Our poster later this morning at #EASP2026 @fergusneville.bsky.social @cliffstott.bsky.social - @ukri.org funded

Meg Russell has written a chapter on the debate in parliament between 2016 and 2019 in Anthony Seldon's latest book, The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026. Drawing on her 2023 book, she says that parliament 'emerged battered and bruised from the process'. Find out more 👇️

Meg Russell contributes to popular new book on the Brexit Effect

Meg Russell has written a chapter on 'The Debate in Parliament, 2016–19' in Anthony Seldon’s new book The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026.

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✍️ "Many disadvantaged pupils in the UK have high aspirations, which can be reinforced or thwarted by social and local norms." Our latest blog draws on our new research to further unpack the drivers of social mobility beyond just attainment and earnings ⤵️

What drives social mobility? A closer look at Crossing Paths - The Sutton Trust

Exploring the dynamics of social mobility beyond attainment and earnings.

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Join us this Sunday 21st June at The Globe Theatre in London for its first Climate Open House - find out how to get more involved in climate action in a fun, family friendly setting! There will be repair cafes, energy advice and talks! Free tickets www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/cli...

Climate Open House | Shakespeare's Globe

Join us for a free day of discovery, with performances, events and activities taking place around Shakespeare's Globe.

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Join us this Sunday 21st June at The Globe Theatre in London for its first Climate Open House - find out how to get more involved in climate action in a fun, family friendly setting! There will be repair cafes, energy advice and talks! Free tickets www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on/cli...

Climate Open House | Shakespeare's Globe

Join us for a free day of discovery, with performances, events and activities taking place around Shakespeare's Globe.

shakespearesglobe.com

Thousands gather for anti-racism rally in Belfast after disorder www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Belfast protest: Thousands gather for anti-racism rally

Protesters gathered at Belfast City Hall for a demonstration against racism, after the past week of violence and disorder.

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www.theargus.co.uk/news/2619228...

How the day unfolded as thousands of protesters fill city to counter right-wing march

Anti-immigration protesters were hugely outnumbered as thousands of counter protesters took to the streets of Brighton

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John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2mo ago

4000 people prevent 300 far-right demonstrators from marching in Brighton www.theargus.co.uk/news/2619168...

'while the media will focus on vaccine scientists & big Pharma companies, the most important issue for control to prevent thousands of deaths in Africa is how to mobilize communities to ensure the best public health practices to reduce transmission' thesocialvaccines.substack.com/p/how-to-sto...

How to stop the new Bundibugyo Ebola virus from killing thousands

A social vaccine comes first.

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AI-driven algorithms designed to maximize engagement on social media can unintentionally set the stage for radicalization. By exploiting the need for belonging and certainty, this can open the door for conflict. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This from Shade The UK is a great guide for future proofing your home for hotter weather www.shadetheuk.com/overheating-...

Overheating Adaptation Guide for Homes — Shade the UK

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Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s at risk of being drowned out by other news, but great to see the CCC’s latest warning on climate adaptation on the front page of the Guardian. An issue that needs far more attention. Great to see @samalvis.bsky.social quoted on the case for more air con too…

Reminds me of a stats class I took when we were told a team of energy demand researchers spent weeks trying to identify why the internal temperature of one of the homes in their study skyrocketed intermittently. Eventually they spoke to the owner who said the cat sometimes sat on the thermostat!

Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Financial Times ran an entire story of coal shipments "jumping" that is based on an algorithmic artifact in shipping data.

The Financial Times ran an entire story of coal shipments "jumping" that is based on an algorithmic artifact in shipping data.

This week I spoke on a panel at the National Academies on the implications of artificial intelligence-related data center electricity use and emissions. I talked about how principles of ethical AI include energy & climate. 🔌💡 Video of the workshop is here: www.nationalacademies.org/event/43750_...

Community-based fact-checking works Community notes reducethe subsequent spread of misleading posts by 61% and increase the odds that users delete their false posts by 94% But they appear too late to stop the viral stage of the diffusion making the effect modest. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

All the philosophy students who pursued their passion made a wise decision. Learning how to think is a always a good investment. Psychology grads are not doing too badly on the job market either.

Creativity is a team sport Our environments and the people around us matter a lot more than our innate abilities when it comes to creativity The greatest invention Thomas Edison made was not the lightbulb or the battery, but creating a innovation team: www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/the-myth-o...

Why Creativity a Team Sport: How Great Ideas Happen

An interview with George Newman on the overlooked social science of creativity and collaboration.

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This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com

How Can We Improve Initial Public Response During Emergencies? Recommendations from a Systematic Review of Pre-Incident Information www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/10...

A single line in this piece just made my day: “The electricity system operator is understood to be preparing to run the grid without any gas for short periods as soon as this summer, in a first for the UK energy system.” Renewables *work*. And progress matters🎉 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain breaks solar energy record twice as UK’s biggest solar farm gets approval

Record high set on Monday and raised on Tuesday, with 14.4GW of electricity generated in sunny spring weather

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Love this work. It’s so important to point out that measuring social issues is not the same as measuring physical ones. If only we could measure attitudes like we measure body temperature!

Samantha Joel@datingdecisions.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We preregistered several competing hypotheses for these models. One possibility was that each measure would correspond to a single, different latent construct. This is the model implicitly assumed in the literature. (3/12)

New paper, out this week in PLOS One, suggests that most close relationship self-report measures are primarily capturing relationship quality 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Predicting relationship quality with itself? A single general factor captures most of the variance across 34 common relationship measures

In relationship science, researchers have generated a wide array of constructs and corresponding self-report measures to characterize, explain, and predict relationship quality – the foremost studied ...

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There's something just so brilliant about coal mines being directly replaced with solar farms www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/07/g...

Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine

Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for...

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Online hostility is predicted by economic & political inequality Inequality breeds online hostility because people crave status in unequal societies and status-seekers constitute the main perpetrators of hostility in political settings, whether online or offline. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:

Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia. From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD. 📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum 🏺

While social media shows you extreme content, AI is more likely to show people more moderate content This means the technology, on average, could have very different effects on polarization. www.ft.com/content/3880...

Gas only sets Spain's electricity price 15% of the time. When gas costs spike it barely registers on the electricity bill. In countries like Italy and the UK gas sets the price 90% of the time. The difference is enormous. I spoke to @politico.com about this. www.politico.eu/article/spai...

What the EU can — and can’t — learn from Spain’s low energy bills

Madrid says a renewables boom is shielding its citizens from soaring fossil fuel costs. But that’s not the full story.

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People have really lost trust in their social media feed--algorithms have amplified the worst voices.

Rachel Ziemba in this post / interview discusses the effects. rziemba.substack.com/p/why-are-oi...

Why Are Oil Benchmark Prices so Subdued?

And a few things to watch/read on the continuing conflict.

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The more active users are on social media, the more polarized they are! The opinions of the these extreme users are filling your newsfeed, but they are not representative of most citizens or even most social media users--which are far less polarized! arxiv.org/pdf/2603.021...