"You Can Do Better Than That!”: Tweeting Scientists Addressing Politics on Climate Change and Covid‐19

Climate change and the Covid‐19 pandemic are global challenges in which scientists play a crucial role, and immediate political actions are necessary. However, in contrast to climate change, strong governmental actions have been taken during the pandemic. While climate change has been on the public agenda for several decades, the pandemic is a rather new issue. In such cases, social media offer scientists the potential to disseminate scientific results to the public and express calls to action and their personal views towards politics. Thus far, little is known about the extent to which scientists make use of this option. In this study, we investigated the similarities and differences between visible German climate experts and visible German Covid‐19 experts regarding advocacy and assessments of policies and political actors on Twitter. We conducted a manual content analysis of tweets (N = 5,915) from 2021 of the most visible climate experts (N = 5) and the most visible Covid‐19 experts (N = 5). The results show that climate experts addressed politics more often than Covid‐19 experts in their tweets. The selected climate experts more often expressed negative evaluations, the degradation of competence and blaming. The Covid‐19 experts, however, made more political calls for action. We assume that an issue's history and context will affect scientists' public assessments of politics. Our comparative study provides insight into the interrelations between science and politics in digital communication environments and elucidates visible scientists' communication behaviours towards different socio‐scientific issues. © 2023 by the author(s);licensee Cogitatio Press (Lisbon, Portugal). This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY).

Interconnections between Social and Economic Indicators in the Context of EU Resilience

The COVID 19 pandemic has once again exposed a number of important risks and problems for the world's economies. Although the present analyzes in the literature are more and more often aggregated between fields, emphasizing the capacity of digitalization and international relations to improve the transition to the circular economy, resilience speaks not only of positive aspects but also of vulnerabilities. Thus, the article deals with the link between vulnerabilities and capacities of the socio-economic domain at EU27 level. The study uses Eurostat data for the period 2011-2020, systematized in the panel form. The results once again demonstrate the need to strengthen public support for health and education, for research and development, in order to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities at EU27 level, demonstrating the need to correlate policy efforts with results.

Making it internally persuasive: Analysis of the conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19

This study attempts to generate new insights into the wide spread online and offline conspiratorial discourse on COVID-19. Twofold analytical lens consisted of narrative interrelations framework and content analysis showed how the linguistic resources and conversational such as popular socio-religious discourses, hypothetical narratives, personal narratives, personal mental archives, and interpolated arguments are integrated in the interpretation of intertextual Bases such as Bill Gates' TED talk 2015 (26%);Nematullah Wali's predictions (32%);'End of Days' book by Sylvia Browne (14.9%);and 'The Eyes of Darkness' novel by Dean Koontz (22%) by which the conspiracists in Pakistan construct an internally persuasive discourse promoting conspiracy theories on COVID-19. Several linguistic resources such as mood, modality, topicalization, insinuation, and intertextuality emerged as the main tools of making the conspiracy theories internally persuasive.

Can man accept his limits?

Is the human able to accept his own limits, able to adapt to himself? Such a crisis of Coronavirus pandemy reveals us our own limits and fragility. 0ur behaviours are not suitable for helping us in our capacities to adapt to the environmental changes, main of them created by the human activities. We need much more harmony with the non human living and our environment. We considered here the relationships between our biology and ecology, and the human civilizations. May we considered the 15 genes of the covid-19 as a collective and salutary electrochock? © 2021 John Libbey Eurotext. All rights reserved. L’humain peut-il accepter ses limites? C’est une question qui relance celle de l’impact de nos activités économiques sur notre environnement et sur nous-mêmes ! Pouvons-nous nous adapter à nous-mêmes? La situation actuelle de l’humanité nous interroge sur les raisons de cette disharmonie avec le vivant non humain et la nature en général. Comment retrouver autour de nous un système économique qui pourrait nous fournir les ressources dont nous avons besoin sans détruire cette nature à laquelle nous appartenons? Cette crise de la Covid-19 pourrait-elle constituer l’électrochoc collectif salutaire dont nous avons besoin? © 2021 John Libbey Eurotext. All rights reserved.