Jarren L. Nylund

🌍🔥 These warming stripes represent the Earth's average temperature from 1850 to 2024. The pattern couldn’t be clearer, climate change is here, and it’s accelerating. Today is #ShowYourStripes day. Let’s show the stripes and commit to taking action on climate change.

Suggests that generative AI can play a useful role in correcting misinformation, but is best understood as a complement to existing approaches. 📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

However, effects were modest, sometimes faded over time, and were not consistently more effective than traditional fact sheet-based materials.

Pleased to share a new paper led by Samuel Pearson and co-authored by myself and others, now published in @SciReports. We tested whether people can be persuaded out of misinformation about wind farms through short conversations with generative AI: doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Free “I 💚 Nature” stickers are up for grabs from the #30by30 campaign: 30by30.org.au/get-your-stick… Stick them on your laptop, water bottle, or anywhere else to say: “Yes, I care about the environment…and yes, I also like free things.”

MEDIA RELEASE: New analysis reveals Australian oil and gas company, Santos, is contributing to nearly quadrupled gas prices on the East Coast of the country by prioritising the sale of its fossil fuels overseas, adding to cost of living pressures. marketforces.org.au/new-analysis-s…

Suggests that backlash to extreme climate activism isn’t just about the extremity of tactics, but the perceived deservingness of who those tactics disrupt. It was a pleasure to work on this paper with Matthew Hornsey, Michael Thai, and Maja Kutlaca. 🙏 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Across two preregistered studies, we find: 🎯 The exact same disruptive tactic is judged very differently depending on the target of disruption. 🎯 Targeting “undeserving” entities → perceived as more immoral, unjust, and anger-inducing. 🎯 Leads to lower support for activists.

Do some climate protests backfire because they’re disruptive, or because they target the “wrong” people? A preprint of my latest project has just been uploaded to PsyArXiv: 📄 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

👉 Points to the need to update prevailing theories of collective action, especially within the climate context. doi.org/10.1038/s44271…

We found that support for radical climate activism is not well explained by existing models of collective action, nor by political ideology or outgroup hostility. Instead, it is most strongly associated with collective victimhood, as well as age and personality factors.

Excited to share a new paper lead by Matthew Hornsey and co-authored by myself and others. Now published in @CommsPsychol. 📄 Read the open access article here: doi.org/10.1038/s44271…

And the award for fracking and f**king our future goes to… APA GROUP! #UASolutionsSummit Spoiler alert: making #climate change worse is not a solution for Australia’s future. 🙃 #auspol #APA

More than 50 heat records were broken across Australia in the last week of January, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. This is climate change, and it can be lethal.

In 2015, the Paris Agreement united the world in the fight against #climatechange. Nearly 200 countries agreed to work together to stop rising temperatures. Ten years on, we've made a lot of progress. Clean energy is the cheapest form of energy almost everywhere. Renewables provided over 92% of new energy in 2024. Global investment in clean energy was 2x investment in fossil fuels in 2025. But emissions keep climbing and temperatures keep going up, up, up. If we want a safe climate for our future, we’ve got to work together. Join us at bit.ly/joinclimate

"We wouldn't let Big Tobacco sponsor teaching materials - fossil fuel companies shouldn't shape how kids learn about the climate."

After years of campaigning, we finally have a new national environment law. Some important wins came thru, but the law still fails the climate test. Until emissions are fully accounted for & climate impacts properly weighed, our forests, our future, & our climate remain at risk.

We conclude that, when supported by appropriate safeguards, LLMs have substantial potential to complement existing science-communication efforts. The article is open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.cops…

...be used to reduce science skepticism around issues such as climate change. Across studies, there is little evidence that LLMs spontaneously produce conspiracy theories—but there is evidence that interacting with them can reduce science skepticism and misinformation beliefs.

Pleased to share a new paper led by Matthew Hornsey and co-authored with Aimee Smith, Samuel Pearson, Christian Bretter, and myself, now published in Current Opinion in Psychology. In this review, we synthesise emerging evidence on how conversational AI tools like ChatGPT can...