For those who are interested in research-based solutions to stop police violence, here’s what you need to know - based on the facts and data. A thread. (1/x)

How is the COVID-19 pandemic impacting your access to nature and your mental health? Please take our 10-minute survey: bit.ly/2LFDjzm and spread the word

"The right thing is not releasing statements that denounce a single killing while neglecting to connect that killing to the larger circumstances that made it inevitable" thx Jason A. England and Dr. Richard Purcell for calling out platitudes in #highered chronicle.com/article/Higher…

A new meta-analysis including more than 25,000 participants finds that witnessing prosocial acts consistently inspires others to act kindly themselves. Another reason to highlight / elevate the behaviors we want to become contagious... psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-31…

New article, same tweet (see 7/23): Slowly, slowly, #conservation sector is embracing a culture of field experimentation. As they continue, they should also prepare for results contrary to expectations (as other policy fields have discovered). ow.ly/xoG250BeCtT

Naidoo and Burton (doi.org/10.1111/csp2.2…) look at the relative effects of recreational activities on a temperate terrestrial wildlife assemblage. They find remarkable impacts of vehicles, bikes and hikers on habitat usage by wildlife. Is wilderness visitation benign?

Why Coming Up With Effective Interventions To Address COVID-19 Is So Hard 53eig.ht/2FjbNrA

Solving climate change often involves the social science realm. However, “between 1990 and 2018, the natural and technical sciences received 770% more funding than the social sciences for research on issues related to climate change.” More here: bit.ly/30VytWD

Sweet hallelujah.

Helpful take on vaccine delivery and what to expect over the next year.

We are proud to be back. Well said, John Kerry state.gov/opening-statem…

🚨Out now in Nature!🚨 A fundamentally new way of fighting misinfo online: Surveys+field exp w >5k Twitter users show that gently nudging users to think about accuracy increases quality of news shared- bc most users dont share misinfo on purpose nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/

Stories or Facts? Environmental scientists & practitioners often hear that, if you want to motivate people to change, you must tell stories rather than report data & facts. True? See study w/ Hilary Byerly Flint Tongzhe Li Collin Weigel described in Infographic and thread below [1/4]

Development economics deserves its own Randall Munroe meme:

We need more experts in #behavioralscience to tackle biodiversity loss. Congrats to @kristiansn89 and my fantastic co-authors for advancing this perspective.

“For Afghans, the war hasn’t ended simply because we, the United States, declared it to be over.” ⁦Viet⁩ on the fall of Kabul and Saigon and our obligations. For more insight and heartbreak read his excellent book The Sympathizer nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opi…