Great evening last night watching System 7 and Ozric Tentacles. Where prog meets dance and it works.

📝New article! ✨Working with an advisory group to share power to shape intergenerational climate debate, challenge climate stereotypes & spark creativity - collage, walking, comic futures & a workshop dice-game 🎲Huge thanks to collaborators! 🙌 #ClimateResearch www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is a good point. I found 88% of older people didn’t walk at the DfT required speed of 1.2m/s (no one knows where that figure comes from by the way - think it’s a 1950s MSc diss from the US) (I didn’t look at blackout period) see more www.drcharliemuss.com/crossing-the...

There was an excellent video aimed at Boris Johnson when he was mayor 3 out of 4 older people can’t cross the road. Wanting very catchy lyrics and tune … youtu.be/lpwboQxVJtg?...

Great to see Will Barnes Quartet tonight. Impressive musicianship, some amazing crazy changes in melody and timing. Prog rock and metal influences in some excellent Welsh place based jazz. Well done Aberystwyth Arts Centre - great venue and sound. More about them here ukjazznews.com/will-barnes-...

🚗 New paper out! We analysed 70k+ tweets about Wales’ new 20 mph speed limit Public negativity dropped & positivity rose over 6 months — showing attitudes adapt with time 🕒 “Public perspectives on the 20 mph speed reduction in Wales” 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.js... #20mph #RoadSafety #BehaviourChange

Loved teaching our MSc Behaviour Change students this week — great ideas on how psychology can shape more sustainable and inclusive transport! 🚴‍♀️🚌 #BehaviourChange #TransportPsychology

A great chat on BBC Radio Wales about driving etiquette — it’s not just about rules, but norms. We could all slow down a bit. It barely adds time to our journey, but makes driving calmer, more civil, and less stressful for all.🚗✨ 1h10m in www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #DrivingEtiquette #RoadSafety

Do you know what? It IS working. It hasn't caused tailbacks, quite the opposite actually. More importantly it's saved the lives of at least a dozen kids. Reform are actually campaigning for the return of more deaths and injuries. Absolutely bonkers.

I haven’t heard this before either … great to hear the middle of side 1 live! Love the end section to Heart of Lothian - curtain call

Back to see Port Talbot Town play football for the first time in 5 and a half years. It was as if I hadn’t been away. Such a sense of community in that area, like I don’t know anywhere else, despite what the town goes through. What a win over local team Lido 2 divs higher, 3-1 in the cup. #forzaptt

Also this week I had the pleasure of visiting Surrey Uni and delivering a talk on Wales' 20mph to the Business School. Thanks Nikolas Thomopoulos for hosting. Talked about the successes (fewer collisions) alongside the challenges (selling it to the public and how it becomes a political football)

Giving up driving isn’t just about getting around — it’s about independence, identity & confidence. I spoke National Office of Traffic Medicine, Ireland, about how we can make this transition kinder, tackling both the practical and emotional sides. #Ageing #Mobility

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🐴 New paper: Equestrian Road Safety - 1.5M riders on UK roads, yet policy rarely includes them. - Close passing + speeding are key risks — & horses aren’t vehicles, they’re sentient road users. #RoadSafety #EquestrianSafety #ActiveTravel Read it here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lx1f7tR-3...

Overview of some of my research with older people & transport: 🚌Redesigning public transport - better signage, lighting, and staff training 🚷Making it easier to cross the road 🤖 Future transport involving automation & AI must involve older people in tech development www.aber.ac.uk/en/rbi/resea...

New book chapter out:ageing, transport & decarbonisation in an excellent new edited collection Towards Transport Net Zero Take-home message:older people want to be part of the decarbonisation agenda. We need supportive policy to help with active & public transport use www.emerald.com/books/edited...

Do you remember Twitter/X before it went off the rails? Not too long ago it was a useful digital town square for public debate. We used it to track public opinion when the UK Emergency Active Travel Fund was introduced in May 2020 🔓Open access article can be found here👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.tb... (1/)

Wit Happens: A Light-hearted Dive into the Science of Humour. A free public lecture on the psychology of humour at the start of Aberystwyth Comedy Festival. Friday, October 3. Tickets at abercomedyfest.co.uk/show/2025/dr... (via @machcomedyfest) @charliemuss.bsky.social @prifaber.bsky.social

I like it, I enjoy walking! But important to remember the correlation and causation relationship is always an issue here… there is no way of separating it, we can try but it’s never perfect…

What a dreadful article from the Independent. Wrong on every front. If you think autonomous vehicles is going to save the world then you’re hugely mistaken. Also I’ve studied transport and ageing for 25 years, eyesight is the only test that makes a difference to road safety…

Latest research on public attitudes from me👇 “The public are clear what better transport looks like. No matter how you vote, where you live or currently get around there is a clear desire for more public transport options and for these to be affordable, accessible and better integrated.”

