Zoe Leviston
@zlevo.bsky.social
Applying social and environmental psychology to human-environment interactions and attitudes to climate change, environmental change.
Living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country.
Living on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country.
Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences (and avoid critical media coverage from the usual suspects!)... new from Jamin Wang, Kelly Fielding, Bec Colvin, Robin Gulliver, and @winnifredlouis.bsky.social
Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences
About 40% of Australians don’t believe humans are a major cause of climate change. Reaching these sceptic holdout groups may require unconventional approaches.
theconversation.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences (and avoid critical media coverage from the usual suspects!)... new from Jamin Wang, Kelly Fielding, Bec Colvin, Robin Gulliver, and @winnifredlouis.bsky.social
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This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social
What a resource!
Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What a resource!
Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
www.nature.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social
What a resource!
Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What a resource!
Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🔥 Hot Take: What’s holding back behavioral research on climate change mitigation? 🌍
Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇
#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability
Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇
#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability
February 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🔥 Hot Take: What’s holding back behavioral research on climate change mitigation? 🌍
Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇
#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability
Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇
#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability
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Would you pay to protect koala habitats or blue-green spaces like your local lake? Led by @zlevo.bsky.social, we examined whether thinking about high-impact #health or #climate events would make someone more willing to financially support these areas. Read here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
February 4, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Would you pay to protect koala habitats or blue-green spaces like your local lake? Led by @zlevo.bsky.social, we examined whether thinking about high-impact #health or #climate events would make someone more willing to financially support these areas. Read here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
January 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Now publicly available: the #TISP dataset. It contains 71,922 survey responses on public perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries. Published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social’s #ScientificData: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📊
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
www.nature.com
January 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📣 *New science alert*
🌏Global trust in scientists project led by @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social is out today in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/40pox5P
🦘Some interesting Australia-specific results in our Conversation piece below, led by @mdmarques.com
🌏Global trust in scientists project led by @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social is out today in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/40pox5P
🦘Some interesting Australia-specific results in our Conversation piece below, led by @mdmarques.com
Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide
A global new survey shows there’s no crisis of trust in scientists, as some might claim. But there are some nuances.
theconversation.com
January 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
📣 *New science alert*
🌏Global trust in scientists project led by @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social is out today in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/40pox5P
🦘Some interesting Australia-specific results in our Conversation piece below, led by @mdmarques.com
🌏Global trust in scientists project led by @colognaviktoria.bsky.social and @nielsmede.bsky.social is out today in Nature Human Behaviour: go.nature.com/40pox5P
🦘Some interesting Australia-specific results in our Conversation piece below, led by @mdmarques.com
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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January 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Out now in Nature Human Behaviour: Our 68-country #survey on public attitudes to #science 📣
It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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It shows: People still #trust scientists and support an active role of scientists in society and policy-making. #OpenAccess available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
December 19, 2024 at 9:10 PM
THREAD
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact
An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis
1/31
📢New research alert
We know many are angry about climate change. But precisely WHAT they’re angry about matters, for action and wellbeing.
Original open-access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mentaloose.bsky.social #climatesky
We know many are angry about climate change. But precisely WHAT they’re angry about matters, for action and wellbeing.
Original open-access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mentaloose.bsky.social #climatesky
Almost half of us are now angry about climate change. But who we’re angry can change whether we turn anger into action – or despair
Climate anger can lead to action – or curdle into despair. We found out why
Almost half of us are now angry about climate change. But who we’re angry can change whether we turn anger into action – or despair
theconversation.com
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 PM
📢New research alert
We know many are angry about climate change. But precisely WHAT they’re angry about matters, for action and wellbeing.
Original open-access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mentaloose.bsky.social #climatesky
We know many are angry about climate change. But precisely WHAT they’re angry about matters, for action and wellbeing.
Original open-access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@mentaloose.bsky.social #climatesky
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Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
Decolonizing Environmentalism
We live in a moment rife with mixed emotions-existential anxieties about catastrophic climate change, presumptuous confidence in planet-hacking geoengineering t…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Hi, BlueSky! Delighted to📣 Decolonizing Environmentalism (bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social) is hitting the virtual book-shelf later this month & the bookstores in the new year. We wrote it esp. for the youth environmental & climate activists. Plz help spread the word. www.bloomsbury.com/us/decoloniz...
