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Viktoria Spaiser

@viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social
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Professor of Climate Politics and Computational Social Science, University of Leeds, UK. Interested in climate movements, norms, environmental (political) behaviour, tipping points, AI, cdp.leeds.ac.uk/research/normative-…

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026
This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this year
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The impacts of this year’s record-shattering El Niño
El Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America.
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 04/09/2026
Menschenkette am trockenen Rheinufer. #Klimaschutz jetzt! (Teilt das gerne. Sonst bekommt's KAUM Öffentlichkeit, - von eingeladenen Medien sind wohl genau KEINE gekommen. 😔)
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POLIS at Leeds @polisatleeds.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🌍Can social tipping points help accelerate the transition to a more sustainable future? Join this Cell Press webinar featuring Professor Viktoria Spaiser (@viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social) 📅 29 Sep 🕑 2-3.30pm BST Register to join, submit a question, or gain access to the recording⬇️ shorturl.at/HbGCX
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Catalyzing transformative change: Social tipping points for sustainable futures
Social tipping points, moments when shifts in behavior, norms, policies, technologies, or institutions become self-reinforcing, are attracting growing attention in sustainability science. Positive tip...
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Join us for this exciting online webinar on social tipping points for sustainable futures. Register here: www.bigmarker.com/cellpress-so...
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hugely important letter to PM Andy Burnham from @kevinclimate.bsky.social &Tyndall colleagues. Rapidly shrinking global carbon budgets were ignored when Govt set the recent Seventh Carbon Budget - now a key ground in #CarbonReckoning legal case www.crowdjustice.com/case/carbon-... (see below)
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
A must watch, even as it attracts much criticism 👉Excellent in any case if it triggers deeper conversations 👉Appreciate Rutger's communication skills!
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
How does climate threat fuel polarization? 🧵 In our new paper, we introduce the ARCADE model. Using a 1,967-person experiment, we found that authoritarians suppress climate anger toward leaders and displace it onto outgroups, driving policy obstruction. Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr...
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Redirecting
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is foundational stuff: (just five pages to understand why we're where we are on climate change) cssn.org/cssn-primer-...
Close-up of the web of interactions of organizations seeking to influence public policy on climate change in the USA (useful elsewhere too)
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Ellen Peters @ellenpeters.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
countedoutfilm.com/count-me-in/
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COUNT ME IN - Counted Out
Host a screening and use our toolkit to spark real conversations about what math could be. At your school, library, workplace, or living room—this story belongs everywhere and to everyone.
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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is a bang on thread from @brenttoderian.bsky.social about how politicians need to get smart on how to listen to residents but also lead and deliver at pace. All too often 'consult more/better' is code for delay, weaken, cancel action & favour the status quo while our cities stay broken...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 02/04/2026
NEW – Analysis: Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 ✍️ @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Ho Woo Nam Read here: buff.ly/wFGUgMU
Monthly generation from wind and solar in terawatt hours on the island of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), which has a separate electricity system from the island of Ireland, which includes Northern Ireland. Source: National Energy System Operator (NESO) and Carbon Brief analysis.
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Carlos Rodríguez - Pardo @carlosrodriguezp.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🧠Happy to share that our perspective paper on GenAI for climate policy has been published at npj Climate Action! 🤖We discuss LLM as a public-acceptance emulator in climate policy pipelines 🔗Link in: www.nature.com/articles/s44... 👥Thank you Ajay and @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social for leading this!
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Generative AI for climate governance and acceptability-constrained policy design - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Generative AI for climate governance and acceptability-constrained policy design
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels. www.positive.news/environment/...
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Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News
A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels
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JUST Centre @justcentre.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
🗳️ As the dust settles after Gorton and Denton's hard-fought byelection, JUST Deputy Director @matpaterson.bsky.social provides a striking expert analysis of how the UK political landscape is evolving - and what this means for climate policy. Read the full analysis: bit.ly/40cSczE
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JUST: Gorton, Denton and just climate transformations
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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79... Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided. Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!
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Care of Earth and People Ensure A Future World 🌎 @bpermaculture.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected www.ecoportal.net/en/turbines-...
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They built wind turbines to make power — but under the sea, they “produce” something no one expected
Offshore turbines with nature‑inclusive Reef Cubes help restore oceans, boosting marine life as Dutch wind farms show clean energy can heal underwater ecosystems.
