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Dr Lois Player @loisplayer

Behavioural Scientist | Climate Policy & Behaviour Change 🌏 | Novel Computational Methods - NLP & LLMs 👩‍💻 | Research Consultant ✨️

Joined October 2016
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Dr Lois Player@loisplayer
25 Jul 2024
I'm really excited to share a pre-print I'm so proud of... Introducing the Deep Computational Text Analyser (DECOTA)✨ 📰 osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/t5… The first open-access tool to automatically analyse free-text data! When compared against human analysis... (🧵1/6)
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Last week, I graduated from my PhD in Behavioural Science - marking the end of 8 years at beautiful @UniofBath ✨ I was so grateful (& emotional) to graduate with my partner and lovely friends. Thanks to my amazing supervisors @lwhitmarsh & @DrCDemski 🤍 Over & out, Bath 🥹
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DECOTA is here! 🎉 Our automated free-text analysis tool has been published today in Psychological Methods! DECOTA automatically analyses free-text data quickly, affordably & with human-like accuracy… Paper: doi.org/10.1037/met0000753 Press: bath.ac.uk/announcements/new… (🧵1/6)
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🧵 5/6 The code is totally open-access - and are building a user-friendly interface now! Want to participate in the early pilot or receive updates? Sign up: forms.gle/kvBHRrKtAwUGYYZQ9

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Interested in using DECOTA? DECOTA (DEep COmputational Text Analyser) is a scientifically validated tool designed to help you rapidly analyse survey response data through an automated process based...

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🧵 6/6 Huge thanks to my co-authors - Ryan Hughes, Kaloyan Mitev, @lwhitmarsh, @DrCDemski, Nick Nash, Tris Papakonstantinou, & Mark Wilson — a dream team of qual, quant, & ML expertise. Thanks also to @AapsCdt - without whom Ryan and I would never have begun this project! 🚀
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I’m officially Dr Player! 🥹 It was an honour to defend my PhD last week with world-leading experts, Geertje Schuitema & Nathalia Gjersoe. Big thanks to my wonderful supervisors @lwhitmarsh & @DrCDemski, @AapsCdt, & many loved ones for the unwavering support ✨ Thanks Bath 🤍
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So great to see the CCC’s 7th Carbon Budget published. It was a pleasure to contribute to this during my time in the lovely People & Business team - & see our @CAST_Centre work referenced 🌟 Importantly: 1/3 of emissions reductions will come from household behaviour change 🤯
Climate Change Committee
@theCCCuk
26 Feb 2025
We have published our advice on the Seventh Carbon Budget. It is in line with previous Government commitments – the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Carbon Budgets, international commitments, and the Net Zero commitment in 2050.
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Excited to have joined the European Climate Foundation as a Research Consultant! ECF is an NGO working across Europe to foster #ClimateAction, & I’m looking forward to helping make sense of their public opinion data. An exciting year ahead w/ this role & big travel plans 🌎
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PhD thesis submitted! 🥹 3 incredible years – 2 secondments, 3 publications, 3 consultancy projects, 1 book chapter, & the honour of advising government departments – all crystallised into 80,000 words. From undergrad to PhD, I'm so grateful for 8 beautiful years @UniofBath ✨
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A huge thank you to my amazing supervisory team @lwhitmarsh & @DrCDemski for your unfaltering support always - and many other incredible people along the way 🌟
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Matt Clifford
@matthewclifford
13 Jan 2025
1/ Today the Prime Minister published my AI Opportunities Action Plan for the UK and committed to implement all its recommendations. A quick thread on why this is important, what we need to do now - and how you can help
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Excited about @UKLabour's #AI Opportunities plan - big step to drive positive change w/ AI 🚀 1. Fast-track data centre expansion 2. Unlock datasets to fuel research 3. Train 10,000s in AI by 2030 Fab to see @matthewclifford - who I was lucky to work w/ @join_ef - leading this!
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My lovely colleagues at @CAST_Centre are advertising 5 PhD funded places! Couldn't think of a more wonderful team to do your PhD with ✨ 🌎
CAST@CAST_Centre
8 Jan 2025
CAST PhDs alert 📣: We have 5 funded PhD studentships now open for applications, based at our centre hub @uniofbath & @uniofeastanglia. The deadline for applications is Feb 17 (Bath) and Feb 28 (UEA). Find out more and apply on our website: cast.ac.uk/cast-careers/
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For all the bad news in 2024, there was lots of good too ✨ positive.news/society/what-w… EU emissions fell 8% 🌱 China's renewable boom ⚡️ New biodiversity laws 🌺 Species regeneration 🦬 Flu vaccine progress 💉 15-min city adoption 🏙️ Happy New Year all ☺️

What went right in 2024: the top 25 good news stories of the year

There were ‘mind-blowing’ medical advances, species bounced back, renewables surged, cities became more liveable, plus more good news

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Laura Anderson (Young)@LessWasteLaura
25 Nov 2024
During my trip to #COP29, it was great to meet @StarkClimate - Head of Mission Control for Clean Power 2030, at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. I got to ask him about the UK’s role at COP29 and what it means for people living back home in Britain. Follow @energygovuk for more about COP29.   #UKatCOP29
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Simon Evans@DrSimEvans
24 Nov 2024
I'm so proud of the Carbon Brief #COP29 team for finishing our big summary of the talks It's an EPIC 20,000 words of top-notch, plain-english reporting… –NCQG –Stocktake –Article6 –China Much more …delivered in record time after a brutal fortnight of sleep deprivation! carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-ou…
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Come say hi if you're there too 🦋
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Excellent piece by @lwhitmarsh & @samhampton 💭 It's unhelpful to promise we can reach climate targets without 'telling people how to live their lives'. 1. Enabling lifestyle changes is essential 2. The govt should make changes easier & cheaper 3. Action can improve wellbeing🌍
The Conversation@ConversationUK
14 Nov 2024
Keir Starmer says the UK can decarbonise without disruption – that’s neither true nor helpful bit.ly/3Z74GsG
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