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.

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...

Postdoc In Meta-science

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Tremendous shade thrown in Het Parool 😂

#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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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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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

⭐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

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😐

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 ~

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.

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?

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...

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

Shaming climate wrongdoers

Shaming climate wrongdoers, Yadin, Sharon, Maibach, Edward

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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.

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?

‘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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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. 🧵

www.bbc.com/news/article... Good result. Took too long. Interesting article.

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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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.

In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born

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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?

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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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...

Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.

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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

Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

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no *you're* crying Happy Christmas!

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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.

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/...

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.”

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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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...

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

The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

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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

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

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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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

"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/...

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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