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Climate Policy Journal @climate-policy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#5: Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest. Nicole Nisbett, @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social, @estrangeirada.bsky.social & @dvaldenegro.bsky.social
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Climate action or delay: the dynamics of competing narratives in the UK political sphere and the influence of climate protest
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Here's the bigger context--JUST OUT. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
So one of the best tech-related books of the year was "More Everything Forever" by @adambecker.bsky.social a great read on the ideologies of the Silicon Valley, @davekarpf.bsky.social wrote the best review of it davekarpf.substack.com/p/book-revie...
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Book Review: "More Everything Forever"
A book that takes Silicon Valley's unserious ideas seriously, and then delightfully tears them apart.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 14/12/2025
As an avid observer of algorithms I think I’ve figured out part of what happened here. FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement. So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵‍💫
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Tune in today for this free #COP30 Virtual Ocean Pavilion webinar on #Ocean #TippingPoints and why they matter
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement A must read for all climate activists zenodo.org/records/1758...
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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods They were supercharged by climate change Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵 www.scri.org.uk/derailment
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Welcome to the Strategic Climate Risk Initiative
How can we stop the consequences of climate change from undermining climate action?
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Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Climate Wake-Up Call🚨 New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
"Two US-based academics and experts said Rainforest Reserves Australia’s (RRA) claims in submissions about their work were “100% misleading” and “absurd"...the organisation’s submission writer has admitted using AI." And, look who supports RRA ;) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Queensland anti-renewables group cited nonexistent papers in inquiry submissions using AI, publisher says
Exclusive: Rainforest Reserves Australia has published submissions naming nonexistent government authorities and a nonexistent windfarm
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Dr Samuel Finnerty @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hi all! I’m looking for research jobs in social psychology, environmental action, & climate policy. I study pro-environmental action, moral and identity processes, scientist advocacy, and universities’ climate responses. I use qualitative and quantitative methods for research with real-world impact.
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The second Global Tipping Points Report has been launched today. Please see our press release here: www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article... Find the full report here: global-tipping-points.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social #TippingPoints #COP30
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‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point
Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 08/10/2025
What are 'derailment risks' and how are they rapidly increasing? Join me for an in-person & online panel discussion at Chatham House, London: 28 OCTOBER 2025 — 5:00PM TO 6:00PM www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/r...
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How should the world confront climate derailment risks?
In this event, expert panellists discuss climate derailment risks, and how these risks can be tackled.
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
If you’re in Leeds on the 15th of October, come to my inaugural lecture on “Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat - Exploring Future Trajectories, Surveying the Past and the Present” www.tickettailor.com/events/fssev...
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Select tickets – "Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat": A Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Professor Viktoria Spaiser – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds
"Facing Accelerating Climate Change Threat": A Faculty Inaugural Lecture by Professor Viktoria Spaiser – Liberty Building (Moot Court) LT (1.28), University of Leeds, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - We are delighte...
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 09/09/2025
British NIMBYism is truly a sight to behold. “We are rejecting this solar farm, because one time I saw an electric vehicle on fire, which reminded me that decades ago a coal mining disaster killed lots of children”.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I am SO EXCITED about this! Many folks want to take personal action on climate change, but many resources treat people like monoliths. Enter SHIFT -- a collaboration between Dr. Kim Nicholas and Project Drawdown -- that tailors advice for YOU, using your climate superpowers. jointheshift.earth
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SHIFT
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
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Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue @boelleu.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
🟢📣 Only 1 day left to apply for our 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱! 📝 Apply if you have research ideas on the threat of climate denialism, the relation between big tech & climate obstruction or similar 🔍 All info here 👉 eu.boell.org/en/climate-d... @zorasiebert.bsky.social @boell.de
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Climate disinformation media fellowship 2025 | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Brussels office - European Union
For the third time, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung European Union | Global Dialogue, in partnership with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, is looking for a select number of journalists reporting o...
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
New article! What explains the relationship between populist radical right attitudes and opposition to climate policy? Structural vs. ideological factors, from Håkon Grøn Sælen & Aaron M. McCright. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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Populism of the radical right is strongly associated with climate change denial and opposition to climate policy, but we lack understanding of why these two phenomena are linked. This article tests two alternative explanations presented by extant literature. A structuralist explanation argues that the link is spurious, as both are caused by perceived vulnerability to structural changes in the economy. In highlighting that the ideological nature of radical right populism is antithetical to climate policy, an ideological explanation posits that any apparent effect of structural changes on climate policy attitudes is mediated by radical right populist ideology. We present data from an original survey administered in Australia, Germany, Norway, and the United States that is designed to test the two hypotheses against each other. Two different structural equation modeling analyses provide greater support for the ideological explanation than the structuralist explanation.
