Jesse Wise

🌍 81% of UK football fans care about climate
🗣️ But rarely talk about it
🔇Leading to misperceptions & social stigma
⚽ @pledgeball.bsky.social could change that

New CAST Briefing out now, based on my impact assessment with Pledgeball - a grassroots org using football to break the climate silence.

A timely study shows how bus service reductions harm seniors:

"People could not reach their usual range of destinations, travelled less often, and felt a sense of entrapment in their homes...People experienced a loss of freedom, independence, and control over their lives."

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It's so lovely to see how the users of my local library of things has grown over the years. A fantastic resource and place of community. A reason to be optimistic this morning :) Thanks Share Bristol

#CircularEconomy #LibraryOfThings

Whoops, I forgot to credit @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social Thanks for your hard work :)

🔗Links
Donate -> tinyurl.com/mkrwvzsc
2025 scorecards out now! -> councilclimatescorecards.uk
Source -> tinyurl.com/ya8stdab

The Council Climate Action Scorecards are a great (FREE) resource! Unfortunately still just funded by grants. Please consider supporting them while donations are being *match funded* – particularly at a time when Reform-run councils are considering reversing climate emergency declarations. Thanks :)

@petedyson.bsky.social Thanks for introducing the concept to @entsresearchgroup.bsky.social!

Small employers’ attitudes towards staff travel Small employers’ attitudes towards staff travel

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Stop visualizing heatwaves with sunbathers and beachgoers! On the dangers of media portraying heatwaves as fun days in the sun.

Thanks Climate Psyched for a great blog!

"In a content analysis of media images from the 2021 Heat Dome in Canada, a research group found that out of 845 analyzed images, only 16% implied that #heat, in fact, is something dangerous."

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A graphic titled "10 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals: How to portray extreme heat as a serious threat." The image includes a list of 10 numbered guidelines in alternating yellow and red boxes, alongside a greyscale photo of a person pouring water over their head to cool off. The 10 guidelines are: Avoid visuals that downplay the danger. (Extreme heat is the deadliest climate event.) Beyond a weather story. (Show how heat impacts health, transportation, and work.) Creating heat visuals is challenging. (Focus on those most affected, such as female outdoor workers.) Portray impacts for average people. (Capture everyday impacts of extreme heat.) Show both the impacts and solutions. (Combine images of heat with visuals of cooling solutions.) Tailor heat visuals to your audience. (By highlighting their specific challenges and potential solutions.) Rethink when to shoot. (Heat is a 24-hour story.) Build sources and plan ahead. (To secure access to key information when a heatwave hits.) Stay safe while working in extreme heat. (Take breaks, hydrate, wear cool clothing, and monitor your well-being.) Think about your equipment. (Protect your equipment from the blazing sun.) The visual uses warm colours to reflect the theme and emphasise urgency.

A graphic titled “7 core principles for climate change communication” from Climate Visuals. The layout features seven principles accompanied by simple turquoise line icons. The principles are: Show real people (icon of a person outline). Tell new stories (icon of an open book). Show climate change causes at scale (icon of factories and trees). Show emotionally powerful impacts (icon of two people comforting each other). Understand your audience (icon of a group of people). Show local (but serious) impacts (icon of a map with a location pin). Be careful with protest imagery (icon of a person pointing at a chart). The graphic is clean and minimalist, using soft tones and icons to visually reinforce each principle.

It's rather hot in Europe 🥵 atm! #Climate communicators should keep in mind these 10 guidelines (from Climate Ressillience for All) & 7 core principles (from @climatevisuals.bsky.social )to communicate these #heatwaves with the severity they deserve.

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👋 Are you a small or medium-sized business in the UK?
We're running a short @uniofbath.bsky.social survey on #SMEs attitudes towards staff travel
🕐 ~10 mins
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🔒 Anonymous & secure
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#SmallBusiness #Travel #SME

🚨 Another open postdoc position "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana in Lüneburg 🚨
✏️ Apply here: s.academiccloud.de/Thqqfi (5 years, 100%)
🔗 The position is related to this PhD position: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

🧠 More information on the postdoc position:

Jesse standing next to her poster at ICEP2026

Join me at poster #72 today at #ICEP2025 ! I'll be presenting results from my first study exploring the role of employers and local authorities in #TDM . Good news - employees largely prefer more effective behaviour change interventions!

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

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"Cars make us lonely."
—Donald Appleyard, Livable Streets, 1981.

