The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, October 13: We start with an interactive workshop to diversify our methodological toolbox to better investigate forms of resistance and repression in different contexts. To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...

Join the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series on Oct 20 at 2pm UK time for a workshop on the Social Change Algorithm by Roxane de la Sablonniere, Diana Cardenas, and Jean-Marc Lina! Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/25bb20... #psychology #socialsciences #socialpsych #socialchange

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2025 Collective Action Network (CAN) Meeting on my recent research into the climate activist’s dilemma.

🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action! When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...

Thrilled to share my first publication in a Nature journal! Our new article in Nature Climate Change (@natclimate.nature.com) explores whether conversations with generative AI tools like ChatGPT may help shift climate scepticism.

Pleased to announce that I successfully passed my PhD confirmation milestone at The University of Queensland (UQ) last week. Excited to be continuing my research into factors that influence public perceptions of climate protests.

A thoughtful piece by Sarah DeWeerdt in Anthropocene Magazine about my recently published research on the “climate activist’s dilemma.” www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/08/the-...

📢 🥳 New paper alert! We developed a new task (RateME) for studying the effects of personal and group rejection and showed that both types of rejection can be linked to radicalization via increased hostility. 🔗 Link to the paper: shorturl.at/uJiDa

Inside Climate News just published a powerful piece on the recent direct actions against Wells Fargo, and how recent research helps unpack public reactions to those kinds of protests.

Fascinating new empirical study about the efficacy of 'extreme' climate protest. Give it a read! The trade-off btw public disgust and public action Have you summarised this as 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'@owasow.bsky.social? #Sociology #AcademicSky #SocialMovements #ProtectProtest

Proud to share my first lead-author publication, now out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology! We found that extreme climate protests (like blockades and defacing property with paint) can backfire by reducing support for the climate movement.

BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS: The historic Pacific-led campaign to hold countries accountable for the climate damage they have caused has been backed by the world’s highest court overnight. Read more 👇 www.greenpeace.org.au/news/worlds-...

The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper finds a ‘climate activist’s dilemma’: “study participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme protests to be more immoral and supported movement less. However, extreme protests also heightened climate concern and intention to take action.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌍🔥 These warming stripes represent the Earth's average temperature from 1850 to 2024. The pattern couldn’t be clearer, climate change is here, and it’s accelerating. Today is #ShowYourStripes day. Let’s show the stripes and commit to taking action on climate change: showyourstripes.info

June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming. This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow. @edhawkins.org

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

As people cope with record floods in NSW and terrible droughts across Australia, our CEO Will van de Pol tells ABC Radio National that insurance companies like QBE must end support for coal, oil and gas expansion making harmful climate change worse. 1/4 🧵 LISTEN: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

10 years after gas exports from Queensland began, all of the gas companies involved, bar one, have not paid a cent in company tax. This is despite them selling $125 billion worth of LNG out of Queensland, and reporting $330 billion in total Australian revenue. #auspol

📣 BREAKING: Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension has been provisionally granted to run until 2070 by Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt. ...Bringing Woodside’s drills a step closer to magnificent Scott Reef, home to threatened species like pygmy blue whales and green sea turtles.

The Coalition is no more. After decades of shared power, the Liberal and National parties have officially split. This could mark a major turning point—freeing up space in Australian politics for bold, progressive reform. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our new paper analyzes 19 predictors of climate change beliefs & action across 55 countries (N=4635) 4 predictors had consistent effects across all outcomes: 1) environmentalist identity, 2) trust in climate science, 3) internal environmental motivation, 4) the Human Development Index

🌍 So excited to share our new paper “Machine learning identified key individual and nation-level factors predicting climate-relevant beliefs and behaviors”, just out in npj Climate Action! 🔗 Fully Open Access: rdcu.be/ele9s 1/

🚨 Boy, does this look like an important new paper on climate inequality! "We find that two-thirds (one-fifth) of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10% (1%), meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 (20) times the average per capita contribution." 🔥 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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...

