🔥 Individual or system change?🔥 This debate has been at the center of much of my social media engagement for years (causing a fair bit of frustration). Yet I have never published research directly addressing it. Until now. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Maybe we need a follow-up to this article that studies whether political pundits also underestimate the environmental concerns of minority and low-income Americans? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @arpearson.bsky.social

Matt Huber@matthuber.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hello, it’s me in @nytopinion.nytimes.com The Democratic Party is historically unpopular & hemorrhaging working class voters. Focusing on the issue of climate change —an issue mainly impt to their educated/affluent base—is not a way to reverse this. This marks the end of an era. 👇

🚨🚨 Today, we’re launching “Stop Greed Build Green,” a strategic framework and agenda to confront the affordability crisis and the climate crisis together by putting working people in charge of the economy and the climate transition. (1/10)

Stop Greed, Build Green | Climate and Community Institute

A new framework to put the working class in charge of climate and economic transformation.

stopgreedbuildgreen.org

Also climate disinformation

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today.  Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

44% of Americans are very worried about climate change — among the highest levels since 1989 — and 63% believe the US government is not taking enough environmental action, the highest since @Gallup.com started polling the question in 1992.

Climate Change Concern Near Its High Point in US

44% of US adults worry "a great deal" about climate change or global warming is near its 46% high point from 2020.

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This is a great data visualisation. It clearly shows why policy interventions that support/subsidise driving tend to not just miss an opportunity to reduce inequality, they are likely to entrench inequality, because those in the most deprived areas will derive the least benefit.

Jo Wood@jwolondon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As @ianwalker.bsky.social mentions in the video, richer → more driving. The census records the number of cars/vans every household has access to, which we can split by deprivation 'decile'. Consistently, the more deprived an area is, the less household access to private vehicles. [2/8]

Survey research is often interpreted as showing that belief in conspiracy theories can be surprisingly widespread, including belief in conspiracy theories that would be astonishing if true. For example, in The Atlantic we learn that “12 million Americans believe lizard people run our country”

I've got a new paper out today with @timlapira.bsky.social and @salilb.bsky.social in ERC showing that party ID strongly structures political elites' beliefs about climate change. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Wow, and wow again. Clean energy candidates have beaten a concerted campaign by Turning Point USA and captured a board majority at the Salt River Project, Arizona's 2nd-largest utility Lots of us pitched in on this fight, not knowing if a win was possible. It was! www.ariseia.org/news/clean-e...

This post is part of a longer thread and we really wanted to make sure it got attention from our community. Many thank you's to Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social) for putting together this action guide to help scholars advocate for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences!

Society for Personality and Social Psychology@spspnews.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We encourage SPSP members to check out an excellent guide prepared by Paige Amormino (@amormino.bsky.social), which offers practical action steps that members can take to speak up for personality and social psychology research: ow.ly/zYBl50YEuVM

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Folks, I give you the New York Times

my hot take is that this is a *fantastic* result & reason for optimism:

To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

To keep climate science alive, researchers are speaking in code

Words considered "woke" are vanishing from National Science Foundation proposals. We tracked the changes.

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we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...

I have literally watched something like 5 hours of this DOGE bro testimony. I'm completely obsessed, it's weirdly captivating. The circular arguments, the disdain from everyone involved, a true pleasure to watch Follow 404 Media on Instagram (www.instagram.com/404mediaco/) for more like this

We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI. "The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves." www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Something related:

Are LLMs Taking Online Surveys?

We discuss the results of our study assessing the capabilities of an agentic AI tool called Operator and identifying methods for detecting AI-assisted survey interviews.

pro.morningconsult.com

Journalism is not in fact better when it integrate betting markets.

da da™️ drew@adrew.dadguy.help · 6mo ago

okay really though it's time to leave substack

This new paper offers practical solutions for pluralistic ignorance (when people assume their opinon is unpopular when many others share it): -in loose cultures, share accurate information -in tight ones, lowering the costs of speaking up can spark social change. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines

During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

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Bari’s sole, career-defining trick is to repackage bog-standard elite opinion as something “edgy” and “heterodox.” There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.) But it’s a NICHE audience.

It probably won't shock you to learn the US regressed on greenhouse gases last year, with emissions up 2.4% after 2 years of decline and even growing faster than GDP. We're moving in the wrong direction. rhg.com/research/us-...

Preliminary US Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimates for 2025

Based on preliminary economic and energy activity data, we estimate that in 2025, US greenhouse gas emissions increased by 2.4%, marking a change from the prior two years of decreases in emissions.

rhg.com

Journalists often go on hand-fed ride-alongs with agents. Seldom, though, do they get into the cars of everyday people protecting their communities from those same agents. We just did exactly that, in ICE-occupied Minneapolis:

via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook

Survey experiments have become a popular methodology among social scientists. Has it been effective? In POQ, Rauf et al. study the efficacy of 100 survey experiments. Their results show that a majority of hypotheses were not supported. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...