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Dr Lois Player

@loisplayer.bsky.social
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Behavioural Scientist | Climate Policy & Behaviour Change 🌏 | Novel Computational Methods - NLP & LLMs 👩‍💻 | Research Consultant | Currently Contracting at European Climate Foundation ✨ loisplayer.com

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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🧵 4/4 To avoid falling support for climate policies, and a shift to parties who won't support them - we unquestionably need to rebuild trust and build climate policies *with* the public 🙌
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🧵 3/4 The review even shows that when governments support workers, involve communities, and communicate clearly, the backlash fades and support grows.
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🧵 2/4 When people feel targeted by or left out of policies, they are more likely to back these politicians - who promise to roll them back. What’s driving this isn’t climate denial, but *distrust* of the government to do what's best for people.
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Climate policies are essential. But what if their design is alienating people? 👽 A Nature review shows that climate policies seen as unfair are pushing voters toward right-wing populist parties - who frame climate action as elite, costly, and out of touch 🌍 🧵 1/4 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Last week, I graduated from my PhD in Behavioural Science - marking the end of 8 years at beautiful Bath ✨ I was so grateful (& emotional) to graduate with my partner and lovely friends. Thanks to my amazing supervisors, @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social @christinademski.bsky.social 🤍 Over & out, Bath 🥹
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Huge thanks to my co-authors - Ryan Hughes, Kaloyan Mitev, @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, @christinademski.bsky.social, Nick Nash, Tris Papakonstantinou, & Mark Wilson — a dream team of qual, quant, & ML expertise. Thanks also to AAPS CDT- without whom Ryan and I would never have begun this project! 🚀
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The code is totally open-access - and we are building a user-friendly interface now! 👩🏼‍💻 Want to participate in an early pilot or receive updates? Sign up: tinyurl.com/DECOTAform
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Interested in using DECOTA? DECOTA (DEep COmputational Text Analyser) is a scientifically validated tool designed to help you rapidly analyse survey response data through an automated process based on...
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Even as a preprint, DECOTA drew significant interest from policymakers for its potential to: • Provide rapid insights in time-sensitive situations • Scale analysis to huge datasets that could not be analysed manually • Support more interpretative qual work 💭
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
We tested DECOTA on 4 human-coded datasets. It identified: • 92% of all human-coded sub-themes • 90% of main themes …in just 10 minutes and $0.82 per dataset 🚀
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
DECOTA uses fine-tuned LLMs to analyse open-ended text data - with no human input needed. It’s a transparent 6 step process, that outputs: - Themes & sub-themes in the data - Their prevalence - How they vary by demographic group - Example quotes
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
DECOTA is here! 🎉 Our automated free-text analysis tool is now published in Psychological Methods! DECOTA automatically analyses free-text data quickly, affordably, and with human-like accuracy. Paper: doi.org/10.1037/met0... Press story: www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I’m officially Dr Player! 🥹 It was an honour to defend my PhD last week with world-leading experts, Geertje Schuitema & Nathalia Gjersoe. Big thanks to my wonderful supervisors, @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social & @christinademski.bsky.social, AAPS CDT, & countless loved ones for their unwavering support ✨
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Can we build the #NetZero future the Climate Change Committee says is possible? 🌍 Today @thecccuk.bsky.social published its latest advice to the Government in its #SeventhCarbonBudget report. Read our CAST response: cast.ac.uk/building-a-n... Key messages thread 🧵
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Building a Net Zero future: CAST’s response to the CCC’s Seventh Carbon Budget Report - cast.ac.uk
CAST responds to the Climate Change Committee's (CCC) latest advice on how to achieve Net Zero in its Seventh Carbon Budget report.
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So great to see the CCC’s 7th Carbon Budget published today. It was a pleasure to contribute to this during my time in the wonderful People & Business team, & to see our @cast-centre.bsky.social work referenced 🌟 Importantly: 1/3 of emissions reductions will come from household behaviour change 🤯
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The mad stampeed when they announce the platform 😂
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thanks Jake! Great to see these trends coming to the fore 👑
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Very excited to have joined the European Climate Foundation as a Research Consultant! 🌍 ECF is an NGO working across Europe to foster #ClimateAction, & I’m looking forward to helping make sense of their public opinion data 📊 An exciting year ahead w/ this role - and lots of big travel plans! ✨
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you so much @masharemskar.bsky.social 🥹 what a journey it was 🤍
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thanks so much Jake! ☺️
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thank you so much Emma!
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
A huge thank you to my amazing supervisory team @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social & @christinademski.bsky.social for your unfaltering support always - and many other incredible people along the way 🌟
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
PhD thesis submitted! 🥹 3 incredible years – 2 secondments, 3 publications, 3 consultancy projects, 1 book chapter, and even the honour of advising governmental departments – all crystallised into 80,000 words. From undergrad to PhD, I'm so grateful for 8 beautiful years @uniofbath.bsky.social ✨
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Excited about the UK Govt's #AI Opportunities plan - a big step to drive positive, safe change w/ AI 🚀 1. Fast-track data centre expansion 2. Unlock datasets to fuel research 3. Train 10,000s in AI by 2030 Fab to see Matt Clifford - who I was lucky to work w/ at Entrepreneur First - leading this!
