Cameron Brick
@cameronbrick.bsky.social
Psychology, behavior & environment, especially climate change. Uni of Amsterdam; Assoc. Editor πππ°π£π’π ππ―π·. ππ΄πΊπ€π©π°ππ°π¨πΊ π¬ [email protected] www.cameronbrick.com -- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MeoqEYgAAAAJ&hl=en
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In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born
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We could just wring our hands and decry autonomous lethal drones, but before judgment it's worth pausing just to recognize how much has changed in the past few years and where it leaves us, Ukraine, and the future of war.
We could just wring our hands and decry autonomous lethal drones, but before judgment it's worth pausing just to recognize how much has changed in the past few years and where it leaves us, Ukraine, and the future of war.
Stimulating. I have adapted from Buddhism as well, more for academic psychology than for politics. Agreed that compassion is not conditional on the target in moral terms. Instrumentally, I don't see rapid societal change through without winners and losers, heroes and villains, as we wrote about.
Well, I like your writing and argument.
I hear a lot on the left that we need as wide a tent as possible, but in practice championing seems to expose political vulnerability.
Maybe part of this is short vs long term success. Certainly disenfranchisement is unstable and unjust.
I hear a lot on the left that we need as wide a tent as possible, but in practice championing seems to expose political vulnerability.
Maybe part of this is short vs long term success. Certainly disenfranchisement is unstable and unjust.
Certainly capital is an enemy, but I'm not even convinced that democracy is the solution. The country doing the most for the energy transition is not very democratic
There is no laissez-faire capitalism, so the only questions are where we want to lean on the wheel and how much
Traffic congestion increased this year, despite new roads - DutchNews.nl
The total length and duration of traffic jams in the Netherlands increased this year, despite the opening of several new roads in Zuid Holland, figures from the ANWB show. The ANWB said traffic conges...
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Couldn't have written that more clearly myself. Increase roads, increase demand for roads. How about investing more in solutions with fewer costs on society: public health, finances, environmental quality?
Couldn't have written that more clearly myself. Increase roads, increase demand for roads. How about investing more in solutions with fewer costs on society: public health, finances, environmental quality?
Interesting summary, thanks. We can reject any theory of cognition where the person is an island.
Opinion | Willpower Doesnβt Work. This Does.
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On willpower being overrated
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
Took me a long time too. Compelling
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
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Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth.
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
My inbox is a de-facto to-do list. When using Outlook, an email feature I really miss, was it in gmail in the past?, was to snooze a message into the future UNLESS I receive a response in the meantime. That way, items don't disappear off the list, and I don't get extra messages.
Ruben C. Arslan
@ruben.the100.ci
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Finally, @bjoernhommel.bsky.social's and my paper introducing the SurveyBot3000 is officially out in AMPPS. It's a fine-tuned language model that guesstimates correlations between survey items from text alone. Not perfectly, but useful for search, for example.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A thousand percent. Dying young helped. Gordon Lightfoot didn't age too poorly. One political song was banned in 30 US states. Not too shabby
Winne - 'Crime Passionel ' ft. Dick Klees #5 Winne Zonder Strijd
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was it? Wow, crazy. I doubted later that I had chosen the right track. 'Baby Love' is also groovy.
Next entry: Dutch and not even the Osdorp Posse? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gWc...
Next entry: Dutch and not even the Osdorp Posse? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gWc...
MC Solaar - Onzième commandement (Audio Officiel)
YouTube video by MCSolaarVEVO
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youtu.be/FXsCBvSjdYg?... staying french, this guy has a masters in sociology I think
Oh wow, that's a groove. Jovanotti meets Will Smith, on a west coast gangsta loop? Electro!
Narcy - PHATWA
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Next: iraq is the new black, 2009 youtu.be/TtoHCUMpNMY?...
Oh absolutely. "That's my favorite band!" said my wife tonight. What? I have never heard her play them π€
Really, they should just avoid them most of the time. Make the text slightly longer and more accessible.
Nice, I'm glad! Let's trade some more. What do you think about Samy Deluxe, too cornball?
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Robert Rohde
@rarohde.bsky.social
Β· 28d
The cost of grid-scale solar plus batteries has become so cheap that spreading solar power out over 24 hours is now cost-competive with building new natural gas plants in many cases.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
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Column | Op zoek naar licht in een tunnel van zouteloos lauwgrijs
De winter houdt Nederland in een drievoudige houdgreep. Hoe kun je daaraan een positieve draai geven, als weerman?
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De echte Nederlandse winter kwijnt weg en wordt uitgerekt tot een drie maanden durende tunnel van zouteloos lauwgrijs.
Het is 14 graden in december: een eeuw geleden totaal ondenkbaar.
βSneeuw in december is een romantische gedachte die we samen met de fossiele brandstoffen hebben opgestookt.β
Het is 14 graden in december: een eeuw geleden totaal ondenkbaar.
βSneeuw in december is een romantische gedachte die we samen met de fossiele brandstoffen hebben opgestookt.β
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The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom
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My book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, and all @islandpress.bsky.social e-books, is on sale for $6.99 through 12/19.
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
Ostrom's groundbreaking ideas showed that the "tragedy of the commons" is not inevitable. Communities can sustain their shared resources through collective action. 1/2
Makiza - La Rosa de los Vientos
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Too large a category! But if you like Los Chikoz, have you heard of this Chilean group? For me this is classic hip-hop www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr6G... 'Lo que es estar dividida, no saber cual es su tierra'... Tijoux had a pretty good solo career, saw her perform once in California
Cameron Brick
@cameronbrick.bsky.social
Β· Dec 12
gep.psychopen.eu
Optimal Delivery of Social Norms Feedback to Reduce
Household Water Consumption
1st author: @kashramli.bsky.social
Open access: gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/ge... 3/3
Household Water Consumption
1st author: @kashramli.bsky.social
Open access: gep.psychopen.eu/index.php/ge... 3/3
Cameron Brick
@cameronbrick.bsky.social
Β· Dec 12
Heterogeneity shows where the behavior was plastic vs constrained.
In sum: situational affordances were sufficient; motivation/personality/values not needed; small effects, but real and scalable.
Suggested for: applied behavioral scientists, policy designers, skeptics of self-report. 2/3
In sum: situational affordances were sufficient; motivation/personality/values not needed; small effects, but real and scalable.
Suggested for: applied behavioral scientists, policy designers, skeptics of self-report. 2/3
Cameron Brick
@cameronbrick.bsky.social
Β· Dec 12
New paper: real water-use behavior change using multi-year, metered data (19k homes). Not attitudes, identity, efficacy, or persuasion. We manipulated delivery mode + frequency of home use reports β ~2% reduction (~7 L/day here). 1/3
Cameron Brick
@cameronbrick.bsky.social
Β· Dec 9
Yes exactly, very much agree. We've been narrowly using "identification with the social group 'environmentalist'", mostly for concreteness rather than preferring some other formulation, but even that relies on what they think that word means and it doesn't translate well into Germanic languages.