Steffen Koch
@steffenkoch.bsky.social
Philosopher, Postdoc at Bielefeld University
Reposted by Steffen Koch
The usual useful idiots
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
YALL, THE TITLE!!
April 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The usual useful idiots
Schauen wir mal, was dabei raus kommt. So wahnsinnig optimistisch bin ich ja nicht...
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➡️bessere Rahmenbedingungen für mehr Dauerstellen
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April 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Schauen wir mal, was dabei raus kommt. So wahnsinnig optimistisch bin ich ja nicht...
This study is interesting. The discussion relating it to linguistic relativity is misleading, though, since that's not about how something is called, but whether a language has a term for a category to begin with.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Climate change terminology does not influence willingness to take climate action
Despite widespread concern about climate change, a majority of people are not engaging in climate actions necessary to help decrease the risks posed b…
www.sciencedirect.com
April 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This study is interesting. The discussion relating it to linguistic relativity is misleading, though, since that's not about how something is called, but whether a language has a term for a category to begin with.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Climate Terminology Does Not Matter
Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...
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Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...
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Climate Terminology Does Not Matter
Our new paper finds that swapping out one climate term for another does not meaningfully change people’s stated commitment to fight climate change
jayvanbavellab.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Climate Terminology Does Not Matter
Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...
via @dgoldwert.bsky.social
Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act.
jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te...
via @dgoldwert.bsky.social
