Stefan Döring
@stefandoring.bsky.social
Water and Conflict Scholar // Dep of Peace and
Conflict Research, Uppsala and Peace Research
Institute Oslo (PRIO) // views are my own
Conflict Research, Uppsala and Peace Research
Institute Oslo (PRIO) // views are my own
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Stefan Döring
@stefandoring.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Drought exposure decreases altruism with salient group identities as key moderator - Nature Climate ...
Climate-induced extreme events could lead to drastic socioeconomic consequences, including altered cooperation behaviours. With survey experiments among Iraqi and Syrian refugees, this study finds dro...
doi.org
Drought exposure associated w/ decrease in altruism among refugees. Moreover, the identity of the person in need plays a key role: Participants were more altruistic towards ethno-religious in-group members than out-group members. doi.org/10.1038/s415... 🌐 EvPsych #socialpsyc #econsky conflictsky
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En markant ökning inträffade på försommaren 2023. Och sen dess har den globala genomsnittstemperaturen - bortsett från ett par korta perioder- inte återgått till sin normala ökningstakt. Nu är vi återigen uppe på rekordnivåer. Vilket bådar oerhört illa med tanke på den stundande El Niñon.
August 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
En markant ökning inträffade på försommaren 2023. Och sen dess har den globala genomsnittstemperaturen - bortsett från ett par korta perioder- inte återgått till sin normala ökningstakt. Nu är vi återigen uppe på rekordnivåer. Vilket bådar oerhört illa med tanke på den stundande El Niñon.
Me as a social scientist after having submitted my text to a major climate change report
Willem Dafoe: 'I'm Something of a Scientist Myself'
ALT: Willem Dafoe: 'I'm Something of a Scientist Myself'
static.klipy.com
August 8, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Me as a social scientist after having submitted my text to a major climate change report
Our new study (w/ T. Hecker and J. Hall) investigates how drought and war jointly affect mental health among Syrian and Iraqi refugees. We find drought amplifies the psychological burden of war. OA link: doi.org/10.1038/s418... @climes-swe.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social
Drought amplifies the psychological burden of war - Nature Sustainability
Integrating georeferenced drought data from respondents’ pre-displacement regions with survey data from Syrian and Iraqi refugees, this study finds a stronger association between war exposure and post...
doi.org
August 8, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Our new study (w/ T. Hecker and J. Hall) investigates how drought and war jointly affect mental health among Syrian and Iraqi refugees. We find drought amplifies the psychological burden of war. OA link: doi.org/10.1038/s418... @climes-swe.bsky.social @uupeace.bsky.social @prioresearch.bsky.social
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When environmental, political, & social stresses interact, aligning research #evidence with #decision-making is a major challenge & @stefandoring.bsky.social & Krampe emphasize that #trust is the “practical requirement for effective, legitimate, & sustainable decision-making” doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
June 25, 2026 at 11:34 AM
When environmental, political, & social stresses interact, aligning research #evidence with #decision-making is a major challenge & @stefandoring.bsky.social & Krampe emphasize that #trust is the “practical requirement for effective, legitimate, & sustainable decision-making” doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
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🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
February 12, 2026 at 1:06 PM
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
February 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Grazalema, Spain, received over 2,000 mm (78 inches) of rain in just the last 20 days.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
Over a year’s worth of rain — and it’s only early February. This is hydrologically absurd.
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How much do Nigerians trust their elections? 🗳️🇳🇬
We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇
You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇
You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Policy brief: Trust in elections in Nigeria
- Uppsala University
www.uu.se
October 21, 2025 at 8:49 AM
How much do Nigerians trust their elections? 🗳️🇳🇬
We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇
You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
We (@hannefjelde.bsky.social, Nicholas N. Kerr, and Viktor Gånheim) have a new policy brief based on our 2023 post-election survey. More details follow below 👇
You find the full brief here: www.uu.se/en/departmen...
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Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:
www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...
www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...
Reviewer notes: In a randomized experiment, the pre-post differences are not effect estimates
Reviewer notes are a new short format with brief explanations of basic ideas that might come in handy during (for example) the peer-review process. They are a great way to keep Julia from writing 10,0...
www.the100.ci
September 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Psychologists are also definitely guilty of confusing change with treatment response, which is why I wrote about it here:
www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...
www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r...
