🧵 4/4
To avoid falling support for climate policies, and a shift to parties who won't support them - we unquestionably need to rebuild trust and build climate policies *with* the public 🙌
30.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🧵 3/4
The review even shows that when governments support workers, involve communities, and communicate clearly, the backlash fades and support grows.
30.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🧵 2/4
When people feel targeted by or left out of policies, they are more likely to back these politicians - who promise to roll them back.
What’s driving this isn’t climate denial, but *distrust* of the government to do what's best for people.
30.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Climate policies are essential. But what if their design is alienating people? 👽
A Nature review shows that climate policies seen as unfair are pushing voters toward right-wing populist parties - who frame climate action as elite, costly, and out of touch 🌍
🧵 1/4
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
30.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Huge thanks to my co-authors - Ryan Hughes, Kaloyan Mitev, @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, @christinademski.bsky.social, Nick Nash, Tris Papakonstantinou, & Mark Wilson — a dream team of qual, quant, & ML expertise.
Thanks also to AAPS CDT- without whom Ryan and I would never have begun this project! 🚀
08.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Even as a preprint, DECOTA drew significant interest from policymakers for its potential to:
• Provide rapid insights in time-sensitive situations
• Scale analysis to huge datasets that could not be analysed manually
• Support more interpretative qual work 💭
08.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We tested DECOTA on 4 human-coded datasets. It identified:
• 92% of all human-coded sub-themes
• 90% of main themes
…in just 10 minutes and $0.82 per dataset 🚀
08.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
DECOTA uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyse open-ended text data - with no human input needed.
It’s a transparent 6 step process, that outputs:
- Themes & sub-themes in the data
- Their prevalence
- How they vary by demographic group
- Example quotes
08.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
DECOTA is here! 🎉
Our automated free-text analysis tool is now published in Psychological Methods!
DECOTA automatically analyses free-text data quickly, affordably, and with human-like accuracy.
Paper: doi.org/10.1037/met0...
Press story: www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
08.04.2025 09:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I’m officially Dr Player! 🥹
It was an honour to defend my PhD last week with world-leading experts, Geertje Schuitema & Nathalia Gjersoe.
Big thanks to my wonderful supervisors, @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social & @christinademski.bsky.social, AAPS CDT, & countless loved ones for their unwavering support ✨
10.03.2025 12:41 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Building a Net Zero future: CAST’s response to the CCC’s Seventh Carbon Budget Report - cast.ac.uk
CAST responds to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) latest advice on how to achieve Net Zero in its Seventh Carbon Budget report.
Can we build the #NetZero future the Climate Change Committee says is possible? 🌍
Today @thecccuk.bsky.social published its latest advice to the Government in its #SeventhCarbonBudget report.
Read our CAST response: cast.ac.uk/building-a-n...
Key messages thread 🧵
26.02.2025 12:40 — 👍 18 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
So great to see the CCC’s 7th Carbon Budget published today.
It was a pleasure to contribute to this during my time in the wonderful People & Business team, & to see our @cast-centre.bsky.social work referenced 🌟
Importantly: 1/3 of emissions reductions will come from household behaviour change 🤯
26.02.2025 15:31 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The mad stampeed when they announce the platform 😂
20.02.2025 22:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Thanks Jake! Great to see these trends coming to the fore 👑
18.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Very excited to have joined the European Climate Foundation as a Research Consultant! 🌍
ECF is an NGO working across Europe to foster #ClimateAction, & I’m looking forward to helping make sense of their public opinion data 📊
An exciting year ahead w/ this role - and lots of big travel plans! ✨
06.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much @masharemskar.bsky.social 🥹 what a journey it was 🤍
23.01.2025 20:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks so much Jake! ☺️
23.01.2025 20:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you so much Emma!
23.01.2025 11:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A huge thank you to my amazing supervisory team
@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social & @christinademski.bsky.social for your unfaltering support always - and many other incredible people along the way 🌟
23.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PhD thesis submitted! 🥹
3 incredible years – 2 secondments, 3 publications, 3 consultancy projects, 1 book chapter, and even the honour of advising governmental departments – all crystallised into 80,000 words.
From undergrad to PhD, I'm so grateful for 8 beautiful years @uniofbath.bsky.social ✨
23.01.2025 11:29 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 6 📌 0
Excited about the UK Govt's #AI Opportunities plan - a big step to drive positive, safe change w/ AI 🚀
1. Fast-track data centre expansion
2. Unlock datasets to fuel research
3. Train 10,000s in AI by 2030
Fab to see Matt Clifford - who I was lucky to work w/ at Entrepreneur First - leading this!