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Burning Questions: A Collection of Perspectives on Climate Action - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist The barriers to solving climate change seem to be getting higher, and the need for breakthroughs feels more urgent than ever. What are the most pressing ideas on the minds of social and behavioral sci...

It's #WorldEnvironmentDay so I'm sharing some food for thought from the Behavioural Scientist:
🚫 Mobilisation bias: small groups act collectively more effectively; large groups face coordination challenges
⚖️ The @sabincenter.bsky.social is developing legal techniques to combat the climate crisis 😍

Trade unionists calling for action on climate and nature.
Don’t believe those who say we have to choose between protecting jobs and protecting our planet.

How are direct impacts judged? I'm surprised transport is not seen as a direct impact considering air pollution, well being, safety, and activity levels?

Welcome news! It continues the post-2015 trend of correcting chronic under investment.
"In the survey asking users about infrastructure quality, the UK ranked 27th in terms of overall perceived infrastructure quality, in the middle of OECD countries" (Zhang & Cheng, 2023). Maybe we can catch up?

Diagram describing the mobility, health and environmental benefits of walking and cycling.

One of my all time favourite reports includes this attempt at summarising the benefits from investment in active travel.

It’s one of the best investments a government can make - something acknowledged within many of DfTs own reports.

Link: www.who.int/europe/publi...

Once again I find myself promising to look into Bayesian statistics...

👇New Nature Cities (@nature.com) paper on the impact of protected bike lanes in getting more people cycling.

Comparing 28 US cities over 6 years, it found areas that installed protected lanes saw 𝟭.𝟴𝘅 growth in cycling vs painted lanes alone.

And 𝟰.𝟴𝘅 the growth of areas with no bike lanes at all.

An infographic depicting the various ways people relate to and value nature, including living from nature, living in nature, living with nature and living as nature.

Different worldviews and knowledge systems
influence the ways people interact with and value nature. 🌿- IPBES #ValuesAssessment

All these values must be considered to effectively address the #biodiversity crisis. 🌍🧪

Read the Values Assessment Report: www.ipbes.net/the-values-a...

Infographic titled “Judges reject Trump at an accelerating pace” with subtitle “Federal district court rulings against the administration.” The first bar chart, labeled “By month, %”, shows the percentage of federal district court rulings against the Trump administration: • February: 53.8% (7 out of 13) • March: 74.3% (26 out of 35) • April: 76.1% (51 out of 67) • May: 96.3% (26 out of 27) The second bar chart, labeled “By appointing party, %”, shows rulings against the Trump administration by the party of the judge’s appointing president: • Republican-appointed judges: 72.2% (26 out of 36) • Democratic-appointed judges: 80.4% (74 out of 92) Source: Bonica, Adam; Sen, Maya, 2025, “Common-space Measures of Judicial Ideology for Federal Judges (2024 update),” https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CK3EEL Note: Coding scheme details available at data4democracy.substack.com/p/when-judges-become-targets-judicial

Stunning. May was brutal for Trump in federal court: 96% loss rate ⚖️. Even GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the admin 72% of the time. District courts are doing their job defending the Constitution. Soon the Supreme Court may be the only court unwilling to defend the rule of law.

Bar chart showing: Children have less freedom than their parents and grandparents % who agreed that as a child they... Played on the street Were free to explore

Visualisation showing: Today's schoolchildren have less playtime than previous generations Average break time per day in English schools has dropped from 1995 to 2021

Sad graphs on the squeezing of outdoor play and school playtimes in England. Maybe rather than showing Adolescence in schools we could improve play facilities for young people?
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If you believe parts of the media electric vehicle sales stalled.

The data tells a very different story: Global electric car sales are accelerating at an unprecedented pace. Over past 3 years sales nearly tripled—reaching 17.3 million new registrations in 2024, up from just 6.5 million in 2021.

Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools

More of this please.

Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”

Important stuff from @katjadiehl.bsky.social, linking children’s exclusion from their streets to both car-centrism and adultism (which are of course connected):

“how deeply adultism is ingrained in our cities — and how it robs children of what they need most: freedom, movement and self-efficacy”

Brilliant, thanks very much :) I might also investigate NaPTAN www.data.gov.uk/dataset/ff93...

Does anyone know of an equivalent to the 'public transport accessibility level (PTAL)'? I need an index used across the UK which measures the accessibility of public transport in each postcode
#PTAL #ActiveTravel