Hugh Deeming
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I've had a few queries about people running into danger in threatening emergencies, so here is a summary of the response. More information can be found in our practitioner guide:
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November 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I've had a few queries about people running into danger in threatening emergencies, so here is a summary of the response. More information can be found in our practitioner guide:
@ukri.org funded
sussex.figshare.com/articles/rep...
@ukri.org funded
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This is from the CitizenAID pocket guide and has also been the official advice: run, hide, tell. But as we have seen in recent days, people caught up in attacks are also motivated to help others, including strangers.
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is from the CitizenAID pocket guide and has also been the official advice: run, hide, tell. But as we have seen in recent days, people caught up in attacks are also motivated to help others, including strangers.
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Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
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@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
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Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency | BPS
Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.
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November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Rising together: How collective action emerges in the face of an emergency
@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
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@drselintekin.bsky.social's event for @bpsofficial.bsky.social
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Given the events of the last few days I think it's worth the reminder that rail staff (Northern) also acted with true professionalism in response to the Manchester Arena attack too.
#Huntingdon #Shap #Cat2
#Huntingdon #Shap #Cat2
November 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Given the events of the last few days I think it's worth the reminder that rail staff (Northern) also acted with true professionalism in response to the Manchester Arena attack too.
#Huntingdon #Shap #Cat2
#Huntingdon #Shap #Cat2
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'Panic'?
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘It felt like forever’: passengers recount mass stabbing on Cambridgeshire train
Some initially assumed the commotion was a Halloween prank, but soon realised something awful was unfolding
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November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
'Panic'?
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It's important to look at what passengers actually did. Not just flight, but also information and assistance:
'Amid a group of six, they were also attempting to stem the flow of blood from the head of the older man who was said to have saved the girl.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"...if there had been warning, that huge mass of water – that catastrophe; that apocalypse – would still have come down, and all those cars would have been swept away and all those houses would have been flooded. But there wouldn’t have been as many deaths."
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‘Mud on our hands; blood on his’: fury lingers one year after Spain’s deadly floods
Survivors in Valencia call for consequences, particularly for regional president, after country’s worst natural disaster this century
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October 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"...if there had been warning, that huge mass of water – that catastrophe; that apocalypse – would still have come down, and all those cars would have been swept away and all those houses would have been flooded. But there wouldn’t have been as many deaths."
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
Welsh voters have rejected Labour and Starmerite managerialism. By offering hope and not division we showed the populist right can be beaten, says Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru
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October 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
How did we beat Nigel Farage and Reform in Caerphilly? We stood by our convictions | Rhun ap Iorwerth
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@zoeschlanger.bsky.social from the @theatlantic.com with an under appreciated dynamic in the discussions swirling around FEMA reforms - the role of private sector consultants. Read with this gift link:
Goodbye FEMA, Hello Disaster Consultants
Pushing more responsibility for disaster response onto the states will mean depending more on private contractors.
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September 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
@zoeschlanger.bsky.social from the @theatlantic.com with an under appreciated dynamic in the discussions swirling around FEMA reforms - the role of private sector consultants. Read with this gift link:
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When you see these pictures, remember that the exiting civil servant Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee said, not long back, that 2050 would be very much like today
As I said at the time, utter, irresponsible, bollox
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As I said at the time, utter, irresponsible, bollox
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Thousands evacuated in Spain amid deadly wildfires and new heatwave
Temperatures of 44C predicted as blazes rage across Europe
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August 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
When you see these pictures, remember that the exiting civil servant Chair of the UK Climate Change Committee said, not long back, that 2050 would be very much like today
As I said at the time, utter, irresponsible, bollox
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
As I said at the time, utter, irresponsible, bollox
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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😡😡
CBS Austin video of the top elected official, Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly. Covering disasters like this more than 25 years I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard this kind of justification.
July 5, 2025 at 11:23 AM
😡😡
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Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
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- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
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June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%
etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
Watching the shocking imagery of tourists running off the slopes of Etna ahead of a collapsing pyroclastic cloud is making me think of Galeras, Chouet's harmonic tremors...and most importantly, how we need to continue to develop effective warning systems to keep people safe...even adventurous ones
June 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Watching the shocking imagery of tourists running off the slopes of Etna ahead of a collapsing pyroclastic cloud is making me think of Galeras, Chouet's harmonic tremors...and most importantly, how we need to continue to develop effective warning systems to keep people safe...even adventurous ones
June 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Other work I did with @profjohndrury.bsky.social on mass emergencies also found that people co-operate with each other & the idea of selfish 'panic' is a myth. This is shown in the way that #Liverpool has come together after this terrible incident
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<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Crowd behaviour in emergencies has previously been explained in terms of either ‘mass panic’ or strength of pre-existing social bonds. The present paper reports results from a study comparing high- v...
