Credit to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

What counts as essential travel? How does this differ across people? What level of mobility can be sustained within planetary boundaries? These researchers get closer to answering those questions than most. Wish this kind of thinking was more central to climate & transport policy making in the UK.

Big night in Cambridge for decarbonisation. 3 heat pumps together weighing 20t were lifted by a giant crane onto the roof of the Murray Easton Building at @caiuscollege.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk. Hope Oxford forgives me for promoting the other place but I'm also affiliated with @cisl.cam.ac.uk...

His Dark Materials trilogy are some of my favourite books, but I had very mixed feelings about The Secret Commonwealth. Nonetheless, can't wait to read this!

@petescarbs.bsky.social and @elisabecker.bsky.social - another great example of using monopoly boards in presentations!

There are hundreds of reasons to decry the impact of social media on journalism, but something that's really been irking me lately is what I call (in my head) influencer solutionism -- the idea that there is no benefit to documenting or revealing a problem unless you also have the solution ready...🧵

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

I had such a great time at my first #EHPS conference presenting my final PhD study, a pilot RCT of a health and wellbeing app to promote sustainable diets 📱🌱 Looking forward to keeping in touch with the brilliant people I met - I'll be back! 🌍💡 @ehps.bsky.social @ehps2025.bsky.social #EHPS2025

You see, I get frustrated by those who imply Palestinians can't be trusted to relay their experiences reliably online. Because I knew the information in this article before I read it, having been told about it by people in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/09/how-...

A really thorough post publication peer review!

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

"A license to eat meat" together with Matthew B. Ruby and @sproesser.bsky.social is now published! We explored how animal-related labels influence meat selection, and which psychological processes might explain those effects. You can read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...

There is so much sky here.

Really enjoying the ebike session at #EHPS2025 Key lessons - Ebike users are even more pro active transport than regular bike users - You can reach moderate/vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on an ebike. @annabarrero.bsky.social @ehps2025.bsky.social

This is absolutely horrific. All the content warning for suicide and self harm. Here's the NYT article referrenced: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

New data paper out: Ammonia doesn't often make the headlines – but it’s one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss and air pollution in Europe, harming ecosystems and our health. > 90% of it in Europe comes from one source: agricultural fertiliser and manure 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #EHPS2025 conference schedule is making me choose between ebikes and legumes. This is cruel! @ehps2025.bsky.social

It's #EHPS2025 Day 2! I will be contributing to a roundtable on science communication #scicomm starting at 11:30, and @alearuf.bsky.social will present results from our latest measurement reactivity analysis later this afternoon.

"Oxford’s homicide rate was three to four times higher than that of London or York. The medieval university attracted young men aged 14-21, many living far from home, armed and steeped in a culture of honour [] quarrels between northerners and southerners regularly erupted into street battles."

A 5 minute walk away from my hotel and I can hire this lovely bike for 4 days for 39 euros to get around Groningen. And I can join the conference organised bike tour! The cycle to the venue was a dream - the infrastructure is so intuitive - even when you're in a hurry and running late!

Delighted that #EHPS2025 conference has a sustainable travel award (100 euros each) for those who've travelled furthest to be here without flying. This needs normalising across academia. We have a huge blind spot when it comes to flying. Congratulations to this year's winners!

Arguing people should stay on Twitter is like arguing that "people should join the Republican Party in order to redirect it to less extreme terrain".

I've arrived in Groningen (Netherlands) for the European Health Psychology Society conference and I am fan-girling so much at the transport infrastructure. Health psychology in action here! Build it and they will bike. @ehps2025.bsky.social #EHPS2025

On the Eurostar on my way to Gronignen for #EHPS2025 conference. See you there! @ehps2025.bsky.social @ehps.bsky.social

Suitcase packed, digital devices charged, train on time - here we go, @ehps2025.bsky.social ! 🤝 Please reach out If you want to chat - I love making new connections! 📅 Extra excitement since I was this year's Scientific Committee co-chair. I hope you enjoy the programme! 🧵(1/3) #EHPS2025 #HPGVienna

It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat. This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent. I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

This is really significant. I've been frustrated that we have to guess how much power and water AI consumes, because these tech companies won't say (even though they know). This is the most transparent estimate from one of these companies so far. I hope others will follow suit.

I wrote about this in @theconversation.com, in which I also mention work by the Net Zero partnership between ‪@ipsosintheuk.bsky.social and @cast-centre.bsky.social, and the ‪@climatebarometer.bsky.social‬ tracker. Read about it here: theconversation.com/why-some-cli...

After 3 desk rejects and 2 major rewrites (with a 17-page rebuttal (!), and cutting word count by 25%), I am pleased that my paper on policy appraisals and second-order beliefs in climate policy has found a home in @climate-policy.bsky.social: (1/) @cast-centre.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1469...

Nothing says climate policy like skipping brunch and hoping the sky notices.

I scrolled past this then finally watched the video. Watch the video. 💚 Samuel L Jackson

Let this sink in. It isn't just that adding PV panels to these French vineyards didn't harm grape production, it's the fact that it _increased_ the yield dramatically.

Palestinian activist and participant in the Oscar-winning film, No Other Land, Odeh Hadalin was shot in the chest and killed by an Israeli settler in the Occupied West Bank. The shooter, Yinon Levi, has been under sanctions by both the EU and the US.

unconfirmed reports that I ended up in tears (ironically?) on the tube while reading this piece on the bus drivers of 7/7: www.londoncentric.media/p/july-7-ter...

I am (un)healthily obsessed with Aldi smoked tofu and I am delighted to learn I have been vindicated by SCIENCE! www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...

There's an amazing bakery in Oxford but they don't do any vegan sandwiches/savouries. When I suggested vegan sausage rolls they said they didn't want to sell anything processed. I disagree with this as a red line, but #FoodSky - what unprocessed savory options would you suggest they serve?

Interesting study on ‘digital nudges’ towards walking. “… displaying walking directions as the default in Google Maps, instead of driving, and complemented by graphics depicting social norms, significantly increased the hypothetical choice to walk — particularly among less active individuals”

This is one of my favorite passages, featuring long-time ME patient-researcher Helen Brownlie. Her point about RCTs has really stuck with me. (3/8)

Good for her! plantbasednews.org/culture/musi...

Not many politicians in the UK tell the truth about farming or are brave enough to criticise the cakeism of the main farming unions. But Lee Waters MS does in this refreshingly honest speech. Almost every word of it applies to England as much as Wales. amanwy.blogspot.com/2025/07/we-n...

The Guardian will publish scary headlines about ice sheet and AMOC collapse on a Friday, then stuff like this on a Monday: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... How are people supposed to navigate this? Is climate change an urgent problem, or not?

We had plenty of interesting and lively debate at this @fao.org panel today on "Consumers as catalysts: Driving change in livestock and food systems" Thank you for the invitation and to the audience for the insightful questions. www.fao.org/partnerships...

📢 New paper out. The authors found _experiencing_ extreme weather doesn't increase your support for climate policies; but personally _attributing_ extreme weather to climate change does. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Japan experienced its hottest June on record, the weather agency said Tuesday, as climate change prompts sweltering heat waves across the globe.

Climate / food sky: does anyone know of research into the GHG emissions of diet between different socio economic groups within a high income country? I am sure this paper exists but can't locate it. @waiterich.bsky.social @paulbehrens.bsky.social - do you know of anything? Thanks in advance!

every single word of this headline was a surprise to me

The Right really is in disarray because they cannot seem to figure out if they should push “Zohran Mamdani is going to bring Sharia Law” or “Zohran Mamdani treats his wife with too much equality” as a smear campaign, so they are doing both.