Happy to have Katja Reinhard @katja_reinhard at @dzne talking about "Flexibility in rodent innate #behaviours and underlying #NeuronalCircuits” 😊 👌

⏰ September 8th 2023, 09:30 a.m.
📍 DZNE Lecture Hall
🌎 https://bonn-neuroscience.de/seminars/flexibility-in-rodent-innate-behaviours-and-underlying-neuronal-circuits/

And just how "optional" is it? Are employees turning up because they'll look bad if everyone else on their team goes and they don't?

A lot of managers are blind to this kind of #silent #pressure on employees. They are completely unaware of the power dynamic between management and employees, and so they misunderstand the #motivations and #behaviours of those employees.

7/x

Just because I don't act a certain way that is to your #standards of #predictable #human #behaviours doesn't make me less of a #person, but you being a fuckstick assuming your #psychoanalysis and #profiling can lump me into any of your #bullshitfuckery #categories when you don't even hold a degree in #psychology or #psychiatry is fucking #laughable you fucking #idiot!
#fyi #psa
https://www.tumblr.com/nandomando/721664679213219840/just-because-i-dont-act-a-certain-way-that-is-to?source=share

[Articles] Assessing #COVID19 #pandemic #policies and #behaviours and their economic and #educational trade-offs across #US states from Jan 1, 2020, to July 31, 2022: an observational analysis https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00461-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Regardless of people’s personal circumstances & psychologies, what would, on average, incentivize most people to think and behave in ways that had a beneficial, or neutral, effect on their proximate environments, therefore, ultimately, the planet's ecosystem in general?
Regardless of people’s personal circumstances & psychologies, what does, on average, incentivize most people to think and behave in ways that have a detrimental effect on their proximate environments, therefore, ultimately, the planet's ecosystem in general?

‘Money’ is that incentive. People will spend most of their lives doing things for money. They may work for money to pay the rent, they may work for money to pay to do leisure activities, they may spend a lot of time sat in vehicles, in traffic, for money (e.g., work related travel) or recreational activities, etc. The richest people also have the most polluting lifestyles.

Therefore, to reverse the ‘tide’ of ecological degradation – we need to use money to ‘save the planet’. We need to reverse the ‘pollution’ pays effect. We need to reverse the socioeconomic system that rewards the most ecologically destructive businesses and lifestyles (& the politics that temporarily props up these ecologically unsustainable ideologies)

Pay people to "save" the planet. If “we” don’t, “they” won’t!
Of course, this means having certain policies that incentivize good environmental standards. The fundamental point is that money is a social construct. Money is only ‘real’ in an abstract, subjective sense - we quantify money with certain objects (e.g., products) and services that humans trade.

BUT, that leads to the main problem of why democracies are degrading their environments – they vote for governments that degrade the environment. For example, venture capitalist politicians that have become rich by investing their own and the governments money in ecologically degrading, short term, get rich quick schemes.

As a Conservation Biologist, I’m educated (informed) to know what ecologically sustainable habitats consist of. But there simply isn’t enough money being spent on conserving and restoring “nature” (that humans have degraded). As a (evolutionary) psychologist, I’m aware that adult human concepts, human ideologies, and behavioural habits, are very difficult to change. However, as the more dire ecological effects occur, more people will realise that we simply can not go on with “business as usual”.

We don’t have time, plus it won’t work, to “educate” enough people. Assuming more public understanding (e.g., chemistry, ecology, etc) would incentivize them to care more for their environments.

Basing this assessment on the majorities, the averages, behavioural psychologies, money will incentivise cultures to change their activities. The redistribution of money will require public support so as to support a government that aims to (really) develop an ecologically sustainable society.

That’s a cultural condition that means, for that condition to be met - many people in many ‘walks of life’ will be required to change (e.g., Jobs, recreational activities. i.e., lifestyles, etc). Most people have been nurtured in a culture in which they understand ‘money’. They do things for money. They will change their behaviours if the money is ‘right’.

Pay people to "save" the planet.
This is practically achievable – but the majority are the behavioural psychological problem. Having said that, that problem is related to ‘money’ being in the hands of the incompetent. For example, the fossil fuel industry is making record profits. Let that sink in. The very industry that needs to be stopped to prevent catastrophic climate change, is the industry that is being ‘successful’. A monetary successful that is an ecologically degrading business model – that’s a symptom of cultural ignorance and corruption (the cultures ‘lifestyles’)

So, rather than pay corrupt (e.g., greenwashing) industries to destroy life on Earth, how about we aim to reverse that trend – and use money to incentivise good behaviours. After all is “blah blah blah’ if the majority are ‘good’, they will want a government that helps them, incentivises them, using money to achieve an ecologically sustainable culture.

