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Jarren Nylund
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🎓 PhD Candidate (Social/Environmental Psychology)
🌱 Member of @GreenpeaceAP.bsky.social’s General Assembly
🌏 @ClimateRealityProject.org Leader
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Jarren Nylund @jarrennylund.bsky.social · May 11
Why do people fight for or against climate action?

Led by Prof. Matthew J. Hornsey, our new review article published in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences delves into the moral arguments of collective climate action—on both sides of the debate: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Moral cases for collective action supporting and opposing mitigation efforts
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psychresist.bsky.social
Happening next Monday!
Remember to register to go beyond the conceptual binaries of protests as normative vs non-normative, conventional vs radical and to dig in why and how individuals shift protest tactics with Mete Sefa presenting, Yasemin & Carmen acting as reviewers.
tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
psychresist.bsky.social Resistance Psychology Network @psychresist.bsky.social · 8d
The next session of Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, November 10:

We do a peer review as conversation with @metesefauysal.bsky.social on confrontational-disruptive protests,
@yasemingacar.bsky.social and Carmen Marazzi as discusants

To register: tinyurl.com/disruptive-p...
Beyond Dichotomies: Rethinking Protest Tactics and How They Shape Allyship by Mete Sefa Uysal (university of Exeter) Peer Review as Conversation (90 Minutes) Reviewers: Yasemin Gülsüm Acar (St Andrews University) and Carmen Marazzi (Clark University) Abstract: Allyship in social movements does not emerge in a vacuum. It unfolds in contested political and moral contexts where the tactics used by marginalised groups play a critical role in shaping support from the general public. Yet, existing scholarship often collapses diverse protest forms into binary categories like normative vs. nonnormative or conventional vs. radical. Recent studies on confrontational collective action (Uysal et al., 2024,2025) challenge existing categorisations that treat protest tactics as fixed and morally preferable over one another. It sees protest tactics as a continuum in which they coexist within activists’ repertoires of resistance and shifts the focus to the conditions under which individuals transition between tactics against repression. Following this critique, I aim to discuss when confrontational and disruptive actions hinder and catalyse solidarity and allyship, rather than treating them as inherently alienating. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/disruptive-protest Monday, November 10, 2025 Vancouver, Canada: 9:00; New York, United States: 12:00; London, United Kingdom: 17:00; Ramallah, Palestine: 19:00 The picture includes a headshot of Mete Sefa Uysal wearing glasses and a vertically striped shirt in a green leafy background. The picture also includes a QR code for the registration link also added to the original post.
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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socialchangelab.bsky.social
Our new book [Psych of System Change & Resistance to Change] is out! Woot! @winnifredlouis.bsky.social @susilowibisono.bsky.social Kiara Minto & Gi Chonu doi.org/10.1017/9781...
October 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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tijana-et-al.bsky.social
Save the date! Next September we work on integrating social psychology and prefigurative politics, in a beautiful location :)

@fmsmallfield.bsky.social @metesefauysal.bsky.social @daclarkecruz.bsky.social @eddieclarke.bsky.social @helenlandmann.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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psychresist.bsky.social
CfP for the workshop ""From Harm to Hope: Slow Violence, Collective Memory and Everyday Resistance" (submission deadline: 5 November)

The workshop will take place on March 25–26, 2026 at the Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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psychresist.bsky.social
The 1st session of this year's Psychology of Resistance Virtual Meetings is next Monday, October 13:
We start with an interactive workshop to diversify our methodological toolbox to better investigate forms of resistance and repression in different contexts.
To register: tinyurl.com/resistancere...
Psychological Research on Resistance and Repression: A Research Method Bazaar Interactive Workshop (90 mins) Led by Aya Adra, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, canan coşkan, Ali Teymoori, and Johanna Ray Vollhardt) Monday, Oct 13, 2025 Many questions in social psychological research on resistance and repression have not been systematically addressed– in part because of the methodological limitations and rigidities in the field, in addition to practical and ethical considerations. For example, how does one examine covert resistance under conditions of surveillance and risk, how does one access forms of everyday resistance that may not be articulated as such, how does one conduct research on resistance that is under repression without creating further risk or harm to the participant and/or to the research team, how does one access information about resistance under extremely violent and most repressive conditions, such as genocide? This session is an interactive methods workshop, a bazaar of ideas and research experience, where participants will share and swap knowledge about underutilized methods that have been or could be used to examine different forms of resistance (above all those forms of resistance that are understudied) in various contexts of violence and repression. The organizers will bring examples of a relevant, underutilized research method and share it with participants in a brief (5 min) blitz presentation. We also invite participants (optional, not required for participation) to bring along their methods, ideas, suggestions, questions and dilemmas, and experiences to share (5 mins max), with or without a slide or two. We will also discuss more general, overarching questions related to methodological limitations in research on resistance and repression and ways to address these. 7.00 am NYC, 8.00 Santiago (Chile), 12 (noon) London, 13.00 Barcelona, 14.00 Ramallah & Istanbul, 16.30 New Delhi, 19.00 Manila, 21.00 Brisbane. Registration link in the original post.
October 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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drfbzen.bsky.social
Join the Methods in Social Change and Inertia series on Oct 20 at 2pm UK time for a workshop on the Social Change Algorithm by Roxane de la Sablonniere, Diana Cardenas, and Jean-Marc Lina! Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/25bb20...

#psychology #socialsciences #socialpsych #socialchange
October 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting at the 2025 Collective Action Network (CAN) Meeting on my recent research into the climate activist’s dilemma.
The climate activist's dilemma: Extreme climate protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions. Jarren L. Nylund, Michael Thai, Matthew J. Hornsey. Net Zero Observatory, Business School, The University of Queensland. School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.
September 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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todorova.bsky.social
🧠🌍 Join me next week for the Planetary Health Alliance – Next Gen Speaker Series to learn why climate action is brain health action!

When? 24th of September, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Where? Online - register here: planetaryhealthalliance.org/events/next-...
Next Gen Speaker Series - Boryana Todorova - Planetary Health Alliance
Boryana Todorova is a Visiting Researcher at the Net Zero Observatory, University of Queensland, and a member of the Neuro Climate Working Group. Her research examines the two-way relationship between...
planetaryhealthalliance.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
Thrilled to share my first publication in a Nature journal!

Our new article in Nature Climate Change (@natclimate.nature.com) explores whether conversations with generative AI tools like ChatGPT may help shift climate scepticism.
A mock-up of what the first page of “The promise and limitations of using GenAI to reduce climate scepticism” (Hornsey et al., 2025) article would look like printed.
September 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
Pleased to announce that I successfully passed my PhD confirmation milestone at The University of Queensland (UQ) last week.

Excited to be continuing my research into factors that influence public perceptions of climate protests.
A photo of a UQ meeting room with a television mounted on the wall. The screen displays the title slide of Jarren Nylund’s PhD confirmation presentation: “Factors That Influence Public Perceptions of Climate Change Protests”
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 AM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
A thoughtful piece by Sarah DeWeerdt in Anthropocene Magazine about my recently published research on the “climate activist’s dilemma.”

www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2025/08/the-...
The backlash paradox of radical climate protests
Extreme actions turn people off the activists behind them—but may leave the broader climate movement stronger than before.
www.anthropocenemagazine.org
August 27, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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todorova.bsky.social
📢 🥳 New paper alert!

We developed a new task (RateME) for studying the effects of personal and group rejection and showed that both types of rejection can be linked to radicalization via increased hostility.

🔗 Link to the paper: shorturl.at/uJiDa
Group and personal rejection are similarly linked to extreme intergroup attitudes
Perceived marginalization of social groups has been identified as one of the main drivers of violent extremism across countries. However, most psychol…
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July 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
Inside Climate News just published a powerful piece on the recent direct actions against Wells Fargo, and how recent research helps unpack public reactions to those kinds of protests.
Activists Target Wells Fargo for Dropping its Climate Commitments - Inside Climate News
Seven protesters were arrested after coordinated actions in New York and San Francisco, as climate organizers escalate tactics against the bank. The campaign echoes findings from new research on publi...
insideclimatenews.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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milokei.bsky.social
Fascinating new empirical study about the efficacy of 'extreme' climate protest. Give it a read! The trade-off btw public disgust and public action

Have you summarised this as 'damned if you do, damned if you don't'@owasow.bsky.social?

#Sociology #AcademicSky #SocialMovements #ProtectProtest
owasow.bsky.social Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jul 14
New paper finds a ‘climate activist’s dilemma’: “study participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme protests to be more immoral and supported movement less. However, extreme protests also heightened climate concern and intention to take action.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Journal of Environmental Psychology The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions Jarren L. Nylund, Michael Thai, Matthew J. Hornsey Highlights • Extreme (vs. moderate) climate protests reduce support for the activist group. • Support was reduced via immorality, low emotional connection, and identification. • Extreme (vs. moderate) climate protests increase climate concern and intentions. • Extreme tactics may boost concern but harm activist group support. • No loss of support for the broader climate movement or cause was observed. Abstract Some members of the climate movement advocate for disruptive tactics, including mass civil disobedience, in the effort to pressure governments to address anthropogenic climate change. However, prior research on the “activist's dilemma” suggests that extreme protest actions may reduce public support for a movement. The present research aimed to discover if these findings would replicate within the highly moralised context of climate change, and explore target deservingness as a potential moderator. Across two studies, with Australian psychology students (Study 1; N=178) and a politically representative sample from the United Kingdom (Study 2; N=511), participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme (vs. moderate) protests to be more immoral, felt less emotional connection and identification with them, and supported the movement less. However, Study 2 found that extreme (vs. moderate) protests also heightened climate concern and intentions to take climate-related actions. These findings highlight a “climate activist’s dilemma”: while extreme tactics may reduce support for the activist groups who engage in such tactics, they may simultaneously raise climate concern and personal intentions to act.
July 15, 2025 at 3:40 AM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
Proud to share my first lead-author publication, now out in the Journal of Environmental Psychology!

