Lisa Warner

Emission values from: www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.a...

I used the 10 hours, e.g., to work on the slides for our roundtable tomorrow together with ‪@ajamesgreen.bsky.social‬: "Scientists’ hypermobility and resource use: How can we get from bad conscience to greener choices in academia?" Looking forward to continuing conversations at SIPS!

My #FlightFree journey across Europe was a genuinely pleasant experience - with just one change in Vienna and incredibly stimulating conversations on public health, trust in science, climate change, and even the meaning of life with fellow passengers. 💬

Sign at station for train to Budapest

Opening ceremony of SIPS

Roundtable Starting Slide

This week I travelled from Berlin to Budapest by train to attend the #SIPS2025🚆 Instead of flying, I chose a low-emission alternative - the whole trip by train caused only about 10 kilograms of CO₂, compared to approx. 190 kilograms by plane. That’s just 5% of the emissions! 🌍

Emission values from: lnkd.in/eyVpPCBt

I used the 10 hours, e.g., to work on the slides for our roundtable tomorrow together with
‪@ajamesgreen.bsky.social‬: "Scientists’ hypermobility and resource use: How can we get from bad conscience to greener choices in academia?"
Looking forward to continuing conversations at SIPS!

My #FlightFree journey across Europe was a genuinely pleasant experience - with just one change in Vienna and incredibly stimulating conversations on public health, trust in science, climate change, and even the meaning of life with fellow passengers. 💬

1/ 🚨 New preprint alert!

We (@lisawarner.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social and myself) estimated the carbon footprint of air travel associated with >20 international conferences (2023–2025) in psychology & behavioral medicine.

Spoiler: it’s a lot. 🛫🌍🧠

Preprint 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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#ShowYourStripes

To compare global warming with that in Germany, I first shrank the global stripes in the y-axis and then placed the data from Germany behind them.
The result: warming is happening twice as fast in Germany.

...and it's even 1.9 degrees I found out later 🤒

Data by Deutscher Wetterdienst & Umweltbundesamt - German Environment Agency, climate stripes by Ed Hawkins 👏

Climate warming stripes for Berlin 1850-2024

Germany has warmed by about 1.7 degrees Celsius since official meteorological measurements began in 1881. In Berlin, we can see and feel the effects: less snow, and longer, hotter, and drier summers 🌡️
Today 21st June is #ShowYourStripes day - how does climate change look in your area?

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Still, I would argue for a sensible use of AI and not for playing around with it for hours (eg, fabricating pics of little plastic figures of oneself as it seems to be trendy right now 😅)

If numbers are compared, it's well below 5% emissions for an online conference attendance as compared to flying anywhere...

Faced similar rumours when I found out how large the carbon footprint of flying to conferences is, here I often heard the counter argument "but virtual meetings emit a lot as well".

Yes, definitely a lot of rumours going around on AI energy use, so I actually craved an article with estimates and comparisons!

Super interesting read, thanks Julia for posting it!

📸 Wrapped up an amazing EHPS Synergy Winter School in Berlin! 🎉 Two days of hands-on learning in mixed & multi-level modeling with an incredible group of researchers. Huge thanks to our facilitators & participants! 🚀 #EHPSWinterSchool #HealthPsychology #RStats #MultilevelModeling

#SheFigures #womeninscience #gendergap #genderequality

She figures 2024 - Publications Office of the EU Equality in research and innovation (R&I) is a core value of the European Union, essential for fostering excellence, diversity, and inclusiveness. The She Figures publication is the European C...

🙆‍♀️ Wow, recent data on academic gender gaps in EU's report:
- although women obtain more bachelor's degrees
- fewer women obtain a doctorate
- 1/3 of EU researchers are women
- 16% of authorship teams are gender balanced
- lower overall funding success for women
Way to go!

... and this dual RCT shows that the recipients of the calls made by the volunteers profirted in terms of reduced loneliness, too: doi.org/10.1001/jama...
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But volunteers who continued to volunteer for more than 2 hours per week at the 12-month follow-up reported lower levels of loneliness than those who did not continue to volunteer. 4/5

There was a significant decrease in both loneliness scales in the volunteer group at T2, but not in the control group. Most of the positive effects of volunteering were not sustained after the 6-month volunteering period of the study. 3/5

We aimed to investigate effects of phone-delivered loneliness interventions by older volunteers screened as lonely, for older adult recipients with low income, lived alone, felt lonely, were digitally excluded. Allocation at random into volunteering or control group (psychoeducation). 2/5

🧓 📞 🧓 Our dual-RCT demonstrates beneficial effect of volunteering on reducing loneliness in older adults who feel lonely - even if delivered over the phone! This benefit could be maintained through continued participation in volunteering.
The Lancet Healthy Longevity:
doi.org/10.1016/j.la...
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🧾 We seek publications on the links between individual health, well-being and the physical environment, and how these areas intersect to promote both personal and environmental health.

We look forward to receiving your manuscripts,

Sonia Lippke & Lisa Warner
drive.google.com/file/d/134HX...

🔥 2024 has been the hottest year on record, exceeding global average of 1.5°C. This special issue, calls for collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches that focus on advancing two key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
- SDG 3: Health and well-being
- SDG 13: Climate Action

Call for papers for our Special Issue
🌱 “Good Health and Wellbeing: Integrative Approaches to Sustainability and the SDGs”
🔜 Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being
📅 Deadline for manuscript submission: 30 May 2025

For details see: iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Just under three weeks left to apply for the EHPS Synergy Winter School 2025! forms.gle/ihR8NtxJNSoT...