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Royal College of Physicians @rcphysicians.bsky.social · Jun 19

Air pollution must be recognised as a public health issue.

Our report 'A breath of fresh air' highlights evidence on the increased range of health impacts linked to air pollution.

The government needs to treat #airpollution as a serious & preventable health risk.

🔗 ow.ly/F3yq50Wc7wr

#CleanAirDay

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jun 19

Want to hear more about our project INGENIOUS and how findings may be used to improve indoor air quality? Come along to our online webinar on Monday.

Stockholm Environment Institute @sei.org · Jun 18

🌬️ Discover why indoor air matters!

Join SEI and partners on June 23 at 1:00 PM for a powerful #LCAW2025 webinar on indoor air quality and its implications for net zero and public health.

Register 👉 buff.ly/EJyKwbN

#ClimateWeek #CleanAirDay

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · May 16

Interested in our behaviour change intervention for improving ventilation in small businesses? You can download it here (in multiple languages). #PsySciSky

Abigail Hathway @abigailhathway.bsky.social · May 15

The guidance in 9 languages is available for download at this link: forms.gle/3ssmYgKF3GYT... (there is a very short form to complete to get at it). The supplementary material linked to in the paper provides winter guidance in english as a full page spread.

Improving Ventilation in Small Businesses

In order to download the guidance please complete the short questions below. This helps us understand the impact of our work, and helps us shape future plans. This work was supported by funding from...

forms.gle

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · May 8

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · May 8

Our interdisciplinary paper on improving ventilation in the hospitality sector is now online! We found that a lack of guidance + conflicting priorities were key barriers to ventilation, and examine the effectiveness/acceptability of a motivational + guidance intervention. doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Paper title: Improving hospitality venue ventilation via behavioural change as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights: 1) Ventilation of small-scale hospitality venues was below recommended standards; 2) Better ventilation barriers included limited guidance, funding, and venue ownership; 3) Motivations towards customer satisfaction conflicted with improving ventilation; 4) Introduction of new guidance increased ventilation actions in 3 of 6 venues; 5) Short-term CO2 monitoring helped to inform venue owners of ventilation performance

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Mar 25

Interested in using behavioural science to tackle pollution? I'm advertising a fully-funded interdisciplinary PhD project at the Uni of Sheffield with @sheffielddust.bsky.social & Darpan Das (Uni of York), to start Sep 2025. Application deadline 4th April! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PsySciSky

ECOSOLUTIONS - Earth, Fire, Wind and Water: Understanding and reducing pollution caused by domestic solid fuel burning in urban environments. at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS - Earth, Fire, Wind and Water: Understanding and reducing pollution caused by domestic solid fuel burning in urban environments. at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAP...

www.findaphd.com

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Feb 28

Really pleased that our meta-analysis on prejudice confrontation (with @lilitou.bsky.social) has now been published in Psychological Bulletin. We find that confronting prejudice is an effective bias reduction technique (but there is more research to be done!): doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
#PsySciSky

Screen shot of the abstract and public significance statement. The abstract reads as follows: Confronting prejudice is a promising strategy for reducing intergroup bias. The current meta-analysis
estimated the effects of confronting prejudice on intergroup bias in the confronted person and examined the
impact of potential moderators. Eligible studies measured intergroup bias in participants confronted versus
not confronted for intergroup bias. A three-level mixed-effects analysis on 91 effect sizes found a
significant, medium-sized effect of confronting prejudice on reducing intergroup bias (g+ = 0.54). There
was only limited evidence of publication bias. Confrontation was differentially effective at reducing
different types of intergroup bias with a medium-to-large effect on using or endorsing stereotypes, small-tomedium
effects on behavior and behavioral intentions, and no significant effects on cognitive prejudice.
Effects were otherwise largely robust to differences in confrontation, sample, and study design
characteristics. Yet, studies predominantly focused on whether confronting the use of stereotypes reduced
subsequent use of stereotypes in artificial settings, and primarily sampled U.S.-based, young, White adults,
making it difficult to generalize effects to other forms of intergroup bias and populations, particularly in realworld
settings. Studies also tended to measure intergroup bias immediately after confrontation, so the
duration of effects over longer periods is less clear. To better evaluate the potential of confrontation as a
prejudice reduction technique, future research should examine whether confronting prejudice reduces
different forms of intergroup bias in more diverse participant samples and settings, over longer periods, and
further test theoretical mediators of these effects.

