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loisplayer.bsky.social

Behavioural Scientist | Climate Policy & Behaviour Change 🌏 | Novel Computational Methods - NLP & LLMs 👩‍💻 | Research Consultant | Currently Contracting at European Climate Foundation ✨ loisplayer.com

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DECOTA is here! 🎉 Our automated free-text analysis tool is now published in Psychological Methods! DECOTA automatically analyses free-text data quickly, affordably, and with human-like accuracy. Paper: doi.org/10.1037/met0... Press story: www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

I’m officially Dr Player! 🥹 It was an honour to defend my PhD last week with world-leading experts, Geertje Schuitema & Nathalia Gjersoe. Big thanks to my wonderful supervisors, @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social & @christinademski.bsky.social, AAPS CDT, & countless loved ones for their unwavering support ✨

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

Can we build the #NetZero future the Climate Change Committee says is possible? 🌍 Today @thecccuk.bsky.social published its latest advice to the Government in its #SeventhCarbonBudget report. Read our CAST response: cast.ac.uk/building-a-n... Key messages thread 🧵

submitted 115 days ago • 3 comments

So great to see the CCC’s 7th Carbon Budget published today. It was a pleasure to contribute to this during my time in the wonderful People & Business team, & to see our @cast-centre.bsky.social work referenced 🌟 Importantly: 1/3 of emissions reductions will come from household behaviour change 🤯

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited to have joined the European Climate Foundation as a Research Consultant! 🌍 ECF is an NGO working across Europe to foster #ClimateAction, & I’m looking forward to helping make sense of their public opinion data 📊 An exciting year ahead w/ this role - and lots of big travel plans! ✨

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

PhD thesis submitted! 🥹 3 incredible years – 2 secondments, 3 publications, 3 consultancy projects, 1 book chapter, and even the honour of advising governmental departments – all crystallised into 80,000 words. From undergrad to PhD, I'm so grateful for 8 beautiful years @uniofbath.bsky.social ✨

submitted 149 days ago • 6 comments

Excited about the UK Govt's #AI Opportunities plan - a big step to drive positive, safe change w/ AI 🚀 1. Fast-track data centre expansion 2. Unlock datasets to fuel research 3. Train 10,000s in AI by 2030 Fab to see Matt Clifford - who I was lucky to work w/ at Entrepreneur First - leading this!

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

It’s getting windier, wetter, wilder, hotter, harsher, drier, and less predictable out there And more expensive Globally, climate damage to infrastructure, agriculture, health and economic productivity is set to cost $3.1 trillion/year by 2050 With a cascade of bad outcomes⬇️ 🔗 shorturl.at/rxFdX

submitted 163 days ago • 16 comments

My lovely colleagues at CAST are advertising 5 PhD funded places! Couldn't think of a more wonderful team to do your PhD with ✨ 🌎

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

For all the bad news in 2024, there was lots of good too ✨ www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2024-the-good-news-that-mattered/ EU emissions fell 8% 🌱 China's renewable boom ⚡️ New biodiversity laws 🌺 Species regeneration 🦬 Flu vaccine progress 💉 15-min city adoption 🏙️ Happy New Year! 🦋

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

Very cool new #LLM study in @natureportfolio.bsky.social 📢 LLMs, like humans, exhibit in-group favouritism & out-group degradation. Both in the lab and in real human-LLM chats. We must carefully curate training data to mitigate this bias 👩‍💻 www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00741-1

submitted 191 days ago • 1 comment

@elpinchbeck.bsky.social is right. Adaptation has been a lesser priority for too long. Not only are the costs of events like #StormDarragh significant, but climate impacts are holding back the govt's renewal agenda. More here: green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/ada... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment

Starting the week feeling accomplished! ✔️ Paper revisions completed - for a study I'm really proud of. ✔️ Final PhD study written up (!) Now to finish tying the papers together in my thesis, whilst soaking up my final months in beautiful Bath ✨

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Can the UK really cut emissions without behaviour change? 🤔 Our latest blog post offers CAST's perspective on the Prime Minister's recent announcement on cutting the UK's climate emissions by 81% by 2035. Read more: cast.ac.uk/starmer-at-c...

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

🤖 Ever wondered what determines #trust in #AI? We investigated the foundations of trust in an AI chatbot, testing an integrative model of trust from interpersonal trust research ➡️ Key results summarised below! #socialpsyc #trustresearch Hot off the press JEP:General, with Anna-Marie Bertram ✨

submitted 197 days ago • 2 comments

Climate psychologists are often the first to say: ‘information alone doesn't change green behavior’ ❌ Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉 🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️ My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO

submitted 202 days ago • 20 comments

Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con... h/t @edhawkins.org

submitted 204 days ago • 13 comments

✨ PREPRINT 📖🤩 "Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide" Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice. osf.io/preprints/ps...

submitted 207 days ago • 7 comments

As I told BBC News we must adapt to worsening #climate impacts. "There are things that we can do that would make a big difference, but it takes investment & it takes planning & coordination. So that's really for government to step in & help make that happen" #StormBert #Floods

submitted 208 days ago • 4 comments

A starter pack of academics, researchers, and organisations active in #EnvironmentalPsychology (the application of psychology to environmental issues, such as climate change, and human-environment interactions. Let me know if you'd like to be added to this list (reply or dm) go.bsky.app/2yJ9TJg

submitted 219 days ago • 67 comments

Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d

submitted 219 days ago • 34 comments

So useful - a brilliant summary of the #COP29 outcomes from the lovely people at @carbonbrief.org

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

Hey Bluesky! 🦋 To introduce myself - I'm Lois, a behavioural scientist @uniofbath.bsky.social. My PhD explores public support for climate policies 🌏 I work w/ @cast-centre.bsky.social & was seconded to @thecccuk.bsky.social ✨️ I'm also interested in novel computational methods like #NLP & #LLMs 👩‍💻

submitted 211 days ago • 2 comments