13.01.2025 12:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s getting windier, wetter, wilder, hotter, harsher, drier, and less predictable out there
And more expensive
Globally, climate damage to infrastructure, agriculture, health and economic productivity is set to cost $3.1 trillion/year by 2050
With a cascade of bad outcomes⬇️
🔗 shorturl.at/rxFdX
09.01.2025 09:39 — 👍 61 🔁 34 💬 16 📌 5
My lovely colleagues at CAST are advertising 5 PhD funded places!
Couldn't think of a more wonderful team to do your PhD with ✨ 🌎
08.01.2025 14:20 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Congrats to you both Emma! ☺️
06.01.2025 16:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Huge huge achievement & end of an incredible era 🥹👏✨️
20.12.2024 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hey Yara! These are really cool findings & love the look of your work. I'm at Bath Uni just finishing my PhD & have used LLMs in context of understanding climate policy support. Your application looks v interesting & would love to chat sometime!
12.12.2024 14:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very cool new #LLM study in @natureportfolio.bsky.social 📢
LLMs, like humans, exhibit in-group favouritism & out-group degradation.
Both in the lab and in real human-LLM chats.
We *must* carefully curate training data to mitigate this bias 👩💻
www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00741-1
12.12.2024 14:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Science, Innovation and Technology | Fellow @ Centre for British Progress | Exec @ Scientists for Labour
Prev: Science Policy Advisor to Labour, Science Policy Lead at UK Day One, MRes in Medicine
Manchester / Leeds
Public health and health policy. Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath.
Wellcome Trust Funded Senior Research Associate @LancasterUni. Research Culture, Personal & Collective Identity, Moral Values, Prosocial Action, Climate Activism https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/psychology/about-us/people/samuel-finnerty#publications
Cross-disciplinary social & behavioral science research & fellowship in service of generating knowledge, illuminating understandings, building fields, informing policy discourse, & creating an enduring scholarly community like no other | casbs.stanford.edu
Professor at University of Cape Town researching climate change, mitigation, poverty, just transitions, inequality, global stocktake. Views are mine. Repost ≠ endorsement
Environmental Social Psychologist | Business Psychologist | MCIPD | GHRM | SF Therapist | Workplace Mediator | Qualified Teacher and Lecturer | Psychometric Assessor. 20years+ organisational experience. BSU Teaching Fellow. PhD candidate Exeter University
Assistant Professor at Aarhus University | investigating how scarcity and economic inequality influences financial and moral judgment & decision-making
Website: https://www.au.dk/en/chel@mgmt.au.dk
Every year we work with hundreds of partners - from charities to governments to business - to help them navigate difficult climate communications and unlock more ambitious climate action.
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PhD candidate @Cambridge @TheAlanTuringInstitute | Hope to make human-technology interactions more constructive | intergroup conflict, AI & LLMs, misinfo, social media | yarakyrychenko.github.io
Possible is a climate charity focused on positive climate action.
Our vision: A zero carbon society, built by and for the people of the UK.
Our mission: inspiring people in the UK to take the action the climate crisis demands.
Health Psychologist @eprg-surrey.bsky.social @accessnetwork.bsky.social
#OneHealth #AMR #Nature #Biodiversity #BehaviouralScience #SocialScience
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Research Fellow in Centre for Climate Communication and Data Science
📍University of Exeter
🔎Climate communication, visual imagery, media
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Research Engineer at Google DeepMind; Building AI for climate change mitigation & adaptation; he/him
Technology innovator for online #behavioral #experiments, getting psychological science out of the lab to have more impact | CEO @gorillapsych.bsky.social | #WomenInTech
A community of researchers delivering world-class #research in Sustainable Chemical Technologies, Sustainable Systems, and Social Transformations at the University of Bath: http://bath.ac.uk/iscc
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Middle-aged, perimenopausal PhD researcher in healthy ageing diets at Queen’s University Belfast. Charity trustee and 2017 Nuffield Farming Scholar.
Research Associate working on social identities in the energy transition at the intersection of psychology and transition studies. // M.Sc. Environmental Psychology
Executive Dean @NTUSocSciences; Professor. #ProudtoBeNTU. Former co-Editor @Psych & Sex. Social, Sexuality, Gender Researcher. Cis, He, Him. African-reared 🇱🇸🇿🇦🇺🇬, European 🇮🇪🇪🇺in 🇬🇧. All views my own.
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Prof of climate adaptation. Uni of Southampton. Options to reduce damaging weather and climate impacts. Side interest in holopelagic sargassum, nuisance seaweeds, space and cats. Mother of twins. New electric car owner. Swimmer.
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