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Bartosz Bartkowski
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Environmental economist | land use🚜🌱 / soils🪱 / biodiversity🪲 | behaviour & policy | social–ecological modelling | ast prof at @ufz.de & @unihalle.bsky.social | tea addict🫖 | free jazz afficionado🎷 | nuance junkie | posts in 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇵🇱
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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.
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If anyone happens to know any books about the sociological consequences of the "disappearance" of Jews (through Holocaust and subsequent emigration of the remnants) on the Polish post-war society – I'll be happy about suggestions.
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Everyone implicated in the Epstein Files should be in jail. I don’t care how valuable you are to society or what wonderful things you’ve done in your life.
November 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Interesting thoughts on the Yugoslavian socialism's experiment with a worker-controlled mode of production. Looking forward to @neubertmagnus.bsky.social 's answers to the research questions raised in the piece (while remaining sceptical 😉).
blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist...
What if socialism worked? - Economic History
A common quip about socialism holds that “it works in theory but never in practice”. Magnus Neubert examines the merit of this saying by exploring how labour-managed socialism in Yugoslavia functioned...
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November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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I request a moratorium on meetings.
November 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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janrosenow.bsky.social
Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard.

Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar.

In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity.

Today it is at 51%.
November 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Random brag: one of the biggest successes of my academic career so far has been the one (full) paragraph on my first PhD paper in Hanley/Shogren/White's Introduction to Environmental Economics.
Title page of the third edition of Introduction to Environmental Economics by Hanley, Shogren and White
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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sebastianlakner.bsky.social
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"
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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The under-acknowledgement crisis
bartoszbartk.com Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 13d
I feel like we're not acknowledging enough in the acknowledgement sections of our papers.
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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I feel like we're not acknowledging enough in the acknowledgement sections of our papers.
November 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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smense.bsky.social
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...
Ina Sieber vor dem Logo der Uni.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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We need a culture and systematic infrastructures to encourage raw data publication (not only in soil ecology).
bartoszbartk.com Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 13d
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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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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.
November 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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In case you didn't know: in soil ecology, earthworms count as "macrofauna", while moles are "megafauna"🤓
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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I've had retreats in less attractive places.

Meet Stolberg in the Harz mountains.
Half-timbered houses in the sun 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
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Nienawidzę poniedziałków
November 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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krstorevic.bsky.social
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.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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.
November 2, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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robertfinger.bsky.social
'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
November 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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ballaballa-balkan.bsky.social
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
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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richardtol.bsky.social
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/...
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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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
Agriculture and Human Values
October 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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.
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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czimm-economist.bsky.social
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
Journals article sharing | Elsevier policy
Authors who publish in Elsevier journals can share their research in several ways, depending on the article version you wish to share
www.elsevier.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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My new favourite cinematic dialogue (from Suits, S9E7):
Katrina - You can't split a favour in half Alex - Sure I can. I'm Gandalf Katrina - What's a Dandalf? Alex - You never heard of Gandalf? Katrina - Alex, you know I'm not a sports fan.
October 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Pro being 1.90+ m:
* orienting myself in crowds
* reaching stuff

Contra:
* hotel beds and blankets
* beds and blankets outside home in general
* seats in trains and busses
* back problems since my youth
October 26, 2025 at 2:56 PM