Sabine Pahl
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Sabine Pahl
@sabinepahl.bsky.social

Prof of #EnvironmentalPsychology @univienna.ac.at
@envpsyvienna.bsky.social
https://ech.univie.ac.at

#BehaviouralSciences #RiskPerception #SocialCognition #PlasticPollution #Microplastics #PFAS #Nature etc...

Environmental science 43%
Psychology 17%
Andre Ventura of Chega (change) running on anti-immigratiom slogans like "this isn't Bangladesh" and "Portugal is ours" has lost the Portugal presidential election in a landslide.

He was second on 23% to 31% in the first round but losing about 30-70 in the run-off to socialist António José Seguro

@seatsixtyone.bsky.social for international 🚄 connections

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Auf Social Media kursieren immer mehr fotorealistische KI-Bilder, die angeblich aus dem Holocaust stammen. Historiker warnen vor einer Verzerrung der Erinnerung. Von @davidrennert.bsky.social
KI-Bilder zum Holocaust fluten Social Media – mit gefährlichen Folgen
Auf Social Media kursieren immer mehr fotorealistische KI-Bilder, die angeblich aus dem Holocaust stammen. Historiker warnen vor einer Verzerrung der Erinnerung
www.derstandard.at

Same discussions here!

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“It is our duty to become the welcoming & tolerant society that our own relatives would have hoped to find on the other side of our borders…Not many governments agree w/regularizing migrants today. But more people do than we often assume” -Spain’s prime minister making the rare pro-immigration case:
Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.
www.nytimes.com

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Not to take away from a really important story, but what is important about it is tells is what the US new national security strategy means in practice:
US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
www.ft.com
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com

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At ANSES in Paris, Ellise Suffill presented her #ZeroPM work on integrating social data into the Essential Use Concept, followed by a roundtable on whether the consumer is always right and how to enable sustainable design. ♻️
#Chemicals #Pollution #Sustainability

WTF

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Two-year-olds raised in vegan or vegetarian households don't necessarily have restricted growth, according to a study of 1.2 million children
Vegan toddlers can grow at the same rate as omnivores
Two-year-olds raised in vegan or vegetarian households don't necessarily have restricted growth, according to a study of 1.2 million children
www.newscientist.com
Perhaps it was coincidental timing, but nothing underscores the collapse of the Washington Post like firing most of the Pulitzer prize winning #climate reporters the very same day as their opinion pages publishes a BS screed by climate misinformer Bjorn Lomborg.

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Well, I would criticise Lord Mandelson, but two and a half years ago, a UK government official emailed me to tell me that I can't criticize government officials on social media, for a period going back five years. So. I have to wait a bit.

(You think I'm kidding. The UK government told me that)

Thank goodness there are also clips of singing dogs on bluesky. Not sure I could cope otherwise.
Entwicklungen der Heizungen in Haushalten in 🇦🇹

⚡Wärmpepumpe überholen Ölheizungen!
⚗️Gasheizungen sinken auf niedrigsten Wert seit Umfragebeginn, aber immernoch über 840000
⏺️Fernwärme jetzt bei 1.3 Mio (viel davon (noch) fossil)

Heute gab es 2 Heizungs 🧵, Amtsgebäude & 2025-Verkauf,
sind verlinkt

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Jolanda Lindenbauer joined the group last year as a research assistant, where she supports a project on the risk perception of #microplastics. She is also writing her master’s thesis with the group, looking at how #eco-anxiety and different #pro-environmental behaviours are related to each other. 🏡

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Der #Ukraine stehen bitterkalte Tage bevor, bis zu -25.

Das ist eine humanitäre Katastrophe - selbst wenn #Putin ausnahmsweise Wort halten und Angriffe auf die ukrainische Energieinfrastruktur wirklich aussetzen würde.

Bitte spendet für die Menschen in der #Ukraine! Es gibt viele Möglichkeiten 👇

and did they analyse metrics other than research output too?
Wer verstehen will, wie sehr sich Springers Blattlinie verschoben hat, muss nur diesen Text lesen.

ICE-Terror wird als „Unerfahrenheit & schnelle Hand am Abzug“ verharmlost, verantwortlich „Linke“.

Die Schuldumkehr zeigt wie sehr Anstand, Moral & Menschlichkeit verrutscht sind.

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We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?
My use of mobile phones has been compulsive – has it been for better or for worse?
www.theguardian.com

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💶 A new study commissioned by the @ec.europa.eu reveals #PFASpollution costs of €1.7 trillion over the next 25 years, if PFAS production and use continue.

This figure includes #healthcosts, and soil and drinking water clean-up costs.

Find out more in #ToxicFree4EU briefing: buff.ly/KXj5lp3
Wie der Faschismus finanziert wird? Unter anderem durch Großspenden, die alles bisherige sprengen.

Pikant: 95% der Spenden kommen von 3 Großspendern, bei 2en besteht der Verdacht von Strohmannspende.

Danke @lobbycontrol.bsky.social fürs Flaggen.
"Let us go." Immigration attorney Eric Lee shares a drawing by his five-year-old client, stuck in an immigration prison.
UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake
UN health body says Britain is one of six countries in Europe and central Asia where disease has become re-established
www.theguardian.com
What a time to be alive

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www.ots.at/presseaussen...
Am Montag diskutiert Maximilian Frey vom WWF bei "Talk for Future" über "Naturverträgliche Energiewende". (TIWAG wird auch vorkommen.)
talk.scientists4future.at/2026/01/05/w...
Tiwag-Talschaftsverträge: WWF fordert Reformen statt heimlicher Absprachen
Geheime Vereinbarungen erst nach Gerichtsbeschluss offengelegt – WWF fordert volle Transparenz, unabhängige Kontrolle und neue Spielregeln für künftige Verträge
www.ots.at
This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...
Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes?
We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.
www.londoncentric.media
WHO removing Us Flag

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I am leaving #WEF Davos with some more hope than when I arrived. I met CEOs of global corporations and NGOs who are much more aggressive and courageous on climate than I had expected. Despite Trump. Of the political speeches, I found Mark Carney’s candour to stand out.

www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/spee...