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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jun 25

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We are currently working to refine our estimates and would love to connect with conference organizers or participants.

It’s a collective effort to understand how academic travel impacts the planet – and what we can do about it. 🌱✈️📉
#ClimateScience #Academia #BehavioralMedicine #Psychology

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jun 25

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That’s why we need your help! 🙏

👉 Have you organized or attended a large (>1000 participants) conference in psychology or behavioral medicine between 2023–2025?

👉 Can you help us retrieve missing data or point us to other relevant events?

Please reach out! 💌

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jun 25

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We relied on publicly available data from over 20 conferences to estimate travel emissions.

But there’s a catch… 🕵️‍♀️

Some events were hard to identify, and some organizers didn’t reply. So we might be underestimating the actual footprint.

Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jun 25

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On average, one international in-person conference visit emits 1.26 tCO2eq per researcher.

That’s 55% of the 2.3 tCO2eq annual carbon budget per person that would keep us on track with the 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement (Gore, 2021). 😬

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jun 25

1/ 🚨 New preprint alert!

We (@lisawarner.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social and myself) estimated the carbon footprint of air travel associated with >20 international conferences (2023–2025) in psychology & behavioral medicine.

Spoiler: it’s a lot. 🛫🌍🧠

Preprint 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · May 7

Pouvez-vous nous aider...
en répondant à cette enquête en ligne ? 📋
en diffusant une maximum ? 💻
Nous avons besoin d'au moins une centaine de réponses...

A vous claviers et merci !

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Apr 17

📄 5/ Curious? You can read the full preprint here:
👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Thanks to my amazing co-authors Alexandre Maisonneuve, Anthony Lantian & @cbadea.bsky.social !

#EnvironmentalPsychology #SocialPsychology #ClimateAction #Identity #Research

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Apr 17

🌎 4/ Bottom line:
Feeling deeply connected to nature helps people stay committed to the environment, beyond political games.

In times of polarization, nurturing ecological identity might be key to stronger climate action... 🌿

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Apr 17

🔍 3/ Across two studies, we found:
No environmental policy was perceived as equally likely and credible when proposed by left- or right-wing parties.

People with a 💪 ecological identity supported pro-environmental policies even when they perceived them as politically opposed to their own views.

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Apr 17

📚 2/ We studied how political orientation and ecological identity interact to shape support for environmental policies.

➡️ Do people reject good some policies because they come from the "wrong" party?
➡️ Can a strong ecological identity to overcome this?

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Apr 17

✏️ 1/ Excited to share our new research:
"Right, left or green: what matters the most for supporting environmental policies?"

We asked: Is it your politics, or how political you think a policy is, that drives your support for environmental policies? 🌱🔵🔴

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Feb 9

Our walking/bluetooth meeting was lovely @lauramkoenig.bsky.social despite my less sunny environment 😝! #Paris

Dr. Laura M. König @lauramkoenig.bsky.social · Feb 5

The sun was finally back for one day, so I decided to move (pun intended) a meeting outside - powered by bluetooth headphones. Still had to bundle up because it was freezing. Thank you for joining me on my walk @claudiaterane.bsky.social! #AcademicSky

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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · Jan 20

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

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Lisa Warner @lisawarner.bsky.social · Jan 6

This new publication is very close to my green heart 🌿

It shows estimates of greenhouse gas emissions caused by travel to @European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) conferences, and offers two solutions for preserving not only human health, but also the health of the planet: (🧵1/4)

Bar chart illustrating the emission saving potential of different locations and online attendance rates. The first bar shows the comparison of assuming an on-site only Bremen conference with all participants travelling to Bremen and no online participation option - 0% saving. The least saving potential would be hybrid conferences held in London or Paris (assuming 8% online attendees) - both bars show 10% saving as compared to the first bar. The next bar shows the hybrid organisation of the Bremen conference with 8% online attendees, which reduced the emissions by 15% as compared to Bremen if it would have been on-site only. Hybrid Frankfurt, Brussels and Amsterdam conferences (with 8% online attendance) would reduce emissions by 15% and 16% as compared to the first bar. It is estimated that the Amsterdam location would derive similar results for Groningen, which is scheduled for 2025. If Bremen would have had a 24% online attendance rate, it would have reduced emissions by 29% as compared to on-site only Bremen. The last two bars show emission saving potential, if the conference would be held only every second year (50%) or fully online (97%) on the basis of Bremen participants.

The bar chart shows the percentage and absolute numbers of delegates per conference and assumed transportation mode as well as online participation rates. For Dubrovnik, Bratislava and Bremen the numbers are based on registration data. For Cascais and Groningen the same participants with the same modi were assumed as in Bremen. The numbers are: Dubrovnik 8% (72 participants) via train/car/bus, 35% (297 participants) via short-haul flight, 42% (363 participants) via long-haul flight, 15% (125 participants) via super long-haul flight, none online as this was not a hybrid conference. Bratislava: 14% (94 participants) via train/car/bus, 41% (285 participants) via short-haul flight, 17% (121 participants) via long-haul flight, 4% (26 participants) via super long-haul flight, 24% (170 participants) online. Bremen: 37% (296 participants) via train/car/bus, 40% (318 participants) via short-haul flight, 9% (69 participants) via long-haul flight, 6% (46 participants) via super long-haul flight, 8% (66 participants) online. Cascais: With projected data from Bremen 2% (15 participants) via train/car/bus, 4% (34 participants) via short-haul flight, 79% (627 participants) via long-haul flight, 7% (53 participants) via super long-haul flight, 8% (66 participants) online. Groningen: With projected data from Bremen 51% (402 participants) via train/car/bus, 26% (207 participants) via short-haul flight, 9% (74 participants) via long-haul flight, 6% (46 participants) via super long-haul flight, 8% (66 participants) online.

world map with integrated zoomed in Europe map, each locating Dubrovnik as conference location. Aggregated data of delegates’ affiliation cities are the starting points of smaller arrows, which funnel into larger arrows per continent, pointing at the conference location to visualise where the majority of delegates started their journey to the respective conference locations. The embedded Europe map also shows lines connecting all affiliation cities with the conference cities. The figures also show the total distances travelled to the conference location (not adjusted for different number of delegates) split by participants from overseas and from Europe (overseas: Dubrovnik 3,420,046km; within Europe: Dubrovnik 1,912,441km)

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jan 6

What a great way to start 2025 by promoting more conversation and more action about scientists' carbon footprint!

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jan 6

What did we learned?
- Conferences with online options 💻 had reduced emissions ↘️ compared to only on-site conferences.
- The choice of venues (e.g., cities well connected by train) can facilitate ground travel 🚂 🚌
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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jan 6

In our last paper, @lisawarner.bsky.social, Ruvn Fleiner, Gudrun Sproesser, @ajamesgreen.bsky.social, Lucia Rehackova, Jennifer Inauen, Vera Araújo-Soares and myself, estimated the travel-related CO2eq emissions of the @ehps.bsky.social past conferences and did some projections... 2/n

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Jan 6

Travelling ✈️ to #academic #conferences can be an important source of carbon emissions (related to air travel ✈️ ) and a source of inequalities (because of visa requirements for Global South scientists 🌍 ). 1/n
Check our last article on this topic: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A little more conversation, a little more action, please: the carbon footprint of travelling to conferences of the European Health Psychology Society

The environmental impact of on-site conferences, with air travel as the primary contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, has prompted a surge in research in recent years. The objective of this repo...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Jan 3

Always lovely to get emails from professors who use my open textbook in their stats course. There are now 17 chapters, explaining on a slightly more conceptual level why we compute statistics and what we learn from them, with self-graded quizzes: lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Improving Your Statistical Inferences - 1 Using p-values to test a hypothesis

This open educational resource contains information to improve statistical inferences, design better experiments, and report scientific research more transparently.

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BONUS @thedisproof.bsky.social · Dec 4

Regarding climate justice, most people underestimate the carbon impacts of the richest www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Underestimation of personal carbon footprint inequality in four diverse countries - Nature Climate Change

Existing studies show carbon footprint inequality between and within countries, but awareness of this inequality is unclear. This study finds widespread underestimation of carbon footprint inequality ...

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Dec 4

I very much enjoyed giving a presentation to @institutducerveau.bsky.social about behaviour change and social psychology for promoting healthier and sustainable lifestyles (reducing 🚗, reducing 🥩 and increasing public support for climate policies 🌳)

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Prof Lisa Schipper 🌍🍉💪 @lisaschipper.bsky.social · Nov 30

For new people, this is a great way to find environmental social scientists: go.bsky.app/GNpJZBo

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Claudia Teran-Escobar @claudiaterane.bsky.social · Dec 2

Hello Carlie, can you add me to this list, please?

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Sarah Briggs @sarahbriggs.bsky.social · Nov 29

Climate change and health

go.bsky.app/VmEFso3

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