📢 The future is NOW! 5 BIG-5 team members (Alba, Roos, Àlex, Svetlana, & Xueyuan) shared their urgent perspectives on climate, justice, and biodiversity in the latest #TNOCRoundtable by @tnoc.bsky.social They speak a language of survival and re-invention. Click to read below⬇️

🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Our session "The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier" is on at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026! 🌍 📍 Davos, Switzerland, 14-19 June 2026 📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 🔗 Submit here: bit.ly/46BXFmh #WBF2026 #Biodiversity #DigitalNature

Last week, our Urban Greening & Renaturing Cluster joined the NetworkNature Task Forces meeting in Brussels. Teams from @big-5.bsky.social, @commit2green.bsky.social, FairNature, and more are shaping greener, more resilient cities. 💡 Learn more: networknature.eu #UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions

🎓 Congrats to Max Caixàs on successfully defending his Master’s thesis in the #BIG5Project! His research decoded food imagery on social media,uncovering platform differences and a big gap: 🌱 almost no mention of nature or sustainability. 🔗 Read more: big-5.eu/cracking-the... #SocialMediaResearch

Still wondering what the BIG-5 Project is all about? 🤔 Our Principal Investigator, Johannes Langemeyer, reveals the core hypothesis driving our work. 📺 Full video: www.youtube.com/@BIG-5-Project 🔗 More BIG-5 content: big-5.eu #BIG5Project #Research #Hypothesis #ConceptualFramework #Methodology

Huge congratulations to Paula Feliu Criado for the successful defense of her Bachelor's thesis within the BIG-5 Project 🎓 👉 Read more about her work on our blog: bit.ly/3Uotk4S #ExplainableAI #EnvironmentalScience

🌿 Last week, BIG-5 team member Alba Ortiz Naumann took part in the 3rd Sustainable Sports Symposium at Leipzig University, presenting: “Digital Pathways to Environmental Stewardship: Implications for the Sports Community.” #SustainableSports #RelationalValues #SportEcology #BIG5Project

Max Caixàs Vicens explores how food posts reveal our digital values like identity, culture, and connection to nature. 🍽️ Can online food culture drive real-world sustainability? More at big-5.eu #BIG5 #DigitalEcology #DigitalRelationalValues youtu.be/_ktyHgF7pYI

We're thrilled to share that the #BIG5 team recently held an online workshop 🙌 . Our research group is excited to keep pushing forward with the project and this session was crucial as we tackled the challenge of clustering the Digital Relational Values we've been identifying across social media.

❓What happens when a platform refuses to let science do its job? Our EU-funded project BIG-5, hosted at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social and @uab.cat, investigates how social media platforms shape environmental values.

🎮🌿 Exploring how videogames shape our relationship with nature. Can digital experiences foster real-world care for the environment—or do they distance us from it? 🧠 We’re reflecting on virtual nature and what it means to connect with it. What do you think? @icta-uab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

BIG-5 Methodology: 🛠️ BUILDING OUR PROTOCOL Meet Roos Mouthaan 🇳🇱 from the BIG-5 team as she shares how we built (and keep refining) our research protocol, from key concepts to coding tests! 🌍 Learn more: big-5.eu #BIG5 #RelationalValues #DigitalEcology youtu.be/1nYEGy_h300 @icta-uab.bsky.social

Digital Relational Values in Cities 🌱🌃 Join Xueyuan Liang (🇨🇳) from the BIG-5 team as she explores how social media platforms like Weibo 📱 are reshaping our relationship with nature. 🌐 More about the BIG-5: big-5.eu #BIG5 #DigitalNature #RelationalValues #DigitalEcology 🌍💡 youtu.be/TMDZOg8cAyQ

🚀 Addressing Selection Bias in Social Media Research 🌍 Yesterday at the Brown Bag Sessions @bsc-cns.bsky.social, Ramin Soleymani-Fard (Software Engineer & PhD Researcher, BIG5 Team) shared insights on tackling selection bias in social media data. #SocialMediaResearch #BigData #AI #DataScience

🔦👩‍🔬Meet Giulia Benati, a postdoctoral researcher in the @big-5.bsky.social ERC project, where she draws on her previous research in urban ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, and the use of social media to assess the perceived value of nature. @erc.europa.eu

📢 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 🌍 Based at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social, the Digital Social Ecology research group studies how digital platforms shape human-environment interactions, focusing on sustainability, resilience, and justice. Learn more: 🔗 www.bsc.es/research-dev...

💻 The BIG-5 team is currently engaged in the intricate process of manually identifying and coding relational nature values in social media content from TikTok, YouTube, and X. This work exposes us to unfiltered online material, some of which can be deeply distressing.

🌱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 🍎 In our last post, we explored the complexities of human-nature interactions 🌿. Our discussion continues, focusing on our relationship with food 🍽️. 💬 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? Tell us in the comments!

It's exciting times for the BIG-5 team! 🚀 Last week, we had the pleasure of participating in the CSSH All Hands Meeting at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social. There, we connected with colleagues, shared insights, and explored cutting-edge research in Computational Social Science and Humanities.

🌿 How Do We Interact with Nature? After sharing our last post, we’ve been fascinated by the insights and discussions it sparked. 📢 Join us on Instagram (www.instagram.com/big_5_project/) to participate in our polls and share your perspectives on what counts as an interaction with nature.

🌳 Nature and technology are more connected than you think. ⚙️ At BIG-5, we explore how social media can be a powerful tool for environmental action. 🌱 🔬 Subscribe to our newsletter! ➡️ bit.ly/4h5tQ1k #BIG5Project

Last week, @tnoc.bsky.social team visited the BIG-5 team at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social! 🌍 We’re excited to announce a new chapter of collaboration between BIG-5 and The Nature of Cities. 🙌 Learn more: big-5.eu 💚 #BIG5Project #DigitalNature #Sustainability #Collaboration #GreenerCities