With more than half of the world's population active on social media networks, user-generated data has proved to be fertile ground for social scientists who study attitudes about the environment and sustainability.
Environment
Mar 17, 2023
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Germany, India, Mexico, and Spain. As multiparty democracies, these countries present a more complex picture of what brings people together—or divides them. Using social media data, a group of researchers proposes a novel ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2023
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Interracial relationships between friends, acquaintances and relatives were more than twice as likely to dissolve after the 2016 election than those of the same race, a study recently published by sociologists at the University ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic was fertile ground for conspiracy theories and misinformation on Twitter, and Bill Gates was a frequent target. A new study, which analyzes well-known conspiracy theories about the role of Bill Gates ...
Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2023
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A school in Gloucestershire, in the west of England, was closed for several days due to an "invasion of poisonous spiders." Experts claimed they were not aggressive, but the school was closed, alarm spread and some media ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 9, 2023
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Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analyzed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering—the idea that the climate can be altered using technology—can easily ...
Social Sciences
Feb 28, 2023
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An increasing number of natural disasters, the rising share of renewable energies and the current gas crisis—these factors are putting a strain on the electricity networks. Experts are increasingly concerned about the stability ...
Social Sciences
Feb 24, 2023
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The size, strength and makeup of people's social networks are key indicators of how they will respond to the health consequences of an environmental disaster, according to a new Cornell study that focused on the Flint, Michigan, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 21, 2023
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Social cohesion and connection decline in an aging population, according to a new study of one of humanity's closest relatives.
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2023
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For yet another year, the world's conference on climate change—COP27—concluded with few agreements and a clear division between North and South.
Mathematics
Feb 16, 2023
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