Rebecca Nestor
@rebeccaclimate.bsky.social
Climate psychologist: support as we face the climate crisis. Co-chair of @climatepsychol.bsky.social. Workshops, consultancy, keynotes, climate café listening circles. Oxford, UK. https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-climatecafes?member_id=263790573
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For anyone in Oxford looking for a place where your feelings about the climate crisis can be heard
Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team this Sunday at a climate café, a gentle facilitated space where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
A thread describing what climate cafés are all about.
It me
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 PM
It me
I found #Hamnet immersive and visceral, but I did struggle with the biographical element. I had a similar problem with the novel, though the film takes that element even further. This @theconversation.com article by Amy Walters and Kate Flaherty was very helpful: theconversation.com/it-takes-man...
It takes many ghosts to make a story: how Maggie O'Farrell’s Hamnet takes from – and mistakes – Shakespeare
Was the premature death of Shakespeare’s only son really the inspiration for Hamlet?
theconversation.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:44 AM
I found #Hamnet immersive and visceral, but I did struggle with the biographical element. I had a similar problem with the novel, though the film takes that element even further. This @theconversation.com article by Amy Walters and Kate Flaherty was very helpful: theconversation.com/it-takes-man...
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As people seem to be sharing starter packs for the new arrivals on Bluesky (welcome to you all), I can’t do better on climate than suggest you go to @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s comprehensive list of starter packs. She has them on every conceivable climate topic, including climate psychology (my field).
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
As people seem to be sharing starter packs for the new arrivals on Bluesky (welcome to you all), I can’t do better on climate than suggest you go to @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s comprehensive list of starter packs. She has them on every conceivable climate topic, including climate psychology (my field).
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Sharing our starter pack for those new or recently come back to bluesky. As ever, let us know of any omissions.
go.bsky.app/Gf6AWuT
go.bsky.app/Gf6AWuT
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Sharing our starter pack for those new or recently come back to bluesky. As ever, let us know of any omissions.
go.bsky.app/Gf6AWuT
go.bsky.app/Gf6AWuT
As people seem to be sharing starter packs for the new arrivals on Bluesky (welcome to you all), I can’t do better on climate than suggest you go to @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s comprehensive list of starter packs. She has them on every conceivable climate topic, including climate psychology (my field).
January 10, 2026 at 2:15 PM
As people seem to be sharing starter packs for the new arrivals on Bluesky (welcome to you all), I can’t do better on climate than suggest you go to @katharinehayhoe.com ‘s comprehensive list of starter packs. She has them on every conceivable climate topic, including climate psychology (my field).
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THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
“American imperialism is a tradition; removing someone does not lead to predictable results; dispensing with international law is not only wrong but undesirable; foreign military actions can be about domestic regime change.”
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
snyder.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:22 PM
“American imperialism is a tradition; removing someone does not lead to predictable results; dispensing with international law is not only wrong but undesirable; foreign military actions can be about domestic regime change.”
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Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Bridging the Species Divide: Animal minds and the human-animal relationship (Ref: RDF26/HW/PSY/RENNER) at Northumbria University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Are you interested in doing a PhD about what humans infer about animal minds?
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Check out this opportunity @northumbriapsy.bsky.social with me, @mdconstable.bsky.social and Lee Shepherd!
Deadline 23 Jan 2026
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A thread describing what climate cafés are all about.
For anyone in Oxford looking for a place where your feelings about the climate crisis can be heard
Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team this Sunday at a climate café, a gentle facilitated space where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
December 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A thread describing what climate cafés are all about.
Reposted by Rebecca Nestor
Reposted by Rebecca Nestor
🚨Clarion morning read 🚨
Increasing numbers of people in Oxford are struggling to put food on the table, in this, one of the UK's most unequal cities.
Phil Perry from Oxford Mutual Aid writes about the growing community that's stepping up to help.
@oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social
Increasing numbers of people in Oxford are struggling to put food on the table, in this, one of the UK's most unequal cities.
Phil Perry from Oxford Mutual Aid writes about the growing community that's stepping up to help.
@oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social
Oxford’s hidden food emergency – and the community filling the gaps
“What are your plans for next week?” asks Dave. Maria tells him that it's her birthday.
