This really ought to be the last nail in the coffin for first past the post. Lab has a landslide on 34% of the vote. Con and Lab between them have 82% of the seats from 57% of the vote. Indefensible in terms of democratic legitimacy.

I am delighted to announce that Chris Stark will be our head Head of Mission Control for Clean Power by 2030. We are bringing together the brightest and best to deliver our national mission to cut bills and make Britain energy independent. Welcome Chris Stark to the team!

We hosted Isaac at C3DS as part of a pilot for a Visiting Fellow programme. We'll be rolling the C3DS Visiting Fellow programme out in 2024-25. If Isaac's visit was an indicator of its success, then we have a lot to look forward to. Thanks, Isaac! c3ds.ex.ac.uk

Net Zero Secretary: Ed Miliband: "The biggest threat to nature and food security, and to our rural communities, is not solar panels or onshore wind. It is the climate crisis... This govt is not going to proceed on the basis of myth and false information... Mr Speaker, no more."

You can also read the full article, recently published in Political Psychology here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Thanks to my coauthors Prof Saffron O'Neill, Prof. Lorraine Whitmarsh MBE, Leda Blackwood, JW Bolderdijk and Tim Kurz (not on twitter). Thanks also to SWDTP for supporting this research!

"What do we do now?" For broader context on our NatureClimate paper, click below for a piece in the The Guardian that also highlights the other two co-published Comments from today. nature.com/articles/s4155… Prof Tiffany Morrison The Bellwood Lab Reef Function Hub theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Thanks to Besample for choosing our project (Sylvia Hayes and Prof Saffron O'Neill) for the $1000 collaborative grant award! This work will help us reach a global sample with our project, and will help to produce important insights about global visual climate comms!🥳

Been quiet on here lately: big changes in our household as schools start again. (Short version: SEND provision is absolutely broken). Makes me even more determined to raise up experiences of neurodivergent students & colleagues. Deep breath, spend time in nature, carry on...

Thursday 19 September, 1 to 1.50 pm ACCESS Webinar Find out what the #socialsciences can do for #environmental organisations. Join ACCESS Network #FlexFund awardee Ruth Lamont from Natural England. 📚Useful resources rb.gy/8ri15c

Post-doc opportunity at King's Geography working on transformational adaptation in the UK jobs.ac.uk/job/DJH953/pos… Deadline 12 September

Congrats Veronica White! A Commended entry in the Climate Creatives Challenge The Climate Creatives Challenge Veronica's short film, 'Dissonance', was inspired by our research paper showing how over half of UK heatwave news articles are led by a 'fun in the sun' pic. climatecreativeschallenge.com/challenge05

Great new ACCESS Network report on centering the social sciences to deliver #NetZero. Eight clear recommendations in this 🧵. "Re-centre NetZero policy attention on the role of society" to achieve change. Summary report: accessnetwork.uk/making-a-net-z… Carbon Brief Harriet Bulkeley

Just published in Global Environmental Change: We investigate how climate contrarians and the fossil fuel industry obstructed US cap-and-trade policy. Disproportionate access to key hearings and FFI lobbying played a major role. Full study: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe… Travis Coan

Link for a 3 year postdoctoral research associate position on our Leverhulme Trust ‘Unfeeling climate change’ project - on how disaffected feelings relate to the climate crisis. Please forward/retweet etc. Questions by email, not DM. durham.taleo.net/careersection/…