Ian Walker✓

Mastodon @ianwalker@toot.wales

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Followers

1.4K

Account age

3 yrs

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Known for

6 views You could be here

2 views One for @gerrymcgovern? University of Lausanne seem to have a system to reduce data transfer across their web presence

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

Engagement vs followers

Nov 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: Strange things happen when you work in a university. Just now so · 30 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.09 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

2.7×

Follows 504 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post Strange things happen when you work in a university. Just now somebody found a bat flying up and down the corridor and within 30 seconds we found a bat expert just down the corridor who's now got it in a box ★ 30

Hmm - just testing Flare on Android. It looks really good for getting Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds into one place. This might be a game-changer https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.dimension.flare ★ 6

One for @gerrymcgovern? University of Lausanne seem to have a system to reduce data transfer across their web presence ★ 2 Just stepped into the garden and, for the first time, caught a gossamer spider in the act or parachuting in ★ 5 Interested in sport? Interested in making sport more sustainable? Then come to Swansea and work with us on a fully-funded MSc by Research on how to make mass-participation sport events more sustainable https://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduat… ★ 4 GCN have a new video out on the thorny issue of hi-viz for cyclists. Very pleased they asked to interview me for this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33GpfTWdk8U ★ 15 "With a mountain of evidence on the devastating health effects of individual vehicular traffic, how is it then that we continue almost exclusively plan and build for the car, instead of prioritizing people and their health?" #motonorma… ★ 24

You could be here ★ 6 COME AND STUDY WITH US! We have a fully funded MSc by Research post (essentially 1/3 of a PhD) to look at making large-scale sport events more sustainable, using the Swansea Half Marathon as a case study (with scope for big intervention). … ★ 7 A theme from recent conversations: active travel gets suppressed through unattainable standards. Want out-of-town facilities inaccessible to poor or blind? Sure. Want active travel? No, you can't have it, because it has to meet the impossi… ★ 14 In the 16th Century the British government saw the wool industry was in trouble and so forced everybody to buy woolen caps https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-the-flat-cap-1926708.html We're at the… ★ 23 "‘Moto-normativity’: why cycling professor wants Australians to rethink how we use our roads" https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/sep/24/moto-normativity-why-cycling-professor-wants-australians-to-rethink-how-we-use-our-roads ★ 23

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

toot.wales

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Verified link

Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.

On Mastodon since

Nov 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 13 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.1× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

Real Real audience

Low Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~1.0% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

💚 Brand affinity

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Brands Ian Walker's audience is most likely to respond to — from detected sponsorships in this niche.

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About

Professor of #environmentalPsychology at Swansea University, focused on #builtEnvironment, #roadSafety, #transport, #energy and #water use. Views all my own. :twt: Also hold the Guinness World Record for the fastest #bicycle ride across Europe - read my "jaw-dropping" book Endless Perfect Circles about this. #cycling #ultracycling #running #ultrarunning #activetravel #activetranaport #psychology