Professor of Climate Politics and Computational Social Science, University of Leeds, UK. Interested in climate movements, norms, environmental (political) behaviour, tipping points, AI, https://cdp.leeds.ac.uk/research/normative-change-climate-emergency/
Viktoria Spaiser
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A must watch, even as it attracts much criticism
👉Excellent in any case if it triggers deeper conversations
👉Appreciate Rutger's communication skills!
This is foundational stuff:
(just five pages to understand why we're where we are on climate change)
cssn.org/cssn-primer-...
countedoutfilm.com/count-me-in/
This is a bang on thread from @brenttoderian.bsky.social about how politicians need to get smart on how to listen to residents but also lead and deliver at pace. All too often 'consult more/better' is code for delay, weaken, cancel action & favour the status quo while our cities stay broken...
NEW – Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026
✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam
Read here: buff.ly/wFGUgMU
🧠Happy to share that our perspective paper on GenAI for climate policy has been published at npj Climate Action!
🤖We discuss LLM as a public-acceptance emulator in climate policy pipelines
🔗Link in: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
👥Thank you Ajay and @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social for leading this!
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels.
www.positive.news/environment/...
🗳️ As the dust settles after Gorton and Denton's hard-fought byelection, JUST Deputy Director @matpaterson.bsky.social provides a striking expert analysis of how the UK political landscape is evolving - and what this means for climate policy.
Read the full analysis: bit.ly/40cSczE
How does climate threat fuel polarization? 🧵
In our new paper, we introduce the ARCADE model. Using a 1,967-person experiment, we found that authoritarians suppress climate anger toward leaders and displace it onto outgroups, driving policy obstruction.
Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...
Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.
Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
Host a screening and use our toolkit to spark real conversations about what math could be. At your school, library, workplace, or living room—this story belongs everywhere and to everyone.
A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels
Twenty years ago, climate denial was a problem of the right. Today, AI denial is a problem of the left, and the consequences could be even more disastrous.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpTZ...
1. Here’s a thread on #NIMBY (“not in my backyard”) and the challenges of change in cities:
First off, although it might feel that way, NIMBY isn’t unique to your city, and it’s (probably) not worse in your city than anywhere else. It’s also not surprising, since it’s largely about human nature.