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Feb 11

Really interesting perspectives on the current state of UK HE

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Feb 11

On the front line of the redundancy crisis in UK higher education: “I found myself sobbing every time I came into the office. It felt unimaginable that an intellectual project into which so many people had invested so much of their lives would simply fade away” #AcademicSky #EduSky

The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line

Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across the UK. But what effect is all this having on the atmosphere within the departments affected – ...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Behavioural Research UK (BR-UK) @behaviourresuk.bsky.social · Feb 10

We're hiring! Join our team in Sheffield as a Research Assoc for BR-UK.
This 3.5 year post will support a work package on Methods & Evidence Synthesis, working closely with Prof @princellewelyn.bsky.social & Dr Harriet Baird.
Apply by Fri 21st February here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

Research Associate

jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · Feb 5

🔥 Hot Take: What’s holding back behavioral research on climate change mitigation? 🌍

Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇

#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability

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Susan Michie @susanmichie.bsky.social · Jan 27

I am frequently asked if people can reproduce published images of the Behaviour Change Wheel and the COM-B model. Please, no need to contact me as the answer is always yes, if cited correctly. #OpenScience. The original article is implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... .. & book ...

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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · Jan 23

Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

www.nature.com

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 25

I had a little chuckle to myself while etching this mini bottle to use for propagating houseplant cuttings. Husband didn’t get the joke. Must be psychology humour! #PsySciSky

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Safe Air Schools UK @safeairschoolsuk.bsky.social · Jan 24

Safe Air School’s updated flyer with enhanced sources and references is available to download and share.

With thanks to @mishwoz.bsky.social for her expertise.

Further resources coming soon…

#SafeAirSchools

Children deserve clean air in classrooms flyer. Includes information about indoor air pollution

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 24

A clear and accessible summary of why we shouldn’t use wood burning stoves (if you’ve got other means to heat your home).

Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · Jan 24

"There is something cosy & appealing about settling down next to a roaring fire in winter but, every year, nearly 61,000 premature deaths in Europe are caused by #airpollution.. [from] people burning wood or coal to heat their homes."

@johnwenger9.bsky.social

theconversation.com/wood-burning...

Wood-burning stoves are a serious problem for your health – and the environment

People who use solid fuel stoves as a secondary source of heating could consider stopping its use altogether. That really would be a breath of fresh air.

theconversation.com

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 24

Interested in finding out what research we’re doing on indoor air quality? Our overview paper on ‘The INGENIOUS project: Towards understanding air pollution in homes’, led by @niccarslaw.bsky.social ‬has now been published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Jan 22

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 22

Interesting paper about regional, national and institutional variation in promotion criteria for full professor #AcademicSky

Daniel MacPhee 🇨🇦 @d-macphee.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hiring criteria differ by country
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Want to become a professor? Here’s how hiring criteria differ by country

Huge analysis identifies regional variations in the criteria that institutions use to move researchers up the ranks.

www.nature.com

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · Jan 21

You know what we express far too infrequently in organisations? Gratitude. And I don’t mean a perfunctory ‘thanks’. I mean proper, heartfelt, authentic gratitude. For a job well done. For valuable advice. For excellence. For support. For just being there for us. For achieving aims. For inspiring…

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 21

It’s beautiful this morning, isn’t it!

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Alon Zivony @alonzivony.bsky.social · Jan 20

Are you a cognitive psychologist with some free time this September? Then plz consider spending your time with us in ESCOP, hosted in Sheffield, UK

ESCOP is going to be brilliant, and Sheffield is so great. If you're unsure, just google "peak district" to give you some motivation

www.escop2025.com

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 20

In this video, Marianne Day talks about our recently published paper on the barriers UK employers perceive to hiring autistic people. We used behavioural science frameworks to explore barriers - you can also read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AutRes

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 18

Yes please, Susan, if there’s still space in the starter pack

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 16

This sounds very cool! Great potential resource for systematic review/meta-analysis

Adi Wiezel, Ph.D. @awiezel.bsky.social · Feb 9

Neat prejudice reduction intervention resource database from @betsylevyp.bsky.social and colleagues plugged at #SPSP2024. prejudicereduction.princeton.edu (1/3)

Prejudice Reduction Evidence Database

prejudicereduction.princeton.edu

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Chantelle Wood @chantellewwood.bsky.social · Jan 16

New paper on self-objectification by the brilliant
Zhuo Hu, demonstrating that Lindner & Tantleff-Dunn's Self-Objectification Beliefs and Behaviors Scale is valid for measuring self-objectification in cisgender heterosexual men as well as women- doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...