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Lisa Fridkin

@psychlisa.bsky.social
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Psychologist at UCL, Social Research Institute. Focussed on the Climate and Ecological crisis. Researching activism, wellbeing and ESD.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This shows a complete disregard for the significant issues raised by local action groups. I hope there is mitigation for water use and high temperature impacts as well as regulation for this centre. The current approach to and plan for data centres needs review. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy
Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I wouldn't disagree with any of this, from Sarah Wilson www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...
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Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it
Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Climate solutions are about people coming together. With two wonderful #UCL students we delivered a Global Issues Hackathon with a focus on finding interdisciplinary solutions to climate impacts. Our inspiring participants developed truly innovative interventions. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2026/07/...
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How a hackathon can empower students and help solve real world issues
Offering students extracurricular opportunities to engage in today’s global challenges allows them to apply their knowledge, experience and skills to urgent issues...(read more)
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hope that Burnham might be a good PM and make informed decisions crushed before he even starts: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Today was the last talk in our 25/6 #SRICLEAN seminar series. Thanks to our fantastic speakers fostering discussion on #socialsciences and #climate. Catch up on some of the talks here. www.youtube.com/@CLEAN-UCL @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social Ben Sovacool, Ulf Liebe, @antvalentim.bsky.social
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Climate, Learning and Environment Academic Network
CLEAN is an interdisciplinary, collaborative community conducting innovative research meeting the challenges of the climate crisis. Our core aims are to foster an interdisciplinary, collaborative rese...
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
UCL Social Research Institute #CLEAN Seminar Series. Book now for our final talk of the series with Dr Antonio Valentim @antvalentim.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2...
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The electoral consequences of climate adaptation policies
António Valentim will discuss the electoral consequences of governments' adaptation policies.
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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
@sriucl.bsky.social with @psychlisa.bsky.social #changepossible
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Together Alliance @togetheralliance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Today’s the day! Meet at 12pm on Park Lane to march together against the far right. Let’s make history.
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UCL Grand Challenges @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
UCL Climate Crisis–funded project captures students’ views on higher education in a climate‑impacted world—calling for stronger leadership, better access to opportunities and more support for wellbeing. Read the report: osf.io/jyu67/overview
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Have you completed your 5-a-day? I’m enjoying watching my digital clutter shrink. How about you?
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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Join the Sustainable @sriucl.bsky.social challenge by deleting five things a day. Digital clutter can be as stressful as real clutter, and unused data stored on servers adds to CO₂ emissions. Decluttering clears your mind and helps the planet. #digitalfive With @psychlisa.bsky.social
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Next Tuesday 24th - final seminar of the term with Prof Ulf Liebe on themes of #climatejustice #climatepolicy @sriucl.bsky.social
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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Over the next five days join the Sustainable @sriucl.bsky.social challenge by deleting five things a day. Digital clutter can be as stressful as real clutter, and unused data stored on servers adds to CO₂ emissions. Decluttering clears your mind and helps the planet. #digitalfive
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Kristyna Skriczka @kristynaskriczka.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Over the next five days join the Sustainable @sriucl.bsky.social challenge by deleting five things a day. Digital clutter can be as stressful as real clutter, and unused data stored on servers adds to CO₂ emissions. Decluttering clears your mind and helps the planet. #digitalfive
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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Open Access UCL Research: Students’ perspectives on Higher Education in a climate-impacted world discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Students’ perspectives on Higher Education in a climate-impacted world - UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Read the report and see some of our wonderful student partners talking about our @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social funded project on Students' perspectives of HE in a climate-impacted world. doi.org/10.17605/OSF... mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/131252 #climatecrisis #coproduction #HE #studentvoice
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Grand Challenges Climate Change
Grand Challenges Climate Change
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
UCL Social Research Institute #CLEAN Seminar Series. Book now for our next talk with Professor Ulf Liebe. #SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers, topics ranging from #ClimatePolicy and #ClimateJustice to #Energy transitions www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2... @sriucl.bsky.social
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Challenges in measuring the importance of justice concerns for climate policy support
This presentation invites reflection on the theoretical concepts that underpin research into social acceptance and climate policy support.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Don't miss it
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
UCL Social Research Institute #CLEAN Seminar Series 2026. Book now for our next talk with Professor Benjamin Sovacool. #SocialScience seminar series with leading researchers to discuss topics ranging from #ClimateJustice and #Adaptation policies to #Energy transitions
Photos of speakers and description of talks
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The @sriucl.bsky.social VRA call is live! Postgrad students can join real research projects, from global health and climate activism to arts-based studies and systematic reviews. Huge thanks to colleagues who submitted projects! More info on your student Moodle platform. @ioe.bsky.social #research
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We are on the cusp of losing all meaningful coral reefs and it’s barely making the news let alone the headlines.