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Important story! Gift link!
The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.
By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.
By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Important story! Gift link!
The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.
By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater.
By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
Great primer on using UCDP
Mapping global violence: The Uppsala Conflict Data Program: One Earth www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
Mapping global violence: The Uppsala Conflict Data Program
This Primer presents the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), a leading source of
data on armed conflict. It describes UCDP’s core data and the types of source materials
used, highlighting key constr...
www.cell.com
September 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Great primer on using UCDP
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Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
분노로 쓴 美구금일지…B1비자 근로자에 "노스코리아" 조롱도 | 연합뉴스
(서울=연합뉴스) 박영서 이동환 김준태 기자 = 미국 조지아주 배터리 공장 건설 현장에서 일하다 7일간 구금된 근로자들에게 '인권'은 실종된 단...
www.yna.co.kr
September 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
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🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
A thread 🧵:
A thread 🧵:
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🆕 📣 Making my BlueSky debut to share some exciting news: the first solo-authored publication from my PhD dissertation, published last week 🔓 open access in @gsqjournal.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
A thread 🧵:
A thread 🧵:
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💧Our researcher @stefandoring.bsky.social presented as a Featured Speaker at the 2025 International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In his presentation, Stefan touched on various aspects of how armed conflict shapes access to water.
Photo by Roger Anis
#Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict
Photo by Roger Anis
#Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict
August 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
💧Our researcher @stefandoring.bsky.social presented as a Featured Speaker at the 2025 International Sociohydrology Conference in Tokyo, Japan. In his presentation, Stefan touched on various aspects of how armed conflict shapes access to water.
Photo by Roger Anis
#Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict
Photo by Roger Anis
#Sociohydrology #WaterAndConflict
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The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions:
-- Editor, Medical Evidence Project
-- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch
and we're still recruiting for:
-- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database
-- Editor, Medical Evidence Project
-- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch
and we're still recruiting for:
-- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database
Job opportunities at Retraction Watch
Here are our current open positions: Editor, Medical Evidence Project Staff reporter, Retraction Watch Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database Learn more about the Center for Scientific Int…
retractionwatch.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Center For Scientific Integrity, our parent nonprofit, is hiring! Two new positions:
-- Editor, Medical Evidence Project
-- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch
and we're still recruiting for:
-- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database
-- Editor, Medical Evidence Project
-- Staff reporter, Retraction Watch
and we're still recruiting for:
-- Assistant researcher, Retraction Watch Database
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🚨 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...
Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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...
www.nature.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚨 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...
Find out more in our OA article published in Nature Climate Change 👇 1/7 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
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“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”
University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters
Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted
www.theguardian.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations, the Guardian has learned”
Gotta be Sweden again this year #barabadabastu #esc
May 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Gotta be Sweden again this year #barabadabastu #esc
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Oh hey ACLED user,
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.
Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.
Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise
April 25, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Oh hey ACLED user,
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.
Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise
Turns out inter and interaction codes quietly shapeshifted into group name strings.
Better fix your code before it fixes you. 🙃
#ACLED #DataSurprise
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In March 2024 Altmetric detected 1,024,527 mentions of research items on X, formerly Twitter.
This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago.
April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go.
Place your bets.
This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago.
April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go.
Place your bets.
April 25, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In March 2024 Altmetric detected 1,024,527 mentions of research items on X, formerly Twitter.
This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago.
April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go.
Place your bets.
This is the lowest since June of 2017, nearly 8 years ago.
April so far is at 752,698 with 5 days in the month left to go.
Place your bets.
Opening my email inbox after one week of vacation
a man in a suit and tie is making a face in an office .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is making a face in an office .
media.tenor.com
April 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Opening my email inbox after one week of vacation
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Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv...
In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE).
#RPVSky
In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE).
#RPVSky
Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography)
A lot of people use my blog posts as guides to literature reviews, either for
www.raulpacheco.org
April 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Delving into an entirely new topic and doing a literature review, performed with an example (on hospital ethnography) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/03/delv...
In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE).
#RPVSky
In this blog post, I show you how I do a literature review from scratch, focusing on a topic I used to not know much about (HE).
#RPVSky