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Sabine Pahl
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Prof of #EnvironmentalPsychology @univienna.ac.at
@envpsyvienna.bsky.social
https://ech.univie.ac.at

#BehaviouralSciences #RiskPerception #SocialCognition #PlasticPollution #Microplastics #PFAS #Nature etc...

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 4h
Now two countries have blocked Grok over the ability to create non-consensual intimate images: Malaysia and Indonesia
Musk’s Grok AI Blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia Over Sexual Images
Indonesia and Malaysia restricted access to Elon Musk’s Grok AI over the weekend, becoming the first countries to ban the artificial intelligence system over its generation of sexual content.
www.bloomberg.com

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 13h
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
pnas.org Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 1d
Opinion piece: As we let #AI speak for us—as #researchers, #clinicians, even as people—we risk a new blind spot: #MachinalBypass. Why outsourcing presence matters more than we think. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/T8U650XU6Tv

#MentalHealth #Psychology #Psychiatry #LLM #ChatGPT
Illustration of a clinical therapy setting in which a clinician sits at a desk holding playing cards while a computer screen displays a LLM prompt reading, ‘How does that make you feel?’ A patient lies on a couch in the background, conveying a conceptual commentary on the use of artificial intelligence in therapy. Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 1d
Opinion piece: As we let #AI speak for us—as #researchers, #clinicians, even as people—we risk a new blind spot: #MachinalBypass. Why outsourcing presence matters more than we think. In PNAS Front Matter: https://ow.ly/T8U650XU6Tv

#MentalHealth #Psychology #Psychiatry #LLM #ChatGPT
Illustration of a clinical therapy setting in which a clinician sits at a desk holding playing cards while a computer screen displays a LLM prompt reading, ‘How does that make you feel?’ A patient lies on a couch in the background, conveying a conceptual commentary on the use of artificial intelligence in therapy. Image credit: Dave Cutler (artist).

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d
‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected - art is good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives. One study found that people who engaged regularly with the arts had a 31% lower risk of dying at any point during the follow-up period, even when confounding socioeconomic, demographic and health factors were taken into account. Studies also show that visiting museums and attending live music events can make people physiologically younger, and a monthly cultural activity almost halves our chances of depression. As Fancourt argues, if a drug boasted such benefits governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector and arts education has been devalued and eroded in the UK.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 1d
WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to:

* 8 people shot
* 5 of which were U.S. citizens
* 2 died
* no victims drew a weapon

The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire

www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 1d
A moment's calm
#Vienna 19th district this morning
A winter scene showing a small stream and bridge surrounded by some trees in the morning light. Everything is covered by snow.

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Lorenz Meyer @thereallorenzmeyer.bsky.social · 2d
Lieber Spiegel, Ihr habt es wahrscheinlich nicht so gemeint, aber: Wenn eine Regierungschefin auf Annexionsdrohungen einer Supermacht reagiert, "empört" sie sich nicht. Sie weist zurück, sie widerspricht, sie stellt klar. Das eine klingt nach Kontrollverlust, das andere nach Staatsräson.
spiegel.de: Die Vereinigten Staaten hätten kein Recht, Grönland zu annektieren, empörte sich die dänische Premierministerin Mette Frederiksen am Sonntagabend.

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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 2d
Tests ran by consumer organisations across Europe paint a worrying picture: 69% of 162 products from Shein and Temu (chargers, toys, jewellery) destined for EU consumers are illegal and unsafe.

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FALTER. Die Wochenzeitung aus Wien @falter.at · 3d
Eine Wienerin fährt mit einem Leihwagen gegen einen Randstein. Sie kann keine Schäden entdecken, bekommt aber trotzdem eine Rechnung in Höhe von rund 1.400 Euro. Laut ÖAMTC ist das kein Einzelfall ↓
Kein Einzelfall: Carsharing-Firma schockt Wienerin mit gesalzener Rechnung
Ein kleiner Aufprall, keine sichtbaren Schäden & Kosten von 1.400 Euro: Worauf Sie beim Carsharing achten sollten >>…
www.falter.at

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
Thousands of people gathered at a vigil for Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minnesota woman who was shot and killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.

Read more: nyti.ms/45GxB9K

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 3d
Parking on the pavement in London has been illegal for 52 years and in the rest of the UK it's just a fact of life. Central government just opted against a blanket national ban. Anyway here's an excellent advert from when it was banned in London: www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Yg...

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 3d
DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung.

Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Begutachtung
www.dfg.de

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Environmental Psychology Vienna @envpsyvienna.bsky.social · 3d
Kuni Saffana recently joined the team as a PhD student, having received funding by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education Agency (LPDP) Scholarship.

