Lauren Smith, PhD

Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences Public opinion and social science researchers are motivated by their mission to gain an understanding of people’s attitudes and behavior, and, in so doing,

"Qualitative Research: Advancing the Social and Behavioral Sciences" by @margaretrroller.bsky.social & Zachary Smith. The true definition of qualitative research resides in the complexity of the lived experience & the researcher's exploration of this complexity, academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

The 1st Canadian Conference on #OpenScience and #OpenScholarship is happening October 9 -10, 2025!

PKP, @erudit.org, and #CoalitionPublica are pleased to be partner contributors to this event.

Livestreaming will be on!

Details: oscanada.github.io/en/

#OSCanada #CanadaSky #AcademicChatter

A fourth point is that time is experienced on an emotional level as well as a cognitive one: experiences of the past, present, and future are associated with distinct emotions, and these emotions are associated with trajectories that link the past to the future via the present (e.g. Gautam et al., ; Miloyan et al., ; Thomas et al., ). Guilt, shame, regret, and nostalgia look back to the past; pride, joy, anger, and sadness are felt in the present; and hope, anxiety, and fear look to the future. These emotions matter, shaping the well-being consequences of experiences and the trajectories of actions.

"Time is experienced on an emotional level as well as a cognitive one"

"Guilt, shame, regret, and nostalgia look back to the past; pride, joy, anger, and sadness are felt in the present; and hope, anxiety, and fear look to the future."

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Tired of capitalism controlling deathcare? Same. That’s why we’re building a community that is reimagining deathcare, and we need volunteers (and volunteer wranglers) to make it happen.

Interested in volunteering? Learn more and apply here: www.orderofthegooddeath.com/volunteer/

Sourdough and submission in the name of God: How tradwife content fuses femininity with anti-feminist ideas Tradwives influencers’ throw-back aesthetics mask a divisive ideology about women’s roles, two scholars of extremism explain.

Tradwife culture is not just aiming to restore “traditional” gender roles, according to researchers of extremism. It is also a force in formulating a new model of womanhood: one that incorporates strong religious identity, a specific feminine aesthetic, and far-right ideas.

Effects of microplastics on the bones: a comprehensive review - Osteoporosis International A growing role for the skeleton in human health and longevity emerged recently. However, knowledge regarding the effects of new risk factors, linked to modern life, for bone diseases is not documented...

🧪 NEW STUDY: microplastics may play a role in osteoporosis.

• MPs found inhuman bone tissue

• animal studies show MPs induce cell senescence, promote osteoclastogenesis, impair bone marrow cells.

• MP accumulation in bones impair microarchitecture

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Would love to see something like this for Canada and the USA. Anyone know of anything?
#fossilfuels #followthemoney #climate
@pennytangey.bsky.social

Hi, I’m Julie Cruse. I created AcademicAbuse.com – a dashboard of data, resources & tools to help survivors of academic abuse survive and safely speak out. (1/9 🧵)

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Pipelines won’t unite Canada. Clean energy will Betting, once again, on the same fossil-fuel horse might be what keeps Canada from becoming the energy superpower it could be.

Pipelines won’t unite Canada. Clean energy will.

Betting, once again, on the same fossil-fuel horse might be what keeps Canada from becoming the energy superpower it could be, write Andréanne Brazeau and Charles-Édouard Têtu
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/29/o...

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Extreme weather event attribution predicts climate policy support across the world - Nature Climate Change Literature produced inconsistent findings regarding the links between extreme weather events and climate policy support across regions, populations and events. This global study offers a holistic asse...

🚨 How do exposure to extreme weather events and the subjective attribution of these events to climate change relate to climate policy support across the world? 🔥🌎

Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science Some sleuths fear that the business of cleaning up flawed studies is being weaponized against science itself.

Research-integrity sleuths say their work is being ‘twisted’ to undermine science

“I am very worried about how the work we do in pointing out bad papers is currently being misused, or even weaponized, to convince the general public that all science is bad” @elisabethbik.bsky.social

Employee ownership and firm performance: a meta‐analysis Employee ownership has been an area of significant practitioner and academic interest for the past four decades. Yet, empirical results on the relationship between employee ownership and firm perform....

