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Cameron Brick

@cameronbrick.bsky.social
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Psychology, behavior & environment, especially climate change. Uni of Amsterdam; Assoc. Editor 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷. 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 🔬 c.brick@uva.nl www.cameronbrick.com -- scholar.google.com/citations?user=M…

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markuskl.bsky.social @markuskl.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Pro-environmental behavior is often used as a broad ☂️ term under which different behaviors (e.g., mitigation, conservation, restoration), sustainability approaches (e.g., sufficiency, efficiency), types of behavior, domains (e.g., mobility, energy, food), and their antecedents are summarized.
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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
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Postdoc In Meta-science
Personal type: Scientific staff
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Tremendous shade thrown in Het Parool 😂
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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#AcademicSky @dingdingpeng.the100.ci (Julia Rohrer) is a true breath of fresh air that our field needs. www.the100.ci/2026/04/13/s... "Slipshod science should not be worthwhile." Worth a read. Worth seriously considering her proposal for restructuring reward initiatives in science.
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Science needs downvotes
A bug bounty module in grants would give criticism a leg up The Soviet Union was good at producing shoes. Factories made 800 million pairs a year, twice as many as Italy, three times as many as the...
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This eerie mosaic depicts Winter holding a bare branch and wearing a birrus (a hooded cloak used extensively in ancient Britain). Its use of cool blue colours, the seeming melancholy in the face & the sparse pale background really conveys the cold barrenness of winter. 🏛️Bignor 📷 mine #MosaicMonday
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
⭐NEW PAPER ⭐ We collaborated with AWorld, the largest app for personal climate action, to examine behavioral patterns, data quality, and the links between users' actions, carbon footprints and psychological factors. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... @fdabl.bsky.social @cameronbrick.bsky.social
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Daniel Heck @danielheck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Do I know any USC (University of Southern California) staff, faculty, or students? I have a special library request that requires a current affiliation. Thank you ~
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I just rewatched Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) because my wife had never seen it. It has been remastered and upscaled to be beautiful and crisp in high-def. Honestly, it looks amazing. The props, costumes, and sets still blow me away.
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Paris invested heavily in bike infrastructure and saw a massive increase in ridership. Does anyone know about research on where the willingness and investment came from, e.g., attitudes, priorities, city-level meetings, national conversations? How do such changes in policy and infrastructure emerge?
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If ever there was a moment to shame climate wrongdoers, that moment is now. To that end, I offer a recently published article (by @sharonyadin.bsky.social & me) on how ordinary folks like you & me--plus civil society & governments--can harness the power of shame. @ioppublishing.bsky.social
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Shaming climate wrongdoers
Shaming climate wrongdoers, Yadin, Sharon, Maibach, Edward
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
EN Do your laundry for science from your own home! Sign up here for our Citizen Science project and collect the microplastics from your clothes. NL Doe thuis jou was voor de wetenschap! Meld je hier aan voor ons Citizen Science project en verzamel de microplastics van jouw kleding.
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
theconversation.com/we-got-lazy-... Lots of debate in NL right now about our wealth tax and the changing rules. There's uncertainty and I think that also causes distaste. If it was just 'the way we do it' it would be easier to be proud of what values and benefits it supports, maybe?
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‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country
For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Science in Resistance: The scientist rebellion for climate justice by Fernando Racimo. Maybe not very surprising, after all, it was reading a paper by Fernando that made me join Scientist Rebellion three years ago. 🧵
Picture showing the cover of the book this post is about.
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... Good result. Took too long. Interesting article.
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Greece: Aid workers cleared of human trafficking charges
The former volunteers, who were facing lengthy jail terms, worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers.
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m... We could just wring our hands and decry autonomous lethal drones, but before judgment it's worth pausing just to recognize how much has changed in the past few years and where it leaves us, Ukraine, and the future of war.
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In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
www.dutchnews.nl/2025/12/traf... Couldn't have written that more clearly myself. Increase roads, increase demand for roads. How about investing more in solutions with fewer costs on society: public health, finances, environmental quality?
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Traffic congestion increased this year, despite new roads - DutchNews.nl
The total length and duration of traffic jams in the Netherlands increased this year, despite the opening of several new roads in Zuid Holland, figures from the ANWB show. The ANWB said traffic conges...
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
On willpower being overrated Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
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Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 25/12/2025
Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
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Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
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Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
no *you're* crying Happy Christmas!
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My inbox is a de-facto to-do list. When using Outlook, an email feature I really miss, was it in gmail in the past?, was to snooze a message into the future UNLESS I receive a response in the meantime. That way, items don't disappear off the list, and I don't get extra messages.
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Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · 18/12/2025
Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.
Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.
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Max van Geuns @maxvangeuns.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
