Lauren Smith, PhD

What seems to be important about awe's influence on proenvironmental behaviour? Sense of #self and connection to #nature are up there! Nature is frequently noted as awe-inducing; and awe is connected to prosocial behaviours - like environmental protection and climate actions

An article that was resurrected after various 2020 setbacks, updated & extended to 2025 #awe + #proenvironmental #behaviour research is now live! Another SEE Lab collab
@peopleandnature.bsky.social @sarahwolfephd.bsky.social
@royalroads.ca

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Important conversation between UCLA's Ramesh Srinivasan and Awana Digital's Emily Jacobi on AI's environmental impact. Critical perspectives on tech's ecological costs that we need to center in our research and teaching. #AcademicSky #sociology

https://www.byteseu.com/1845136/

100% agree!!

A green comic book bubble with orange words over it reads: POWER (of attorney) HOURS! Below, white text reads: February 2026. February 12, 2-4pm. February 14, 12:30-2:30pm. February 19, 2-4pm. February 21, 12:30-2:30pm. I'll bring the forms. $5-$10 suggested tip. MaybeItsFate. 1425 Story Ave. Louisville, KY. In the bottom left corner is the logo for My Parents Are Dead: What Now? featuring a cartoon skull with heart eyes atop a lime green heptagon.

POWER (of attorney) HOURS ARE BACK! Get those pesky financial & medical POA forms off your to-do list. I'll bring the forms and my notary stamp. You bring your brains and your determination to make difficult but necessary decisions. It'll be fun.

#louisville #deathpositive #estateplanning

This has truly been so bad. I saw someone who uses a motorized wheel chair on the ROAD a few weeks ago because the sidewalks were impassable for them. So unsafe

The framing of AI through a capitalist lens obscures how digital platforms extract value from user labor while marketing themselves as "free" services. This piece unpacks how profit motives shape AI development in ways that prioritize extraction over equity. #AcademicSky #sociology

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Truly!

Yes - and the journal auto-replied with a bot so I could not get them to understand it was not plagiarism, but my own work. I gave up and moved on when I couldn't get a hold of a real person 🫩🙄

AI-induced cultural stagnation is no longer speculation − it’s already happening AI-mediated culture is already being filtered in ways that favor the familiar, the describable and the conventional.

"Generative AI systems themselves tend toward homogenization when used autonomously and repeatedly... Cultural stagnation is no longer speculation. It’s already happening."

#AcademicSky

theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...

#CfP: 'Bridging Emotions: Affect in Overcoming Social and Political Divides', a hybrid workshop, based in Keio University, Tokyo, 16.05.2026, organized by Takemitsu Morikawa and @cvscheve.bsky.social
Submission deadline: 15.02.2026
Details: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/soziologie/a...
#emosoc #sociology

I'm looking to interview, read, and share disaster narratives. If you have a story to tell, data to share, and want to talk, I'm taking trains and bikes across the EU and want to talk to you. #academicsky #disasters #openscience

www.andrewrusso.me/dnp

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hey everyone, new project on the horizon. Looking for queer writers and academics who want to contribute to a global queer anthology/textbook.

Help me finish collecting #data for my #dissertation! If you’re a faculty member interested in issues of #academicfreedom in the classroom, take 15 minutes to respond to my survey below. #academicsky #highered #freespeech

umn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

If you think you know what constitutes best practice in #QualitativeResearch methods in #HealthResearch, here's a list that may confirm or challenge your understanding 👇

If it challenges you, perhaps give the full paper a read? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#academicsky #ImplementationScience

‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts Drought, heatwaves, hurricanes, and wildfires are arriving sooner than we imagined according to scientists

"Climate change is here. We are seeing event classes [today] that were forecast in #climate models for the 2050s, 2060s, and 2070s.” - @oceanterra.org

#FasterThanExpected
#ClimateEmergency

We are very excited to work in partnership with Dalhousie University’s Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology to host our Conference.

Approximately 250 sessions have been planned, so submit your abstract by January 26 to present your work!

www.csa-scs.ca/2026-annual-...

🎓International symposium "Reproductive Health in Fragile Democracies: Bodies, Technologies and Futures"
📆June 8–9, 2026
🗺️Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum in Riga, Latvia.
⏱️Submission deadline: March 1, 2026 (11:55 PM CET)
🔗Submission link: forms.gle/3KGXDLuTnSmX...
#academicsky

Interested in #emotions in #climate contexts? Consider applying to our panel at #CAG 2026! @sarahwolfephd.bsky.social

#affect #geography #interdisciplinary

mcusercontent.com/36ff9a109a6f...

Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026.

Call for Papers for the International Conference entitled 'Political Emotions in Times of Conflict: Climate, Inequality, and Democracy', which will take place at Scuola Normale Superiore (Florence) on 11–12 March 2026.

CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social

@sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'.
👉Deadline 31.12.2025

This is a remarkable feat of complex, in-depth reporting on an issue involving #water pollution, local corruption, corporate power and influence over community well-being, and the role of agriculture and industry in contaminating groundwater.

Time to admit École Polytechnique massacre was an anti-feminist terrorist attack Originally described as a "tragic event," 36 years later it’s time to call the mass killing of women on December 6, 1989 what it really is – an anti-feminist terrorist attack that remains unaddressed.

"The killing of women and girls simply because they are female deserves to be named for what it is, gender-motivated violence. Until femicide is recognized as a distinct crime nothing will change." -Doreen Nicoll doreenn.substack.com/p/time-to-ad...

Slop graphics in academic journals Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes.

#AcademicChatter

Fascinating research on how the fossil fuel industry orchestrates public narratives to maintain its own status in society and delay our transition to a safer energy system
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The World of Higher Education | Funding, Free Riding, and the Future of Canadian Science Join Alex Usher in the latest episode of the World of Higher Education Podcast as he talks with Rob Annan, President and CEO of Genome Canada. They explore the intertwined relationship of science a...

On the podcast today: my chat with Genome Canada CEO Rob Annan on Science and Science funding (both in Canada and globally). I really enjoyed this one, hope you will too.

As a renter in the Circa building these folks complain from, it has been hilarious watching the NIMBY panic increase.
I DO dislike that the building plan is 70% one bdrm condos. Can we change that plz?? 🙏

University of Copenhagen is hiring:
Postdoctoral position in Behavioral and Environmental Economics

@julesbaird.bsky.social @melanie-zurba-art.bsky.social

Importantly: we made time for good food and our pet's social media! Thankful to @sarahwolfephd.bsky.social for imparting to me the value of FUN and JOY in any academic endeavor.

Looking forward to sharing our outputs @genevawaterhub.bsky.social in February 2026!

#collaboration #collectiveaction