If? However, if they’re not good enough, it won’t be people or a God that judges them, it will be the effects of their own actions (Cause and effect). A culture that causes an ecological catastrophe gets what it caused. How many of the majority, that are degrading ecology, are expecting an ecological catastrophe? Will they recognise the signs in time? Do they even know what those signs will be?

Pay them! (Redistribute money). Ok, the rich are the worse polluters, etc. I’m a psychologist, not a friggin miracle worker. Some may say that I'm not an #economist - but, if more economists understood ecology, maybe the economy would incentivise ecological sustainability.

#climate #psychology #ecology #ClimateChange #money #behaviours #politics

Researcher for Blue Planet III, Natalie Rance, says no story is too adventurous! BBC Studios will use CGI to visualize #behaviours that we know of from research but have not yet been filmed due to logistical challenges or current limits of filming technology. 2/5

Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing...

https://github.com/stevana/armstrong-distributed-systems/blob/main/docs/erlang-is-not-about.md

#erlang #behaviours

Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0071

"Conveniently setting aside the damage human cultural behaviour has caused the planet and the unconscionable extinction we have brought to those with whom we once shared it, our capacity for cumulative innovation of highly diverse and contextually adaptive social and physical ways of
doing things is remarkable and unparalleled in any other species"

#science #culture #behaviours #psychology #development #DevelopmentalPsychology

Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0071

"Conveniently setting aside the damage human cultural behaviour has
caused the planet and the unconscionable extinction we have brought to
those with whom we once shared it, our capacity for cumulative innovation
of highly diverse and contextually adaptive social and physical ways of
doing things is remarkable and unparalleled in any other species"

#science #culture #behaviours #psychology #development #DevelopmentalPsychology

Multi-choice vote. Which option is more true?

(1) The tobacco industry knows that it's products are harmful to human health - they sell & promote tobacco anyway.

(2) The Fossil fuel industry knows that it's products are harmful to human health & the environment - they sell & promote fossil fuels anyway.

(3)The governments knows that fossil fuels are harmful to human health & the environment - many governments, some more than others, invest in & promote fossil fuels anyway.

(4) Many adults know that burning fuels is harmful to human health & the environment - they don't feel it's wrong burning fuels anyway

#science #reality #psychology #ecology #climate #unsustainable #behaviours #MoralGrandstanding #FossilFuel #burning #BehaviouralPsychology

#ClimateAction #SustainableAction #CleanAir

Sudden influx of insta fllwrs = an article is out.

Wouldn't have ever called myself a RIBA chief.

But also said: "Bias will show up in widening pay gaps.

"Having the data is an amazing opp to dig behind it & look at the #behaviours, #processes & policies that are leading to e.g. staff from #underrepresented groups leaving, attracting diff grps at senior levels, & how you're treating, retaining & progressing yr talent.”

#GenderPayGap #EthnicityPayGap #Architecture

https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/worsening-ethnic-and-gender-paygaps-show-systemic-discrimination-warns-former-riba-chief#comment-12327

RT @KjParton@twitter.com

Watch these AMAZING #NurseShark foraging behaviours in the video below! Nurse sharks are likely plastic in their selection of these #behaviours, adapting them to the diverse habitat characteristics across tropical seascapes. Read the paper here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-022-01366-x Pls RT!🦈

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KjParton/status/1598275644600696832

If you'd like to know more about #CQ, #CulturalIntelligence, which is the academically proven set of behaviours that lead to #inclusion and #inclusive outcomes. Give me a follow and I'll share some insight.

Inclusion isn't about other people and their characteristics, it's about you and your #behaviours; that's why CQ works, you hold the power, and by changing your world, you can change the world.

An insightful international consortium #research about structural #brain change associated with suicidal #thoughts and #behaviours in #YoungPeople led by Dr Lianne Schmaal, the Head of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Research program at Orygen Australia.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36071108/

#Introduction - I am an #evolutionary #biologist studying the early evolution of #family life and #social life (mainly) in #insects.

The methods I use typically involve #behaviours, #immunity (social immunity), #ecotoxicology (#anthropic effects), and #quantitativegenetics.

My main study system is the #earwig (#Dermaptera), a fantastic but little-known taxon.

I am a very strong defender of #OpenScience

“For me, one of the most important characteristics of #distributed #ledger #technologies is that they help us think really hard about how to #incentivise certain #organisational #behaviours,” says Alice MacNeil in our #DLT4EU #interview series at #proofingfuture.

Alice MacNeil is the DLT4EU Programme Manager at the Metabolic Institute.

https://bit.ly/3bO8dCa

David Reich: #Neanderthals were perhaps capable of many modern #human #behaviours | #Science | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/07/ever-evolving-story-humanity-david-reich-interview-neanderthals-denisovans-genome

#Biology #Zoology #Anthropology #Evolution