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What the picker changes
  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
Rolling 7 days is a sliding live window for “current vibes”; switch to Weekly to compare specific weeks side-by-side.
Week of 8 Jun 2026
This week
Topic · social

Climate Change Research

59 posts · 1,641 engagement · first seen 16 Dec 2022 · last seen 15 Jun 2026

This piece discusses the Middle East fuel crisis, climate risks including a super duper El Niño and AMOC collapse, and links these global issues to New Zealand’s social justice and climate policy through the lens of the 'Hoon' podcast and its associated events and research.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 56 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

36%
27%
9%
13%
16%
Supportive 20 Critical 15 Dismissive 5 Neutral / explainer 7 Mocking 9

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 56 classified posts that reference this topic. Distinct from stance: a post can be supportive of the topic and still negative in tone (an angry supporter) — the two together capture the texture short-form posts compress into very few words.

13%
34%
54%
Positive 7 Neutral 19 Negative 30

Platform mix

Where the conversation is happening. Engagement is volume-weighted (likes + 2×shares + 3×replies); a small number of high-impact posts can outrank a high-volume but low-engagement platform.

  • reddit
    14 posts · 1,428 engagement
    1,428
  • youtube
    36 posts · 107 engagement
    107
  • facebook
    2 posts · 92 engagement
    92
  • twitter
    4 posts · 13 engagement
    13

Top posts by engagement

The most-engaged posts referencing this topic. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies; the order matches the digest ranking on /social.