Jesse Wise 🍉

@jessewise.bsky.social

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Environmental Behavioural Scientist | PhD @ Bath | CAST & Tyndall Centre | ❤️ Open Science & Effective Altruism | She/Her

Little miss over-coming hurdles
Public engagement team at we the curious
Bus patronage and car ownership in Great Britain 1950–2020.
"solid edges represent positive correlations, while dashed edges represent negative correlations. Edge thickness reflects the strength of the partial correlation, with thicker lines indicating stronger associations."
A graphic titled "10 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals: How to portray extreme heat as a serious threat." The image includes a list of 10 numbered guidelines in alternating yellow and red boxes, alongside a greyscale photo of a person pouring water over their head to cool off. The 10 guidelines are: Avoid visuals that downplay the danger. (Extreme heat is the deadliest climate event.) Beyond a weather story. (Show how heat impacts health, transportation, and work.) Creating heat visuals is challenging. (Focus on those most affected, such as female outdoor workers.) Portray impacts for average people. (Capture everyday impacts of extreme heat.) Show both the impacts and solutions. (Combine images of heat with visuals of cooling solutions.) Tailor heat visuals to your audience. (By highlighting their specific challenges and potential solutions.) Rethink when to shoot. (Heat is a 24-hour story.) Build sources and plan ahead. (To secure access to key information when a heatwave hits.) Stay safe while working in extreme heat. (Take breaks, hydrate, wear cool clothing, and monitor your well-being.) Think about your equipment. (Protect your equipment from the blazing sun.) The visual uses warm colours to reflect the theme and emphasise urgency.
Jesse standing next to her poster at ICEP2026
Infographic titled "Country Overshoot Days 2025: When Earth Overshoot Day would land if all the people around the world lived like..." It features a circular calendar showing the globe at the centre, surrounded by a timeline of dates extending from January to December. Each date is paired with one or more countries, indicating when their individual Earth Overshoot Day would occur if the global population lived like that country. For example: Qatar’s Overshoot Day is 6 February (earliest). The UK’s is 20 May. The global average is not shown, but the latest dates include countries like Indonesia (18 November) and Uruguay (17 December). The infographic shows that high-consumption countries (e.g. the US, Luxembourg, UAE) reach overshoot much earlier in the year.
A ginger cat is swimming in murky brown water, looking displeased and uncomfortable. Superimposed white text reads: "Humans are to thinking as cats are to swimming. We can do it when we have to – but we’d much prefer not to." The image humorously compares the reluctance of cats to swim with the idea that humans often avoid deep thinking unless necessary.
Slide from a presentation by Katie Cross (Pledgeball) highlighting academic research supporting Pledgeball’s impact. It cites studies from 2021, 2023, and 2024 showing that Pledgeball engagement leads fans to re-evaluate their climate role, change consumption habits, talk more about climate change, and feel greater agency and efficacy. A screenshot of an academic article titled "I Hadn’t Realised That Change Is Not a Difficult Thing" is also visible.
Bar chart showing responses to two travel-related attitude statements, with categories: Strongly agree, Tend to agree, Neither, Tend to disagree, and Strongly disagree. "It is important to me that I personally travel to work in an environmentally friendly way" Strongly agree: 17% Tend to agree: 26% Neither: 32% Tend to disagree: 15% Strongly disagree: 10% Total Agree: 43%, Disagree: 25% "People should be able to travel to work using whatever transport mode, regardless of its environmental impact" Strongly agree: 26% Tend to agree: 36% Neither: 23% Tend to disagree: 10% Strongly disagree: 4% Total Agree: 62%, Disagree: 14% Each response is colour-coded: dark teal (Strongly agree), teal (Tend to agree), yellow (Neither), pink (Tend to disagree), red (Strongly disagree). Agree and Disagree totals are shown on the right in teal and red, respectively.
ZC3 2025 maserhead
Jesse standing outside Bath's ebike demo day
Playing daybreak
Photo of Daybreak. Daybreak is a cooperative game about stopping climate change
Far right graph shows a rapid increase in the share of transport simulation studies with a repository.
Diagram descibing the curb cut effect. "When we design for disabilitites we make things better for everyone". Image shows a dropped curb being used by someone in a wheelchair, someone with a buggy, a cyclist and someone carying heavy goods.
Slides with statistics about the benefits of car clubs
Jesse present her poster
Ten Highest Traffic Delay Times By City, in Europe. London at 101 hours. Bath at 68 hours, Bristol at 65 hours.