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
We are in a polycrisis. The damage caused by PFCs to our ecosystems and all living things is all part of the climate and ecological breakdown we are watching unfold around us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn
More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/05/2025
At #UCU2025 we passed a vital motion backing a year of trade union climate action, starting autumn 2025 we’re embedding climate justice into our union work. Because climate justice is union business. #ClimateAction #UnionPower #UCU2025
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Changing your banks to an ethical provider is a simple and highly effective climate action. Make sure to tell your fossil-fueling, destructive bank why you have left them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘We are witnessing ecocide’: Santander accused of funding vast deforestation
In 2024, the Spanish bank provided more than $600m in financing to firms linked to beef, palm oil, soya and supply chains driving deforestation, says Global Witness
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Relieved and pleased to see these foolish and ill-informed comments called out in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’
Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
This Earth Day, pledge to speak up: share the wonder of nature’s beauty & the deep fear of seeing it all slip away. ‘It’s only by talking about it and feeling what’s going on that we can move forward’ Jen - Science teacher She is one of the authors of Scientists on Survival tinyurl.com/mwesp8hf
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Jen Murphy on being a science teacher in the climate emergency
YouTube video by Scientists for Extinction Rebellion
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Another terrible decision www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Luton airport expansion approved by government
Annual passenger numbers are due to almost double to 32 million, despite environmental concerns.
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UCL Discovery @ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Open Access UCL Research: The effects of manipulating choice on children’s enjoyment and performance in a reading task discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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The effects of manipulating choice on children’s enjoyment and performance in a reading task - UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New open access article on how a straightforward manipulation of meaningful choice in reading material can lead to improved performance in a comprehension task and enjoyment in the activity rdcu.be/edXxJ
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The effects of manipulating choice on children’s enjoyment and performance in a reading task
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is over twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled. This is a dangerous, undemocratic & disproportionate attack on longstanding right to peaceful protest in UK #DefendOurJuries
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Locking up peaceful protesters has no place in a tolerant society” - I couldn't agree more with this statement from Friends of the Earth senior Lawyer Katie de Kauwe www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Sixteen jailed UK climate activists to appeal against ‘unduly harsh’ sentences
Protesters will gather outside court of appeal in support of activists, who say judges defied decades of precedent
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Since 2016, more homes have been bought as 'additional dwellings' (second homes, holiday homes, Airbnbs, buy to lets, and so on) than by first-time buyers" Excellent anlaysis of the housing crisis by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social But government isn't listening www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
CAN Bill dropped and new runway at LHR - Labour showing no understanding of how to act or urgency of climate breakdown
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
This needs to change. Peaceful protest is a democratic right. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK accused of undermining democratic rights with climate protest crackdown
British director of Human Rights Watch attacks ‘dangerous hypocrisy’ of government
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Scientist Rebellion @scientistrebellion.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
COP 29 is a fossil fuel scam For 30 years the UN COP Climate Conferences have failed to deliver meaningful change. They have served as a ‘talking shop’ with the big polluters given seats at the top table to cast doubt over the sciences and delay meaningful action. 1/12
COP29 President, the Azerbaijan environment minister Mukhtar Babayev in front of flags of the UN and UAE, where COP28 was held. The climate warming stripes frame the image. The text “COP29 is a fossil fuel scam” overlays the image. The word scam is dominant.
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Yellow Dot Studios @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Extreme Weather Report, November 14, 2024. This is your weather on fossil fuels. #wx #news #climatechange #extremeweather #worldnews
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The Extreme Weather Report, November 14, 2024
YouTube video by Yellow Dot Studios
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Lisa Fridkin @psychlisa.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Our current research explores climate activism - who engages in NVDA, motivations for doing so and effects on wellbeing. We have interviewed some incredible people. This blogpost discusses our broad first impressions of this work. blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2023/12/...
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Who are climate activists and why do they risk so much?
For climate activists, there is a threat much greater than this media condemnation: penalties that lead to arrest (with reported use of so-called pain compliance tactics), injunctions, prison sentence...
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