As a volunteer for Oxford Mutual Aid (OMA), which delivers food to people across the city, Dave calls Maria ev...
oxfordclarion.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:43 AM
🚨Clarion morning read 🚨
Increasing numbers of people in Oxford are struggling to put food on the table, in this, one of the UK's most unequal cities.
Phil Perry from Oxford Mutual Aid writes about the growing community that's stepping up to help.
@oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social
Increasing numbers of people in Oxford are struggling to put food on the table, in this, one of the UK's most unequal cities.
Phil Perry from Oxford Mutual Aid writes about the growing community that's stepping up to help.
@oxfordmutualaid.bsky.social
For anyone in Oxford looking for a place where your feelings about the climate crisis can be heard
Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team this Sunday at a climate café, a gentle facilitated space where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
For anyone in Oxford looking for a place where your feelings about the climate crisis can be heard
Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team this Sunday at a climate café, a gentle facilitated space where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Join the Oxfordshire Climate Cafés team this Sunday at a climate café, a gentle facilitated space where we share our feelings and thoughts about the climate crisis.
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
What’s different about climate cafés?
🤝Facilitated – so you can be sure that there will be space for you to speak. 🧵
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Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)
Hi hello the Venezuela stuff is entirely about oil, both in Venezuela and in Guyana (where Venezuela is laying claim to the oil in what is now Exxon’s largest oilfield, which Chevron has also bought into). It is the bidding of US oil majors and it’s not remotely subtle.
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Okay not *only* about oil, also about showing dominance and probably some sort of petty grievance in there too. But definitely ALSO helpful to some US oil majors (notably Exxon and Chevron)
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The towpath between Port Meadow and Botley Road is flooded, and closed say Oxford City Council, warning other areas of the towpath in the city may also start to flood over the next few days. Last winter, two people drowned in the city in separate incidents after entering flooded towpaths.
December 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The towpath between Port Meadow and Botley Road is flooded, and closed say Oxford City Council, warning other areas of the towpath in the city may also start to flood over the next few days. Last winter, two people drowned in the city in separate incidents after entering flooded towpaths.
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Pleased to see this paper published and free to read:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to A/prof Theresa Petray @theresapetray.bsky.social
& Dr Ailie McDowall #sociology #climatechange #youth #activism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to A/prof Theresa Petray @theresapetray.bsky.social
& Dr Ailie McDowall #sociology #climatechange #youth #activism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘It’s not a future issue, it’s a now issue’: young climate activists’ changing habitus in the face of climate change
Young people traditionally face social expectations about how they should behave according to their position in society. However, these expectations can clash with the realities of a rapidly changi...
www.tandfonline.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Pleased to see this paper published and free to read:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to A/prof Theresa Petray @theresapetray.bsky.social
& Dr Ailie McDowall #sociology #climatechange #youth #activism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks to A/prof Theresa Petray @theresapetray.bsky.social
& Dr Ailie McDowall #sociology #climatechange #youth #activism
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🌳 If you are aged 18-25 and would like to build resilience while living in the knowledge of the climate crisis, join our listening circle to spend time with others who get it.
Facilitated by trained CPA facilitators.
Free but booking essential: www.eventbrite.com/e/174813...
Facilitated by trained CPA facilitators.
Free but booking essential: www.eventbrite.com/e/174813...
November 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🌳 If you are aged 18-25 and would like to build resilience while living in the knowledge of the climate crisis, join our listening circle to spend time with others who get it.
Facilitated by trained CPA facilitators.
Free but booking essential: www.eventbrite.com/e/174813...
Facilitated by trained CPA facilitators.
Free but booking essential: www.eventbrite.com/e/174813...
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“Action on behalf of life transforms.
Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting.
As we work to heal the earth,
the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting.
As we work to heal the earth,
the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“Action on behalf of life transforms.
Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting.
As we work to heal the earth,
the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting.
As we work to heal the earth,
the earth heals us.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
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Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown
This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice.
Arguing that ...
www.routledge.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown
This book introduces readers to the known psychological aspects of climate change as a pressing global concern and explores how they are relevant to current and future clinical practice.
