kellypeters.bsky.social, from the archive: The history of behavioral science is minuscule relative to its future. Looking ahead, what questions will behavioral scientists be called to answer?

This week, Editor Heather Graci reports back from the UN’s Behavioural Science Week about the ways behaviorally-informed technologies are shaping global aid and development on real problems, right now.

New blog post: The 4Ds Roles and Responsibilities Workshop emilywebber.co.uk/the-4ds-role...