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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 10d

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.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 11h

Quite some news

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 22h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Karsten Mause @karstenmause.bsky.social · 12h

The same procedure as every year... 🥸 #Econ #Nobel

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 18h

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history:

The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 22h

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Spannende Erfahrung, kann ich empfehlen.

Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 1d

[Admin] Hallo alle miteinander, hier bei @realscientists.de ist spontan eine Woche frei geworden: die ab dem 20. Oktober. Wenn ihr schon immer mal eine Woche lang diesen Account bespielen wolltet, ist JETZT eure Gelegenheit dazu.

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Matthis @ Real Scientists DE @realscientists.de · 1d

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

Zwischen diesen drei Aushängen sind es vielleicht je 2 m... Die anderen beiden Türen in diesem Waggon sind ebenfalls defekt. Die Züge auf dieser Strecke (Kopenhagen–Hamburg) sind wirklich eine Katastrophe.

Aushang an der Wand eines Waggons "Klimaanlage defekt"

Aushang an der Tür eines Waggons "Tür unbenutzbar"

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

...the Department of Environmental Science at University of Aarhus, Campus Risø ( @andersbranthp.bsky.social ).

I'll be back.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

In addition to people at IFRO, I've also had great discussions during my short visits at the Department of Economics at SLU in Uppsala ( @jensrommel.bsky.social ), the Centre for Environmental and Climate Science at Lund University ( @ndroste.bsky.social ) as well as...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 1d

It's time to say Farvel today. I've had a great time at the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO), University of Copenhagen. I'll miss the colleagues, the cycling infrastructure, the green spaces. Still, I'm really looking forward to seeing my family again. 5+ weeks is a lot.

A square surrounded by brick buildings with bicycles in front, stairs with the sign "Cycelkælder" and a metro sign in the background

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Good question, I'm not aware of anything

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Other relevant observations included:
*Spanish Sahara (renamed after 1975)
*Cyprus undivided (Green Line introduced in 1974)
*Volgograd, not Stalingrad (after 1953)
(Plus some more obvious ones like pre-1990 boundaries in (South-)Eastern Europe)

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Fun activity during my goodbye-cake break at IFRO: trying to "carbon-date" this map of Europe. We narrowed it down to probably early 60's, using mainly non-European hints (Egypt is called "United Arab Republic", Algeria is independent, Gaza is still controlled by Egypt).

Physical map of Europe with national borders

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Was auch immer das ist (will ich vermutlich gar nicht wissen).

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

…people cheating their way to social benefits so much that they create highly inefficient systems of rules and monitoring and sanctions, thus making all the other beneficiaries' lives so much harder.

Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Not sure this is quite what I meant (though also a good, distinct(?) point). I was thinking of e.g. university admins introducing restrictive rules because someone has misused some "loophole", which make many other things much more complicated. Or social services and politicians worrying about…

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

Ich sag nur: Fleischkäse, Lachsschinken...

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Moritz Peter Fritschle @moritzfritschle.bsky.social · 2d

Es ist wirklich absurd. Nicht nur, dass das #EU Parlament mehrheitlich dafür stimmt, Fleischersatz nicht mehr #Burger, #Schnitzel und #Wurst nennen zu dürfen.
Wiedereinmal formiert sich eine Mehrheit aus Konservativen und Rechtsaußen-Fraktionen.
#vegan #veggi

EU-Parlament stimmt für Umbenennung der veganen Wurst

Kann die vegane Wurst weiter Wurst heißen? Nicht, wenn es nach dem Europaparlament geht. Kanzler Merz unterstützt die Pläne, während Unternehmen wie Aldi und Lidl dagegen protestieren. Die Entscheidun...

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 2d

I feel like too often administrations/bureaucracies (not only, but especially) act like "Oh, shit, there is one way how X can be misused, let's make X impossible", while ignoring that "X can be helpful in 1000 other cases" also holds true. It drives me mad.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

Eine sehr berechtigte Frage😁

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

I'm pretty sure you're wrong (not the last sentence, this is probably true, almost by definition), but I don't have the relevant info materials on me, so: 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 3d

Teekampagne. That's where I get mine. www.teekampagne.de

Jetzt fair gehandelten Bio Tee bestellen | Teekampagne

www.teekampagne.de

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Oder die Parallelen sind da und ich erkenne sie bloß nicht😁

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Ich habe vor einer Weile ihr "Strangers in Their Own Land" gelesen und fand es stellenweise faszinierend (und erschreckend). Die Parallelen zu DE hielten sich m. E. in Grenzen, weil die (politische) US-Kultur etwas sehr eigenartiges ist... Aber vielleicht ist es bei diesem Buch anders.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Nah, coffee... Pff. Tea I would understand, but coffee? Nah.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Visited the Department of Environmental Science of @au.dk in Roskilde/Risø to give not one, but two talks🤓 Learned something extremely important there:

Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Meine Regel ist, dass ich keine Texte lese, die mir versuchen zu erklären, dass „Kapitalismus“ schlecht oder gut oder rosa ist🤷 Ich finde den Begriff in den meisten Kontexten nicht hilfreich; am Ende geht’s um etwas relativ Spezifisches, aber dann sollte es bitte auch so benannt werden.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 4d

Sprachunterricht in der Schule ist nach meiner Erfahrung nicht wirklich die Lösung… Mit jeder Sprache, die man schon spricht, wird es auf jeden Fall leichter, und da ich bei Deutsch keine Wahl hatte, war Englisch (und die Sprachen, die ich seitdem gelernt habe) dann halb so schlimm😉