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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 15d

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 · 17h

I'm not going to engage with this provocation😉

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 17h

It does?😁

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 18h

Ich komme mir immer sehr komisch vor, meinen eigenen Kram zu reposten (daher mache ich es auch nie). Aber vermutlich hast du recht, das ist ohne Algorithmus wohl eine sinnvolle Strategie…

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 18h

I just learned a new concept in environmental economics (while grading an exam):

the PQ tax.

I'll leave it to you to guess what was (most likely) meant.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 18h

Danke🙏🏻

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 18h

Ja, es ist tatsächlich vor allem ein Starter Pack, glaube ich, dem ich sehr viele US-Follower:innen verdanke.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 1d

“When crops are burned for fuel, new land can be needed to grow new crops for food or fuel. This can lead to indirect land clearance and deforestation. Staggeringly, biofuels globally therefore today emit 16% more CO₂ emissions than the fossil fuels they replace.”

From: https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/crop30-why-burning-food-for-land-hungry-biofuels-is-fueling-the-climate-crisis

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

That's a lot... Way more than I had on the other platform (with fewer interactions than there, though).

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

I sent you a couple of DMs (without screenshots, though, because apparently, you can't send photos in DMs – dick pic prevention?).

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

I typed in your name in the search and selected the option (there were two) for which there actually were publications available.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Does this sound right? (it seems to be merging you with some much older Georg Henning, but that one barely has any citations, so it doesn't affect the H)

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

You look yourself up in the Researcher search of WoS

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

Eine orthographisch logische Sprache ist für mich Serbokroatisch mit „Piši kao što govoriš“ (Schreib wie du sprichst). Grammatikalisch bin ich noch auf der Suche nach etwas halbwegs differenziertem (zB englische tenses), aber auch weitgehend regulärem, mit wenigen Ausnahmen.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

Pragmatisch, ja. Logisch? Ich weiß nicht... Die vielen Ausnahmen, die verschiedenen Buchstaben(Kombinationen) für denselben Laut, die flexible Syntax (bei der manche Optionen OK sind, andere komisch klingen) etc – all das spricht für mich gegen „logisch“.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Definitiv, es gibt erstaunlich viele französische Wörter im Polnischen.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Fun fact: im Polnischen ist „autokar“ die Bezeichnung nur für Fernbusse; normalerweise heißen Busse „autobus“.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 5d

Quite some news

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 5d

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6d

Spannende Erfahrung, kann ich empfehlen.

Raphael @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 6d

[Admin] Hallo alle miteinander, hier bei @realscientists.de ist spontan eine Woche frei geworden: die ab dem 20. Oktober. Wenn ihr schon immer mal eine Woche lang diesen Account bespielen wolltet, ist JETZT eure Gelegenheit dazu.

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Raphael @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 6d

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6d

Zwischen diesen drei Aushängen sind es vielleicht je 2 m... Die anderen beiden Türen in diesem Waggon sind ebenfalls defekt. Die Züge auf dieser Strecke (Kopenhagen–Hamburg) sind wirklich eine Katastrophe.

Aushang an der Wand eines Waggons "Klimaanlage defekt"

Aushang an der Tür eines Waggons "Tür unbenutzbar"

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6d

...the Department of Environmental Science at University of Aarhus, Campus Risø ( @andersbranthp.bsky.social ).

I'll be back.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6d

In addition to people at IFRO, I've also had great discussions during my short visits at the Department of Economics at SLU in Uppsala ( @jensrommel.bsky.social ), the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University ( @ndroste.bsky.social ) as well as...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 6d

It's time to say Farvel today. I've had a great time at the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen. I'll miss the colleagues, the cycling infrastructure, the green spaces. Still, I'm really looking forward to seeing my family again. 5+ weeks is a lot.

A square surrounded by brick buildings with bicycles in front, stairs with the sign "Cycelkælder" and a metro sign in the background

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7d

Good question, I'm not aware of anything

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7d

Other relevant observations included:
*Spanish Sahara (renamed after 1975)
*Cyprus undivided (Green Line introduced in 1974)
*Volgograd, not Stalingrad (after 1953)
(Plus some more obvious ones like pre-1990 boundaries in (South-)Eastern Europe)

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7d

Fun activity during my goodbye-cake break at IFRO: trying to "carbon-date" this map of Europe. We narrowed it down to probably early 60's, using mainly non-European hints (Egypt is called "United Arab Republic", Algeria is independent, Gaza is still controlled by Egypt).

Physical map of Europe with national borders

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