Free bus passes should be given to all under 22-year-olds in England MPs say In a new report today, the Commons Transport Committee said giving free bus passes to all under 22-year-olds would improve young people's access to 'work and skills opportunities' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

“The journeys that people make around their neighbourhoods and as part of their daily routines can be the foundation for good health, stronger communities and thriving local economies” 🚎 🚶🏾‍♀️ 🚃 🚇 🚲 🚙 🛴 #urbanism #publictransport #mobility #community Via @ippr.org

Hanging out with architectural designer and urban planner le Corbusier today!

Couple of radio interviews from a balcony on the South of France BBC radio 5 live (at 2h40) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... BBC radio Wales (at 1h10mins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Sight tests a good thing for older drivers there is evidence they work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Französische Städte sind auch weit außerhalb von Paris viel weiter mit der Verkehrswende als wir. Hier wurde z.B. in Avignon auf einer der Hauptrouten (Brücke) gut 1/3 der ursprünglichen Fahrbahn zu einem relativ großzügigen 2-Richtungs-Radweg. Auf dem Hochbord ahnt man noch die alte Markierung.

Woran man erkennen kann, dass sich was tut? Dieser Radverkehrs-Zähler wurde so 2020/2021 installiert, mit einer Skala bis 500'000. Dieses Jahr steht er schon in der ersten Augustwoche bei 380'000 und es ist nicht klar, ob der Rest noch fürs Jahr ausreicht.

Avignon by train. Everything a lesson in planning the UK needs to learn. Avignon TGV station concedes a lot of passenger last/first mile to the car but area around it includes hotels, residential areas, training centres, small goods and a huge rail-road freight depot with containers.

New retro BBC clock, second hand smoothly gliding along, in my home office, reminding me of years past as it counts forwards! Thanks @hiddenbritain.bsky.social

Totally agree with this post. Why can't Britain deliver big infrastructure projects without three-quarters of the cost being leeched off to consultants & inflated salaries/bonuses? It's effectively legalised corruption and theft of state money for private pockets isn't it?

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...

Early start to the day discussing older drivers safety and issues around reporting health conditions to the DVLA on BBC Radio Wales. Who reports health conditons to DVLA, who doesn't. Should healthcare practitioners play a role? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... (43 mins in or so)

The Melbourne Declaration on Transport, Health and Inequalities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

Are you interested in how social science insights can inform transport policy🚆? Watch the recording of our webinar with Dr Matthew Niblett, @charliemuss.bsky.social, Dr Siobhan Campbell (nmisgroup.bsky.social) & @iaindocherty.bsky.social to find out more📽️➡️

New article - are rural drivers different to urban drivers: 🏞️ Rural drivers have high internal & low external demands = more risky driving 🌆 Urban drivers get frustrated with internal & external demands = more lapses & more anger, but fewer severe collisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I took a break from the Cambrian mountains to look at the National Library of Wales in Aber today and here’s some punchy artwork on display that caught my eye in the There’s ‘No Welsh Art’ exhibition. A thread

Our new study on the heritablity of humor ability. Surprising result, no heritablity for humor production, only for self-assessed humor. Possible null effect due to low power, skewed sample, artificial tasks, and other factors. First study on the topic. See: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interesting new study from @smfthinktank.bsky.social finds a correlation between car dependency & loneliness, particularly in rural towns. This might be due to there being “fewer ways to reach others” and space given to cars creating “barriers in what might have been walkable neighbourhoods.”

Enjoyable day back where much of my career begun with the excellent Centre for Transport & Society at University of the West of England - delighted to be a panel member at their excellent annual transport research symposium

Do you use a wheelchair or a mobility scooter? We at #SlowWays have proven a method for finding and sharing the best walking routes. Would you like something similar for wheelchair and scooter routes? Take a look 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social 💫

Influential figures can encourage faster adoption of pro-environmental behavior as the right thing to do through: Phase 1: Moral recognition Phase 2: Moral amplification Phase 3: Approaching tipping points Phase 4: Institutionalization Phase 5: Norm abandonment www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Great thread here about travelling from Dublin to Munich! Much more detail than my Dublin-South Wales post. The adventure is always best across land. Thanks Niels…

Y’day journey Dublin-S.Wales. 👍 lovely chat with Nolan Bus driver - Dublin City-Port 👍 Stena crossing Dublin-Holyhead is ace 👎 Holyhead-Cardiff new trains so why only 3 coaches, no wifi or air con 👎 chaos at Cardiff station 👍 loco hauled mk 4 coach for final part:why can’t all trains be like this!

There's always a cartoon by @andy-singer.bsky.social that nails it.

Best thing about a conference! Impromptu drinks with people from around the world

Universities Transport Studies Group conference in Dublin has been a great. 3 papers co-presented: 🏎️ attitudes towards 20mph speed limits in wales & 🚜Rural road safety with Burcu Tekes from Turkey 🌏Healthy ageing & transport in Asia with Guibo Sun Now I take over as Chair for next 3 yrs!

At universities transport studies group conference in Dublin, Dr Guibo Sun presents transport and healthy ageing research - including our special issue in Journal of Transport and Health you can see here www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Stellar adventures aboard the Stenna Adventurer yesterday meeting up with some old colleagues on our way to the Universities Transport Studies Group Conference in Dublin @drdgwilliams.bsky.social