Dr. Marcos Felipe Rodríguez

Marie-Curie H2020 fellow at @LimnoPlast, PhD at @UiB working on mental models of microplastics. MSc on Cog psychology and Neuropsychology. Love music🎵 ❤⚽️

[Dr. Marcos Felipe Rodríguez @MarcfelR]

🚨🚨I am thrilled my first PhD paper got published🥲 and #OpenAccess !

We explored people's #mentalmodels of microplastics and assessed the influence of sociodemographics and #personalvalues.

So grateful to my supervisors Gisela Böhm and Rouven Doran🙇‍♂️

https://t.co/W0btXgGb3l

[Jim Baird @JimBair62221006]

"Microplastics can cut a plant’s ability to photosynthesize by up to 12 percent, new research shows"

https://t.co/rwJKr5Lj0w

[Rosa Ritunnano @RRitunnano]

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

Exciting new paper, with a contribution from @VaupoticN from our team!

In 5 preregistered experiments, the research team shows that scientists who acknowledge their own knowledge limits are seen as more trustworthy 🔎🧠

➡️https://t.co/SNy3M434H0

[Alejandro Cencerrado @AlejandroCence2]

🙋🏻 quiero recordar que hay 15 científicos que se enfrentan a 21 meses de cárcel por echar zumo de remolacha en el congreso en protesta por la inacción del gobierno contra el cambio climático. Luego nos sorprende que la inquisión condenara a Galileo.

[Rebelión Científica España @EsRebelCientif]

Todos los que desde cargos públicos habéis alentado fake news y bulos sobre presas en medio del caos.
No tenéis vergüenza.
Los bomberos han tenido que salir públicamente a decir que estáis entorpeciendo las labores de rescate de la gente.
Esto debería tener consecuencias penales.

[Wouter Poortinga has re-discovered Dolly Parton @wouterpoortinga]

Pleased to share a new paper on ‘how mental health services can support young people with #ClimateDistress' which reports on a pilot study with 3 stakeholder groups of a youth mental health charity in England-led by @mowenwilliams @CAST_Centre @lwhitmarsh
https://t.co/aQ7ut58PSt

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

New paper on #microplastics out in @ScienceMagazine🥤🗑️🐟

20 years after the 1st publication on microplastics, @ProfRThompson, @WinnieCJ, @SabinePahl, @KRaubenheimer & colleagues summarize what we have learned so far.

▶️https://t.co/23MNr5Rk81

[Gonzalo Palomo Vélez @Gpalomovelez]

1/7🚨New paper alert: We have a new paper out led by twitterless Rodolfo Sapiains @CR2_uchile (G.Azocar, A.M. Ugarte, y @PaulinaAldunce). We studied climate change perceptions and emotions in 18(!) Latin-American countries:

https://t.co/exGPFWF3Av

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

Another multi-country study (🇺🇸🇧🇷🇪🇸) led by Claudio Rosa, with involvement from our team, just got published @JEnvPsych.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀
1⃣ Those who regularly engage in nature-based recreation feel better.

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

Urban nature positively affects depression, anxiety, and attention 🧠🌿

Meta-analysis of field experiments by Marilisa Herchet and colleagues 👩‍🔬

We particularly enjoyed the nuanced discussion of the results ✨

#DGPs2024

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Strong evidence showing that getting a PhD is extremely bad for your mental health.

A new paper uses Swedish medical records and matches them to the full population of PhD students for which the authors could get gender and birth year data from 2006 to 2017. After some exclusion criteria, they end up with a sample size of 20,085 individuals.

The paper compares PhD students to those who have masters degrees and don't start a PhD program.

Before starting a PhD program, people who stop at a masters and those who go on to seek a PhD have similar rates of psychiatric medication use and hospitalization.

A few years into a PhD program, however, 40% more individuals are on psychiatric medications, before the number falls off as people leave or finish their studies.

You see the same pattern with psychiatric hospitalizations. PhD students are up to 150-175% more likely to be hospitalized after starting a program!

These are incredible numbers, too massive to be the result of chance or a flaw in the methodology. This is comparing the same people over time.

If you're considering a PhD program, and the terrible job prospects and waste of time aren't enough, here's yet another reason to stay away.

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

New study in @JEnvPsych with involvement of our team! 🚨 Across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities & age groups (N = 56,968), a large research team examined the measurement invariance of the Nature Exposure Scale (NES) & Connectedness to Nature Scale (CNS).🔑 findings?⤵️

[Dr Steve Westlake @steviedubyu]

Super-happy to share the first paper from my PhD, published in ERSS🧵

We explore how UK politicians view their responsibility to lead by example with low-carbon behaviour (or not)

TLDR: some MPs lead by example on the quiet, but fear being "extreme"
1/ https://t.co/BfKHLqYa79

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

It’s not about damn plastic, it’s about damn people🪸🫂

In her #DGPs2024 keynote, @SabinePahl talks about her research on the human dimensions of plastics from qualitative methods and (field) experiments to policy recommendations.

Watch out for new work coming soon!
@univienna

[Environmental Psychology Vienna @EnvPsyVienna]

The @EnvPsyVienna lead and co-director of @univienna's #Environment & #Climate Hub, @SabinePahl, will give a central keynote at the largest psychology congress in the DACH region, the #DGPs2024, next week. 👥🧠 Her topic:

[Max Roser @MaxCRoser]

Why numbers are sometimes better than words.

What people think you say when you say “little chance,” “probably not,” or “highly likely.”