Dr H!A! Passmore

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Nature Relatedness Usefully Links Well-Being, the Environment, and Sustainability.
The title says it all.
Check our our new brief review in Current Directions in Psychological Science (free to access).
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Two new RCT articles out testing nature-based wellbeing interventions against the most popular Positive Psychology Intervention: 3 Good Things. In both studies, nature-based interventions boosted wb without spending more time in nature, & boosted unique aspects of wb.
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Looking to boost your wellbeing? We need regular people to participate in research aimed at testing simple wellbeing practices.
Visit link for details:
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We started a company to provide enterprise-level support for open-source statistical software @jaspstats.bsky.social . Our website with the mission and offers just went online!

Is your business paying large licensing fees for statistical software? Are you looking for a change? Check it out!

Hello world! We are a new company that provides support for organizations and industries who use the JASP open-source stats program. Check out our website www.jasp-services.com and our first blog post www.jasp-services.com/first-post/
Know companies using commercial stats software? Share this info!🙂

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

A fantastic piece by @caseycrownhart.bsky.social + ‪@jamesmodonnell.bsky.social‬ at @technologyreview.com

On why the total lack of disclosure from tech companies means we have to rely on estimates - and even those conservative estimates are huge.

Imagine what the actual numbers are.........

"I've not been using my brain as much....I’m worried about the impact of AI, but I’m not worried about the jobs, I’m worried about losing my mental sharpness." An excellent essay on the limits of AI coding. (Thanks to @mjcrockett.bsky.social for sending me this.) albertofortin.com/writing/codi...

Creating Kinship with Nature and Boosting Well-Being: Testing Two Novel Character Strengths-Based Nature Connectedness Interventions - Journal of Happiness Studies We tested the efficacy of engaging in two novel randomized interventions based on character strengths and engaging with nature on boosting nature connectedness and well-being. In Study 1 (N = 134, int...

New article - woo! (opensource)
Passmore, H.-A., Lumber, R., Niemiec, R., & Sofen, L. I. (2025). Creating kinship with nature and boosting well-being: Testing two novel character strengths-based nature connectedness interventions. Journal of Happiness Studies, 26(71). doi.org/10.1007/s109...

I just submitted two articles where I did an equivalence test!

Message from Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation to Danielle Smith -
"Pack up your bag and go. You're not welcome here anymore" #cdnpoli

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

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Changing the narrative on testing | BPS Katy Burgess on why retrieval is key to learning.

Changing the narrative on testing…
@katyburgess.bsky.social on why retrieval is key to learning.
#exams #revision
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I love this, especially "reframing testing as learning". In my Psychology 104 class, students have to create a study guide for each exam. Study guides are only questions they come up with. It's such a great way to study. Also teaching your dog or your stuffies like it was a class.

It's bonkers that in academic science we spend hours obsessing over the wording of a paper, but often only one person has seen the code that produced the results! 2/N

Microsoft is spending about 6x the annual budget of the entire NSF on building more server farms.

Exploring the metabolic signature of intermittent explosive disorder: Preliminary evidence and potential mechanisms for altered bilirubin metabolism Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) is characterized by impulsive aggression and emotional dysregulation, yet its systemic biological underpinnings …

Emotions can be driven by our gut. Early evidence suggesting aggression may originate in the liver. More evidence of #BrainGut connection. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We have SO many greats events in the next week or two! Sign up for the next #ClimateCafe to get a taste! www.eventbrite.com/e/1302336075...

Don’t Say Climate? Bridging Divides with Katharine Hayhoe — Climate Psychology Alliance North America Join us in learning how to have conversations about climate in this polarizing time.

I’m really looking forward to this. Please join me.

Researchers have been pointing out that these systems are probably “bags of heuristics” from the very beginning but pointing it out early literally cost some of them their jobs.

Intuitive finding but important one for urban greening programmes:

“… adding greenspace in areas with the least nature yielded 1·4–1·7… times greater health benefits than uniform increases; adding greenspace to areas with the densest populations yielded 2·7 times greater health benefits”

Stop the removal of Ontario’s bike lanes Call on all parties running in the Ontario election to reverse Bill 212

Let’s protect Ontario’s bike lanes in this provincial election. Call on all parties to #ReverseBill212! @GreenpeaceCA act.gp/3WLGdrw

I don’t know which academic needs to hear this but yes you should absolutely email other academics just to tell them you enjoyed their article/book/chapter. Just do it. Don’t overthink it.

Hello So-and-so, just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ‘Title’. Hope you’re well. Best, You.

Done.

PhD on Metascience

I am hiring a PhD student on the meaningful interpretation of effect sizes as part of my VICI funded project. This is a 4 year paid position in a welcoming and collaborative environment. Find out more or apply at www.tue.nl/werken-bij-t...

I have been accused many times of caring more about entertaining students than educating them - it's so demonstrably false as to be laughable but I could never get past not recognising that everyone's job is easier and learning happens more successfully...

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#AcademicSky

Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States The association that represents academic staff at Canadian universities is warning its members against non-essential travel to the United States.

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Measurement approaches in climate action research Behavioral scientists across disciplines study the determinants of climate actions. They aim to describe, predict, explain, and change the behavioral …

One of the most frequent questions I get is how to measure pro-environmental behaviors. I always reply: what is the research question? Finally, someone has provided a flowchart to help.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Florian Lange, 2025: Measurement approaches in climate action research 1/2

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.