This strange paper argues that scientists shouldn't be activists "because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcomes of their studies"
But many fields of study are explicitly mission and value driven. They exist to make the world a better place
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What is the role of culture for low-carbon transition? What fosters behavioural spillovers, and what blocks them? And how powerful voluntary actions alone are in climate change mitigation? We discuss this with @dtorrenp and @ProfJeroenBergh in #JASSS https://t.co/zDfWa3xpnq
First day of the #AMASES 2023 Conference today! Kicking off by presenting "(Mis)information diffusion and the Financial Market" a joint work with @dtorrenp 🔍 #Research#AcademicLife"
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This article does a great job of tackling the growing affective polarization between eco-modernism and degrowth camps, also not using re-interpretations of Marx to advocate for a given side in the absence of new contemporary analysis.
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Had an excellent time at #netsci23 presenting my working paper on "An agent-based model of cultural change for a low-carbon transition". Some great discussions on breaking social norms and defining oppositional identity groups
We've made The Origin of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood free to download until tomorrow!
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This week, our researcher Daniel Torren Peraire @dtorrenp presented his model on cultural evolution and low carbon lifestyles. 🌳🚶🛬🚫
Supervised by @ProfJeroenBergh and @IvanVSavin