Congratulations Tobia Spampatti (TSpampatti.bsky.social) for a great PhD defence yesterday! 🏅 His last paper was published just a couple of days ago: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Tobias Brosch UNIGE Energy CISA_UNIGE UNIGE_en PSBC Lab - UniBasel

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I am a tenured fisheries professor at a German research institution. My job is mostly a dream job (see separate thread), but some things are super frustrating in #academiclife in Germany. Here is list of agony. A thread.

✈️New Research: "Tackling the academic air travel dependency. An analysis of the (in)consistency between academics’ travel behaviour and their attitudes" 🌍Read this important research #OpenAccess in GEC: doi.org/10.1016/j.gloe…

Come work with us: PhD position in psychology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland If you're interested, check out the job ad for more info: unige.ch/fapse/decision… Please share widely!

Scientists should get paid for thinking time nature #PhD #PhDlife #academics #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Postdocs #Research #Science

📢A 27-country test of communicating scientific consensus on climate! Our new paper led by the brilliant Bojana Većkalov (bojanaveckalov.bsky.social) & Sandra Geiger. Expert consensus reduces misperceptions globally & increases belief in GW, esp among those with low trust on the right! nature.com/articles/s4156…

To secure a 1-year extension beyond 65 at ETH Zurich, I had to change departments. ulp.ethz.ch/news/ulp-news/… #Academia #Leadership

Me editing my own writing

A method review of 561 #degrowth studies finds major flaws. No good basis to draw conclusions about effectiveness & feasibility of degrowth as a strategy to tackle environmental/social problems. Suggests need for modesty about degrowth plans. Ivan Savin doi.org/10.1016/j.ecol…

🎓 New semester - New Energy-Environment Talks! 🔋🌳🧑‍🏫 Check out the new #programme of our Energy-Environment Talks for this fall semester and mark your calenders! 🗓️✅ unige.ch/sysener/fr/ See you there! UNIGE_en Faculty of Science | UNIGE

IT'S IN THE SYLLABUS

🚨Beyond excited to share our new paper in NatureClimate on perceptions of *carbon footprint inequality*🙌 Across four countries 🇩🇰🇮🇳🇳🇬🇺🇸, we find widespread underestimation of within-country carbon footprint inequality, including among the wealthy🧵 nature.com/articles/s4155…

For all the long-term modelers out there: we just released an open source benchmarking tool that allows you to plot projections from past editions of the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) against actual outcomes. Let me explain why this is important. 🧵

We invite you to an engaging webinar on Finance in ST with Dr. Bjarne Steffen taking place this coming Friday, 20th Sept. The session will begin at 09:00 CET, and we very much look forward to an active Q&A session following the presentation! Sign-up form: forms.gle/ksjc4Mt671j3Mx…

The bedtime routine

New research in PNAS Nexus reveals that AI like GPT4 can simplify scientific writing, improving public understanding of science and perceptions of scientists. When AI crafts lay summaries, readers grasp content better and view scientists as more credible. doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…