Tobia Spampatti, PhD
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Tobia Spampatti, PhD
@tspampatti.bsky.social
PhD in Neuroscience, Guest Researcher at the Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

I study why people care and discuss about societal, systemic issues like climate change, technology, and disinformation.

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Reposted by Tobia Spampatti, PhD
Watch the video here if you missed the livestream. coveringclimatenow.org/event/the-bi...
The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond with Urgency
Hear from Kim Cobb, Zeke Hausfather, Katharine Hayhoe and Daniel Swain.
coveringclimatenow.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
(Meaning leaving Bjorn behind you, obviously)
a man in a black suit says do it in white letters
ALT: a man in a black suit says do it in white letters
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Reposted by Tobia Spampatti, PhD
I revamped a figure from our paper showing our results in a nutshell: Even during the short experimental time, in the U.S., we find climate concern in the sample diverges between participants with different information diets. 3/4
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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In our recent paper, we use a sampling paradigm to investigate how people consume Pro-climate information and Anti-climate disinformation. In representative samples from three nations, we find belief-confirming sampling and processing and that the messages influenced climate concern. 2/4
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Tobia Spampatti, PhD
Perceptions of ideology are endogenous to the coverage that precedes their formulation you absolute idiots.
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Tobia Spampatti, PhD
Selective Causal Focus: Research produced and funded by tech companies often either frames problems as user-driven, or solutions as the obligation of users (E.g. community notes). Distracting us from their design, business model, interface, and other causes steering us away from their profit model
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM