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Bartosz Bartkowski
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Environmental economist | land use🚜🌱 / soils🪱 / biodiversity🪲 | behaviour & policy | social–ecological modelling | ast prof at @ufz.de & @unihalle.bsky.social | tea addict🫖 | jazz afficionado🎷 | born at 352 ppm | posts in 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇵🇱
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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · Sep 30
Really, really happy to share this new publication by Malin Gütschow and myself on farmers’ identity in the context of multifunctionality 🚜🌾🪲🐦

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Farmers (are expected to) fulfil diverse economic, environmental, and social roles or functions. Yet the relative importance of these functions remains contested both within farming communities and in the broader society. Understanding how farmers prioritize these different functions as a reflection of their role identity is crucial, given the increasing recognition of the importance of identity as a determinant of farmer behaviour. We frame this aspect of farmer identity in terms of multifunctionality, a common lens for analysing the performance of agriculture relative to societal demands. However, while this concept is often used with an ecological focus, our study builds on a broader interpretation that encompasses the full range of social, cultural, economic, and ecological functions. Furthermore, we focus on the roles farmers themselves would like to play when looking 10 to 20 years into the future. We apply Q methodology to see how farmers from Eastern Germany prioritize among 71 societal functions. We use the Q sorts and qualitative data to derive and characterize a typology of three narrative perspectives. The results demonstrate the breadth and heterogeneity of farmers' role identity, and therefore the need to go beyond a narrow focus on ecological roles or functions.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2h
Agree. There are good reasons to *not* do a replication study (starting with working in a field where there isn't much to replicate).

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6h
Highly interesting and important paper by @goedelevdbroeck.bsky.social @yanndemey.bsky.social and others (not on Bluesky?) analyzing the reasons farmers had for their recent protests in different EU countries: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Farmers’ Voices in European Protests: Diverse Complaints, Emotional Tones, and Policy Responses
The 2024 farmers’ protests across Europe signaled widespread dissatisfaction in the agricultural sector. While low farm incomes and restrictive enviro…
www.sciencedirect.com

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 10h
I'd agree that the specific proportions will vary across contexts (countries, institutions, disciplines, levels of experience). But this triad of tasks of an academic as such seems generically valid.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 10h
I haven't really encountered this problem in any obvious sense. Or, rather, I sometimes blame editors for sending out papers that are obviously not good (if you look beyond the abstract), but I don't really care much about "high-ranking" vs. "low-ranking".

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 11h
Still seeing conservation ecologists using the ‘precautionary principle’ as a catch all to constrain new ideas

As the climate crisis takes hold, we are going to have to try novel approaches to conservation

And some of that will involve taking risks

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 13h
That's why I say that *implicitly* it's part of everyone's job if they publish.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 13h
I see your point, but if people publish but don't review, the system isn't working. This may not be those people's fault, but rather their employers' though... It's kind of like the one condition of Ostrom's for commons to work: recognition of the governance system by public authorities.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 23h
Exactly my thinking

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d
...understanding of "novelty", therefore actually "littering" the literature with new tiny niches without really increasing our understanding.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d
I've been wondering: Would it make sense to allow (and, for that matter, encourage) PhD students to conduct a replication study as part of their thesis? Where the topic lends itself to replication, of course.

I sometimes feel that we equate "contribution to research" with a rather narrow...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d
Congrats!

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d
I know. It's one of the (many) social norms in Germany that I am pretty sceptical of😉

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d
But why wine (alcoholic or not)?😭

Seriously: I think beyond alcohol specifically, an underlying problem is the urge to gift something to someone you don't really know – so you have no idea whether the gift, no matter how generic, fits. In such situations, I'd say no gift is preferrable.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
Me too. Makes me feel less bad when I don't give people anything😉

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I did, not so long ago, despite giving way fewer presentation that you😉 Small n in either case, I guess.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
If it weren't, I wouldn't have sent it out😉

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
This German „Anstoßen“ tradition is a whole another issue (for me at least). Short version: I hate it😉

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
At the same time, I'm too polite (or shy?) to outright reject such gifts or even say that they are of no use.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I've never drunken alcohol (unless having a trial sip counts), so I'm fine with people being surprised/asking questions, because I know it's unusual. But I'm annoyed by people giving me wine or even chocolates with alcohol without considering that this could be a problem.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
Could we please denormalize giving gifts that contain alcohol to people you don't know well?! I'm not drinking alcohol by choice, but there are sober alcoholics out there...

(P.S. I'm actually in favour of denormalizing alcohol consumption in general, but that's less likely to meet with support 🤷🏻‍♂️)

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
Yeah, there's frustration on both sides...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
Everyone who publishes does, implicitly

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I totally agree with the point about exploitation. What I wanted to say is that to me, it's not really about "not getting paid". It's about publishers being essentially free riders on multiple public goods provided by/paid by academics and their funders.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
Which is why I am trying to (also) target junior people with my invitations. And declines are the smaller problem – I'm particularly annoyed at the non-responses.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I have a problem with that "you don't get paid" bit. I consider it part of my (paid) academic job.

Also, I am not sure the publishers, who are the target of the "strike", are really hurt by it. To me it seems that it is hurting fellow researchers (especially junior ones) much more.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I see the point in publishers making money off of us in a sense. But at the same time, I consider reviewing part of my job🤷🏻‍♂️

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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 2d
Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.
bartoszbartk.com Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
But they are authors as well, complaining that their own submissions take so long… It's ultimately about indirect reciprocity.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d
Who would have thought
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