De echte Nederlandse winter kwijnt weg en wordt uitgerekt tot een drie maanden durende tunnel van zouteloos lauwgrijs. Het is 14 graden in december: een eeuw geleden totaal ondenkbaar. “Sneeuw in december is een romantische gedachte die we samen met de fossiele brandstoffen hebben opgestookt.”
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Column | Op zoek naar licht in een tunnel van zouteloos lauwgrijs
De winter houdt Nederland in een drievoudige houdgreep. Hoe kun je daaraan een positieve draai geven, als weerman?
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The cost of grid-scale solar plus batteries has become so cheap that spreading solar power out over 24 hours is now cost-competive with building new natural gas plants in many cases. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Graph showing solar spread over 24-hours and the associated cost.
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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
My book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, and all @islandpress.bsky.social e-books, is on sale for $6.99 through 12/19. Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New paper: real water-use behavior change using multi-year, metered data (19k homes). Not attitudes, identity, efficacy, or persuasion. We manipulated delivery mode + frequency of home use reports → ~2% reduction (~7 L/day here). 1/3
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Paula Niedenthal @pniedent.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We're hiring at the Associate Professor level in Social Psychology! Join us in our vibrant and wonderful department and area. Contact Markus Brauer, search committee chair, for details (markus.brauer@wisc.edu). Job ad here: shorturl.at/nnvv8
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Associate Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This defense of verbal theories sounds much weaker in 2025 than it did in 2004 Susan Fiske pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15223512/ I should read these old works more often—it would help me argue from more basic principles why current practices are so ineffective
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"The United States has not always used its military effectively or for just causes." God, that sentence is like a truss holding up a giant dam. Very difficult for me to wish for a stronger US military, but maybe, just maybe, the alternative is even more dangerous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | Overmatched: Why the U.S. Military Must Reinvent Itself (Gift Article)
Investing in the old ways of war leaves America at risk.
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
So...my undergrad thesis student is doing a quality analysis of studies found in meta-analyses. She identified a few and we contacted the authors to request their effect sizes and other variables for the studies in their papers. Here's what happened: scientiapsychiatrica.com/index.php/Sc...
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The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis | Scientia Psychiatrica
Introduction: The proliferation of social media has raised significant concerns about its potential effects on the mental health of adolescents. This meta-analysis aims to provide a comprehensive asse...
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
More quality evidence is emerging that "pro-environmental behavior" is not a coherent, unitary thing. One behavior is not a proxy for all other behaviors. www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.uba.uva.nl/science/arti... Blankenberg et al. 2025 1/3
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Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The amount of human made 'stuff' now exceeds natural 'stuff' (by @VisualCap) www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-...
A stacked bar chart showing the growth of anthropogenic mass (human-made objects) compared to natural biomass from 1900 to 2040 (projected). The chart shows anthropogenic mass, broken down into categories like Concrete, Aggregates, Bricks, Asphalt, Metals, and Plastics, steadily increasing over time. Natural biomass, divided into Trees and Shrubs, Crops, Livestock, and Humans, is shown with relatively stable or slightly decreasing totals. The year 2020 is marked as the point where anthropogenic mass is projected to exceed natural biomass, with a note stating "Total anthropogenic mass exceeds all global living biomass." The chart is titled "ACCUMULATION OF ANTHROPOGENIC MASS".
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Dinsdag doe ik mee aan de staking voor het hoger onderwijs. Nederlandse vrienden: sluit je alsjeblieft aan als je kunt. On Tuesday I will be on strike for higher education. NL friends, please consider joining. www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o...
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Kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs - 9 december landelijke stakingsdag
Verzet je tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs. Sluit je aan bij de strijd: 9 december landelijke hoger onderwijsstaking.
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
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Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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Jon Worth @jonworth.eu · 04/12/2025
So basically: trains Germany to London ✅ by the early 2030s 🤔 with Eurostar's new trains 😳 with DB trains 🥱 But it's not impossible. There's hope in that! /ends
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UK Reproducibility Network @ukrepro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened! Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement. Nominations close 18 January 2026. #AcademicSky #Research
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Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026
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Sage Journals @journals.sagepub.com · 10/11/2025
📢 Join our upcoming Registered Reports webinar! Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your research! We will cover the following topics: - Two-stage review explained - Tips for Stage 1 protocols - Common author challenges Register now: ow.ly/R6yH50Xptt0 #RegisteredReports #Webinar
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: How to Do Research and Get Published - How to Write & Review Registered Reports. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This webinar will provide an overview of the Registered Reports format, a publishing model designed to improve transparency and reproducibility in scientific research. The session will cover the structure and purpose of Registered Reports, including the two-stage submission and review process. Presenters will discuss how to develop a Stage 1 protocol, what reviewers typically evaluate at Stage 1 and 2, and common challenges encountered by authors and reviewers. The webinar is intended for researchers, editors, and reviewers who are working with or considering Registered Reports. Hosted by...
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"...preregistrations do not tie researchers’ hands, but merely uncover readers’ eyes. Preregistering does not preclude exploration, but it does communicate to readers that it occurred. ..." 1/2
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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Started a talk this week by asking how many in the audience had read Merchants of Doubt. No one had. So here's lead author Naomi Oreskes summarising the book. One take-away: science and unregulated markets are not compatible because science points out market failures youtu.be/GXRuxuTyrxo?...
Slide from the talk:

Photo of Ashely Montagu with the quote (1950s): "Reality has a well-known liberal bias"Slide from the talk:

1990s

Maybe not a liberal bias...

...but reality was increasingly pointing out market failuresSlide from the talk

Sometimes said that communism failed because prices didn't reflect economic realities

Will capitalism fail because prices don't reflect ecological realities?
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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
TOTAL knew, and now a french court says they broke the law. www.exxonknews.org/p/oil-giant-...
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Oil giant Total’s net zero claims broke the law, court rules
The ruling is the first court judgment against an oil company for statements about its role in combatting the climate crisis.
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Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New environmental psychology jobs: 1 full professor, 2 postdocs: Lüneburg, Germany is hiring a Full Professor in “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation”. www.leuphana.de/en/universit... 1/3
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Full Professorship “Psychology, in particular Behavior Change and Sustainability Transformation” (W2/W3)
THE SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY AT LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY LÜNEBURG INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING FULL PROFESSORSHIP:
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
⭐ After quite some time in the making, I’m excited to share our new paper!🌿⭐ We examined people's climate-relevant behaviors (driving, air travel, public transport use, and meat consumption) and their perceptions of how feasible it would be to change them (+ expected wellbeing impacts). 🧵(1/4)
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BPS Environmental Psychology Section @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
November edition of @psychmag.bsky.social highlights the value of all psychology disciplines for fighting the climate and biodiversity crisis. Proudly, @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social members @drsarahpayne.bsky.social & Prof David Canter both contribute to this special issue!
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Some key findings: 1️⃣ #Social #media are the most important source of information about science in most countries – but traditional #news media remain relevant, particularly in Northwestern Europe.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This morning, I’m at the CSCW conference in a session on “Activism in a Time if Data.” Most of the papers seem to assume activism for “good,” ending with design recs for supporting activism. As far as I can tell, none of the papers center right wing activism. Seems like we have a massive blind spot.
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”
From: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/crop30-why-burning-food-for-land-hungry-biofuels-is-fueling-the-climate-crisis
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