Another update of how total CO2 emissions are tracking with past scenarios. Sort of tracking very much in the middle, which is probably very much expected... Based on our 2012 paper, which is still relevant: rdcu.be/brDGx

Australia's biggest oil and gas company, Woodside, is holding its annual general meeting tomorrow. Did you know your super could be invested in Woodside? Tell your super fund to take action and stop backing new gas today: www.marketforces.org.au/superfunds #climate #superannuation #woodside

It seems like big Australian super funds like AustralianSuper, HESTA and Hostplus need a little help standing up to oil and gas company Woodside. Dorothy and Toto decided to pay each fund a visit. 🌈#WickedWoodside #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBe...

✊ PsyPost wrote an article covering our recent paper (with @gaellemarinthe.bsky.social et al.) on protest and political extremism! You can read it here: www.psypost.org/did-scientis... #SocialPsych #PolPsy #PsychSciSky

New Crowds & Identities researchers added! Join the crowd! go.bsky.app/PCGLXU

Interesting new philosophical paper from Thomas Fossen on whether scholars should protest - this grounds its defence of such action in membership of the academic community and its special position in the climate crisis. #ClimateCrisis #Science #Activism

'The more protesters perceived police treatment to be unfair, the more they experienced feelings of personal humiliation and disrespect, which was related to greater support for damaging climate actions' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Feeling privileged to have received a Top Cited Article certificate from the British Journal of Social Psychology for co-authoring one of their top 10 most-cited papers published in 2023.

BIG NEWS: A jury has reached a verdict that Greenpeace entities are liable for over $660 million in damages in our trial against Big Oil company Energy Transfer. This is far from over. We’re going to appeal. And we’re prepared to fight this all the way to victory.

PRESS RELEASE Greenpeace says it will not back down as Jury delivers verdict in Energy Transfer SLAPP trial www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/pre...

Fossil fuel pollution is making cyclones like Cyclone Alfred more intense, but everyday people are left paying the price while coal and gas giants rake in profits. It’s time they took responsibility. Sign the Greenpeace petition to make polluters pay! www.greenpeace.org.au/act/make-pol...

A new article in The Conversation summarising research on how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences to grow the climate movement: theconversation.com/farmers-inve...

I just submitted my first-ever first-author scientific journal article for potential peer review and publication! Huge thanks to my supervisors, Prof. Matthew Hornsey and Dr. Michael Thai, for guiding me through the process. Fingers crossed it doesn’t get desk-rejected! 🤞

𝟭𝟭 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗴𝗼, 𝗜 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 "𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗼" 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿. Since then, it’s been featured by 𝘚𝘬𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 and in an 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘭 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤 journal article—both discussing how climate skeptics likening themselves to Galileo is completely backwards.

As the U.S. withdraws from the Paris Agreement, they’re being left behind as the rest of the world continues to push for climate solutions.

'As firefighters, we can see that human induced climate change is making fire seasons longer & more intense. However during big fires misinfo is amplified. The misinformation campaign around the LA fires is especially intense'. australianfirefightersclimatealliance.org/2025/01/11/l...

NASA confirms that 2024 was the hottest year on record: www.nasa.gov/news-release...

If anyone is interested in checking out my award-winning Honours thesis from 2023, I've uploaded it to Thesis Commons so that it is publicly available to download and read: doi.org/10.31237/osf...

We don't normally do gifts, but my cousin couldn't resist buying this mug for me for Christmas. It's a global warming mug that shows reduced landmass due to ocean level rise and the globe getting hotter when it is filled with hot liquid. I needed a new coffee mug, thanks cuz!

Good news for summer cooling! More renewable energy & battery projects will help keep homes powered this season, counteracting the risk from coal outages. AEMO reports increased clean energy capacity, boosting grid resilience against heatwaves & extreme weather www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

POV: You just told this Papuan frogmouth how much the Australian government spends on protecting nature... ...less than 0.1% the budget! If you're as shocked as this incredible bird, please take action today: www.30by30.org.au/act-now-fair-go-for-nature/

Just got home from delivering my first presentation at a social psychology conference, SASP 2024. Attendees got a sneak preview of my latest research on 'The Climate Activist's Dilemma'. Everyone else will have to wait for it to be published. 😊 Thanks to all those who attended.

SO incredible to be able to present my doctoral work alongside such brilliant researchers! The queer representation and research at #SASP2024 is truly inspiring, and I’m feeling immensely grateful to be given this platform to share my story! Congratulations to these amazing OPRA finalists!! 🥹💜😍🥳