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A small but great example of this is how there’s was this huge freak out out the bee population declining but then next to no one heard about the new population recovery. 1/4

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Matthew Yglesias

@mattyglesias

A classic of negativity bias is that the complete reversal of the bad trend receives only a tiny fraction of the attention that was paid to the bad trend while it was happening x.com/statisticurban…

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Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

The reason this example is on my mind is I was at a housing policy meeting recently and there was this environmentalist citing bees as why we can’t allow new neighborhoods and so I showed her charts about the bee pop recovering. You’d think she’d have loved that news but… 2/4

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Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

She was actually mad about it. And I think it was because I was implicitly arguing against her worldview. That’s where I think there’s a bigger lesson. Negativity bias breeds NIMBYism. If every change is bad, why allow change? If modernity sucks, why lean into the future? 3/4

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Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

If you want to encourage a culture of progress, you have to point out over and over again that we have it great today compared to the past (and there are hundreds, if not thousands of examples of that). And people in 2070 will have it even better than we do.

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Sam Tobin-Hochstadt

@samth

The bees that recovered are fundamentally a farm animal. Wild bees are still in serious decline.

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Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

Why should I care about that difference? Bees are for pollinating which is for humans. The Earth is for humans. If an animal survives by advancing human interests, isn't that a good thing?

Global Crisis Violence

@ViolenceCrisis

Where did this phenomenon come from and who is behind it? How is the information coding of young people for such actions taking place? A new investigation by independent journalists from

Related, the African-American imprisonment rate is at a 35 year low. Virtually no one knows, media does not cover.

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Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

That’s cool- thanks for adding this!

Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

Apologies for the typos. I need an edit button.

halogen

@halogen1048576

smh Gary... posting about negativity bias while Flint still doesn't have clean water...

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Mankosmash

@Mankosmash

Or like how every few years we hear about how global warming is killing all the coral. CORAL!!!

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Brad Pearce

@WaywardRabbler

Yeah the beepocalypse was never real and the cost of mitigation measures for varroa mite ended up being like a few cents per bottle of honey

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BES-Net (Biodiversity and Ecosystems Network)

@BESNet_UNDP

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Joe Lonsdale

@JTLonsdale

Great point, good to see.

See also: Ozone Layer.

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John Forrester

@JohnForrester

Nature heals… and adapts. What a surprise.

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AR-15 (Assault Rabbit) Russian BunnyBot

@evil_bun_bun

Also a good example of citizens doing a job the government can't/won't/doesn't have the skill for.

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Patrick Dalton-Holmes

@fontaine_j53254

What was the most austere version of the claim that there was a problem in the first place? Who made the claim?

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crucker

@crucker

I think you'll find them right now swarming under my front soffit.

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AGI acceleration enjoyer

@RightTechGadfly

Did they ever figure out the root cause?

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John Zeller

@JohnZeller3

This is the problem though. She’ll just come up with a new reason.

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cyberpunkutopia

@cyberpunkbarbie

Remember Africanized bees in the 90s? Never saw one

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HUDI

@humandataincome

facebook has +2,8 billion active users, 1/3 of world population

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Donal

@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l

People still don’t know we fixed the hole in the ozone layer AND acid rain.

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Connor Mullin

@ConnorMullin8

FWIW, while the *honeybee* populations are mostly recovering, native bee species are getting hammered by climate change + habitat destruction and aren't doing nearly as well.

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Michael Hill

@wildparadox

Big yikes.

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Gary Winslett

@GaryWinslett

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Why should I care about that difference? Bees are for pollinating which is for humans. The Earth is for humans. If an animal survives by advancing human interests, isn't that a good thing?

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Dave

@pa_tall

I think this is actually a pretty good example of not understanding the issue - the article you screenshot here actually covers the bigger problem hasn't reversed - native bee populations are not in recovery even if honeybees that aren't critical pollinators are.

Kyle Webb

@hartreefox

There's a lot of recovery in the domesticated bees, but bees in general got hit with a range of problems in the late 90s. A disease, Nosema Ceranae, and a mite, Varroa Destructor that both came into NA possibly from Asia. These massively weakened colonies. 1/n

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Eric W

@ericlindsayw

I didn’t know that! But I’m so glad I do. I don’t keep bees but I’ve grown a lot of bee-friendly plants over the years and enjoyed seeing bees thrive in my garden.

Sam

@bastille_sam

Don't we remember Europe was gonna run out of energy to keep its home warm in 2022? It was the most prominent headlines in newspapers, but it never came to pass and news media moved on to decry about some other stuff

virus_dave

@virus_dave

Whatever ended up being the cause, do we know?