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May 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Other work I did with @profjohndrury.bsky.social on mass emergencies also found that people co-operate with each other & the idea of selfish 'panic' is a myth. This is shown in the way that #Liverpool has come together after this terrible incident
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
All I can take from this NPSA guidance, is the immense challenge involved in countering vehicle-as-weapon threats.
Please, beware the 9 o'clock jury with 'easy' answers.
www.npsa.gov.uk/specialised-...
Please, beware the 9 o'clock jury with 'easy' answers.
www.npsa.gov.uk/specialised-...
Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) Detection Guidance
This guidance is primarily focussed on Vehicle As a Weapon (VAW) detection technology as part of NPSA’s wider Vehicle Borne Threats, HVM and MTA programmes of work
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May 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
All I can take from this NPSA guidance, is the immense challenge involved in countering vehicle-as-weapon threats.
Please, beware the 9 o'clock jury with 'easy' answers.
www.npsa.gov.uk/specialised-...
Please, beware the 9 o'clock jury with 'easy' answers.
www.npsa.gov.uk/specialised-...
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It is a book I have been waiting for and here is my review of @lucygobag.bsky.social 's latest book Come What May.
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Come What May: Book Review
When I first read Professor Lucy Easthope’s first book When the Dust Settles we hadn’t met, and yet I suddenly felt like I knew her so well. She wrote candidly and honestly about her life in disast…
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May 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It is a book I have been waiting for and here is my review of @lucygobag.bsky.social 's latest book Come What May.
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When it rains, it now rains more
May 13, 2025 at 9:03 AM
When it rains, it now rains more
So, I've just read the new HMG 'Amber Book', and have to admit I'm impressed. It is comprehensive and IMO provides a more encompassing - 'Whole of Society' cognizant - structure than the old CONOPS.
I find it reassuring that Cabinet Office 'get's it'.
Also, only 3 typos
I find it reassuring that Cabinet Office 'get's it'.
Also, only 3 typos
May 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So, I've just read the new HMG 'Amber Book', and have to admit I'm impressed. It is comprehensive and IMO provides a more encompassing - 'Whole of Society' cognizant - structure than the old CONOPS.
I find it reassuring that Cabinet Office 'get's it'.
Also, only 3 typos
I find it reassuring that Cabinet Office 'get's it'.
Also, only 3 typos
News of the #IceStorm in #Ontario, got me reaching for Murphy's ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️forensic analysis of leadership following their 1998 disaster.
One of the themes he discusses will be familiar to people here, but it also made me think about direct parallels with the Valcencia floods.
One of the themes he discusses will be familiar to people here, but it also made me think about direct parallels with the Valcencia floods.
March 31, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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UK: recommended from @hasisd.bsky.social. Linking the EU Preparedness Union strategy back into a UK framing, but also highlighting complementarities across approaches. The operationalisation of WoS is not just LGD-led, but from within sector & then cross-lifeline. Key point on #militarymobility...
Following the publication of the EU Joint Communication on Preparedness, I've written a piece on how strengthening highway sector preparedness could increase national resilience...
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Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing… | Hugh Deeming
Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing highway-sector preparedness for emergencies
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March 29, 2025 at 7:33 AM
UK: recommended from @hasisd.bsky.social. Linking the EU Preparedness Union strategy back into a UK framing, but also highlighting complementarities across approaches. The operationalisation of WoS is not just LGD-led, but from within sector & then cross-lifeline. Key point on #militarymobility...
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Find out more about our ESRC-funded project ‘Perceived threats and “stampedes”: a relational model of
collective fear responses’ in our accessible report:
Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers
doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
collective fear responses’ in our accessible report:
Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers
doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
March 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Find out more about our ESRC-funded project ‘Perceived threats and “stampedes”: a relational model of
collective fear responses’ in our accessible report:
Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers
doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
collective fear responses’ in our accessible report:
Public behaviour in response to perceived hostile threats: An evidence base and guide for practitioners and policymakers
doi.org/10.20919/VJV...
Following the publication of the EU Joint Communication on Preparedness, I've written a piece on how strengthening highway sector preparedness could increase national resilience...
www.linkedin.com/posts/hugh-d...
www.linkedin.com/posts/hugh-d...
Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing… | Hugh Deeming
Some thoughts on strengthening national resilience, by increasing highway-sector preparedness for emergencies
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March 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Following the publication of the EU Joint Communication on Preparedness, I've written a piece on how strengthening highway sector preparedness could increase national resilience...
www.linkedin.com/posts/hugh-d...
www.linkedin.com/posts/hugh-d...