Arguing that ...
www.routledge.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Delighted that Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown is now available free online under a Creative Commons licence. Thank you and congrats to Judith Anderson for making this climate psychology book widely available
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
@climatepsychol.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Being-a-Ther...
What do you feel about the climate crisis?
Sometimes it’s hard to put feelings into words.
Try exploring them through sound and music instead in a Climate Café Listening & Music Circle. No musical experience needed.
Oxford, UK - 15 November 2 pm
meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...
Sometimes it’s hard to put feelings into words.
Try exploring them through sound and music instead in a Climate Café Listening & Music Circle. No musical experience needed.
Oxford, UK - 15 November 2 pm
meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...
Climate café listening and music circle, Sat, Nov 15, 2025, 2:00 PM | Meetup
What do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - language can feel clunky and slow while feelings migh
meetu.ps
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
What do you feel about the climate crisis?
Sometimes it’s hard to put feelings into words.
Try exploring them through sound and music instead in a Climate Café Listening & Music Circle. No musical experience needed.
Oxford, UK - 15 November 2 pm
meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...
Sometimes it’s hard to put feelings into words.
Try exploring them through sound and music instead in a Climate Café Listening & Music Circle. No musical experience needed.
Oxford, UK - 15 November 2 pm
meetu.ps/e/PzNQC/H43G...
Closing tomorrow. We’ve had loads of interest and applications. It’s been an absolute delight - feel for us as we try to make good decisions about shortlisting in the coming week or so! And get your application in by 5 pm tmrw as we won’t be accepting late applications. @climatepsychol.bsky.social
Thrilled to bits that these roles are now available. Thanks to @tnlcommunityfund.org.uk for the generous funding
Join our team! 4 p/t paid and 1 voluntary role for people who want to help shape the collective response to our worsening climate crisis:
climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...
Please share and help spread the word 🙏
#werehiring #charityjobs #climatejobs @innerclimate.bsky.social
climatepsychologyalliance.org/index.php/co...
Please share and help spread the word 🙏
#werehiring #charityjobs #climatejobs @innerclimate.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Closing tomorrow. We’ve had loads of interest and applications. It’s been an absolute delight - feel for us as we try to make good decisions about shortlisting in the coming week or so! And get your application in by 5 pm tmrw as we won’t be accepting late applications. @climatepsychol.bsky.social
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The Cowley Branch Line railway is set to reopen with new stations at Littlemore and Cowley. The Government is today announcing £120m to rebuild the line, with trains running by 2030. Journey time will be just 7 minutes from Littlemore to Oxford station. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...
Full steam ahead for Cowley Branch Line
Direct trains will run from Cowley and Littlemore to Oxford and London Marylebone, as the Government today announces £120m of funding to reopen the Cowley Branch Line to passengers.
The funds will pa...
oxfordclarion.uk
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The Cowley Branch Line railway is set to reopen with new stations at Littlemore and Cowley. The Government is today announcing £120m to rebuild the line, with trains running by 2030. Journey time will be just 7 minutes from Littlemore to Oxford station. Full story: oxfordclarion.uk/cowley-branc...
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#Oxon4Buses is calling for Network Rail to create a transport hub at the new station rather than a multi-story car park. This opportunity for an integrated network could be lost forever. Please sign ✍️
c.org/DX66nvC5qn
c.org/DX66nvC5qn
Sign the Petition
Sign for a bus hub in Oxford
c.org
October 19, 2025 at 6:49 AM
#Oxon4Buses is calling for Network Rail to create a transport hub at the new station rather than a multi-story car park. This opportunity for an integrated network could be lost forever. Please sign ✍️
c.org/DX66nvC5qn
c.org/DX66nvC5qn
What do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - feelings shift as we try to capture them. The words to describe what you’re feeling might not even exist.
What if you could experiment with sound & music as well as words ?
1/x
What if you could experiment with sound & music as well as words ?
1/x
October 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What do you FEEL about the climate crisis? It can be hard translating our feelings around this huge issue into words - feelings shift as we try to capture them. The words to describe what you’re feeling might not even exist.
What if you could experiment with sound & music as well as words ?
1/x
What if you could experiment with sound & music as well as words ?
1/x