Crab

@Summersaltcloud

Wasn't it never about honeybees at all

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Carson Wilcox

@Carsonsig

Let alone that the bee collapse was almost entirely made up. Collapse disorder was a small thing, and went away very quickly... years ago

STAT

@statnews

Missouri investigates 8 possible bird flu cases, raising concerns over human-to-human transmission. CDC testing underway.

Was Missouri’s bird flu case a one-off or something more?

Except this isn’t good. Native bee species are all still in decline.

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Librarian Mama

@hyuumanatees

I think there should have been huge but environmentally friendly parties when the hole in the ozone layer had such a stunning reversal due to human intervention & behavior change! Now we get people saying it was a made-up scare tacic bc "no one talks about it anymore".

Emily Paige Ballou

@epballou

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Turns out this is more complicated:

Analysis | Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees?

From washingtonpost.com

Corb

@corb555

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If it bleeds it leads.

Deborah

@DeborahCamp8

Farmed bees are ok. Native wild bees are still of concern?

emilee harper

@itsemileeharper

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I love bees. I would love to have some on my own property someday

imagine the honey!! but… my kids have a bee allergy in their other side of the family so errr probably not gonna happen. :(

Ryan

@RyanHNW

The bee freak out was about native bees. These are European honeybees.

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Darkest Timeline

@darkesttimline

Honey bees are fine. Other species are in decline.

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Native bees?

Interesting

Missouri investigates 8 possible bird flu cases, raising concerns over human-to-human transmission. CDC testing underway.

Was Missouri’s bird flu case a one-off or something more?

From statnews.com

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Julia

@ravens_and_cows

Or this

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Yurok Tribe

@TheYurokTribe

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Hundreds of salmon are now spawning in Klamath River tributaries above the 4 recently dismantled dams for the first time 60 & 112 years. It is exciting and bodes well for the future. Still, it will take several years for fish runs to recover & there is still much more work to do.

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Normies' Revenge

@MercurySchroepp

Don't worry, you can still be upset about this! Apparently _so many_ people are breeding honey bees that they're crowding out other, uglier species of bees.

Julia

@Marsilmad

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I am guessing by the American flag, you are in North America. Honeybees are not native here and can out compete native populations, which could further contribute to native pollinator decline, which destabilizes the ecosystem (pollinator relationships are often niche/specific).

oldgods.eth

@DogeGrove

Pretty sure there was never a risk of losing the invasive and farmed european honey bee, but instead the hundreds of types native bees.

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“You can't convince a man when his income depends on not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

John Miller

@john_mil8161235

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Are these native bees are invasive honey bees

JaMikeyMike

@JaMikeyMike

The killers bees got to them

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For love of cats

@KittensNeeds

An increase in invasive, non-native species is not a good thing. Especially since they’re so good at pollinating other invasive species making native plants and pollinators suffer

Former Minnesotan

@random7007

From what I can see there is no harm in having too many honey bees, no one is wanting to hunt them, people already work to safely remove them without harm, so why correct the misconception of their decline?

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Evan

@ubuto23

The freakout was over native bee species which are still in decline dummy

Insect populations are in a free-fall globally, what are you on rn

@Jimmyriggins108

@ScottAdamsSays

Adam’s law of slow moving disasters?

Joss Sheldon

@JossSheldon

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Can we get

to notify everyone on X that the bees are back?

OldSkepticAus

@AusSkeptic

Population recovery hasn't happened yet. It took a ..massive amount of research and work to determine what was happening..and lots more to come up with fixes. Things a looking a ..bit..better, thanks to the hard work of so many. But we're not out of the woods yet.

Gallum Artemi

@ArtemiOriginal

Great work to the people responsible for this!

Don

@DonTheShitpost

This is the kind of news you get before "Bees are now considered a plague and are killing some other shit we need to live"

There was never a decline. This is just more of the same propaganda.

alex

@lexjavcast

The recovery wasn't some kind of miracle. The huge media attention on the serious decline of bees brought public awareness, recovery efforts, resources and money to reverse this critical problem. Good news always gets under-reported.

Global Crisis Violence

@ViolenceCrisis

Where did this phenomenon come from and who is behind it? How is the information coding of young people for such actions taking place? A new investigation by independent journalists from

There was never a bee issue in terms of keep pollinating bees. Wild bees were under pressure but this was pure propaganda

Questions? You bet I have questions

#GCMASS

@BitterTonic

aw man, and this is such good news, too!

Rebekah Wanic

@BekahKnowsBS

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Theryeguy

@Runner110988

More proof that America is still america and that humanity is still humanity. We aren't perfect. We do terrible things. But many of us strive to do what's right and it matters.

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Peeps

@vonBarrel

>wild bee species are in decline and we should do something about it >domestic european honeybee populations are back up! Problem solved everyone, good job. You can go home now.