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Sunniva Davies-Rommetveit
@sunnydavies.bsky.social
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Social psychology PhD candidate and writer. Interests: the climate & biodiversity crises, group inequities, wellbeing and their intersections. Often outdoors 🌅
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charliejgardner.bsky.social
Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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esrah.uni-hamburg.de
🚨 We are hiring!
28 doctoral + 28 #postdoc positions in #climate #research, spanning natural & social #science. Be part of an international team exploring climate & society.

Apply here: www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/career/jobs....

#phd #jobs #cliccs #hamburg @uni-hamburg.de
September 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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lslothuus.bsky.social
Colombia has just announced the world's first International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels! Supported by the 16 other countries in the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. A major step addressing not just demand but also supply of fossil fuels fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...
Government of Colombia Announces First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
During the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, Colombia proudly announces its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The ...
fossilfueltreaty.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
#AnimalSentience #AnimalIntelligence

The more we look, the more we find. Why do we keep acting surprised?

phys.org/news/2025-08...
For apes, out of sight isn't out of mind: Bonobos can mentally track multiple members of their social circle
A series of hide-and-seek experiments with a bonobo named Kanzi shows for the first time that apes can mentally keep track of multiple familiar humans at once, even when they are out of sight.
phys.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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alinau27.bsky.social
Wrote something for University World News about why we should be cautious of embracing private industry and Big Tech with the cutting of public funds, and why all science—like all business—is political.

www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
As public science is cut, be wary of the push to big tech
All science and technological development are not neutral or inevitable, and no decision about funding or what direction to take is neutral: in fact, ...
www.universityworldnews.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
sunnydavies.bsky.social
What a brilliant two weeks at the #EASP Summer School! Being part of the political cognition workstream was extremely rewarding and thought-provoking. I leave with a bunch of new research ideas, and having met incredible researchers in the process! Thank you to the amazing organisers!
August 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
“Neither theoretical framework consistently accounted for all patterns in our meta-analytic findings. This highlights the need for both SJT and SIMSA to evolve—through refinement and integration.”

Open Access: doi.org/10.1002/ejsp...

#SocialPsyc PoliSky

@chuma73.bsky.social
The association between social identification and system justification, especially amongst low-status groups, is a highly contested issue in the social and political psychology literatures. While some researchers propose that this association should be largely negative, others assume that it should be largely positive. Here, we synthesised the accumulated evidence on this relationship using a 4-level meta-analysis of 84 papers supplying 248 different samples and 359 effect sizes (Ntotal = 395,855). Overall the association between identification and system justification was positive, although weak (Zr = 0.11, 95% CI = 0.06, 0.17) and was stronger for high- and intermediate-status groups (Zr = 0.19, 95% CI = 0.13, 0.25 and Zr = 0.12, 95% CI = 0.04, 0.20 respectively) but null for low-status groups (Zr = 0.01, 95% CI = −0.04, 0.06). When theoretically relevant moderators were taken into account, the results further revealed that, for low-status groups, subgroup identification was positively correlated with system justification, but only when status differences were stable and/or legitimate.
July 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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zoognosisjoy.bsky.social
Doing research for my upcoming video. I think it's safe to say that the world lost an important ally when Frans de Waal passed away last year. 🧪
"The existence of transgender people challenges the notion of gender as an arbitrary social construct. Gender roles may be cultural products, but gender identity itself seems to arise from within.” When people are asked how they identify, the number of transgender persons is relatively high. The latest estimate is that 0.6 percent of adults are transgender, which translates into 1 or 2 million people in the United States alone. But this number is almost certainly an underestimate.*” Transgender persons have every reason to be reluctant to come forward. Remember the bathroom bills that tried to erase them from the public sphere? Currently, similar efforts are under way in relation to sports. Instead of accommodating transgender people and recognizing their rights, American society seems intent on demonizing them and making their lives difficult. The big mistake, which we have faced before with respect to homosexuality, is to present being transgender as a disorder that needs fixing or a choice that needs correcting, as if it were a mere lifestyle preference. Cover of the book "Different: Gender through the eyes of a primatologist" by Frans de Waal, depicting a male and female chimpanzee.
June 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
Norway's oil giant Equinor attacked for 'cynical' schoolkids' computer game that criticises renewables

www.upstreamonline.com/energy-trans...
Equinor attacked for 'cynical' schoolkids computer game criticising renewables
Now-deleted promotional material for game said it could help clear up 'misconceptions' for British teens regarding their negative views of oil and gas industry
www.upstreamonline.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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yasemingacar.bsky.social
Our new edited volume on collective resilience will be out next week! I would love to send one to an interested reader who might otherwise not be able to access it. First come first served :)
Loads of great chapters from brilliant authors; find out more here: www.routledge.com/The-Power-of...
Image of “The power of collective resilience edited volume; a paperback volume with a black background, white text, and colourful outlines of faces in the centre.
June 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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bps-social-psych.bsky.social
An exciting funding opportunity for Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani Early Career Researchers (ECRs). Spread the word!

wellcome.org/research-fun...
Accelerator Awards | Grant funding | Wellcome
Eligibility and applications details for the Wellcome Accelerator Awards, which will support Black, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani researchers in the UK to make successful career transitions.
wellcome.org
May 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
You can fine water companies as much as you like, but customers are still on the hook for their reckless debts.

