Stefan Döring
@stefandoring.bsky.social
Water and Conflict Scholar // Dep of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala and Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) // views are my own
En markant ökning inträffade på försommaren 2023. Och sen dess har den globala genomsnittstemperaturen - bortsett från ett par korta perioder- inte återgått till sin normala ökningstakt. Nu är vi återigen uppe på rekordnivåer. Vilket bådar oerhört illa med tanke på den stundande El Niñon.
Me as a social scientist after having submitted my text to a major climate change report
Willem Dafoe: 'I'm Something of a Scientist Myself'
ALT: Willem Dafoe: 'I'm Something of a Scientist Myself'
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Our new study (w/ T. Hecker and J. Hall) investigates how drought and war jointly affect mental health among Syrian and Iraqi refugees. We find drought amplifies the psychological burden of war. OA link: doi.org/10.1038/s418... @climes-swe.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social
Drought amplifies the psychological burden of war - Nature Sustainability
Integrating georeferenced drought data from respondents’ pre-displacement regions with survey data from Syrian and Iraqi refugees, this study finds a stronger association between war exposure and post...
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When environmental, political, & social stresses interact, aligning research #evidence with #decision-making is a major challenge & @stefandoring.bsky.social & Krampe emphasize that #trust is the “practical requirement for effective, legitimate, & sustainable decision-making” doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days. Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
How much do Nigerians trust their elections? 🗳️🇳🇬 We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇 You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Policy brief: Trust in elections in Nigeria - Uppsala University
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Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here: www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...
Reviewer notes: In a randomized experiment, the pre-post differences are not effect estimates
Reviewer notes are a new short format with brief explanations of basic ideas that might come in handy during (for example) the peer-review process. They are a great way to keep Julia from writing 10,0...
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Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say
Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 11mo agoBreaking news: The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all research and stop publishing their studies.
Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
분노로 쓴 美구금일지…B1비자 근로자에 "노스코리아" 조롱도 | 연합뉴스
(서울=연합뉴스) 박영서 이동환 김준태 기자 = 미국 조지아주 배터리 공장 건설 현장에서 일하다 7일간 구금된 근로자들에게 '인권'은 실종된 단...
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🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... A thread 🧵:
💧Our researcher @stefandoring.bsky.social presented as a Featured Speaker at the 2025 International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In his presentation, Stefan touched on various aspects of how armed conflict shapes access to water. Photo by Roger Anis #Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict
The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions: -- Editor, Medical Evidence Project -- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch and we're still recruiting for: -- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database
Job opportunities at Retraction Watch
Here are our current open positions: Editor, Medical Evidence Project Staff reporter, Retraction Watch Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database Learn more about the Center for Scientific Int…
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🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎 Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change
Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
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A vote for Sweden is a vote for Finland (you get two for the price of one ;) #esc2025
Gotta be Sweden again this year #barabadabastu #esc
Oh hey ACLED user, Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings. Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃 #ACLED #DataSurprise
In March 2024 Altmetric detected 1,024,527 mentions of research items on X, formerly Twitter. This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago. April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go. Place your bets.
Opening my email inbox after one week of vacation
a man in a suit and tie is making a face in an office .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a face in an office .
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Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv... In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE). #RPVSky
Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography)
A lot of people use my blog posts as guides to literature reviews, either for
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missed this one last night: "Japan expressed interest Tuesday in participating in the NATO command for its Ukrainian mission based in Germany in what would be a major boost in ties with the largely European alliance."
Japan says it wants to join a NATO command for the support of Ukraine
Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani says Japan wants to participate in a NATO command for its Ukrainian mission as Japan increasingly steps up military ties with the largely European security organ...
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A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal cord injury https://go.nature.com/41YLmhC
Paralysed man stands again after receiving ‘reprogrammed’ stem cells
Another man also regained some movement, but two others experienced minimal improvement.
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🎓 Join our dynamic and supportive research community in Uppsala, Sweden! We are now seeking to fill a general PhD position in peace and conflict research. Last application date is 7 April 2025. Read more and apply. 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Jobs #Hiring #AcademicJobs
We are now receiving applications for one fully funded PhD position in peace and conflict research, with a focus on political violence in democratic countries. Read more 👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... Applications are also open for our general PhD position👉 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #PhD #Democracy
🚨 Check out this new article “Between a rock and a hard place: A geosocial approach to water insecurity in Kabul” Read about the findings and implications: doi.org/10.1016/j.wa... #water
