This summer Lyn wants to cycle across Wales...

✅Accommodation booked
✅Bike spaces on outward train booked
❌Still waiting to book return train

If you're planning a trip by train, you shouldn't have to wait and see to book the best price. You should be able to just book it.

Our newest paper, and my first venture into pedagogical research, has just been accepted for publication in 'The Internet and Higher Education'

My favourite part about it? The title... 'Hey ChatGPT, give me a title for a paper about degree apathy and student use of AI for…

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

Interested in sport? Interested in making sport more sustainable? Then come to Swansea and work with us on a fully-funded MSc by Research on how to make mass-participation sport events more sustainable swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/s… Very flexible about applicant background here too

New research from Swiss university indicates e-bikes could reduce congestion and pollution in towns and cities worldwide 🚗 ➡️ 🚲

globalcyclingnetwork.com/general/news/s…

Birmingham City University have got a really interesting funded PhD place to look at 'alternative' active travel - all the way from things I'd expect (like skateboards and wheelchairs) to more off-the-wall modes like skis and kayaks...! Sounds amazing: bcu.ac.uk/research/our-p…

Another million-hit tweet on here. That's two viral smashes in a month. Looking forward to getting rich now

Motonormativity: A blind spot we all share

Join us on April 18th at 12 (Swiss time) #OUVEMA Université de Lausanne

Prof. Ian Walker will discuss the shared “blind spot” that stops us (car drivers or not) from seeing the negative consequences of automobility

✍️ & zoom link agenda.unil.ch/display/171052…

TRANSPORT PROFESSIONALS!

You've probably heard, or used, the term 'vulnerable road user' - but what exactly does 'vulnerable' mean? We aim to find out

If you work in transport, and have a few spare minutes, please click here uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3uzX3ZB3vo… to participate

Goodness me, the apologists for UK rail responding to this. 'Ackshually you just need to book 87 years in advance and travel via Chad and Murmansk when it's Mega-Super-Sunday-Offpeak - why's that so hard?' It's like some particularly bizarre Privatisation Stockholm Syndrome

🔔 We are still keen to hear from volunteers who identify as having #OCD OR #PTSD OR #Panicdisorder OR #GeneralisedAnxietyDisorder OR have NO mental health difficulties, to take part in #oxforduniversity psychological research 🧠 Please share!! More info: oxicptr.web.ox.ac.uk/help-our-resea…

Happy to share a preprint of some of my PhD work🚨

with Christina Demski and Prof. Nick Pidgeon

Key findings: politicians and celebs who lead by example with low-carbon behaviours increase others' willingness to act and raise trust/credibility/popularity papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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TRANSPORT PROFESSIONALS!

You've probably heard, or used, the term 'vulnerable road user' - but what exactly does 'vulnerable' mean? We aim to find out

If you work in transport, and have a few spare minutes, please click here uniofbath.questionpro.eu/t/AB3uzX3ZB3vo… to participate

Top European court rules Swiss government harmed older women's health by not cutting emissions fast enough bbc.in/4aruXFo

I was in Budapest, right on the track of the 1999 total eclipse. A single, tiny cloud floated slowly across a blue, empty sky and *just* blocked the eclipse from view at the critical moment. But I do remember all the mosquitos suddenly swarming out the instant the light dimmed

Don't want to alarm anyone, but my nephew's toy oven seems to be for baking brains

Word on the (parking-choked) street is that UKGOV has shelved plans to legislate against pavement parking by motorists. DfT has been withholding the results of a consultation on this for almost four years.

Bravo to the Mirror for illustrating this with images of cars on double-yellow lines and with illegal plates (in the article).

Non-bravo to the councillor in the article who can't possibly imagine what people might do if they can't park their cars anywhere they like

Register now for our Advanced Analysis of Linked Health Data Course! 👩‍💻

This course is relevant and applicable to any researchers who use administrative and social care data.

🗓️Monday 8 April - Friday 12 April 2024.

Find out more ➡️ swansea.ac.uk/medicine/cpd/p…

Data-Driven Health & Social Care Talent Programme