A 2016 metastudy of 102 samples representing 56,984 firms finds that employee ownership is positively associated with productivity.

These findings align with a growing body of research showing that businesses owned by their workers tend to be more productive than other companies.

One really consistent pattern whenever I look at the energy and financial data for large big tech companies is that energy + revenue are being decoupled. They keep having to buy more and more energy each year to make the same $1 of revenue.

This is a pretty new thing

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/31/t...

What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? A single AI-focused data center can use as much electricity as a small city and as much water as a large neighborhood.

While we interact with AI through apps and chatbots, the real environmental story happens behind the scenes in massive data centers. Here is my blogpost about the topic
blog.ucs.org/pablo-ortiz/... #AI #Environment #ClimateChange #TechPolicy

Missed our conference opening plenary with @ericaborgstrom.bsky.social and @johnmacartney.bsky.social?

You can now watch it here ⬇️

www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/mo...

One weird tick that turns red-meat-eating climate deniers into everything they hate

Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto This manifesto was agreed at Anti*Capitalist Resistance conference in June 2024

In an age of escalating crises, it's clear that our current system is unsustainable. Our planet and societies are being pushed to their limits by profit-driven capitalism. But there is hope.

anticapitalistresistance.org/ecosocialist...

#EcosocialistRevolutionAManifesto #Anti*CapitalistResistance

YouTube video by Drilled Carbon Bros (trailer)

Coming next month: Carbon Bros, a cross-over miniseries from Drilled and Non-Toxic that explores the intersection between the manosphere and the atmosphere.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVCc...

Ooooou this looks great! Do you have a Table of Contents you can share? 👀👀

Good morning! A friendly wee reminder that The Algorithms + Miscarriage Project is now seeking participants for interview. See poster for details...

@tommyscharity.bsky.social @cendeathsociety.bsky.social @asdsdeath.bsky.social @bsatheory.bsky.social

#miscarriage #algorithms #onlinesafety

Check it out at: ddd17.sites.uu.nl/programme/

Here's a thread about a virtual conference that's actually accessible. How? Because it was designed and executed by disabled people who care about access and know what it takes to build meaningful community. Take notes. 1/11

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...

"... heat mortality events expected every ~100yrs in the climate of the year 2000 could generally be anticipated every few years if warming reached 2 °C above preindustrial levels.

However, much higher heat mortality cannot be ruled out if key physiological limits in heat tolerance are breached"

Disruption of outdoor activities caused by wildfire smoke shapes circulation of respiratory pathogens Author summary The effects of climate change on human health are becoming more evident, but we often overlook one crucial factor: how extreme weather events influence our behaviors and, in turn, the s...

Some new science 🚨👉 Wildfires drive people indoors, increasing RSV, influenza, and #Covid transmission. If even 10% of people #mask, it could offset that effect - protecting them from both viruses and air pollution. Another facet of the climate-pandemic connection journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Climate stripes 1900-2024 for the Arctic. Colors range from the deepest blue for the coolest year to deepest read for the mildest year.

Climate stripes for the Arctic (land and seas poleward of 60ºN) since 1900. It could not be any more clear. #ShowYourStripes #ClimateChange #Arctic

A friend texted this to me this morning with the note “sex pests unite”

And that is the story.

Emissions are not distributed equally. Just 5% of power plants generate 75% of power sector emissions; 12% of people consume half the beef produced; 2% of aviation emissions come from the 0.003% who are (private jet users; etc.

What a great opportunity for targeted reductions!

AI ‘reanimations’: Making facsimiles of the dead raises ethical quandaries AI avatars of dead people are teaching courses and testifying in court. Even with the best of intentions, the emerging practice of AI ‘reanimations’ is an ethical quagmire.

#AI is bringing the dead back – into courtrooms, classrooms and concerts.

From a murder victim delivering an AI-generated impact statement to Agatha Christie teaching a writing class, these “reanimations” raise big ethical questions: Who gets to speak for the dead?

What happens when personal identity meets public leadership?

As inclusion efforts like #Pride and 2SLGBTQI+ rights face rising threats in #HigherEd, join RRU President Steenkamp for this timely conversation.

🔗Online: www.royalroads.ca/events/leadi...
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