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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jul 14

New paper finds a ‘climate activist’s dilemma’: “study participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme protests to be more immoral and supported movement less. However, extreme protests also heightened climate concern and intention to take action.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Journal of Environmental Psychology

The climate activist’s dilemma: Extreme protests reduce movement support but raise climate concern and intentions

Jarren L. Nylund,
Michael Thai,
Matthew J. Hornsey

Highlights
• Extreme (vs. moderate) climate protests reduce support for the activist group.
• Support was reduced via immorality, low emotional connection, and identification.
• Extreme (vs. moderate) climate protests increase climate concern and intentions.
• Extreme tactics may boost concern but harm activist group support.
• No loss of support for the broader climate movement or cause was observed.

Abstract
Some members of the climate movement advocate for disruptive tactics, including mass civil disobedience, in the effort to pressure governments to address anthropogenic climate change. However, prior research on the “activist's dilemma” suggests that extreme protest actions may reduce public support for a movement. The present research aimed to discover if these findings would replicate within the highly moralised context of climate change, and explore target deservingness as a potential moderator. Across two studies, with Australian psychology students (Study 1; N=178) and a politically representative sample from the United Kingdom (Study 2; N=511), participants perceived climate activists engaging in extreme (vs. moderate) protests to be more immoral, felt less emotional connection and identification with them, and supported the movement less. However, Study 2 found that extreme (vs. moderate) protests also heightened climate concern and intentions to take climate-related actions. These findings highlight a “climate activist’s dilemma”: while extreme tactics may reduce support for the activist groups who engage in such tactics, they may simultaneously raise climate concern and personal intentions to act.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Jun 12

Modern tyranny is terror management.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

The Next Terrorist Attack

And What Comes After

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Jun 13

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · Jun 10

“Harsh crackdowns may generate sympathy for protesters, said Omar Wasow, a political scientist at UC Berkeley who studies protest movements. The “spectacle of violence and repression,” he said, can frame states as ‘bullies’ unjustly squashing expression.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/w...

3 Lessons From International Protests Amid the L.A. Unrest (Gift Article)

Experts who study protest movements say the scenes unfolding in California broadly follow a script that has played out many times in other countries — sometimes with deadly consequences.

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Alexis Bibeau @alexisbibeau.bsky.social · Jun 10

avec les événements des derniers jours à LA, ça me semble un bon moment pour repartager mon texte sur les émeutes et la démocratie -- et tout particulièrement ce point:

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École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · Jun 4

Des après-midis consacrés aux outils numériques pour la recherche! 🧰 🛠️ 🔬 🔍 🪚

En plus des parcours méthodologiques du matin, les participant·es de l’EIOM assisteront chaque après-midi à des ateliers pratiques conçus pour enrichir leur « boîte à outils » de chercheur·se.

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Alexis Bibeau @alexisbibeau.bsky.social · May 27

Many people to thank for their help with this project: George Klosko, Jennifer Rubenstein, @ktduong.bsky.social Jonathan Havercroft, @catherineouellet.bsky.social @sdebrouw.bsky.social, Çiğdem Çidam, Genevieve Fuji Johnson

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Alexis Bibeau @alexisbibeau.bsky.social · May 27

In the paper, I argue that riots can sometimes work as a form of political representation in which a spontaneous and temporary collective speaks in the name of others--focusing particularly on how this operates through the disruption, affirmative aspects and representational dimensions of rioting

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Alexis Bibeau @alexisbibeau.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 I'm really happy to see my new paper "Can riots represent? A democratic theory" now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the r...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · May 21

📣 Le parcours Science des données : modélisation et prédiction est de retour pour la 5e édition de l’EIOM !

🗓 Du 25 au 29 août 2025
🎓 Formation intensive d’une semaine, avec ou sans crédits
🌐 Infos et inscription : eiom.ca

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École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 La saison des annonces se poursuit pour cette 5e édition de l'EIOM!

Découvrez notre tout nouveau parcours « Mise à niveau : les outils et les méthodes dans le processus scientifique »!

🛠️ Inscriptions et détails : eiom.ca

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · May 7

Much outrage fuel in this piece about AI cheating in college.

This bit got me: Columbia's Core Curriculum is the core of a liberal arts education that seeks to educate the whole person, for citizenship & to lead a life well lived. This fucking doofus 'breezed through' the opportunity of a lifetime

When he started at Columbia as a sophomore this past September, he didn’t worry much about academics or his GPA. “Most assignments in college are not relevant,” he told me. “They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.” While other new students fretted over the university’s rigorous core curriculum, described by the school as “intellectually expansive” and “personally transformative,” Lee used AI to breeze through with minimal effort. When I asked him why he had gone through so much trouble to get to an Ivy League university only to off-load all of the learning to a robot, he said, “It’s the best place to meet your co-founder and your wife.”

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Marius Bickhardt @mbickhardt.bsky.social · May 2

Here comes our conference report about "Green capitalism: A New Regime of Accumulation?", Humboldt University, Berlin. November 29.–30., 2024.

Keynotes: @triofrancos.bsky.social & @brettchristophers.bsky.social

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Green Capitalism – A New Regime of Accumulation? - KTB

Conference in cooperation with Centre Marc Bloch and Global and European Studies Institute at the University of Leipzig

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École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · Apr 30

C'est le début de la saison des grandes annonces pour l'EIOM ! 🚨

L’EIOM a le privilège de s’associer à la Chaire de leadership en enseignement Roméo Dallaire sur les conflits civils et la paix durable pour concevoir un tout nouveau parcours:

« Le cas : méthodes et inférence » 🎯

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Alexis Bibeau @alexisbibeau.bsky.social · Apr 25

Un événement majeur pour la formation en méthodologie au Québec 🤖💡 à ne pas manquer!

École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · Apr 24

À qui s’adresse l’EIOM? 🙋‍♂️ 🙋‍♀️

🎓 À tous les étudiant·es universitaires de la francophonie!

💼 Aux professionnel·les déjà sur le marché du travail!

🧰 À quiconque veut se bâtir un véritable coffre à outils scientifique!

📅 Du 25 au 29 août 2025 à l’Université Laval

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École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · Apr 8

Les inscriptions sont ouvertes! 🧰🔬🛠️

L’EIOM revient pour sa 5e édition, du 25 au 29 août 2025!

5 jours, 3 crédits pour explorer les outils numériques, les méthodes de recherche et les approches interdisciplinaires qui transforment la science.

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant au eiom.ca !

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École interdisciplinaire outils & méthodes (EIOM) @eiom.bsky.social · Apr 15

Une première semaine d'inscriptions record pour l'EIOM! 🦾🎯

Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant à cette 5e édition de la plus grande école francophone dédiée aux méthodes et aux outils de recherche empirique!

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