Emission values from: www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.a...

I used the 10 hours, e.g., to work on the slides for our roundtable tomorrow together with ‪@ajamesgreen.bsky.social‬: "Scientists’ hypermobility and resource use: How can we get from bad conscience to greener choices in academia?" Looking forward to continuing conversations at SIPS!

My #FlightFree journey across Europe was a genuinely pleasant experience - with just one change in Vienna and incredibly stimulating conversations on public health, trust in science, climate change, and even the meaning of life with fellow passengers. 💬

Emission values from: lnkd.in/eyVpPCBt

I used the 10 hours, e.g., to work on the slides for our roundtable tomorrow together with
‪@ajamesgreen.bsky.social‬: "Scientists’ hypermobility and resource use: How can we get from bad conscience to greener choices in academia?"
Looking forward to continuing conversations at SIPS!

My #FlightFree journey across Europe was a genuinely pleasant experience - with just one change in Vienna and incredibly stimulating conversations on public health, trust in science, climate change, and even the meaning of life with fellow passengers. 💬

...and it's even 1.9 degrees I found out later 🤒

Data by Deutscher Wetterdienst & Umweltbundesamt - German Environment Agency, climate stripes by Ed Hawkins 👏

😂

Still, I would argue for a sensible use of AI and not for playing around with it for hours (eg, fabricating pics of little plastic figures of oneself as it seems to be trendy right now 😅)

If numbers are compared, it's well below 5% emissions for an online conference attendance as compared to flying anywhere...

Faced similar rumours when I found out how large the carbon footprint of flying to conferences is, here I often heard the counter argument "but virtual meetings emit a lot as well".

Yes, definitely a lot of rumours going around on AI energy use, so I actually craved an article with estimates and comparisons!

#SheFigures #womeninscience #gendergap #genderequality

... and this dual RCT shows that the recipients of the calls made by the volunteers profirted in terms of reduced loneliness, too: doi.org/10.1001/jama...
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But volunteers who continued to volunteer for more than 2 hours per week at the 12-month follow-up reported lower levels of loneliness than those who did not continue to volunteer. 4/5

There was a significant decrease in both loneliness scales in the volunteer group at T2, but not in the control group. Most of the positive effects of volunteering were not sustained after the 6-month volunteering period of the study. 3/5

We aimed to investigate effects of phone-delivered loneliness interventions by older volunteers screened as lonely, for older adult recipients with low income, lived alone, felt lonely, were digitally excluded. Allocation at random into volunteering or control group (psychoeducation). 2/5