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🌍 Awarded an ERC Starting Grant, this project examines how the Internet and social media can inspire new ways to experience and value nature 🌱
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Highlighting Giulia Benati’s contribution at ISIA Roma, where she presented her climate-adaptation work.

Giulia is part of @icta-uab.bsky.social, LASEG, BIG-5, and @commit2green.bsky.social, focusing on Rome’s first "Heat Plan" and climate-shelter mapping.

More in our blog: bit.ly/4oRFDEz
Designing for Adaptation: Giulia Benati Presents at ISIA Rome’s "Design for Climate" ~ BIG-5
On November 14, 2025, our team member Giulia Benati took part in the «DESIGN FOR CLIMATE: Co-designing actions to address climate change».
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November 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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🚀 Great news! The deadline for #WBF2026 abstracts has been extended. If you haven’t submitted yet to our session, you now have until Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (midnight CET).

Submit here (Look out for session FUT14) 👉 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...
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Exploring how digital media can reconnect people & nature? 🌿
Submit to our WBF2026 session “The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier” in Davos!

📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...

#Biodiversity #DigitalNature #WBF2026 @icta-uab.bsky.social @worldbioforum.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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📄 Call for Abstracts! We're hosting a session on "New data, new tools, new challenges" for digital cultural ecosystem services at the 6th ESP Europe Conference

🗓️ 18-22 May 2026, Prague
⏰ Abstract Deadline: 31 Dec 2025
👉 More information: bit.ly/49I67n0

#EcosystemServices #CallForAbstracts
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Exploring how digital media can reconnect people & nature? 🌿
Submit to our WBF2026 session “The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier” in Davos!

📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025
🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...

#Biodiversity #DigitalNature #WBF2026 @icta-uab.bsky.social @worldbioforum.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Great discussion on data, policy, and urban futures at the #ICGC conference, with Johannes Langemeyer from the BIG-5 project sharing his expertise. A fantastic session on collaborative urban management.

📸: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC)

#Urbanism #Sustainability #GIS
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📢 The future is NOW! 5 BIG-5 team members (Alba, Roos, Àlex, Svetlana, & Xueyuan) shared their urgent perspectives on climate, justice, and biodiversity in the latest #TNOCRoundtable by @tnoc.bsky.social

They speak a language of survival and re-invention.

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tnoc.bsky.social The Nature of Cities @tnoc.bsky.social · Sep 24
🎤 Imagine this: you’re under 30. Someone hands you the mic. 🌍

What would YOU say about sustainability, climate change, and the biodiversity crisis?

👉 Read their voices here #TNOCROUNDTABLE www.thenatureofcities.com/TNOC/2025/09...
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Our session "The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier" is on at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026! 🌍

📍 Davos, Switzerland, 14-19 June 2026
📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025

🔗 Submit here: bit.ly/46BXFmh

#WBF2026 #Biodiversity #DigitalNature
September 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Last week, our Urban Greening & Renaturing Cluster joined the NetworkNature Task Forces meeting in Brussels. Teams from @big-5.bsky.social, @commit2green.bsky.social, FairNature, and more are shaping greener, more resilient cities.
💡 Learn more: networknature.eu
#UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions
September 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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🎓 Congrats to Max Caixàs on successfully defending his Master’s thesis in the #BIG5Project!

His research decoded food imagery on social media,uncovering platform differences and a big gap: 🌱 almost no mention of nature or sustainability.

🔗 Read more: big-5.eu/cracking-the...

#SocialMediaResearch
Cracking the Secret Language of Food: Max’s Thesis at BIG-5
We are proud to announce the successful Master’s thesis defense of Max Caixàs, a dedicated researcher whose work forms part of the BIG-5 project.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Still wondering what the BIG-5 Project is all about? 🤔
Our Principal Investigator, Johannes Langemeyer, reveals the core hypothesis driving our work.

📺 Full video: www.youtube.com/@BIG-5-Project
🔗 More BIG-5 content: big-5.eu

#BIG5Project #Research #Hypothesis #ConceptualFramework #Methodology
September 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Huge congratulations to Paula Feliu Criado for the successful defense of her Bachelor's thesis within the BIG-5 Project 🎓

👉 Read more about her work on our blog: bit.ly/3Uotk4S

#ExplainableAI #EnvironmentalScience
Can AI Understand Our Connection to Nature? A Bachelor's Thesis Success at BIG-5 ~ BIG-5
We are thrilled to announce the successful Bachelor's thesis defense of Paula Feliu Criado, a talented student from the Degree in Artificial Intelligence program at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelo...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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🌿 Last week, BIG-5 team member Alba Ortiz Naumann took part in the 3rd Sustainable Sports Symposium at Leipzig University, presenting: “Digital Pathways to Environmental Stewardship: Implications for the Sports Community.”

#SustainableSports #RelationalValues #SportEcology #BIG5Project
July 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Max Caixàs Vicens explores how food posts reveal our digital values like identity, culture, and connection to nature.

🍽️ Can online food culture drive real-world sustainability?

More at big-5.eu

#BIG5 #DigitalEcology #DigitalRelationalValues
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BIG-5 Research: 🌿 NATURE’S VALUES ON YOUR FEED
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June 25, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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We're thrilled to share that the #BIG5 team recently held an online workshop 🙌 . Our research group is excited to keep pushing forward with the project and this session was crucial as we tackled the challenge of clustering the Digital Relational Values we've been identifying across social media.
June 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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❓What happens when a platform refuses to let science do its job?

Our EU-funded project BIG-5, hosted at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social and @uab.cat, investigates how social media platforms shape environmental values.
May 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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🎮🌿 Exploring how videogames shape our relationship with nature. Can digital experiences foster real-world care for the environment—or do they distance us from it?

🧠 We’re reflecting on virtual nature and what it means to connect with it. What do you think?

@icta-uab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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BIG-5 Methodology: 🛠️ BUILDING OUR PROTOCOL
Meet Roos Mouthaan 🇳🇱 from the BIG-5 team as she shares how we built (and keep refining) our research protocol, from key concepts to coding tests!

🌍 Learn more: big-5.eu
#BIG5 #RelationalValues #DigitalEcology

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BIG-5 Methodology: 🛠️ BUILDING OUR PROTOCOL
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April 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Digital Relational Values in Cities 🌱🌃

Join Xueyuan Liang (🇨🇳) from the BIG-5 team as she explores how social media platforms like Weibo 📱 are reshaping our relationship with nature.

🌐 More about the BIG-5: big-5.eu

#BIG5 #DigitalNature #RelationalValues #DigitalEcology 🌍💡

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Digital Relational Values in Cities 🌱🌃: Rethinking Our Connection to Nature
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April 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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🚀 Addressing Selection Bias in Social Media Research 🌍

Yesterday at the Brown Bag Sessions @bsc-cns.bsky.social, Ramin Soleymani-Fard (Software Engineer & PhD Researcher, BIG5 Team) shared insights on tackling selection bias in social media data.

#SocialMediaResearch #BigData #AI #DataScience
April 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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🔦👩‍🔬Meet Giulia Benati, a postdoctoral researcher in the @big-5.bsky.social ERC project, where she draws on her previous research in urban ecosystem services, nature-based solutions, and the use of social media to assess the perceived value of nature. @erc.europa.eu
March 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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📢 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 🌍 Based at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social, the Digital Social Ecology research group studies how digital platforms shape human-environment interactions, focusing on sustainability, resilience, and justice.

Learn more: 🔗 www.bsc.es/research-dev...
Digital Social Ecology
Digital Social Ecology
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March 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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💻 The BIG-5 team is currently engaged in the intricate process of manually identifying and coding relational nature values in social media content from TikTok, YouTube, and X. This work exposes us to unfiltered online material, some of which can be deeply distressing.
March 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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🌱 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝗱 🍎
In our last post, we explored the complexities of human-nature interactions 🌿. Our discussion continues, focusing on our relationship with food 🍽️.

💬 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲? Tell us in the comments!
February 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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It's exciting times for the BIG-5 team! 🚀 Last week, we had the pleasure of participating in the CSSH All Hands Meeting at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social. There, we connected with colleagues, shared insights, and explored cutting-edge research in Computational Social Science and Humanities.
February 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🌿 How Do We Interact with Nature? After sharing our last post, we’ve been fascinated by the insights and discussions it sparked.

📢 Join us on Instagram (www.instagram.com/big_5_project/) to participate in our polls and share your perspectives on what counts as an interaction with nature.
February 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM