Christel van Eck
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Christel van Eck
@christelvaneck.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at ASCoR, University of Amsterdam | Climate change communication, science communication, and polarization | 🌄🏞🌌🌇
2️⃣Our framework reveals key reasoning. Advocacy was seen as a threat to scientific integrity, either by creating (or raising suspicion of) biased science (A1) 🤔—where political values shape research—or by scientists overstepping their expertise & misusing authority (A2) 🤐.
February 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
1️⃣ There’s much debate about the role of scientists in climate advocacy, but we often overlook the core concerns behind their arguments.

In our latest publication 🔍, we map these concerns based on interviews with 47 climate scientists! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🚨I recommend checking out our new commentary on the neutrality myth in climate science and activism, together with @lydiamessling.bsky.social and @katharinehayhoe.com in Nature Climate Action #openaccess
nature.com/articles/s44... 1/3
October 7, 2024 at 7:46 AM
🚨New publication about “climate-solutions polarization”. We've studied the underlying values in the polarized Dutch media debate about biomass. #OpenAccess #biomass

⭐️with Anke Wonneberger, Jeroen Jonkman, & Christian Burgers

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 14, 2024 at 8:10 AM
👉I’ve conceptualized online climate change polarization as a multi-dimensional phenomenon comprising six dimensions of polarization. I demonstrate how the majority of research focuses on the first or second dimension.
July 12, 2024 at 7:52 AM
🚨For all academics investigating climate change polarization, please check out my new article in WIREs Climate Change where I review the field of ‘online climate change polarization’. Here are a few important takeaways… 1/7🧵
July 12, 2024 at 7:51 AM