Bartosz Bartkowski

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · Sep 30

Really, really happy to share this new publication by Malin Gütschow and myself on farmers’ identity in the context of multifunctionality 🚜🌾🪲🐦

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Farmers (are expected to) fulfil diverse economic, environmental, and social roles or functions. Yet the relative importance of these functions remains contested both within farming communities and in the broader society. Understanding how farmers prioritize these different functions as a reflection of their role identity is crucial, given the increasing recognition of the importance of identity as a determinant of farmer behaviour. We frame this aspect of farmer identity in terms of multifunctionality, a common lens for analysing the performance of agriculture relative to societal demands. However, while this concept is often used with an ecological focus, our study builds on a broader interpretation that encompasses the full range of social, cultural, economic, and ecological functions. Furthermore, we focus on the roles farmers themselves would like to play when looking 10 to 20 years into the future. We apply Q methodology to see how farmers from Eastern Germany prioritize among 71 societal functions. We use the Q sorts and qualitative data to derive and characterize a typology of three narrative perspectives. The results demonstrate the breadth and heterogeneity of farmers' role identity, and therefore the need to go beyond a narrow focus on ecological roles or functions.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

Sure. There are four common levels:
Megafauna (>20 mm): moles etc.
Macrofauna (2–20 mm): e.g. earthworms
Mesofauna (0.2–2 mm): basically, whatever you can just see (e.g. mites or springtails)
Microfauna (<0.2 mm): even smaller organisms, e.g. ciliates or many nematodes

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

The under-acknowledgement crisis

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

I feel like we're not acknowledging enough in the acknowledgement sections of our papers.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

I feel like we're not acknowledging enough in the acknowledgement sections of our papers.

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Sebastian Mense @smense.bsky.social · 3d

Der @zeit.de -Verlag hat @imsieber.bsky.social von der
@unikassel.bsky.social für das Fellowship-Programm „Zia – Visible Women in Science“ ausgewählt. Glückwunsch! Sie forscht zu nachhaltiger Entwicklung und Mensch-Umwelt-Beziehungen. @kasselinstitute.bsky.social
www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelle...

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

I should have added: easy-to-use infrastructures

Reposted by Daniel Hering

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

We need a culture and systematic infrastructures to encourage raw data publication (not only in soil ecology).

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

In the context of the 🇩🇪 biodiversity assessment (Faktencheck Artenvielfalt) my soil ecology colleagues analyzed ~1250 time series datasets on var soil organisms. Only 100 (sic!) of them were derived from the literature. All the rest were unpublished datasets uncovered from desk drawers and archives.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

In case you didn't know: in soil ecology, earthworms count as "macrofauna", while moles are "megafauna"🤓

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Slight difference😉

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

I've had retreats in less attractive places.

Meet Stolberg in the Harz mountains.

A narrow street passage between two half-timbered houses next to a stone tower

Group of people at a cobblestone street surrounded by half-timbered houses

A little square surrounded by half-timbered houses, with cobblestones on the street

Reposted by Daniel Hering, Bartosz Bartkowski

Sebastian Lakner🇺🇦 @sebastianlakner.bsky.social · 7d

Next week in the EU-Parliament (11.11.2025, 13:30-15), we will discuss the future of sustainable farming in Europe and the alignment or non-alignment of the CAP with sustainability criteria, based on @agtransect.bsky.social and #CAP4GI.

Announcement of the event on 11.11.2025, 13:30-15:00 in the EU- Parliament "How can the CAP drive sustainable farming practices: Voices from farmers and science, and an evaluation of the CAP proposal"

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7d

Nienawidzę poniedziałków

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Krsto Lazarević @krstorevic.bsky.social · 8d

Vor dem Parlament in Belgrad. Gerade sind Menschen gerannt, Böller wurden geworfen, Rauch stieg auf, die Polizei machte einen Zufahrtweg zu. Die Demonstrierenden stehen davor und brüllen "Gotov Je" - Er ist am Ende. Stimmung sehr angespannt.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 8d

One of the things I hate about not (yet?) having tenure is the need for self-marketing – something I'm not really good at, and that I'm certainly not comfortable doing.

Reposted by Georg Weizsäcker, Maksym Polyakov, Bartosz Bartkowski

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 9d

Fraud is no longer a series of isolated ethical lapses but a business model that exploits vulnerable points in the research economy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan @ballaballa-balkan.bsky.social · 9d

Neues aus Serbien!

Genau ein Jahr ist es her, dass der Einsturz eines Vordachs am Bahnhof von Novi Sad 16 Menschen das Leben kostete.

Seitdem bewegt eine anhaltende Protestwelle das Land. Am Samstag strömten Zehntausende zur Gedenkveranstaltung nach Novi Sad. @krstorevic.bsky.social war vor Ort.

Der Tag von Novi Sad - Update zu den Protesten in Serbien | Neues vom Ballaballa-Balkan

Vor genau einem Jahr löste der Einsturz eines Vordachs am Hauptbahnhof von Novi Sad nicht nur eine Tragödie mit 16 Toten aus, sondern auch die bislang größte Protestbewegung der serbischen Geschichte.

ballaballa-balkan.de

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Robert Finger @robertfinger.bsky.social · 9d

'Pesticide-free production systems: opportunities, hurdles and policy options'

Join us 27 November, 17:15–18:45. ETH Zurich, CHN F46

The event will feature presentations by Per Kudsk, Niklas Möhring, Ilaria Pertot and Eileen Ziehmann, followed by a panel discussion @ethzwfsc.bsky.social

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Springer @springer.springernature.com · 10d

Farmers play far more than just a food-producing role—they shape landscapes, cultures, and communities. A new study in 'Agriculture and Human Values' explores how farmers see their future roles in balancing social, economic, and environmental goals. bit.ly/47LQlpT @bartoszbartk.com #farmsky

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 11d

Source:

Cover of We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth by Dahr Jamail and Stan Rushworth

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 11d

I love being ripped out of my cozy Eurocentrism from time to time.

We often hear that "We have never been here before." A great number of species are going into extinction, we are experiencing a global pandemic, global changes in weather patterns are causing social and environmental upheavals worldwide, the Earth is on a trajectory of warming certain to cause further upheavals in both human and nonhuman communities, and scientists debate the origins of what they call the Anthropocene period, said to be the cause of all this havoc. For a great many people, the statement that "We have never been here before" means that the results of human behavior impacting Earth and the future were not apparent to them until now, yet this is not the case for all people or cultures. For the Indigenous people of the world, radical alteration of the planet, and of life itself, is a story many generations long.

Reposted by Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Bartosz Bartkowski

Christian Zimmermann @czimm-economist.bsky.social · 14d

From the Elsevier website:

"Authors can share their accepted manuscript:
Immediately:
[...]
By updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript (and updating the license to a CC BY-NC-ND license)"

www.elsevier.com/about/polici...

#RePEc #EconSky #arxiv