Professor of cognitive psychology researching social change, behaviour change & people's response to climate change. Recovering chess player.
Joined August 2014
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6 Oct 2025
Is it "un-British" to protest? I wrote something about this nonsensical -- but also rather disturbing -- use of language.
@DefendourJuries medium.com/@pscjd/is-protest…
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7 Dec 2025
Question for Home Secretary @ShabanaMahmood:
May British citizens express the hope that you will not allow members of Palestine Action to die in prison?
Or would airing such a sentiment constitute a terrorist offence?
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31 Dec 2024
Chess is brutal, but also intimate. It’s a kind of symbiotic cognition in which we can feel each other’s pain as one shared feeling. What strikes me about this video is not so much Ivanchuk’s desolation but Naroditsky’s empathetic awkwardness- it almost looks like an apology.
31 Dec 2024
The haunting final moments of the Round 11 clash between Vassily Ivanchuk and Daniel Naroditsky in World Blitz 2024. Caïssa is a cruel goddess indeed...
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Colin Davis retweeted
8 Oct 2025
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Activist Okey Vitalis Nnorom who joined the Omar AlMokhtar Flotilla sailing alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla, remains in detention, despite earlier false reports claiming he was handed over to the Nigerian embassy in Jordan. The occupation authorities deliberately obfuscated information and misled lawyers about the detainees’ status.
Supporters are called on to contact their local Nigerian embassy and the Nigerian government to demand Michael’s immediate release.
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Colin Davis retweeted
9 Oct 2025
Nigerian activist Okey Vitalis has reportedly been held captive by Israel for a week. He was onboard an aid ship heading towards Gaza before it was intercepted. Members of the Omar Al-Mukhtar Flotilla are appealing for his secure release.
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Colin Davis retweeted
6 Oct 2025
Surreal, Labour's leadership repeatedly said the UK is not selling arms to Israel
But Israel's tax authority shows the value of UK arms sales to Israel
Shame on Labour - thank you #C4News for doing what others dont bother to do
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6 Oct 2025
Let's make hope normal again.
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Colin Davis retweeted
6 Oct 2025
So our PM says that protesting against Israel's genocide is "un-British", and that what happens to British citizens seized by Israel is a matter for Israel.
Is "Britishness" about what best serves the interests of the Israeli state?
I wrote more here: medium.com/@pscjd/is-protest…
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Very interesting and something to think about - please read!
6 Oct 2025
Is it "un-British" to protest? I wrote something about this nonsensical -- but also rather disturbing -- use of language.
@DefendourJuries medium.com/@pscjd/is-protest…
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29 Apr 2025
While I'm here, without wanting to amplify this washed-up war criminal, his intervention highlights how fossil interests are focused on 2nd-order beliefs: trying to control what you think *others* think, to undermine public support for Net Zero policies.
thetimes.com/article/fbc6dea…
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29 Apr 2025
Returning ever so briefly to say you can now watch Plan Z: From Lab Coats to Handcuffs online. It's about scientists who take part in civil disobedience. Featuring @PerrinAbi @smartyfish @ThierryAaron @StuartBCapstick some old repeat offender. youtube.com/watch?v=cNvk-qFN…
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6 Nov 2024
Another professor arrested. Please watch the excellent speech by Prof Bresheeth (linked in @Jonathan_K_Cook's tweet below) and see how the UK is abusing its draconian antiterrorism laws to suppress free speech and criticism of Israeli genocide.
3 Nov 2024
In arresting an Israeli Jewish professor, Haim Bresheeth, for supposedly supporting a "proscribed organisation" (Hamas), the Met have exposed their hand. There is a video of the speech given by Prof Bresheeth at an anti-genocide rally last week. We can all hear for ourselves that nothing he said contravened the draconian Terrorism Act.
Instead, he noted – quite correctly – that Israel cannot defeat Hamas or any of the other resistance movements opposed to its genocide in Gaza.
As so many others have observed, and history serves as our guide here, you cannot defeat an organisation created to struggle against your violence by engaging in more violence. Israel's genocide is the best recruiting sergeant Hamas could wish for.
Israel's strategy – assuming that it is actually trying to defeat Hamas – is entirely self-sabotaging. Pointing this out is not support for a proscribed organisation. It is simple historical analysis – something we all ought to be free to do. But arresting academics for doing it has a very dark pedigree indeed.
That is where we have arrived in Sir Keir Starmer's Britain.
Israel has smashed into oblivion the constraints of international law through the endless repetition of war crimes. Targeting children, babies, shelters, hospitals, universities, bakeries has been entirely normalised.
Now Israel's patrons such as the UK are tearing apart the rules of civil society – to normalise the arrest and persecution of anti-genocide protesters, journalists and academics.
Britain is a full partner with Israel, not only by arming and supporting a genocide of the Palestinian people, but by criminalising the right to protest against it, to speak out, to think for ourselves.
The Palestinians are in a fight for their very existence. We are in a parallel fight to stop the last vestiges of our freedoms being taken from us.
Watch Prof Bresheeth's speech here: skwawkbox.org/2024/11/03/exc…
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6 Nov 2024
Respect to @DrJillStein for offering an alternative to genocide & climate collapse.
Greens didn't alter the outcome. But suppose they had: If 0.4% of voters choosing a principled stand cost Democrats the election, that's on *them*. They should offer policies people actually want.
5 Nov 2024
We are not going to abandon our opposition to Wall Street and the war machine. This is who we are.
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7 Oct 2024
tech companies 2020: we will be carbon free within the decade
tech companies 2024: i see you've used our product! i'll be sure to tell the AI to burn one hundred pieces of coal with a blowtorch. no you cant stop me
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3 Oct 2024
RT @MarkRuffalo: Thank you Javier Bardem for your decency, your courage, and love for all human beings. You are a beacon of light, amigo. h…
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3 Oct 2024
Britain agrees to give up sovereignty of the Chagos Islands - its last African colony - while retaining use of the UK-US military base on Diego Garcia
A look back at the cable that revealed the UK-US plan to establish a marine reserve to "make it difficult, if not impossible" for Chagossians to return home
wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/0…
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3 Oct 2024
"What is worth more -- art or life?"
If you think about it, we probably agree. But does anyone reflect on this question posed by activists? Why do we get so triggered by the way they ask it? And will they ever stop?
Article by @alxaraya & me
theconversation.com/why-clim… @JustStop_Oil
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3 Oct 2024
Here's the longer academic article, published in the journal Protest, which is hopefully accessible, and certainly open access (for the next month).
brill.com/view/journals/prot…
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3 Oct 2024
Once again with @ProfColinDavis, we put some words together for @ConversationUK and shared our interpretation on soup, van Gogh, punishment, deterrence and climate activism. Also a reminder that our paper could be downloaded for free up to October 15th!
theconversation.com/why-clim…
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