Preprint looking at the politics of association on the Climate Contrarian Blogosphere: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
doi.org
Mathew Toll
@mathew-toll.bsky.social
Sociology, climate change, public policy. https://linktr.ee/mathewtoll
New work from Li and Bentley on mental health and extreme weather and climate events
Unequal mental health impacts of extreme weather and climate events - Nature Mental Health
Using population-based longitudinal data from Australia, Li and Bentley evaluated how climate disasters affect mental health, showing that individuals with pre-existing conditions experience dispropor...
nature.com
Some photographs I got of a fire on Acland street, St Kilda. Took place last week on the 22nd of May
Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery:
Floods hit the disadvantaged hardest and drive them deeper into poverty
Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery, say University of Melbourne experts
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
🚨 Publication alert! Please share 🚨 The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching! You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Australian Politics and Policy
Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in university courses.
oercollective.caul.edu.au
We found similar Mathew, multiplication of disadvantage according to forms of capital. Maybe of help? doi.org/10.1111/spol...
What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During COVID‐19
Crisis management is a field that evaluates and solves crisis and disaster responses. Whilst the effectiveness of the ideal-type parameters of crisis management and administration has been well exami...
doi.org
Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery:
Floods hit the disadvantaged hardest and drive them deeper into poverty
Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery, say University of Melbourne experts
pursuit.unimelb.edu.au
Blog post on the question of photography and narrative: mathewtoll362490.substack.com/p/what-is-th...
What is the narrative potential of a photograph?
Walking through the Archibald Prize Exhibit several years ago, I was struck by a large painting of Sam Harris by Zoe Young that took up an entire wall unto itself.
mathewtoll362490.substack.com
Preprint on the effect of exposure to multiple climate-related disasters on mobility and immobility: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
Effects of multiple climate-related disasters on mobility and immobility
Background: As climate-related disasters become more frequent and intense, understanding how people’s patterns of mobility and immobility are affected by multiple disasters is crucial to informing dis...
researchsquare.com
Love the LFI Gallery to share a body of work - the grid just looks so nice: lfi-online.de/en/gallery/m...
Preprint on the effect of exposure to multiple climate-related disasters on mobility and immobility: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8...
Effects of multiple climate-related disasters on mobility and immobility
Background: As climate-related disasters become more frequent and intense, understanding how people’s patterns of mobility and immobility are affected by multiple disasters is crucial to informing dis...
researchsquare.com
Happy to have a new paper out in @thelancetph.bsky.social that offers a framework for exploring how climate change interacts with housing, and the consequences of this for climate-related health risks:
Housing at the intersection of health and climate change
Anthropogenic climate change is causing rapid shifts in temperature and weather patterns, both in location and intensity, making living conditions increasingly hazardous. This complicates housing's fr...
thelancet.com
🌍 Berkeley Earth’s 2025 Global Temperature Report is out. 2025 was the 3rd warmest year on record. Annual global temperature reached 1.44 ± 0.09°C above the pre-industrial baseline; 770 million people experienced locally record-warm annual conditions. Full report: berkeleyearth.org/global-tempe...
Global Temperature Report for 2025 - Berkeley Earth
2025 was the 3rd warmest year on Earth since direct observations began, and recent warming appears to be moving faster than expected.
berkeleyearth.org
Happy to have a new paper out in @thelancetph.bsky.social that offers a framework for exploring how climate change interacts with housing, and the consequences of this for climate-related health risks:
Housing at the intersection of health and climate change
Anthropogenic climate change is causing rapid shifts in temperature and weather patterns, both in location and intensity, making living conditions increasingly hazardous. This complicates housing's fr...
thelancet.com
Has anyone managed to find where to stream/download/see the film Ravens (2024) about Masahisa Fukase?
New preprint on social vulnerability to the health effects of climate change across Australia
Social vulnerability to health impacts of climate change in Australia: understanding dimensions, drivers, and health inequality
Background: Social vulnerability refers to the ways in which social conditions and relations constrain capacities of individuals or groups to anticipate, cope with, or recover from harm. A limited abi...
medrxiv.org
It still grates me that studies written about the U.S. often don't make the setting/context super clear. Reviewers and editors don't let anyone else get away with that
"As it becomes more common to face climate disasters again and again, what does this mean for the mental health and wellbeing of people affected?"
People’s mental health goes downhill after repeated climate disasters – it’s an issue of social equity
Historically, climate disasters were thought of as rare, singular events. But thanks to climate change, disasters are escalating.
theconversation.com
New study looking at the long term and compounding effect of exposure to multiple climate-related disasters by Ang Li and Claire Leppold published in The Lancet Public Health:
Long-term mental health trajectories across multiple exposures to climate disasters in Australia: a population-based cohort study
Additional disaster exposures were associated with greater declines in mental health and shifts in some risk factors. Multiple disaster exposures must be urgently considered in public health, welfare,...
thelancet.com
Co-authored a validation study on self-reported mould. 100 dust samples from Australian homes and an onsite survey were used to quantify the sensitivity and specificity around self-report measures and this is useful for anyone who wants to do large epidemiological or prevalence studies around mould
The validity and accuracy of self-reported measures in assessing indoor mould exposure
Mould growth is indicative of unhealthy indoor environments, posing health risks. Measuring the prevalence and scope of the exposure largely relies on…
sciencedirect.com
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
New paper on the key challenges in undertaking causally focused healthy housing research, including confounding, the positivity assumption, consistency, exposure definition, and measurement. Surveys a decade of research to illustrate strategies for overcoming these challenges
The challenges of quantifying the effects of housing on health using observational data
Housing is an often overlooked yet fundamental social determinant of health. Like other social epidemiology exposures, housing faces a tension between…
sciencedirect.com
Scenes in Wutaishan 📷 Fujifilm X100v Shanxi, China. 2024.
New paper by Rhys Herden looking at issues around deinstitutionalization of marriage, power, and personal life:
Journal of Family Theory & Review | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this article, I revisit the debate surrounding the deinstitutionalization of marriage. I identify the divergent methodologies used to evaluate deinstitutionalization and argue that institutional p...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Scoping review on social vulnerability and the health effects of climate change published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Co-authored with Ang Li and Rebecca Bentley. Check it out: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Mapping social vulnerability indicators to understand the health impacts of climate change: a scoping review
The need to assess and measure how social vulnerability influences the health impacts of climate change has resulted in a rapidly growing body of research literature. To date, there has been no overarching, systematic examination of where this evidence is concentrated and what inferences can be made. This scoping review provides an overview of studies published between 2012 and 2022 on social vulnerability to the negative health effects of climate change. Of the 2115 studies identified from four bibliographic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and CAB Direct), 230 that considered indicators of social vulnerability to climate change impacts on health outcomes were selected for review.
thelancet.com
So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field faces. Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come): www.science.org/content/arti...
The five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers
The burgeoning field is still grappling with fundamental problems, from getting access to data to defining 'misinformation' in the first place
science.org
Paper 'The risk of energy hardship increases with extreme heat and cold in Australia' out in Comms, Earth & Environment looking at climate change and energy hardship in Australia:
The risk of energy hardship increases with extreme heat and cold in Australia - Communications Earth & Environment
In Australia, the energy burden increases with extreme heat, and single-parent or lone-person households, residents living in poor-quality houses, and colder regions are at greater risk, according to ...
doi.org