Time for Steve Reed to put Thames Water in special measures.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water hit with record fine over sewage breaches
After Ofwat imposes two fines totalling £123m, environment secretary says ‘era of profiting from failure is over’
www.theguardian.com
May 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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klarasteinmetz.bsky.social
Call for Collaboration - Deepfakes in the U.S. Presidential Election Campaign 2024 - We offer a unique longitudinal data set:
Deepfakes im US-Wahlkampf 2024 | Forschung | Sozialpsychologie | Psychologie | Fakultät für Human- und Sozialwissensc… | TU Chemnitz
Professur Sozialpsychologie: Deepfakes im US-Wahlkampf 2024
www.tu-chemnitz.de
May 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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2heartswellness.bsky.social
"Johnson, a marine biologist, draws on her experiences as a Black woman, her research on coral reef ecosystems, overfishing, and marine biodiversity, and her contributions to international climate policy to craft a deeply inclusive narrative."

#Writers #BookSky #ClimateChange #Hope
💕 #Wellness
Hope as a catalyst for change in Climate Futures
Climate solutions are the subject of Ayana Johnson’s new book, “Climate Futures,” with a focus on fixing inequities and growing hope.
buff.ly
May 2, 2025 at 2:27 AM
sunnydavies.bsky.social
Sunset over Drummau mountain, South Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
April 13, 2025 at 10:20 AM
sunnydavies.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to reading this!
Climate inaction is absolutely attributable to threatened group identities, and its consequences include exacerbated group inequities. Understanding these structural and group causes to the climate crisis is very important to tackling it. #socialpsychology
April 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
#GoodNews - humans are an adaptable species that can live with others rather than simply wrecking #biodiversity

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We made everything bear-proof’: the Italian village that learned to love its bears
By learning to live with its ursine neighbours, mountainous Pettorano sul Gizio has drawn tourists and new residents, bucking a trend of rural decline
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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financialtimes.com
Central Asia suffers ‘frankly bonkers’ heatwave fuelled by climate change

https://www.ft.com/content/164aa7d8-3c7b-40f1-966e-3eba95d128d0
Central Asia suffers ‘frankly bonkers’ heatwave fuelled by climate change
Temperatures rise to 10C above pre-industrial levels as part of exceptional spring weather
www.ft.com
April 4, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Modest #GoodNews on #WomeninScience
magdalenaskipper.bsky.social Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · Mar 27
A new Nature Index data set shows that progress towards gender equity in research continues to be slow.

With just 27% of high-quality papers in the natural sciences having female co-authors in 2024, there is a lot of room for improvement
#AcademicSky 🧪
#womeninSTEM

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gender gap in research publishing is improving — slowly
A Nature Index data set shows which countries, institutions and topic areas are making the greatest progress towards gender equity in research.
www.nature.com
March 27, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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profaliceroberts.bsky.social
I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk
Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’
www.theguardian.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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profgalloway.com
Don’t drink and text.
March 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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aofcompassion.bsky.social
The "Us vs. Them" thinking fuels division. But extremist ideologies don’t just create enemies—they create victims within the in-group, reinforcing a false sense of righteousness. When empathy is selective, exclusion follows. bit.ly/4hl3ckB
Extremism and Empathy — The Arithmetic of Compassion
Extremism thrives on selective in-group empathy, while narrative empathy and participatory ecological storytelling can challenge radical ideologies by building broader cognitive and affective connecti...
bit.ly
March 20, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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dpcarrington.bsky.social
The @theguardian.com view on #microplastics: harmful pollution must be curbed

- New evidence of particles damaging crops strengthens the case for an international plastics treaty

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on microplastics: harmful pollution must be curbed | Editorial
Editorial: New findings about particles damaging crops strengthens the case for an international plastics treaty
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
sunnydavies.bsky.social
How does the increased #repression of climate activism impact climate activists? This article describes one possibility - that it acts like a galvanising factor for highly identified activists, and makes "a clandestine approach increasingly attractive".

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A new phase’: why climate activists are turning to sabotage instead of protest
Tougher laws said to be inspiring clandestine attacks on the ‘property and machinery’ of the fossil fuel economy
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
sunnydavies.bsky.social
"I...treated my research as a problem-solving endeavour... I approached my PhD...as an opportunity to create something meaningful despite uncertainty." Great article. The more PhDs view themselves as, & are treated like, junior colleagues (not students), the more this mindset happens. #academia
March 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM