Bartosz Bartkowski

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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.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1h

Congrats!

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7h

I know. It's one of the (many) social norms in Germany that I am pretty sceptical of😉

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 8h

But why wine (alcoholic or not)?😭

Seriously: I think beyond alcohol specifically, an underlying problem is the urge to gift something to someone you don't really know – so you have no idea whether the gift, no matter how generic, fits. In such situations, I'd say no gift is preferrable.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 23h

Me too. Makes me feel less bad when I don't give people anything😉

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 23h

I did, not so long ago, despite giving way fewer presentation that you😉 Small n in either case, I guess.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 23h

If it weren't, I wouldn't have sent it out😉

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

This German „Anstoßen“ tradition is a whole another issue (for me at least). Short version: I hate it😉

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

At the same time, I'm too polite (or shy?) to outright reject such gifts or even say that they are of no use.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

I've never drunken alcohol (unless having a trial sip counts), so I'm fine with people being surprised/asking questions, because I know it's unusual. But I'm annoyed by people giving me wine or even chocolates with alcohol without considering that this could be a problem.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Could we please denormalize giving gifts that contain alcohol to people you don't know well?! I'm not drinking alcohol by choice, but there are sober alcoholics out there...

(P.S. I'm actually in favour of denormalizing alcohol consumption in general, but that's less likely to meet with support 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Yeah, there's frustration on both sides...

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Everyone who publishes does, implicitly

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

I totally agree with the point about exploitation. What I wanted to say is that to me, it's not really about "not getting paid". It's about publishers being essentially free riders on multiple public goods provided by/paid by academics and their funders.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Which is why I am trying to (also) target junior people with my invitations. And declines are the smaller problem – I'm particularly annoyed at the non-responses.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

I have a problem with that "you don't get paid" bit. I consider it part of my (paid) academic job.

Also, I am not sure the publishers, who are the target of the "strike", are really hurt by it. To me it seems that it is hurting fellow researchers (especially junior ones) much more.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

I see the point in publishers making money off of us in a sense. But at the same time, I consider reviewing part of my job🤷🏻‍♂️

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Mark Fabian @markfabian.bsky.social · 1d

Recently did around 30 requests to ppl who'd published very similar papers to the one I needed reviews for. 3 declines, 25 no response. Please at least decline guys it slows stuff down so much otherwise.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

But they are authors as well, complaining that their own submissions take so long… It's ultimately about indirect reciprocity.

Reposted by Tim Bale, Alistair Munro, Stuart Elden , and 1 more Tim Bale, Alistair Munro, Stuart Elden, Jörg Oechssler

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Who would have thought

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

It's an all-lose game these days...

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

I just realized that the atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased by 70 ppm since I was born – that's about the same as the difference between my birth year's and pre-industrial levels...

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 3d

“Even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, emissions from the global food system alone would make it impossible to limit warming to 1.5°C and difficult even to realize the 2°C target…major changes in how food is produced [and consumed] are needed…”

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

Die Transformation einer wilden Zusammensetzung von Zutaten in einen veganen Bigos à la Bartosz ist vollbracht👨🏻‍🍳🥘

Kücheninsel mit einem großen Topf, einer großen Pfanne, mehreren Schüsseln, Schneidebrett mit einem großen Messer drauf, marinierten Pilzen, Möhren, Wirsing-Blättern, Spitzkohl, Sauerkraut, roten Zwiebeln, Knoblauch-Knolle, einem Glas Zwetschgenpowidl, weißem Miso, Sojasauce und einer Batterie Kräuter und Gewürze

Die Innenansicht eines großen Topfes mit einem visuell schwer definierbaren Eintopf, in dem Kohl, Pilze, Bohnen und Möhren erkennbar sind

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Can anyone tell me what the benefit is of a reference letter vis-à-vis a list of reference persons? The time investment in a quick call is probably only minimally higher than reading the letter, the potential employer can receive much more info, and it's less hassle for applicant & reference person.

Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · 4d

I found an interesting scientific position that I would have liked to apply for (not in academia). But they require THREE letters of reference along with the application if you are an applicant who has not yet completed their PhD, which is just crazy.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Wenn das der Standard ist, kann ich auch was beisteuern;-)

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Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · 4d

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7d

Danke! Ja, um Gross kommt man in den Debatten um polnisch-jüdische Beziehungen nicht herum (im positiven Sinne), auch wenn ich seine Bücher bisher noch nicht gelesen habe (sondern nur Quellen, die sich auf sie beziehen).

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