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Jake Reynolds @jakereynolds.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
It’s getting windier, wetter, wilder, hotter, harsher, drier, and less predictable out there And more expensive Globally, climate damage to infrastructure, agriculture, health and economic productivity is set to cost $3.1 trillion/year by 2050 With a cascade of bad outcomes⬇️ 🔗 shorturl.at/rxFdX
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My lovely colleagues at CAST are advertising 5 PhD funded places! Couldn't think of a more wonderful team to do your PhD with ✨ 🌎
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Congrats to you both Emma! ☺️
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
For all the bad news in 2024, there was lots of good too ✨ www.positive.news/society/what-went-right-in-2024-the-good-news-that-mattered/ EU emissions fell 8% 🌱 China's renewable boom ⚡️ New biodiversity laws 🌺 Species regeneration 🦬 Flu vaccine progress 💉 15-min city adoption 🏙️ Happy New Year! 🦋
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What went right in 2024: the top 25 good news stories of the year
There were ‘mind-blowing’ medical advances, species bounced back, renewables surged, cities became more liveable, plus more good news
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Huge huge achievement & end of an incredible era 🥹👏✨️
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Hey Yara! These are really cool findings & love the look of your work. I'm at Bath Uni just finishing my PhD & have used LLMs in context of understanding climate policy support. Your application looks v interesting & would love to chat sometime!
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Very cool new #LLM study in @natureportfolio.bsky.social 📢 LLMs, like humans, exhibit in-group favouritism & out-group degradation. Both in the lab and in real human-LLM chats. We *must* carefully curate training data to mitigate this bias 👩‍💻 www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00741-1
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Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science
Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Love this hahaha
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Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · 09/12/2024
@elpinchbeck.bsky.social is right. Adaptation has been a lesser priority for too long. Not only are the costs of events like #StormDarragh significant, but climate impacts are holding back the govt's renewal agenda. More here: green-alliance.org.uk/briefing/ada... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK 'not ready' for extreme weather, says climate change head
The head of the Climate Change Committee calls on the government to invest in adaptations now.
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Starting the week feeling accomplished! ✔️ Paper revisions completed - for a study I'm really proud of. ✔️ Final PhD study written up (!) Now to finish tying the papers together in my thesis, whilst soaking up my final months in beautiful Bath ✨
A wintery meadow scene in Bath, UK - with the sun shining and blue skies.
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The Centre for Climate Change and Social Transformations (CAST) @cast-centre.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Can the UK really cut emissions without behaviour change? 🤔 Our latest blog post offers CAST's perspective on the Prime Minister's recent announcement on cutting the UK's climate emissions by 81% by 2035. Read more: cast.ac.uk/starmer-at-c...
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Starmer at COP29: Can the UK really cut emissions without behaviour change? - cast.ac.uk
The PM's assertion that the UK can achieve its new emissions target without any changes to people’s lifestyles is misguided, and unhelpful.
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Fanny Lalot @fannylalot.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🤖 Ever wondered what determines #trust in #AI? We investigated the foundations of trust in an AI chatbot, testing an integrative model of trust from interpersonal trust research ➡️ Key results summarised below! #socialpsyc #trustresearch Hot off the press JEP:General, with Anna-Marie Bertram ✨
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Jake Reynolds @jakereynolds.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Climate psychologists are often the first to say: ‘information alone doesn't change green behavior’ ❌ Particularly where big cost/convenience barriers exist But 85% of us report knowing little about how to be green 📉 🔁 Follow this 🧵 for 11 climate comms hacks ⬇️ My blog on this ➡️ bit.ly/3VdcFlO
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Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con... h/t @edhawkins.org
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I haven't! Sounds super useful - will have a look thank you! :)
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Charlotte Pennington 🌻 @drcpennington.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
✨ PREPRINT 📖🤩 "Study Preregistration: A How-To Guide" Written for students, this guide outlines the 'what, why, and how' of preregistration, perceived barriers and their solutions, and 10 top tips to adopting and/or critically evaluating this open research practice. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This looks so useful - thank you Charlotte! I definitely found it tricky at first to find good resources on open science, so this is invaluable :)
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Great to see you on BBC Aaron! Totally agree there's a lot more adaptation that could be done. The floods are terrible but hopefully will encourage some action!
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
As I told BBC News we must adapt to worsening #climate impacts. "There are things that we can do that would make a big difference, but it takes investment & it takes planning & coordination. So that's really for government to step in & help make that happen" #StormBert #Floods
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello! Please could I be added to this? I'm a behavioural scientist, working mostly in climate behaviours & policy :)
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hello! Please could I be added? A lot of my work is around public support for Clean Air Zones :) Thank you!
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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A starter pack of academics, researchers, and organisations active in #EnvironmentalPsychology (the application of psychology to environmental issues, such as climate change, and human-environment interactions. Let me know if you'd like to be added to this list (reply or dm) go.bsky.app/2yJ9TJg
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Emilio Ferrara @emilioferrara.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Ready for another Computational Social Science Starter Pack? Here is number 2! More amazing folks to follow! Many students and the next gen represented! go.bsky.app/GoEyD7d
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hi Emilio! I'd love to be added to this if possible - some of my work develops & validats novel NLP methodologies using LLMs. Thank you! :)
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hey Meredith! Please can I be added to this? I'm a psychologist studying public support for climate policies :) Thank you!
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Chris Stark @chrisstark.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So useful - a brilliant summary of the #COP29 outcomes from the lovely people at @carbonbrief.org
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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hello! Please can I be added to this? Part of my research uses AI (LLMs) for analysing climate policy data. Thank you!
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