Assistant Professor in risk perception and risk communication @UCLIRDR + Research Affiliate @CSERCambridge. Runner, podcast obsessive and music nerd!
Joined February 2009
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Calling all disaster risk people! Led by the amazing @CRSchneider3, get our top tips on how to communicate statistics and evidence in crises (and how not to!) 📊🦠🌋🌍📈
Wonderful to see our review on the communication of statistics and evidence in times of crisis out. What does research tell us about the do’s and don’ts of evidence communication and underlying psychology? doi.org/10.1146/annurev-stat…
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@PaulatDR is an active member and collaborator of this project. Here’s an insightful exchange between him and Psychologist @sarahdryhurst youtube.com/watch?v=Wnf0zfDc…
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How does it really feel to survive an #earthquake?
Take a journey into a deeply human experience with Dr @DanielHaines1, historian & lecturer in #Disaster and #Crisis Response at the @UCLIRDR.
#TimePerception #Emergency
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We just launched the new #RiskKnowHow platform riskknowhow.org. In collaboration with @ipur_nus, supported by @LR_Foundation & with the input of over 100 people who help their communities make sense of risk. #AAASmtg
@d_spiegel @risk_literacy @alex_freeman @sarahdryhurst
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Our Masters programmes combine teaching & research, training experts to analyse & provide solutions to complex issues. Join our high quality, high impact Master's courses & start your rewarding career in risk, resilience & disaster reduction.
To apply: ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-redu…
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I had a great time speaking today with the 2nd year BSc students about inclusive #warnings for #asylumseekers & #refugees!
Thanks very much to Prof @CarinaFearnley and Dr @sarahdryhurst for inviting me to lecture in their new module on #WarningsForAll.
@stsucl @UCLWRC @UCLIRDR
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Very excited to share a Nature article published today reporting the status of groundwater levels at global scale from monitoring data. Groundwater levels are mostly declining but there are also signs of recovery in some places.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
#Groundwater #global #ucl
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It always blows my mind how much wider the partisan trust gap is for US media compared to the UK 🤯
Most British media is trusted (or distrusted) about equally by supporters of both major parties. That’s true of virtually no US media org.
Deeply corrosive for US society.
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.@readfearn from @guardian delves into how I partnered with @UNICEF & @sabinvaccine to co-design the @crankyunclevax game in several African countries, pilot testing the game's effectiveness at inoculating against vaccine misinformation theguardian.com/society/2024…
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Large-language models show in-group bias, producing more positive sentences when prompted with words such as "we are" as opposed to "they are"
These biases can be increased if models are fine-tuned with partisan tweets!
They can also be decreased through further fine-tuning
🚨New Preprint: "Generative language models exhibit social identity biases"
Did you know LLMs mirror human-like biases, showing human-levels of ingroup solidarity & outgroup hostility? A thread:
📄 arxiv.org/abs/2310.15819
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Just published:
"#Hurricane #risk assessment in a multi-hazard context for #Dominica"
doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-4…
#IslandStudies #DRR #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRisk #RiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement #DRRTwitter #DisasterTwitter #EMGTwitter #ClimateTwitter #WxTwitter
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For the second year in a row we are organising the Sustainability Training School @IGSD_UoW. A great opportunity for ECRs to engage with peers from across the globe and work intensively for a week on exploring solutions for a sustainable and resilient future!
📢 Exciting Opportunity Alert! Call for Papers at Early Career Researchers’ Sustainability Training School 2024 📚🎓
Dear LinkedIn Community,
I'm thrilled to announce the opening of applications for the upcoming ECR STS 2.0 Training! 🌟
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoo…
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Are people less trusting when you can’t give a single, solid number? Our 🚨new study🚨 in Royal Soc. Open Science asks how people respond to different ways of talking about uncertainty. SPOILER: ranges are OK. royalsocietypublishing.org/d… 1/n
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So delighted to see the 7th edition of ‘Environmental Hazards’ that will be released later this month. We have built on the amazing work of Keith Smith to prepare for future hazards. I thank him & the new editorial team for their dedication. Get your copy: routledge.com/Environmental-…
The new edition of "Environmental Hazards" is available routledge.com/Environmental-…
Remembering Keith Smith. Thanks to @CarinaFearnley for leading us and co-authors @monstrousgeog @DeanneKBird
#DRR #DisastersAreNotNatural #NoNaturalDisasters #EMGTwitter #DRRTwitter #DisasterTwitter
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Some social media users are posting old footage of previous volcanic eruptions and implying it is of the current seismic activity in Reykjanes. As of this post - 2.30pm GMT on Nov 12 - there has NOT been an eruption - although one may follow. Please repost this if you can. Takk!
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Do you help your community understand risks (risks at work, AI risks, disaster risks, weather or climate risks, etc)? If you could benefit from help to help a community understand a risk and in sharing #RiskKnowHow please fill in this form. And share! forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs
An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year.
The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less
