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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 2d

There are #GreenRoofs #GreenFacades #CoolingStreets and much more in #Vienna!

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 2d

@resonatenbt.bsky.social works with different groups of people along the #prevention pyramid

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 2d

Today Mathew White from @envpsyvienna.bsky.social talks about work from @resonatenbt.bsky.social, and Jürgen Preiss from @wien.gv.at talks about #ClimateChange #Adaptation measures

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to an interesting session on "green and blue infrastructure for the city of tomorrow" bringing together @wien.gv.at and @univie.ac.at at a lecture series organised by the #Environment and #Climate Research Hub (ech.univie.ac.at) #EnvirinmentalPsychology

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 2d

Great news that this paper led by the fabulous @todorova.bsky.social is out now, a collaboration between the @scanunit.bsky.social and @envpsyvienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at. 👏 🎉 #EnvironmentalPsychology

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 3d

People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for costly climate policies.
@todorova.bsky.social
@clauslamm.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions - Communications Psychology

People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...

www.nature.com

Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change and the recent Cradle to Grave Report spell out the tremendous harm and suffering caused by fossil fuel burning and resulting climate changes. Millions are dying every year.
drtomharris.substack.com/p/breathless...
#climatechange #health

Breathless: The Toll of Fossil Fuels and a Changing Planet

The 2025 Lancet Report on Health and Climate Change and the recent Cradle to Grave Report spell out the tremendous harm and suffering caused by fossil fuel burning and resulting climate changes.

drtomharris.substack.com

Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · 3d

People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for costly climate policies.
@todorova.bsky.social
@clauslamm.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Effort and time costs influence motivational asymmetries in self-benefitting vs pro-environmental decisions - Communications Psychology

People are less willing to incur time and effort costs for the environment than for themselves, with computational modeling revealing nonlinear discounting of time and effort linked to support for cos...

www.nature.com

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

Q: “Are you affirming you think Trump is a fascist?”

TRUMP: “That’s ok, you can just say yes.”

ZOHRAN: “Ok. Yes.”

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 7d

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said today that the fight against climate change was not against the fuels that cause it — only the pollution they emit.

Von der Leyen says EU is not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions

The comment could undermine European countries’ push at COP30 to move away from coal, oil and gas.

www.politico.eu

Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 7d

Falls sich jemand für Merz entschuldigen will (er will ja nicht): weact.campact.de/petitions/br...

Brasilien: Entschuldigung für Friedrich Merz!

Friedrich Merz war nicht einmal 24 Stunden bei der COP. Über seinen Aufenthalt in der Stadt erzählte er: »Ich habe einige Journalisten, die mit mir in Brasilien waren, letzte Woche gefragt: Wer von e...

weact.campact.de

Street Roots @streetroots.bsky.social · 7d

An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness

The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.

www.streetroots.org

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 8d

Researchers at work in the #HorizonEurope soszerpol2030.eu project meeting. As we're going into the final year of the project, we're working on integrating all the outputs and activities for #ZeroPollution in European Seas by 2030

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 9d

Researchers @univie.ac.at downloaded all #WhatsApp user data! Whoops 👀 (Report in German) 👇

www.heise.de/news/3-5-Mil...

3,5 Milliarden User: Gesamtes WhatsApp-Verzeichnis abgeschnorchelt

Wiener Forscher haben alle WhatsApp-Nummern abgerufen. Die 3,5 Milliarden Profile sind der größte Datenabfluss der Geschichte – und übler, als man meinen würde.

www.heise.de

Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 12d

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it.

She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.”

Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.”

It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 13d

That's totally shocking, how did this happen?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said. Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

Fly-tippers dump ‘mountain’ of waste in Oxfordshire field

Area’s MP says it would cost more than local council’s annual budget to remove the 10-metre high pile of waste Fly-tippers have dumped a “mountain of illegal waste” in Oxfordshire so large that removing it could cost more than the local council’s annual budget, the area’s MP has said. Hundreds of tonnes of waste, stacked 10 metres high, appeared in a field between the River Cherwell and the A34 near Kidlington. One charity called the huge dump of rubbish “an environmental catastrophe unfolding in plain sight”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

Für sachliche Politik @sachlichepolitik.bsky.social · 13d

Mandatsträger und Funktionsinhaber, die sich nicht scheuen, die Würde des Menschen jeden Tag einmal in den Schmutz zu ziehen! [...] Die Weimarer Republik ist nicht zugrunde gegangen an der übermächtigen Stärke ihrer Gegner, sondern an der Schwäche, der Feigheit, der Müdigkeit ihrer Anhänger."

2/2

„Ziehen jeden Tag die Würde in den Schmutz“: Pistorius wird bei Preisverleihung deutlich – zu AfD und Trump

Bei der Verleihung des Werner-Holzer-Preises richtet Boris Pistorius einen flammenden Appell an den Saal: Er rügt „Müdigkeit“ unter Demokraten.

www.fr.de

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 15d

🤔

Martin Thür @martinthuer.at · 15d

Das Wissenschaftsministerium will das (staatlich bezahlte) Gutachten nicht veröffentlichen, das begründen soll, warum Harald Mahrer den Professor-Titel bekam.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Professor Harald Mahrer und das Rätsel um seine wissenschaftlichen Verdienste

Auf Antrag des Wissenschaftsministeriums wurde Mahrer heuer vom Bundespräsidenten der Berufstitel Professor verliehen. Die Gründe sind undurchsichtig

www.derstandard.at

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 15d

Good and pragmatic piece by @gelliottmorris.com on #SocialMedia - how it's changed, benefits and risks for you and society, and how you can get back control.

You should quit social media for good
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

You should quit social media for good

Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.

open.substack.com

Martin Thür @martinthuer.at · 15d

Das Wissenschaftsministerium will das (staatlich bezahlte) Gutachten nicht veröffentlichen, das begründen soll, warum Harald Mahrer den Professor-Titel bekam.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Professor Harald Mahrer und das Rätsel um seine wissenschaftlichen Verdienste

Auf Antrag des Wissenschaftsministeriums wurde Mahrer heuer vom Bundespräsidenten der Berufstitel Professor verliehen. Die Gründe sind undurchsichtig

www.derstandard.at

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 16d

This sends chills down my spine

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat

The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands. However, figures at the corporation are also minded to be robust in defending its journalism in the face of allegations from Trump that it made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about him. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16d

BBC prepared to apologise to Trump to resolve billion-dollar legal threat

The US president has threatened the BBC with a lawsuit over the editing of a Trump speech in an edition of Panorama The BBC is prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump as part of its efforts to resolve his billion-dollar legal threat over its editing of one of his speeches, the Guardian understands. However, figures at the corporation are also minded to be robust in defending its journalism in the face of allegations from Trump that it made “false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements” about him. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d

France is at war with Shein. We should copy its tactics to defeat fast fashion | Nicole Lipman

The dirt-cheap clothing company has opened its first permanent store in Paris – and politicians and workers have united against it, says writer Nicole Lipman

www.theguardian.com

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 19d

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands

MP asks for explanation from Southern Water amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life

www.theguardian.com

Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 19d

😞

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 19d

A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 24d

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 19d

A variation on the story from the other day about how many teens think factual reporting is routinely made up:

Susanna Shore, Author @susannashore.bsky.social · 24d

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social):

As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead."

But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that"

Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19d

Sigh. I apologize on our behalf.

Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff

Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

Yoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 19d

BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 20d

Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 20d

Brazil is planning to create a mechanism to use oil revenues to finance the nation’s energy transition, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said, as the country juggles its green ambitions against its expanding production of fossil fuels

Brazil to Use Oil Profits to Fund Energy Transition, Lula Says

Brazil is planning to create a mechanism to use oil revenues to finance the nation’s energy transition, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said, as the country juggles its green ambitions against its expanding production of fossil fuels.

bloom.bg

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