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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 03/09/2025
🌍 Carbon storage is not a limitless climate solution. A new IIASA-led study in @nature.com shows that safe, practical underground carbon storage could reduce warming by only 0.7°C – almost 10 times less than earlier estimates of 6°C. Read more 🔗 iiasa.ac.at/news/sep-202... @gidden.bsky.social
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Our co-produced #PolicyBrief following our event "Accelerating #SocialChange in Response to the #Climate and #EcologicalCrisis", is out now, see here: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
People do care! Exposure to moral appeals (moral implications of fossil fuels etc.) can reduce people's carbon footprints, while also increasing climate-related civic and political action, though it may backfire among individuals with strong egoistic values. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Mobilising climate action with moral appeals in a smartphone-based 8-week field experiment - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Mobilising climate action with moral appeals in a smartphone-based 8-week field experiment
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Susan Ann Samuel @susanannsamuel.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🌴 Ahead of the much awaited #ICJ #AdvisoryOpinion on state obligations regarding #climatechange, on 23rd July, happy to share a piece I wrote for the @uk.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-young-pe... Celebrating the vision and effort of the #youngpeople in this 🌍
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How young people have taken climate justice to the world’s international courts
Four international courts are due to deliver advisory opinions on how governments are legally responsible for climate justice.
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Here is a great summary of the #GlobalTippingPoints Conference 2025 in Exeter by @carbonbrief.org: www.carbonbrief.org/tipping-poin... The conference was a call for action as we head towards #COP30 at which the 2nd updated Global Tipping Points Report will be launched
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Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is 'rapidly closing' - Carbon Brief
In the midst of a record-breaking heatwave in Europe, the UK city of Exeter recently...
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 08/07/2025
NEW – Tipping points: Window to avoid irreversible climate impacts is ‘rapidly closing’ | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org @gsiexeter.bsky.social @pik-potsdam.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/ECWvN3z
The Global Tipping Points Conference 2025. Credit: Jim Wileman / University of Exeter
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Coral reefs are now “flickering out across the world” - ‘It’s death by a thousand cuts" - latest in tipping points series from @jonathan-watts.bsky.social #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘It’s death by a thousand cuts’: marine ecologist on the collapse of coral reefs
David Obura believes humans have been using nature for free, and tipping points at some reefs have already passed
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Jordan @jpoveralls.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Me and some others managed to finally publish a (long) review on social tipping, when it might occur, and what that means from a network science perspective: esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...
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The Pareto effect in tipping social networks: from minority to majority
Abstract. How do social networks tip? A popular theory is that a small minority can trigger population-wide social change. This aligns with the Pareto principle, a semi-quantitative law which suggests...
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Long in the making, finally happening this week at Brussels: #GenAIResearchRetreat2025 - Exploring new generative #AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems. Exciting programme, great group: computationalclimateactionlab.github.io/genai2025rr/...
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Exploring new generative AI methods for understanding dynamic complex social and socio-ecological systems Date: 9th – 13th June 2025 Venue: Brussels, Belgium (Double Tree By Hilton Brussels City Hot...
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Happening today "Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis" in Friends House, London: cdp.leeds.ac.uk/events/accel... So excited to learn from so many wonderful contributors. A co-produced policy brief will summarise the man insights and recommendations.
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Accelerating Social Change in Response to the Climate and Ecological Crisis
This is a stakeholder event, open to researchers, activists, policy makers, social entrepreneurs, campaigners, artists, communicators etc. who are working on climate change and the ecological crisis.
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CarbonPlan @carbonplan.org · 23/04/2025
Want to know how fossil fuel companies use carbon offsets to claim they’re fighting climate change? We've updated OffsetsDB — our offsets database — to allow you to search by carbon credit user. Search "Shell" and see what offsets they're using and when. (1/4) carbonplan.org/research/off...
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Viktoria Spaiser @viktoriaspaiser.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@manjanam.bsky.social’s piece is one of the highlights of the BJPIR’s anniversary special issue and so timely!
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
📣 Don't miss this new BJPIR article! 'Political science and the Earth system: Adapting governance to planetary realities' by Manjana Milkoreit Find the full article in #OpenAccess here: buff.ly/uown3dB @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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Climate Science Breakthrough @climatescibreak.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated". #climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
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