Prof. Ian Walker
Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. Motonormativity person. Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. My views
Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
- Can we talk about the software industry's weird refusal to use the word "no"? DELETE EVERY FILE YOU'VE EVER CREATED? "YES / NOT NOW" DO YOU WANT US TO SEND RUDE EMAILS TO YOUR MUM? "YES / MAYBE LATER" THERE'S A MAN BEHIND YOU WITH A RED-HOT POKER "GOT IT"
- "One of the reasons against implementing the [bus gate] is the data showing an increase in air pollution outside the...Hospital" - perhaps because the modelling assumed that the amount of driving in Bristol is somehow inevitable and outside the council's control?! 😠
- I’ve written an opinion piece about the proposed changes to Park st, I mention @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social Bristol Declaration @ianwalker.bsky.social, considering health and options for everyone to use the space and have the choice to travel sustainably www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
- It's fascinating that medics are making the effort to switch to anaesthetics with less greenhouse effect while people are driving alone in SUVs
- When you go in for a medical procedure, the gas putting you to sleep may also be warming the planet. That's prompting regulators and hospitals around the world to move to less-polluting alternatives. Read more in @bloomberg.com:
- Can we take a moment to remember how at the time this home-made bomb was ignited, the police's first instinct was to rule out terrorism? Would this have happened if the target of a home-made bomb had been literally anything else, I wonder? #motonormativity www.theguardian.com/environment/...
