Does the news reflect what we die from?

Liebe Hamburger:innen! Jede Stimme zählt. Ich hoffe, eure gehört dazu: „Mindestens 265.000 Menschen müssen am 12.10. mit JA abstimmen, damit Hamburg ein besseres #Klimaschutzgesetz bekommt.“ zukunftsentscheid-hamburg.de

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Erst für den #Zukunftsentscheid und sozialen Klimaschutz in Hamburg geworben. Und jetzt beim #ExtremWetterKongress nochmal mehr dazu lernen, warum genau das nötig ist #EWK2025

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

📣PhD scholarships!📣 @leuphana.bsky.social offers several PhD scholarships in #EnvironmentalPsychology in "Embracing Transformation“, which aims to advance our understanding of societal transformations worldwide. Deadline: October 1 2025. More info: www.leuphana.de/en/graduate-...

Of course I heard a bit about it before but only today I really started looking into the business of academic publishers. Omfg. It's one of the most absurd appropriations of public money and voluntary work for insane private profits that I ever heard of. How are we all participating in this system?

NEW – AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/vJ5juMa

We all know there's a gender gap in support for the populist radical right. Where there is debate is on the why In this new ✨OPEN ACCESS✨ paper, Kathina Mehring , @gefjonoff.bsky.social & @katarzynawojnicka.bsky.social use cross-country data to explain "protective masculinity" plays a role

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

New Cambridge Element 'Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies' by Amy C. Alexander & @gefjonoff.bsky.social is free access until the 16th of July, 2025 - cup.org/4eF9Z8U #cambridgeelements #politics

In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science: 1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior 2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

🪧New preprint out: "Politicians underestimate support for climate action even more than the general public" osf.io/preprints/os... Pluralistic ignorance - citizens underestimating others' climate concerns - is well documented. But what about policymakers in office?🏛️🤔 A short thread 🧵

A lot of media are covering Europe’s heatwave 🔥 but few are connecting it to the climate crisis. Tools like the Climate Shift Index show this heatwave is up to 5x 😱 more likely because of climate change. That context matters. csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...

absolutely sweltering conditions here in Europe. remember, despite the sunny headlines, and pics of people on beaches: 🔥 heatwaves are deadly 👶 they hit the most vulnerable hardest 🌡️ heat plus humidity drives the impact 🏠 infrastructure can't cope 🌍 climate change is making every heatwave worse

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎 Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/7 🧵 We live in a biased social reality! 🤯 🚨 NEW PAPER: Climate activist stereotypes among the German public and German climate activists. My 1st PhD paper 🤩 in collaboration with @umweltbundesamt.bsky.social

I have an open position for a doctoral/postdoctoral researcher in my group @unileipzig.bsky.social (fully funded, 3 years, starting 10/2025). Research shall be on quantitative economic analyses of water management and/or climate adaptation. Deadline: 31 May 2025. Feel free DM me for questions.

📢 In our recently published paper in Nature #Climate Change, we show that, when we consider the entire #annual cycle, the protective effects of the #urban #heat island during the coldest periods exceed (by over 4 times) the adverse effects during the warmest periods for most non-tropical #cities.

I spent last week at the Knowledge Integration team of Barcelona Supercomputing Center to discuss insights from interviews with heat adaptation stakeholders in Hamburg and Barcelona: What heat adaptation actions do they implement? With whom do they collaborate? How do they use climate information?

Whenever I post about climate, skeptical folks inevitable respond with this graph. So I decided to do something radical: actually read the underling scientific paper and ask the authors. As it turns out, it actually says the opposite of what skeptics claim: www.theclimatebrink....

Blog: Thinking Through Waste, Fraud and Corruption in US Foreign Assistance. ▪️No evidence of widespread fraud or corruption ▪️Inefficiencies mainly driven by domestic politics ▪️Some programs do fail to deliver hoped for outcomes but most are awesomely successful. www.cgdev.org/blog/thinkin...

Last week I discussed with municipal officers and scientists at the #I4CAdaptalab how climate science could better support climate change adaptation. I still have to reflect on what I learned but the biggest obstacle to adaptation seem to be political and require more than just climate information

Gestern gab's eine kleine Übersicht der westeuropäischen Forschung zu Geschlechterunterschieden in politischer Weltanschauung und Wahlverhalten, historischen Entwicklungen und aktuellen Trends, Fragestellungen und Hypothesen mit mir im Hessischen Rundfunk: www.hr2.de/podcasts/in-...

