Jesse Wise

Get that nice shiny "preregistered" badge while retaining full analytic flexibility with this one simple trick (preregistering your analysis plan as "we will analyze the effect of the IVs on the DVs") 🫠

web banner announcing that an AI assistant will be added to RStudio.

Et tu, Brute?

Thanks for the info, v helpful. "Unique to Prolific, Authenticity checks use Prolific’s proprietary machine learning model to detect and flag AI-misuse with 98.7% precision" - will you test this using the AI in the link above?

"restricted to the fast, fit and fearless" what a raw line

A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

What checks are currently in place for AI use on the platform, @joinprolific.bsky.social ? And do you have a plan for how this will be handled going forward? Given the pace of developments, it would be prudent to have a proactive strategy, not reactive. #survey #research

Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation - by Hannah B. Waldfogel - Behavioral Scientist For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.

A little something to read with your coffee this morning, ft. one of my favourite (and obviously completely unvalidated) tests of #altruism

Commuting increase revealed by Enterprise in mobility survey One-in-five UK employees are commuting to the office more this year than last.

21% of UK employees are commuting more this year and "40% of drivers have no alternative to the car [...] For those living in rural locations the figure increases to 70%."
Only a third said the bus was a viable option for them. Not good news for people & planet :( #commuting #carDependency

We’re replacing babies with dogs. And it could be making us happier | BBC Science Focus Magazine More people are choosing to raise puppies than babies, but will that make us happier on the whole

Thanks for highlighting this overlooked source of emissions. It makes me wonder - what behaviours could dog ownership be substituting? With the speculated link between low fertility rates and rising pet ownership, the carbon cost of a pet still seems lower than that of having a child

Bike lanes crucial to preventing cycling near misses, major new study suggests Analysis of London commuters' cycle journeys suggests majority of dangerous incidents happen during rush hour and on roads without dedicated cycling infrastructure

London-based study finds "most near misses happen on roads without cycling infrastructure - junctions are particularly hazardous"

This is why our activists tirelessly call for safe cycle infra in every London borough 👇

road.cc/content/news...

CAST Knowledge Exchange Associate Bella Zanin (pictured on the right), Jesse Wise (pictured on the left) and another individual are seated at a table at the Sport Positive Awards 2025, engaged in discussion. The table holds clear glasses, cups, and notebooks. Other participants are visible in the background.

CAST Knowledge Exchange Associate, Bella Zanin (pictured in centre), gestures while speaking at a roundtable at the Sport Positive Awards 2025. The table holds notebooks, cups, and glasses of water. Other groups are visible in the background.

It was fantastic to see CAST's Bella Zanin & Jesse Wise running some insightful roundtables at the #SportPositive25 Summit earlier this month on the topic of sustainable sports apparel, with lots of excitement about where we need to get to. 🎽👏

Photo credit: Sport Positive Summit 2025/Capturise

My pleasure and thank you for the inspiration. Likewise :)

Great to see this issue! Years ago your Yawning at the Apocalypse article by @cameronbrick.bsky.social & @profsanderlinden.bsky.social was pivotal for me in my gap year - it confirmed my suspicions that env. psych. was the right path for me. I hope this issues inspires others in a similar position

This could not be better timing for my R workshop today (incl. how good practice can contribute to FAIR principles) with @entsresearchgroup.bsky.social ! I shall share with the lab group.
⏰ 1-2pm, today
📍 Teams and UoB 10E 3.2

Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.

Reinhard, E., Carrino, L., Courtin, E., van Lenthe, F. J., & Avendano, M. (2019). Public transportation use and cognitive function in older age: a quasiexperimental evaluation of the free bus pass policy in the United Kingdom. American journal of epidemiology, 188(10), 1774-1783.
#transportPolicy

Transport policy is health policy!
"...the free bus pass is associated with improved cognitive function... among older adults... this expand[s] on earlier literature documenting the benefits of [free bus passes] for physical activity, obesity, social engagement, mental health [& quality of life]"

📣The journal @peopleandnature.bsky.social is looking for environmental psychologists to join their editorial board📣
Could this be you?

Please DM @melissamarselle.bsky.social if interested.

#EnvironmentalPsychology #envpsy #environmentalpsych

Switching 50km/h speed limits to 30km/h would protect cyclists while barely affecting commutes, research finds One expert says a cyclist hit by a car travelling 50km/h has about a one-in-ten chance of surviving, while at 30km/h it was a nine-in-ten chance

New study from Melbourne finds reducing residential speed limits from 50km/h to 30 km/h on local roads would protect cyclists from danger, make riding less stressful and get more people cycling while not causing traffic delays for cars.

Railwalks.co.uk - Walks Thousands of Rail Walks Now Available Online!

Fantastic resource. The UK is a nation of #nature lovers. We need to make sure our public transport can give good access to the countryside if #car-free living is ever to become truly popular
www.railwalks.co.uk/walks

🌈 What can children’s imagination teach us about our transport system today?

From a hand-holding transformer to a pollution-eating boat - Could their ideas reveal what really matters to us?

Read more about our project here 👉 tinyurl.com/2ewvf6xb

With the return to term-time, the common cold strikes again! I'd like to bring this one page summary on the benefits of #activeTravel from out of the archives by Prof Adrian Davis of @edinburghnapier.bsky.social University’s Transport Research Institute

tinyurl.com/3uey9ydc

Public engagement team at we the curious

Our public engagement team is at Futures Festival today talking about the future of mobility ✈️🥾🛤️ Come see us at We the Curious!

This is an absolutely brilliant paper that I can only recommend to all those interested in transport poverty/equity but also in sustainable transport/climate, and on how to reconcile the two.

I can only hope that it will have the impact it deserve
doi.org/10.1016/j.er...

Volunteer role: Appointed Member for Environmental Psychology Section: (Role ID: 214) | BPS Several roles are available on the Environmental Psychology Section committee.

Do you want to be formally involved with @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social? We are currently seeking applications for Chair and Committee Members of the Env Psy Section. Deadline 22 Sept

Appointed committee member: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte...

Chair: www.bps.org.uk/news/volunte...

Interesting-looking new article mapping the different strands of transport policy research doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Which took me down this rabbit hole...
Thanks for the cool infographics! weownit.org.uk/about-us

Also discovered this on my quest for information... (from 2021, may be out of date)

Bus patronage and car ownership in Great Britain 1950–2020.

Looking into #bus deregulation today...

Fun fact: Many of the bus companies started when WWI soldiers returned (the learnt engineering and driving). There were so many that they ate into rail profit leading to the creation of the big 4 railway companies!

Chart shows near vertical growth in average global temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution. Under current policies, a 2 degree rise is expected before 2050 and 4 degrees by 2100.

This chart from @safeclimate.bsky.social ate.bsky.social is a beautiful work of art — and a horrifying observation of our warming planet 🧪

Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

Quilcaille, Y., Gudmundsson, L., Schumacher, D., Gasser, T., Heede, R., Heri, C., ... & Seneviratne, S. (2024). Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors. Nature. www.nature.com/articles/s41...