Dr Matthew Watkins
@drmatthewwatkins.bsky.social
Academic/Educator/Researcher/Change Agent. Designing for Desired Behaviours, User Centred Design, Sustainable Design/Behaviour, Road Safety, Micro-mobility, Education
“These findings suggest climate change might well accelerate in the coming years. Worse still, this worrying imbalance is emerging even as funding uncertainty in the United States threatens our ability to track the flows of heat.”
H/t @thinkorswim.bsky.social
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H/t @thinkorswim.bsky.social
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Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.
theconversation.com
July 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Just 10 days left to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships – please sign and share govpetition.uk/700024
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
govpetition.uk
May 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Just 10 days left to get 100,000 signatures on this petition to ban fossil fuel ads and sponsorships – please sign and share govpetition.uk/700024
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2025: setting all the worst records 🔥
May 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
2025: setting all the worst records 🔥
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rest in brilliance, my friend
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/s...
James Reason, Who Used Swiss Cheese to Explain Human Error, Dies at 86
Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.
www.nytimes.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
rest in brilliance, my friend
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/s...
This may have been missed in the media yesterday amongst the Trump turnarounds. But this is real leadership when a politician refuses to be political and just does the right thing for humanity despite major opposition and the risk of unpopularity: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Dramatic fall in London’s levels of deadly pollutants after Ulez expansion
People in capital breathing much cleaner air, with significant improvements in capital’s most deprived areas
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This may have been missed in the media yesterday amongst the Trump turnarounds. But this is real leadership when a politician refuses to be political and just does the right thing for humanity despite major opposition and the risk of unpopularity: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Well that's not a surprise but incredibly frustrating and the instigators still refuse to accept they were wrong.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
As January marks five years on from Britain leaving the EU, Alicja Hagopian and Kate Devlin explore its impact
www.independent.co.uk
January 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Well that's not a surprise but incredibly frustrating and the instigators still refuse to accept they were wrong.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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This time we published the scientific review of the effectiveness of city-wide 30 km/h speed limit worldwide, based on 60 simulation studies and estimations confirming the significant reductions of over 40% of road crash fatalities.
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#JSR #30kmh #speedlimits #georgeyannis
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#JSR #30kmh #speedlimits #georgeyannis
December 10, 2024 at 3:51 PM
This time we published the scientific review of the effectiveness of city-wide 30 km/h speed limit worldwide, based on 60 simulation studies and estimations confirming the significant reductions of over 40% of road crash fatalities.
lnkd.in/gu6ktxAp
#JSR #30kmh #speedlimits #georgeyannis
lnkd.in/gu6ktxAp
#JSR #30kmh #speedlimits #georgeyannis
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Brexit cost £1 million a day in 2022. Think what that could do for the NHS and social care 🤔
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The latest cost of Brexit is about to hit – and voters are watching. Will Labour act? | Polly Toynbee
New EU trade regulations will cause further pain for the UK. Starmer’s talk of breaking down barriers must be more than warm words, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Brexit cost £1 million a day in 2022. Think what that could do for the NHS and social care 🤔
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I wasn't going to engage with the Jaguar rebrand debate but the Conversation asked me to write an article. So I have hopefully given some needed perspective: theconversation.com/jaguar-type-...
Jaguar Type 00: the controversial pink car is more in step with the brand’s history than detractors think
The new concept ruffled feathers but Jaguar has always innovated in the hopes of attracting new and younger buyers.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:14 AM
I wasn't going to engage with the Jaguar rebrand debate but the Conversation asked me to write an article. So I have hopefully given some needed perspective: theconversation.com/jaguar-type-...
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Motornormativity means that loads of people who don't drive believe that drivers should be prioritised. #carbrain @ianwalker.bsky.social @holybollards.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
‘Motonormativity’: Britons more accepting of driving-related risk
Allowance made for dangers that would not be accepted in other parts of life, finds study with potentially major policy implications
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Motornormativity means that loads of people who don't drive believe that drivers should be prioritised. #carbrain @ianwalker.bsky.social @holybollards.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...
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Great interview with Peston last night @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Hope your petition is HUGE! Thanks for your support with mine. They make a great pair.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Hope your petition is HUGE! Thanks for your support with mine. They make a great pair.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
November 28, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Great interview with Peston last night @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Hope your petition is HUGE! Thanks for your support with mine. They make a great pair.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Hope your petition is HUGE! Thanks for your support with mine. They make a great pair.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
The number of UK universities now actively making redundancies has risen to 85. That number will be will over 100 by spring. I'm afraid this is happening faster, and will be worse, than even I thought. Solidarity and thoughts with and to all affected. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
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Changes to farmers’ inheritance tax are fair and could even help them in the long run – expert view
Changes to farmers’ inheritance tax are fair and could even help them in the long run – expert view
Tax relief may acutally have made it more expensive for farmers to buy more land to expand their business.
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November 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Changes to farmers’ inheritance tax are fair and could even help them in the long run – expert view
My Sustainability hack for the week. My keyboard letters had worn off on S, C, H and I, there must be some interested analysis on why those letters. But it otherwise works fine so I bought £1.89 keyboard sticker sheet off eBay, perfect fit and very sticky.
November 29, 2024 at 12:45 PM
My Sustainability hack for the week. My keyboard letters had worn off on S, C, H and I, there must be some interested analysis on why those letters. But it otherwise works fine so I bought £1.89 keyboard sticker sheet off eBay, perfect fit and very sticky.
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Good piece from @anjahuja.bsky.social coming at the assisted dying debate from a different angle: science is not good at predicting survival
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On assisted dying, are we really any good at predicting survival?
Forecasting the last seven days of life is harder than the final 24 hours; beyond that, things become shakier still
on.ft.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Good piece from @anjahuja.bsky.social coming at the assisted dying debate from a different angle: science is not good at predicting survival
on.ft.com/4i4wSnB
on.ft.com/4i4wSnB