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Christel van Eck

@christelvaneck.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at ASCoR, University of Amsterdam | Climate change communication, science communication, and polarization | 🌄🏞🌌🌇

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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Fake expert and pseudo-scientist labels are increasingly used in science and public debates to delegitimize actors or claims, often in the context of misinformation 📰 In our newest publication in Communication Theory we explore what such terms actually mean. 👇
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Alexa Hepburn @alexahepburn.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation? Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess
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Wouter Poortinga @wouterpoortinga.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🌿 PhD Opportunity in Environmental Psychology: We would like to invite students to apply for the student-led 2026 WGSSS PhD Studentship Competition at Cardiff University. (1/3) 🗓️ Deadline: 11 Dec 2025 🔗 wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-general-competition
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Student-led General Competition – Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences
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Environmental Information: Use and Influence (Dalhousie Univ.) @eiui.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Scientists are changing their normal #communication practice of only giving facts, esp. re climate change. @christelvaneck.bsky.social‬ & @tonivdmeer.bsky.social‬ tested whether stories & affective expression affect scientists’ credibility & found context & consistency matter doi.org/10.1177/0963...
Title, authors’ names, abstract, and keywords from a paper about the effect of communication strategies by climate scientists on their credibility
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Hendrik Meyer @hendrikmeyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
New in Social Media + Society: How do (non-)disruptive #climate #protests shape social media debates? We analyzed ~5M Twitter/X posts on #FFF & #LetzteGeneration: Disruptive protests generate more engagement—but also more polarization, driven by right-wing/conservative users: doi.org/10.1177/2056...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/04/2025
Was not expecting to open the main CBC page this morning and see this! In today’s climate, I feel our message is even more relevant than even just a few months ago when the interview was recorded. www.cbc.ca @christelvaneck.bsky.social @lydiamessling.bsky.social
A screen capture of the science article on the CBC homepage today, which features a picture of me and a title reading “prominent climate scientist argues it’s time to ditch the myth of neutrality in science.”
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thanks so much for the warm welcome! 🙏
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
1️⃣ More and more, we see scientists openly expressing emotions—moving away from the traditional norm of "rational", "neutral" communication. But what are the consequences of this shift? Does showing emotion compromise a scientist’s credibility? In our latest publication, we explored this question 🧵👇
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
1️⃣ There’s much debate about the role of scientists in climate advocacy, but we often overlook the core concerns behind their arguments. In our latest publication 🔍, we map these concerns based on interviews with 47 climate scientists! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Lydia Messling @lydiamessling.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
📣NEW PAPER: ‘Advocacy - defending science or destroying it?’ Our interviews with 47 climate scientists provide detailed explanations on all the good things about policy advocacy and the legitimate concerns with threats to the integrity and credibility of science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Linden Ashcroft @lindenashcroft.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I used to think science was completely objective, free from human values and biases. Obviously, that is bollocks. We are humans who make value informed decisions every day! So I ❤️ this from @christelvaneck.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @lydiamessling.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism - npj Climate Action
We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free scien...
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Excited to see our recent commentary featured on CBC! In this piece, our co-author @katharinehayhoe.com brilliantly unpacks why climate science communication cannot be and should not be neutral 👏 👇
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Super fascinating climate-communication study making the rounds today, thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com. Skeptics who changed their minds went through a three-step process, which began with a "distancing from their ideological community." 👇 🧵
In changing their opinion, most participants' experiences followed a general process of (1) distancing from their ideological community,
(2) a desire to seek out information, leading to
(3) a gradual or epiphanic realization that solidified their shift in opinion.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Good to see this. At the time, I called out Büntgen assertions as "superficial" and "naive" (www.varsity.co.uk/news/27665) and "mendacious" (www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...). van Eck et al unpack that nicely here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
preview of the title and abstract of the article discussed
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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🎁 A little holiday treat 🎁 We have a new paper on climate action communication on #Twitter 🌍 We analyzed over 6.4 million tweets from 2021, including tweets from the general public and tweets from 'climate' scientists on @katharinehayhoe.com's "Scientists who do climate" list🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
⁉️How do you navigate conversations about climate change when opinions conflict? Do you passionately try to persuade others, even at the risk of escalating tensions? Or do you prioritize finding common ground and maintaining conversational safety? 1/3
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Viktoria Cologna @colognaviktoria.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨 New preprint 🚨 Are climate scientists less trusted than scientists in general? 🤔🌍 Yes, we find evidence of a significant trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. 👇🧵 osf.io/preprints/os...
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Emanuel Wyler @ewyler.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
omorrow Saturday 1:30 PM at the Berlin Science Week: "Science communication & safety of scientists: Towards Open and Critical Debate, without Hostility", with @weitergen.de, @christelvaneck.bsky.social, @annemdijkstra.bsky.social, @katjabaer.bsky.social and me: berlinscienceweek.com/programme/sc...
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Science communication & safety of scientists: Towards Open and Critical Debate, without Hostility
As in many countries, scientists in Germany and the Netherlands increasingly feel hostility, mistrust and threat from the public when they present their work and expertise. Especially when it comes to...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/10/2024
Our new essay below pairs well with one published by @lisaschipper.bsky.social and colleagues this same week, below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Scientists have emotional responses to climate change too - Nature Climate Change
The dominant paradigm holding that science is always objective needs to be challenged. When scientists’ opinions about climate change and their own fears are seen as irrelevant, it suggests that scien...
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
🚨I recommend checking out our new commentary on the neutrality myth in climate science and activism, together with @lydiamessling.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com in Nature Climate Action #openaccess nature.com/articles/s44... 1/3
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
🚨New publication about “climate-solutions polarization”. We've studied the underlying values in the polarized Dutch media debate about biomass. #OpenAccess #biomass ⭐️with Anke Wonneberger, Jeroen Jonkman, & Christian Burgers tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
🚨For all academics investigating climate change polarization, please check out my new article in WIREs Climate Change where I review the field of ‘online climate change polarization’. Here are a few important takeaways… 1/7🧵
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
Did you get into any heated conversations about climate change with your cranky uncle over the Christmas dinners? 🌲 In our newest project, we want to investigate the emotions in such conversations, and are therefore recruiting a post-doctoral researcher: vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post...
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ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
🚨 #PhD position available! Are you interested in climate journalism? 🌿🌎 Join the project 'Climate Advocacy Journalism: Conflating Facts with Values in Reporting about Climate Solutions' supervised by @christelvaneck.bsky.social, Christian Burgers & Anke Wonneberger. 📆 The deadline is November 1! 👇
This image is showing a drawing of a hand on the bottom left, holding a megaphone. The drawing is made with orange, purple, green and blue lines. On the right of the megaphone is a pink text bubble stating (in black): 'We're hiring! PhD Position available'. Floating above the text bubble is a red line in the same shape. The background of the image is bright pink.
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Christel van Eck @christelvaneck.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
🕰️The deadline is approaching... Do you know someone for this PhD position? ⬇️ Are you interested in climate change communication, and particularly in climate advocacy journalism? Come work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! 🙏Please retweet 📧DM for questions vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...
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