Her research will aim to advance the use of #psychometrics in #environmentalpsychology in order to promote conscious and responsible consumption

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 5d
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Greenwashing, illegality and false claims: 13 climate litigation wins in 2025
Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans
www.theguardian.com

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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 8d
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 8d
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com

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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 12d
Israel becomes the first country in the world to ban the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders.

Let that sink in.

File under "Things you do when you are committing genocide"...

www.nbcnews.com/world/israel...

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 12d
😲😳

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
‘I don’t like winning’: Toronto man outruns streetcars to show up sluggish transit network
Mac Bauer’s racing activism has made ‘signal priority’ and traffic congestion a big talking point for the Canadian city
www.theguardian.com

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · 13d
Call for Proposals: Schwerpunktthema „#Immigration und Einstellungen gegenüber ethnischen und religiösen #Minderheiten“ im #ALLBUS 2027

Der ALLBUS 2027 ist als selbstadministrierte Mixed-Mode-Erhebung (schriftlich-postalisch/online) geplant. Die Befragungsdauer beträgt insgesamt ca. 45 Minuten.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16d
You need to read this story.
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.com

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badly-drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social · 18d
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
Manchester Evening News headline 'Anthony Joshua to lose £32m prize money after Jake Paul victory' and then goes on to clarify that this just means he'll pay tax like a responsible UK citizen.

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Sabine Pahl @sabinepahl.bsky.social · 23d
This might make you cry

But also trigger some faith in humanity

Let's talk more about people like #MelissaHortman

“It does not matter how Melissa died,” Williams says in a whisper. “All that really matters is how she lived.”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Melissa Hortman Died in a Shocking Act of Political Violence. This Is the Story of Her Life
Melissa Hortman died in a shocking act of political violence. This is her story
www.rollingstone.com

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23d
Open today's door for a fiery, festive friend... and a wiggle to boot! 😃

#RSPBAdvent25

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 23d
Familiar story: Cost estimate for the first 6 new nuclear reactors in France up by 40% in three years. And that's 13 years before the first one would be completed (not accounting for delays).
Btw, that €73 billion is in Euros of 2020; better known as €85 billion now.
www.reuters.com/business/ene...
France's EDF raises cost estimate for six reactors to 72.8 billion euros
France's state-owned utility EDF will cap the cost of building six new nuclear reactors at 72.8 billion euros ($85.29 billion), it said on Thursday, as it pledged to significantly improve both the cos...
www.reuters.com

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Science Magazine @science.org · 24d
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Qianjiadong Reservoir in southern Hunan, China, produces a double harvest: solar energy and yellow carp. The solar farm produces up to 80 megawatts of power while the fish forage beneath the panels. With a massive scale-up of solar and wind at home and cheap exports of the technology, China is driving a worldwide surge of renewable energy—Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.

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Christian Fuchs @christian-fuchs.bsky.social · 24d
Rufe einen AfD-Landtagsabgeordneten in Sachsen-Anhalt an, mit dem ich noch nie zu tun hatte.

Er so: "Mit Ihnen rede ich nicht, sie Linksjournalist. DIE ZEIT gehört doch der SPD!"

Nein. Mit keinem einzigen Cent ist eine Partei an der @zeit.de beteiligt. Und diese Menschen wollen 2026 regieren.
an older woman says oh no sweetheart in front of a blue background
ALT: an older woman says oh no sweetheart in front of a blue background
media.tenor.com

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Ingwar Perowanowitsch @ingwarpero.bsky.social · 25d
Wie Paris in 10 Jahren seine Luft um 40% verbesserte und so vorzeitige Todesfälle durch Smog halbieren konnte, ist so eine krasse Erfolgsgeschichte. 2019 litten 400.000 Menschen an schlechter Luft. 2023 nur noch 5.000 und nächstes Jahr sollen es Null sein. Für eine 🇪🇺 Großstadt ist das beispiellos❤️

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 25d
Minister orders probe into foreign interference in politics

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#ReformRussianBribes
Minister orders probe into foreign financial interference in UK politics
Communities secretary says the country must learn lessons from the Nathan Gill bribery case.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25d
Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.
Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
www.brusselstimes.com

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 26d
This drove me insane. A parent tried to responsibly trust his kids to ride the public bus to school unsupervised, and some busybody phoned the government to complain about him. He eventually won in court, but I can’t imagine the happening when I was a kid (gen x).

vancouversun.com/news/local-n...
Vancouver 'free-range' father who taught kids to ride bus wins court challenge
Adrian Crook was visited by social workers after the ministry got a call saying he was allowing his five children, ages five to 11, to ride the bus alone from his d…
vancouversun.com