Studies consistently show that Americans underestimate support for a wide range of pro-climate policies--an important intervention point. But another layer to this is that they also *over*estimate support for pro-fossil fuel policies. Check out the figure below for 18 diff policies we asked about:

"But Labe says his personal loss pales in comparison to the implications not only to climate science around the world but the everyday lives of people in the US."

Today, I had the opportunity to present my research about antifeminism among young men to Members of the European Parliament, activists, journalists, lawyers, victims of gender-based violence and other people fighting for women's and LGBTQI+ rights every day.

🌡 New on @ourworldindata.org: We added global temperature anomaly charts *coloured by El Nino / La Nina periods*. Today's "cool" years are warmer than "warm" years of the past. [New article and charts by my colleague Veronika Samborska and I: ourworldindata.org/global-tempe... ]

Authoritarianism and conservative gender attitudes go hand in hand.🤝 Amy Alexander and I wrote a Cambridge Element on exactly this relationship and, as of today, it is officially accepted for publication! Will share more soon :)

With the world's focus on crumbling geopolitics, (in)security, extremism and evil wars, it is understandable that climate change has fallen down the agenda. But to be clear: we cannot adapt our way out of all the impacts so we still need to everything possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

#BTW25 My take on the #GermanElection: Social justice wins votes! Especially among youth, and young urban women in particular. Even though this campaign barely addressed social justice and was dominated by debates on immigration, domestic & international security, and economic growth, ...

I see a lot of desperation about German election. #BTW25 Let me provide a perspective from Trumpland: AfD will win at most 25%, which means that 75% do NOT vote for far right! That is still a strong democratic mandate. Use it to strengthen democracy! Don't empower the far right unnecessarily!

For this week's @spiegel.de edition, I talked to Tanya Falenczyk on young men's attitudes towards feminism and gender equality. Really happy to see this out, also in print! www.spiegel.de/start/maennl...

Is there a gender youth gap in far-right voting and cultural attitudes across EU countries? 🚻🇪🇺 With Amy Alexander and Nicholas Charron, we have a new Gender Update out in @ejpgjournal.bsky.social. We find much cross-country variation, but... 🧵 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

With so much negative news about #ClimateChange these days, this is what gives me hope ☀️

🧵 Given how much confusion there was in response to this post, I guess a brief overview of key concepts is needed. I prefer to start with the Pressure and Release (PAR) Model, first published in Blaikie et al's 1994 book At Risk (the 2nd ed. from 2005 is here: www.preventionweb.net/files/670_72...)

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How the world is already adapting to climate change - @carbonbrief.org maps and describes the most comprehensive assessment to date of the scientific literature on climate adaptation By @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org and @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social interactive.carbonbrief.org/climate-adap...

Good Nature piece on the debate about accelerating warming in recent years, and what exceptionally high 2023 and 2024 temperatures might mean: www.nature.com/artic...

‪Grateful for the opportunity to talk about potential divides between young men and women with @mdressler.bsky.social at FEPS. Truly appreciate the thoughtful questions and time to elaborate on our argument. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/4E2Z...

Gemütlich im Mittelbau #einkuscheln?! Ihr wisst: Ich habe #IchBinHanna gestern im Wissenschaftsausschuss des NRW-Landtags vertreten. Was ich da alles gesagt hab? 1 🧵! Da ich vermute, dass Euch das besonders interessiert, fange ich mal mit meiner Reaktion auf das Einkuscheln an. (1/8)

The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

Ooft, this FT climate graphic of the week "First ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean may come before 2030, study shows" www.ft.com/content/6...

Great op-ed on the populist right and "climate change adaptation". Let's be clear: Adaptation is not an alternative to mitigation! Adaptation means making communities climate-resilient, livable, and healthy for ALL and not for an imagined ethnically homogeneous society! adelphi.de/en/opinion/h...

You had a hunch climate change impacts would increase economic inequalities? You were right! 1/10

Attended the kick-off for Lower Saxony's Climate Future Labs yesterday. Great to meet researchers from so many disciplines who are eager to build bridges from knowledge to action. Very excited and curious to see what will come out of the projects in the coming years

"We estimate that less than 16% of the carbon credits issued to the investigated projects constitute real emission reductions." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting plot from CAT in today's report. Aggregated policy gets more ambitious each year, but actual emissions are consistently higher than projections. climateactiontracker.org/publications...