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Great to see the arrival of Climate Outreach 👇👇👇
Hello! We're Climate Outreach - helping everyone from charities to governments to business navigate difficult climate conversations and unlock more ambitious climate action!
Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️
Find out more about us on our website: climateoutreach.org
Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️
Find out more about us on our website: climateoutreach.org
Climate Outreach
Climate Outreach works with people and organisations to help create new climate stories. Every year, we work with hundreds of partners - from charities to governments to business - to help them naviga...
climateoutreach.org
December 16, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Great to see the arrival of Climate Outreach 👇👇👇
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Hello! We're Climate Outreach - helping everyone from charities to governments to business navigate difficult climate conversations and unlock more ambitious climate action!
Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️
Find out more about us on our website: climateoutreach.org
Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️
Find out more about us on our website: climateoutreach.org
Climate Outreach
Climate Outreach works with people and organisations to help create new climate stories. Every year, we work with hundreds of partners - from charities to governments to business - to help them naviga...
climateoutreach.org
December 16, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Hello! We're Climate Outreach - helping everyone from charities to governments to business navigate difficult climate conversations and unlock more ambitious climate action!
Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️
Find out more about us on our website: climateoutreach.org
Interested? Then give us a follow ☺️
Find out more about us on our website: climateoutreach.org
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Despite the headline….
“Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police.”
“Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police.”
Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds #Climate
Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:34 AM
Despite the headline….
“Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police.”
“Only Australia arrested climate and environmental protesters at a higher rate than UK police.”
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Transformational Science is a team sport.
I feel so lucky and grateful to work with people in #climatehealth who inspire and challenge me to do better, to be better, every day.
Written with the brilliant Zoe Leviston and Arnagretta Hunter
sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/new-ac...
I feel so lucky and grateful to work with people in #climatehealth who inspire and challenge me to do better, to be better, every day.
Written with the brilliant Zoe Leviston and Arnagretta Hunter
sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/new-ac...
New academic models for planetary health
Universities around the world are marketing themselves both as the place where complex problems are solved, and as places that tackle gender and other forms of discrimination seriously, where flexible...
sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:31 AM
Transformational Science is a team sport.
I feel so lucky and grateful to work with people in #climatehealth who inspire and challenge me to do better, to be better, every day.
Written with the brilliant Zoe Leviston and Arnagretta Hunter
sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/new-ac...
I feel so lucky and grateful to work with people in #climatehealth who inspire and challenge me to do better, to be better, every day.
Written with the brilliant Zoe Leviston and Arnagretta Hunter
sustainabilitycommunity.springernature.com/posts/new-ac...
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Major investigation of offsets projects ('carbon markets') shows only 16% of carbon credits issued constitute real emission reductions
Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards
Vast majority of offsetting is a scam
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards
Vast majority of offsetting is a scam
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Systematic assessment of the achieved emission reductions of carbon crediting projects - Nature Communications
Carbon markets are key in climate strategies, but only 16% of carbon credits represent real emission reductions, based on a study of 2,346 projects. Reforms are needed to improve the effectiveness of ...
www.nature.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:09 AM
Major investigation of offsets projects ('carbon markets') shows only 16% of carbon credits issued constitute real emission reductions
Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards
Vast majority of offsetting is a scam
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yet countries agreed major new C markets at #COP29 with no obvious tightening of standards
Vast majority of offsetting is a scam
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New from me, Samantha Stanley, and @mentaloose.bsky.social, study on Australians’ perceptions of climate policy support.
Australians underestimate climate policy support, with some fascinating effects based on voting behaviour. More below 1/ #climatesky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Australians underestimate climate policy support, with some fascinating effects based on voting behaviour. More below 1/ #climatesky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Perceived support for climate policy in Australia: The asymmetrical influence of voting behaviour
A comprehensive policy response from wealthy nations is a necessary step to limiting catastrophic climate change. Community attitudes toward policy, a…
www.sciencedirect.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:58 AM
New from me, Samantha Stanley, and @mentaloose.bsky.social, study on Australians’ perceptions of climate policy support.
Australians underestimate climate policy support, with some fascinating effects based on voting behaviour. More below 1/ #climatesky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Australians underestimate climate policy support, with some fascinating effects based on voting behaviour. More below 1/ #climatesky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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THREAD
So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts.
Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor?
Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES.
1/20
So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts.
Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor?
Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES.
1/20
December 6, 2024 at 1:15 PM
THREAD
So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts.
Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor?
Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES.
1/20
So your Attention Score went down because people are rage-deleting their Twitter accounts.
Why is that happening? Should I be worried? Should I see my doctor?
Let's get into what the Attention Score actually is, how it's impacted by posts and deletions, WITH THE HELP OF MEMES.
1/20
New research from @mdmarques.com suggests emerging technologies face an uphill battle in a post-truth world.
The effect of scientific conspiracy theories on scepticism towards biotechnologies
excited to see this #conspiracytheories paper out w/ collaborators @scicomguy.bsky.social, Art Stukas, & Jim McLennan
Will write a 🧵 soon but for now here's the #openaccess link
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
excited to see this #conspiracytheories paper out w/ collaborators @scicomguy.bsky.social, Art Stukas, & Jim McLennan
Will write a 🧵 soon but for now here's the #openaccess link
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 5, 2024 at 5:10 AM
New research from @mdmarques.com suggests emerging technologies face an uphill battle in a post-truth world.
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
Co-benefits are an effective way of articulating how health can be embedded in climate and energy efficiency policies.
Led by #PhD Zoe in collaboration with policymakers, our work shows that incentivising more ambitious climate policy could improve health and wellbeing.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Led by #PhD Zoe in collaboration with policymakers, our work shows that incentivising more ambitious climate policy could improve health and wellbeing.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
The health and wellbeing co-benefits of policies and programs to address climate change in urban areas: a scoping review - IOPscienceSearch
The health and wellbeing co-benefits of policies and programs to address climate change in urban areas: a scoping review, Z A Becvarik, L V White, A Lal
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 7:03 AM
Co-benefits are an effective way of articulating how health can be embedded in climate and energy efficiency policies.
Led by #PhD Zoe in collaboration with policymakers, our work shows that incentivising more ambitious climate policy could improve health and wellbeing.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Led by #PhD Zoe in collaboration with policymakers, our work shows that incentivising more ambitious climate policy could improve health and wellbeing.
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Reposted by Zoe Leviston
This is a starter pack on #MentalHealth and #PlanetaryHealth, including clinicians, researchers, educators, journalists, and allies from the general public.
Let me know if you want to be added.
Please share.
go.bsky.app/M4RT3G1
Let me know if you want to be added.
Please share.
go.bsky.app/M4RT3G1
November 28, 2024 at 3:41 AM
This is a starter pack on #MentalHealth and #PlanetaryHealth, including clinicians, researchers, educators, journalists, and allies from the general public.
Let me know if you want to be added.
Please share.
go.bsky.app/M4RT3G1
Let me know if you want to be added.
Please share.
go.bsky.app/M4RT3G1
Meanwhile, in Oz…
November 27, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Meanwhile, in Oz…
For those interested in public attitudes to climate policy, I highly recommend this new engaging short piece in Climatic Change rdcu.be/d0GSM TL;DR Gov’t action out of step with public sentiment, despite what the ‘rise of the right’ may lead many to believe
@epgroningen.bsky.social #envpsy
@epgroningen.bsky.social #envpsy
The public demands more climate action, not less
rdcu.be
November 19, 2024 at 5:14 AM
For those interested in public attitudes to climate policy, I highly recommend this new engaging short piece in Climatic Change rdcu.be/d0GSM TL;DR Gov’t action out of step with public sentiment, despite what the ‘rise of the right’ may lead many to believe
@epgroningen.bsky.social #envpsy
@epgroningen.bsky.social #envpsy