Cameron Brick

@cameronbrick.bsky.social

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Psychology, behavior & environment, especially climate change. Uni of Amsterdam; Assoc. Editor 𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘌𝘯𝘷. 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 🔬 [email protected] www.cameronbrick.com -- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MeoqEYgAAAAJ&hl=en

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 3d

If ever there was a moment to shame climate wrongdoers, that moment is now. To that end, I offer a recently published article (by @sharonyadin.bsky.social & me) on how ordinary folks like you & me--plus civil society & governments--can harness the power of shame.

@ioppublishing.bsky.social

Shaming climate wrongdoers

Shaming climate wrongdoers, Yadin, Sharon, Maibach, Edward

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 5d

EN
Do your laundry for science from your own home! Sign up here for our Citizen Science project and collect the microplastics from your clothes.

NL
Doe thuis jou was voor de wetenschap! Meld je hier aan voor ons Citizen Science project en verzamel de microplastics van jouw kleding.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 5d

theconversation.com/we-got-lazy-...

Lots of debate in NL right now about our wealth tax and the changing rules. There's uncertainty and I think that also causes distaste. If it was just 'the way we do it' it would be easier to be proud of what values and benefits it supports, maybe?

‘We got lazy and complacent’: Swedish pensioners explain how abolishing the wealth tax changed their country

For some Swedes, the question isn’t simply whether a wealth tax works, but what kind of society has been lost with its abolition.

theconversation.com

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 9d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Good result. Took too long. Interesting article.

Greece: Aid workers cleared of human trafficking charges

The former volunteers, who were facing lengthy jail terms, worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers.

www.bbc.com

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 20d

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/m...

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.

In Ukraine, a New Arsenal of Killer A.I. Drones Is Being Born

www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Rebecca Sear, Cameron Brick

Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 22d

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Science in Resistance: The scientist rebellion for climate justice by Fernando Racimo. Maybe not very surprising, after all, it was reading a paper by Fernando that made me join Scientist Rebellion three years ago.

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Picture showing the cover of the book this post is about.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 27d

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Yawning at the apocalypse | BPS

Cameron Brick and Sander van der Linden on how psychologists can help solve the largest social dilemma in history.

www.bps.org.uk

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 27d

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

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 27d

There is no laissez-faire capitalism, so the only questions are where we want to lean on the wheel and how much

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 27d

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/12/traf...

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?

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...

www.dutchnews.nl

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 28d

Interesting summary, thanks. We can reject any theory of cognition where the person is an island.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · 28d

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...

Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.

www.nytimes.com

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 25

Took me a long time too. Compelling

Reposted by Efrén O. Pérez, Cameron Brick, Johannes Breuer , and 1 more Efrén O. Pérez, Cameron Brick, Johannes Breuer, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Dec 25

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

Birth Lottery

If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?

www.givingwhatwecan.org

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Anna O. Law, Andrew Scott , and 6 more Diane Coyle, Anna O. Law, Andrew Scott, Tim Bale, Rosemary A. Joyce, Cameron Brick, Duncan Bell, Andrew Jacobs, Renaud Morieux

Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Dec 25

Merry Christmas, everyone!

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.co.uk

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 23

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.

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Cameron Brick, Ian Hussey , and 3 more Alexander Wuttke, Cameron Brick, Ian Hussey, Eric Hehman, Jana Lasser, Johannes Breuer

Ruben C. Arslan @ruben.the100.ci · Dec 18

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/...

Fig. 3. Scatter plots of the synthetic and empirical estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Showing N = 30,135 item-pair correlations, N = 257 scale reliabilities, and N = 1,568 scale-pair correlations for (top) the pretrained SBERT model and (bottom) the fine-tuned SurveyBot3000 model. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Fig. 4. Prediction error of the synthetic estimates, validation study (Stage 2). Our prediction model allowed the error term to vary freely according to the predictor, the synthetic estimate. The thin-plate splines show that some synthetic estimates were predictably more accurate.

Fig. 5. Accuracy by domain. Accuracy differed across domains. SurveyBot3000 accuracy (colored) was always higher than SBERT accuracy (gray). Results were largely consistent whether accuracy of items was tested (left, circle) within domains or (right, cross) across domains.

Fig. 1. Multistep training procedure for the SurveyBot3000, which produces synthetic estimates of interitem correlations. (a) Pretraining base model (SBERT). (b) Fine-tuning SurveyBot3000. (c) Validation. SBERT = all-mpnet-base-v2 model.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 15

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

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 15

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...

Winne - 'Crime Passionel ' ft. Dick Klees #5 Winne Zonder Strijd

YouTube video by TopNotch

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 14

youtu.be/FXsCBvSjdYg?... staying french, this guy has a masters in sociology I think

MC Solaar - Onzième commandement (Audio Officiel)

YouTube video by MCSolaarVEVO

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 14

Oh wow, that's a groove. Jovanotti meets Will Smith, on a west coast gangsta loop? Electro!

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 14

Next: iraq is the new black, 2009 youtu.be/TtoHCUMpNMY?...

Narcy - PHATWA

YouTube video by NARCY / YASSIN / THE NARCISSIST

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Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 14

Oh absolutely. "That's my favorite band!" said my wife tonight. What? I have never heard her play them 🤔

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 14

Really, they should just avoid them most of the time. Make the text slightly longer and more accessible.

Cameron Brick @cameronbrick.bsky.social · Dec 14

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 · Dec 14

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...

Graph showing solar spread over 24-hours and the associated cost.

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Max van Geuns @maxvangeuns.bsky.social · Dec 14

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.

“Sneeuw in december is een romantische gedachte die we samen met de fossiele brandstoffen hebben opgestookt.”

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?

www.nrc.nl

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · Dec 13

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

The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom

islandpress.org

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