On Tuesday, activists from ‘Raise the Colours’ erected flags along Abingdon Road in broad daylight. We ask who is behind it – and why the campaign is so controversial. oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

This is a really good article about searching. Lots of things I didn't know about. (And I'd normally flatter myself at being better at this than the average person.)

A very interesting open letter to Donald Trump was published today by one of Dubai's most prominent figures. @KhalafAlHabtoor is richer than Trump +his family will ever be, even after White House enrichment, and he packs a LOT of clout. Here's the translation.

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My team at Grist launched a new project today: a column we're calling Ask a Climate Therapist, tackling your questions about climate + mental health with licensed therapist @lesliedavenport.bsky.social Check out Leslie's first column here! grist.org/culture/ask-...

Hazel comes from the Anglo-Saxons, who named the tree hæsel, linked to a word for “hat”, because its nuts appear to wear little caps. In place names such as Hesleden — once hæsel-denu — old words endure. Denu means valley, while hæsel recalls its early inhabitants: hazel trees.

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “The times are urgent, we have to slow down.”

How to turn your most aggravating student emails into a chance to spread joy: Faced with a flurry of grade complaints at the end of each semester, Danny Oppenheimer found a way to respond that generated positivity for students and himself. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t...

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I found #Hamnet immersive and visceral, but I did struggle with the biographical element. I had a similar problem with the novel, though the film takes that element even further. This @theconversation.com article by Amy Walters and Kate Flaherty was very helpful: theconversation.com/it-takes-man...

As people seem to be sharing starter packs for the new arrivals on Bluesky (welcome to you all), I can’t do better on climate than suggest you go to @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s comprehensive list of starter packs. She has them on every conceivable climate topic, including climate psychology (my field).

Sharing our starter pack for those new or recently come back to bluesky. As ever, let us know of any omissions. go.bsky.app/Gf6AWuT

As people seem to be sharing starter packs for the new arrivals on Bluesky (welcome to you all), I can’t do better on climate than suggest you go to @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s comprehensive list of starter packs. She has them on every conceivable climate topic, including climate psychology (my field).

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

“American imperialism is a tradition; removing someone does not lead to predictable results; dispensing with international law is not only wrong but undesirable; foreign military actions can be about domestic regime change.”

Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds? Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd! Deadline 23 Jan 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A thread describing what climate cafés are all about.

Could you, or someone you know, be one of our new co-chairs? publicinterest.org.uk/chair/

🚨Clarion morning read 🚨 Increasing numbers of people in Oxford are struggling to put food on the table, in this, one of the UK's most unequal cities. Phil Perry from Oxford Mutual Aid writes about the growing community that's stepping up to help. @oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social

For anyone in Oxford looking for a place where your feelings about the climate crisis can be heard

Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team this Sunday at a climate café, a gentle facilitated space where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis. 
What’s different about climate cafés? 🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵

Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)

The towpath between Port Meadow and Botley Road is flooded, and closed say Oxford City Council, warning other areas of the towpath in the city may also start to flood over the next few days. Last winter, two people drowned in the city in separate incidents after entering flooded towpaths.

Pleased to see this paper published and free to read: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks to A/prof Theresa Petray @theresapetray.bsky.social & Dr Ailie McDowall #sociology #climatechange #youth #activism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🌳 If you are aged 18-25 and would like to build resilience while living in the knowledge of the climate crisis, join our listening circle to spend time with others who get it. Facilitated by trained CPA facilitators. Free but booking essential: www.eventbrite.com/e/174813...

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available @climatepsychol.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...

Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available @climatepsychol.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...

What do you feel about the climate crisis? Sometimes it’s hard to put feelings into words. Try exploring them through sound and music instead in a Climate Café Listening & Music Circle. No musical experience needed. Oxford, UK - 15 November 2 pm meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...

Closing tomorrow. We’ve had loads of interest and applications. It’s been an absolute delight - feel for us as we try to make good decisions about shortlisting in the coming week or so! And get your application in by 5 pm tmrw as we won’t be accepting late applications. @climatepsychol.bsky.social

The Cowley Branch Line railway is set to reopen with new stations at Littlemore and Cowley. The Government is today announcing £120m to rebuild the line, with trains running by 2030. Journey time will be just 7 minutes from Littlemore to Oxford station. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...

#Oxon4Buses is calling for Network Rail to create a transport hub at the new station rather than a multi-story car park. This opportunity for an integrated network could be lost forever. Please sign ✍️ c.org/DX66nvC5qn

What do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - feelings shift as we try to capture them. The words to describe what you’re feeling might not even exist. What if you could experiment with sound & music as well as words ? 1/x

There are four house martins feeding above my head. They’re six inches long and are about to travel 6,000 miles. That’s about 63 million times their body length. The lunatics.

Come and work with us at ICRA! We are looking for a youth coordinator and community resilience coordinator. Both roles are part-time, remote and UK based. More details here: climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...

Thrilled to bits that these roles are now available. Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for the generous funding

Congrats to the organisers and was great to be asked to speak about the University of Glasgow’s ‘climate change and mental health network’ bsky.app/profile/domi...

Thrilled to bits that these roles are now available. Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for the generous funding

“Our well-being is foundational for the work we do in the world.” adrienne maree brown If you're aged 18-25 join our free, online Support Space for warm care, deep listening and resilience building for living in a time of crisis. More info and booking: bit.ly/46recKY

New CE alert! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop... #mentalhealth #climatechange #disastermentalhealth

“Mutual Aid organizations are rising to meet community needs, filling the widening gap left in the US by our rapidly unraveling social safety net. Explore how mental health professionals can fit into this vital work, expanding our clinical skills beyond the therapy room into frontline communities.”

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On reports the Home Secretary plans to grant police more powers to prevent ‘repeated protests’, Greenpeace UK: “Protest works because it is repetitive. If police had told the Suffragettes or civil rights activists ‘you’ve made your point,’ they would never have won the victories we all enjoy today"

This important conference coming up in November at Birkbeck will bring together mental health professionals in witnessing and responding to the genocide in Palestine. @climatepsychol.bsky.social will be attending. www.eventbrite.com/e/mental-hea...

MPs are incredibly busy. That’s why this essential briefing on the #climate & #nature crisis needs under 2 hours of their time👇 What will they gain? ✅ How to dispel polluter myths ✅ Demonstrate a strong commitment to protecting our future ✅ Arm themselves to make sound decisions

Here is the deal: Capitalism wants you to manage your feelings, suppress them during the work day - and then we feel dysregulated and unsettled (or worse) when they return to us at force at night - and then we try to escape them. There are other ways to consider our emotional response

With Trump using the UN to amplify climate denial, the need for the National Emergency Briefing on the #climate and #nature crisis couldn’t be greater. Has your MP confirmed yet? www.nebriefing.org

This is a 4 week workshop on how to structure community groups for low conflict/consensus building /collaborative, recreational & support purposes www.whatashrinkthinks.com/group-group