BIG-5 Project
🌍 Awarded an ERC Starting Grant, this project examines how the Internet and social media can inspire new ways to experience and value nature 🌱
- ✨ Update ✨ The SE3DING Workshop has been rescheduled to April 16, 2026, in Barcelona (venue TBC), due to scheduling adjustments. 👉 You can register here: forms.office.com/e/ZZZJT9EBwM More details coming soon 🌍💻
- 🚀 Big news to kick off 2026! Are you interested in the intersection of social, ecological, and digital systems? Join us for the SE3Ding Workshop. 👇 Secure your spot here: bit.ly/SE3DSWorkshop #SocialEcologicalSystems #DigitalScience
- Our PI, Johannes Langemeyer, has joined @peopleandnature.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. We’re excited to see the perspective he will bring to the journal and the broader sustainability and ecology communities. Congratulations, Johannes! 🌱✨ @britishecologicalsociety.org
- Fulvia Calcagni presented BIG 5 research at the GISCIENCE Colloquium in Zurich 🌿📊 Thanks to Dr. Maria Soledad Castro-Vargas, Prof. Christian Berndt & Prof. Ross Purves for the kind invitation. 🔗 Read more in our latest blog post: bit.ly/3K7bgLf
- Highlighting Giulia Benati’s contribution at ISIA Roma, where she presented her climate-adaptation work. Giulia is part of @icta-uab.bsky.social, LASEG, BIG-5, and @commit2green.bsky.social, focusing on Rome’s first "Heat Plan" and climate-shelter mapping. More in our blog: bit.ly/4oRFDEz
- 🚀 Great news! The deadline for #WBF2026 abstracts has been extended. If you haven’t submitted yet to our session, you now have until Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (midnight CET). Submit here (Look out for session FUT14) 👉 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs...
- Exploring how digital media can reconnect people & nature? 🌿 Submit to our WBF2026 session “The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier” in Davos! 📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs... #Biodiversity #DigitalNature #WBF2026 @icta-uab.bsky.social @worldbioforum.bsky.social
- 📄 Call for Abstracts! We're hosting a session on "New data, new tools, new challenges" for digital cultural ecosystem services at the 6th ESP Europe Conference 🗓️ 18-22 May 2026, Prague ⏰ Abstract Deadline: 31 Dec 2025 👉 More information: bit.ly/49I67n0 #EcosystemServices #CallForAbstracts
- Exploring how digital media can reconnect people & nature? 🌿 Submit to our WBF2026 session “The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier” in Davos! 📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 🔗 worldbiodiversityforum.org/call-for-abs... #Biodiversity #DigitalNature #WBF2026 @icta-uab.bsky.social @worldbioforum.bsky.social
- Great discussion on data, policy, and urban futures at the #ICGC conference, with Johannes Langemeyer from the BIG-5 project sharing his expertise. A fantastic session on collaborative urban management. 📸: Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya (ICGC) #Urbanism #Sustainability #GIS
- 📢 The future is NOW! 5 BIG-5 team members (Alba, Roos, Àlex, Svetlana, & Xueyuan) shared their urgent perspectives on climate, justice, and biodiversity in the latest #TNOCRoundtable by @tnoc.bsky.social They speak a language of survival and re-invention. Click to read below⬇️
- 🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Our session "The Social–Ecological Digital Frontier" is on at the World Biodiversity Forum 2026! 🌍 📍 Davos, Switzerland, 14-19 June 2026 📅 Deadline: 18 Nov 2025 🔗 Submit here: bit.ly/46BXFmh #WBF2026 #Biodiversity #DigitalNature
- Last week, our Urban Greening & Renaturing Cluster joined the NetworkNature Task Forces meeting in Brussels. Teams from @big-5.bsky.social, @commit2green.bsky.social, FairNature, and more are shaping greener, more resilient cities. 💡 Learn more: networknature.eu #UrbanGreening #NatureBasedSolutions
- 🎓 Congrats to Max Caixàs on successfully defending his Master’s thesis in the #BIG5Project! His research decoded food imagery on social media,uncovering platform differences and a big gap: 🌱 almost no mention of nature or sustainability. 🔗 Read more: big-5.eu/cracking-the... #SocialMediaResearch
- Still wondering what the BIG-5 Project is all about? 🤔 Our Principal Investigator, Johannes Langemeyer, reveals the core hypothesis driving our work. 📺 Full video: www.youtube.com/@BIG-5-Project 🔗 More BIG-5 content: big-5.eu #BIG5Project #Research #Hypothesis #ConceptualFramework #Methodology
- Huge congratulations to Paula Feliu Criado for the successful defense of her Bachelor's thesis within the BIG-5 Project 🎓 👉 Read more about her work on our blog: bit.ly/3Uotk4S #ExplainableAI #EnvironmentalScience
- 🌿 Last week, BIG-5 team member Alba Ortiz Naumann took part in the 3rd Sustainable Sports Symposium at Leipzig University, presenting: “Digital Pathways to Environmental Stewardship: Implications for the Sports Community.” #SustainableSports #RelationalValues #SportEcology #BIG5Project
- Max Caixàs Vicens explores how food posts reveal our digital values like identity, culture, and connection to nature. 🍽️ Can online food culture drive real-world sustainability? More at big-5.eu #BIG5 #DigitalEcology #DigitalRelationalValues youtu.be/_ktyHgF7pYI
- We're thrilled to share that the #BIG5 team recently held an online workshop 🙌 . Our research group is excited to keep pushing forward with the project and this session was crucial as we tackled the challenge of clustering the Digital Relational Values we've been identifying across social media.
- ❓What happens when a platform refuses to let science do its job? Our EU-funded project BIG-5, hosted at the @bsc-cns.bsky.social and @uab.cat, investigates how social media platforms shape environmental values.
- 🎮🌿 Exploring how videogames shape our relationship with nature. Can digital experiences foster real-world care for the environment—or do they distance us from it? 🧠 We’re reflecting on virtual nature and what it means to connect with it. What do you think? @icta-uab.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
- BIG-5 Methodology: 🛠️ BUILDING OUR PROTOCOL Meet Roos Mouthaan 🇳🇱 from the BIG-5 team as she shares how we built (and keep refining) our research protocol, from key concepts to coding tests! 🌍 Learn more: big-5.eu #BIG5 #RelationalValues #DigitalEcology youtu.be/1nYEGy_h300 @icta-uab.bsky.social
- Digital Relational Values in Cities 🌱🌃 Join Xueyuan Liang (🇨🇳) from the BIG-5 team as she explores how social media platforms like Weibo 📱 are reshaping our relationship with nature. 🌐 More about the BIG-5: big-5.eu #BIG5 #DigitalNature #RelationalValues #DigitalEcology 🌍💡 youtu.be/TMDZOg8cAyQ
- 🚀 Addressing Selection Bias in Social Media Research 🌍 Yesterday at the Brown Bag Sessions @bsc-cns.bsky.social, Ramin Soleymani-Fard (Software Engineer & PhD Researcher, BIG5 Team) shared insights on tackling selection bias in social media data. #SocialMediaResearch #BigData #AI #DataScience
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