We found that extreme climate protests (like blockades and defacing property with paint) can backfire by reducing support for the climate movement.
Photo of the article titled “The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions”. It is authored by Jarren L. Nylund, Michael Thai, and Matthew J. Hornsey, and published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology. Abstract: Some members of the climate movement advocate for disruptive tactics, including mass civil disobedience, in the effort to pressure governments to address anthropogenic climate change. However, prior research on the “activist's dilemma” suggests that extreme protest actions may reduce public support for a movement. The present research aimed to discover if these findings would replicate within the highly moralised context of climate change, and explore target deservingness as a potential moderator. Across two studies, with Australian psychology students (Study 1; N = 178) and a politically representative sample from the United Kingdom (Study 2; N = 511), participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme (vs. moderate) protests to be more immoral, felt less emotional connection and identification with them, and supported the movement less. However, Study 2 found that extreme (vs. moderate) protests also heightened climate concern and intentions to take climate-related actions. These findings highlight a “climate activist's dilemma”: while extreme tactics may reduce support for the activist groups who engage in such tactics, they may simultaneously raise climate concern and personal intentions to act.
July 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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greenpeaceap.bsky.social
BREAKING (GOOD) NEWS: The historic Pacific-led campaign to hold countries accountable for the climate damage they have caused has been backed by the world’s highest court overnight. Read more 👇

www.greenpeace.org.au/news/worlds-...
World’s highest court delivers historic protections for climate-impacted communities - Greenpeace Australia Pacific
SYDNEY, Thursday, 24 July 2025 – The historic Pacific-led campaign to hold countries accountable for the climate damage they have caused  has been backed by the world’s highest court overnight,&h...
www.greenpeace.org.au
July 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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rgzepeda.bsky.social
The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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owasow.bsky.social
New paper finds a ‘climate activist’s dilemma’: “study participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme protests to be more immoral and supported movement less. However, extreme protests also heightened climate concern and intention to take action.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Journal of Environmental Psychology The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions Jarren L. Nylund, Michael Thai, Matthew J. Hornsey Highlights • Extreme (vs. moderate) climate protests reduce support for the activist group. • Support was reduced via immorality, low emotional connection, and identification. • Extreme (vs. moderate) climate protests increase climate concern and intentions. • Extreme tactics may boost concern but harm activist group support. • No loss of support for the broader climate movement or cause was observed. Abstract Some members of the climate movement advocate for disruptive tactics, including mass civil disobedience, in the effort to pressure governments to address anthropogenic climate change. However, prior research on the “activist's dilemma” suggests that extreme protest actions may reduce public support for a movement. The present research aimed to discover if these findings would replicate within the highly moralised context of climate change, and explore target deservingness as a potential moderator. Across two studies, with Australian psychology students (Study 1; N=178) and a politically representative sample from the United Kingdom (Study 2; N=511), participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme (vs. moderate) protests to be more immoral, felt less emotional connection and identification with them, and supported the movement less. However, Study 2 found that extreme (vs. moderate) protests also heightened climate concern and intentions to take climate-related actions. These findings highlight a “climate activist’s dilemma”: while extreme tactics may reduce support for the activist groups who engage in such tactics, they may simultaneously raise climate concern and personal intentions to act.
July 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
jarrennylund.bsky.social
🌍🔥 These warming stripes represent the Earth's average temperature from 1850 to 2024.

The pattern couldn’t be clearer, climate change is here, and it’s accelerating.

Today is #ShowYourStripes day. Let’s show the stripes and commit to taking action on climate change: showyourstripes.info
Global temperature change relative to average of 1961–2010 [°C].
June 21, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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climate.noaa.gov
June 21 is Show Your Stripes Day—a time to spark conversation about how our world is warming.

This video shows how @noaa.gov temperature data for the U.S. is turned into the iconic stripes visualizations you may see shared today and tomorrow.
@edhawkins.org
June 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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lewan.bsky.social
I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars' Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to ...
sks.to
June 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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marketforces.org.au
As people cope with record floods in NSW and terrible droughts across Australia, our CEO Will van de Pol tells ABC Radio National that insurance companies like QBE must end support for coal, oil and gas expansion making harmful climate change worse. 1/4 🧵

LISTEN: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Photo of flood submerging town with quote above saying: "This global industry (insurance) is still playing a critical riole in making the problem worse by underwriting those new coal, oil and gas projects that science tells us are incompatible with our efforts to limit climate change.
June 3, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
10 years after gas exports from Queensland began, all of the gas companies involved, bar one, have not paid a cent in company tax.

This is despite them selling $125 billion worth of LNG out of Queensland, and reporting $330 billion in total Australian revenue. #auspol
June 3, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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greenpeaceap.bsky.social
📣 BREAKING: Woodside’s North West Shelf gas extension has been provisionally granted to run until 2070 by Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt.

...Bringing Woodside’s drills a step closer to magnificent Scott Reef, home to threatened species like pygmy blue whales and green sea turtles.
May 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM