Our SE3DS Lab team co-chaired the session "The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier" at #WBF2026 in Davos alongside Christopher Raymond. We presented on digital nature values, immersive audiovisual domes, biosecurity tech, and social media data. Great feedback, including a keynote mention! 🏔️🌱

Our senior researcher, Sara Maestre-Andrés, was at #EURESFO2026 discussing how equity, trust, and inclusion can improve community engagement in urban greening. The session focused on transforming residents from passive beneficiaries into active stewards of nature-based solutions. 🌿

📢 PhD Thesis Defense! Our team member Pablo Herreros will defend his thesis on urban resilience and climate adaptation. 📘 "Co-producing Climate Risk Knowledge for Urban Adaptation and Resilience" 📅 June 3rd, 10:00 CEST 📍 ICTA-UAB & Online More information and registration: se3ds.eu/events/

SE3DS Lab Seminar: Social-Ecological Digital Cities Join us to discuss integrating socio-ecological justice and digital tools into urban planning! 📅 June 2nd, 9:00-12:00 (CEST) 📍 Sala Montseny, ICTA-UAB & Online via Zoom 🔗 Register: se3ds.eu/events/seminar-social-ecological-digital-cities/

📢 Save the Date! Join us for Svetlana Khromova’s PhD defense on urban nature-based solutions and stormwater management. 🌍⛈️ 📅 June 1st | 🕒 15:00 CEST 📍 Hybrid: ICTA-UAB & Zoom 🔗 Full details and access link: www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🌍 Social-Ecological Digital Cities: Integrating Social-Ecological Justice and Digital Tools in Urban Greening 📅 June 2nd, 2026 ⏰ 9:00 – 12:00 (CEST) 📍 ICTA–UAB (Sala Montseny) & Online via Zoom (Live stream available) 📝 Register and find out more details here: se3ds.eu/events/semin...

📢 New job opening at @bsc-cns.bsky.social : Data Scientist (Earth Sciences Dept). We’re looking for someone to analyze digital social networks and support LLM development within an environmental research context 📊🌿 📍 Barcelona | Part-time 🔗 Link to apply: www.bsc.es/join-us/job-... #ResearchJobs

The SE3DS Lab is officially launched! 🚀 Huge thanks to our amazing speakers for exploring the intersection of social, ecological, and digital systems with us. Stay tuned, this is just the beginning.

Join us tomorrow at the @se3dslab.bsky.social launching workshop 🚀🌱 👉 Register here: forms.office.com/e/ZZZJT9EBwM

One week to go 🌿 The SE3DS LAB workshop at the Ateneu Barcelonès is almost here. We’ll be exploring the complex relationality between society, ecology, and the digital world. If you’re interested in a transdisciplinary approach to these systems, join us. 🔗 Register here: se3ds.eu/se3ds-launch...

Ecological challenges need more than just ecological solutions. 🌿🛰️ At SE3DS Lab, we bridge the gap among social, ecological, and digital systems to drive transformative change. Join our launching workshop on April 16th at Ateneu Barcelonès! Details & registration: 🔗 se3ds.eu/se3ds-launch...

The boundaries between the digital and the physical worlds are becoming increasingly blurred. 🌿📡 At the SE3DS Lab, we are bridging the gap to understand this evolving social-ecological-digital interplay. Join our international experts in Barcelona! 🌍✨ 🔗 Register here: se3ds.eu/se3ds-launch...

SE3DS Lab on the move 🇳🇱 Johannes Langemeyer and David Camacho-Caballero joined the @commit2green.bsky.social General Assembly to push forward urban renaturing efforts. Photos: @commit2green.bsky.social

📢 BIG-5 is evolving! We are thrilled to announce the launch of SE3DS Lab 🌿💻. Join the conversation at our kickoff event: 📍 Ateneu Barcelonès 📅 April 16th, 2026 🚀 Register now: forms.office.com/e/ZZZJT9EBwM Stay tuned for more updates! #SE3DSLab #Research #Barcelona

🌿 What makes urban nature good for our wellbeing? Not just the forest, but how people experience it. New research from Helsinki shows that perceptions & motivations shape the benefits people gain from urban forests: 🔗 Access the paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

✨ Update ✨ The SE3DING Workshop has been rescheduled to April 16, 2026, in Barcelona (venue TBC), due to scheduling adjustments. 👉 You can register here: forms.office.com/e/ZZZJT9EBwM More details coming soon 🌍💻

🚀 Big news to kick off 2026! Are you interested in the intersection of social, ecological, and digital systems? Join us for the SE3Ding Workshop. 👇 Secure your spot here: bit.ly/SE3DSWorkshop #SocialEcologicalSystems #DigitalScience

Our PI, Johannes Langemeyer, has joined @peopleandnature.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. We’re excited to see the perspective he will bring to the journal and the broader sustainability and ecology communities. Congratulations, Johannes! 🌱✨ @britishecologicalsociety.org

Fulvia Calcagni presented BIG 5 research at the GISCIENCE Colloquium in Zurich 🌿📊 Thanks to Dr. Maria Soledad Castro-Vargas, Prof. Christian Berndt & Prof. Ross Purves for the kind invitation. 🔗 Read more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/3K7bgLf

Highlighting Giulia Benati’s contribution at ISIA Roma, where she presented her climate-adaptation work. Giulia is part of @icta-uab.bsky.social, LASEG, BIG-5, and @commit2green.bsky.social, focusing on Rome’s first "Heat Plan" and climate-shelter mapping. More in our blog: bit.ly/4oRFDEz

🚀 Great news! The deadline for #WBF2026 abstracts has been extended. If you haven’t submitted yet to our session, you now have until Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (midnight CET). Submit here (Look out for session FUT14) 👉 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...

📄 Call for Abstracts! We're hosting a session on "New data, new tools, new challenges" for digital cultural ecosystem services at the 6th ESP Europe Conference 🗓️ 18-22 May 2026, Prague ⏰ Abstract Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 👉 More information: bit.ly/49I67n0 #EcosystemServices #CallForAbstracts

Exploring how digital media can reconnect people & nature? 🌿 Submit to our WBF2026 session “The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier” in Davos! 📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs... #Biodiversity #DigitalNature #WBF2026 @icta-uab.bsky.social @worldbioforum.bsky.social

Great discussion on data, policy, and urban futures at the #ICGC conference, with Johannes Langemeyer from the BIG-5 project sharing his expertise. A fantastic session on collaborative urban management. 📸: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) #Urbanism #Sustainability #GIS

📢 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