I'm honored to be giving the Stan & Kobla Kapowitz Distinguished Lecture at MSU in November. It is in person only. Registration link is: tinyurl.com/Kaplowitz25

New report from the US National Academies on risks from greenhouse gas emissions: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...

"...to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty." Mark Twain, "The American Press" 1888

Important new webinar by the National Research Council Board on Environmental Change and Society. Please share widely. mailchi.mp/nationalacad...

New short paper that might be of interest to some. Thomas Dietz and Michael Vandenbergh. 2025. From Explosion to Implosion: The New Population Challenge. SSRN: Https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5404682

The US NAS is conducting a fasttrack study on anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Submission of papers for consideration is welcome. survey.alchemer.com/s3/8416653/R...

📄 A new paper reveals how the US animal #agriculture industry fought against campaigns promoting individual dietary shifts — like Meatless Monday 🥦 and Beyond Beef 🌱 This just underscores that Big Industry hates high-impact individual #climate action 🔥🌍 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This new paper highlights a major issue in measuring and predicting individual #carbon footprints: Many studies use the same factors to calculate and explain CFPs, leading to tautological conclusions. This overlap risks misleading conclusions about the real drivers. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

While the U.S. spends more on #childbirth than any other country in the world, it has worse outcomes than other high-resource nations. Our report identifies ways to improve childbirth services in hospitals, in birth centers, and for home births: buff.ly/U7Y47Zf

Nice statement from NAS President Marcia McNutt on the need for science based analysis for policy decisions. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...

How well do people understand the #climate impact of #behavior?🌱 In a new paper, we examine people’s climate-impact perceptions of different behaviors and lifestyles and whether these are linked to behavior and support for behavior-regulating climate policies 🧵 #GreenSky osf.io/preprints/ps...

Does moralizing messaging about renewable energy increase how durable message effects are? 🚨 Our new paper is now out: Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy A growing literature suggests that framing issues in moral terms can make attitudes more durable. 1/x

The FEMA report that my team of contractors and agency staff wrote, Financing Climate Resilience, is still available on the FEMA website. Download it while you still can. Our team got the stop work order. www.fema.gov/sites/defaul...

🟦 🟥 A massive amount of research has focused on the effect of political "party cues," where people move their position on issues to be more in line with the position expressed by their preferred party. It might seem like this type of effect would be fleeting, but it's not. 🧵 1/3

A new report helps ground our perceptiosn of how things are going in the US in reality. The challenge is to get this kind of information into the public discussion. stateofnation.org

Why we don't need staff cuts across the board at federal agencies: Just spent 90+ min on hold at Social Security . When the civil servant answered she was friendly, expert and efficient. Got my question resolved in minutes. They need more staff, not less.

I'm disappointed not to see the work of Richard York cited. These disciplinary boundaries substantially retard progress. Richard made this point 7 years ago: York, R. (2017). Why petroleum did not save the whales. Socius, 3, 2378023117739217.

one of my favorite stories I did at Vox was about Jimmy Carter and his role in energy efficiency standards at the DOE. Truly underappreciated legacy that tangibly improved everyday life www.vox.com/climate/2023...

A quick and insightful overview of Elinor Ostrom's life and ideas: "Tackling the sustainability challenge collectively Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009 for showing that ordinary people, working together, can manage natural resources sustainably. Her work is as relevant as ever."

🚨Deadline for EASP Summer School Extended to Jan 8th🚨 Are you a psych PhD student interested in conspiracies theories & misinformation, moral psychology & AI, intergroup relations, political cognition, human-animal relations, or close relationships? If yes, apply now! blogs.kent.ac.uk/easp2025/

#Inequalities strain the efficacy of local governments & citizen satisfaction with them. Top down interventions don't relieve those strains. Bottom up ones do & thus can foster #sustainability. So conclude Andersson et al in World Development, 188, 106855 (sadly not OA) 🧪. doi.org/10.1016/j.wo...

The new US National Academies report on mis and disinformation is now out. It's a very difficult and complex topic and this report should advance our discussions. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2789...

Surprising to hear that such a small proportion of climate change tweets focus on fossil fuels (6.6% of tweets by public, 1.9% of scientists') Not just because of the need to be explicit about causes but also, as this research shows, because those tweets performed better

The Biden-Harris Admin released the U.S. carbon pollution reduction targets for 2035 under the Paris Agreement: 61-66% below 2005 levels. They won’t last, but glad they did it. I presented at #AGU24 on setting these targets under uncertainty, & had a similar range. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...

The reasons for insurance instability are complex, but not unknown. A combination of inflation, reinsurance, litigation, population growth, rising catastrophe loss costs, and higher hazard risk fueled by climate change all play a role. This is a 50 state challenge. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

📗 2024 in review 📗 Our group has published 17 articles in 2024, with insights ranging from: 📗 acceptance of technology 📗 #climateanxiety 📗 #climatechange as a voting issue 📗 social tipping 📗 #citizenassemblies 📗 community energy initiatives (CEIs) 📗 #publictrust epgroningen.nl/2024-in-revi...

Great graphic. Does anyone have something even better? An update?

Construction is the main culprit. But also, “experts said this could be a sign that rising sea levels, caused by the continued emission of greenhouse gases, is accelerating the erosion of the limestone on which South Florida is built.” www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...

As the father of two neurodivergent awesome kiddos, I find this to be disgustingly evil. Friends, please amplify this story. www.propublica.org/article/unit...

These short webinars seem to give solid instruction in advanced quantitative social science methods at very low cost, with the money donated to charities supporting Ukraine. sites.google.com/view/dariia-...

" #Sustainability of Animal-Sourced #Foods and Plant-Based Alternatives" is a new #PNAS Special Feature edited by Martin Qaim, Rodolphe Barrangou, & Pamela Ronald (www.pnas.org/topic/561). It explores technical, environmental, nutritional, health, and socioeconomic dimensions of the question.🧪

Very happy that this paper is out after a long time in the making. Many thanks to participants, RAs, advisory board members, and coauthors.

US Fish & Wildlife has just announced their proposal to list the monarch as Threatened! ESA protections can allow us to tackle the systemic issues monarchs are facing: pesticide overuse, diseases, & habitat loss, especially at their overwintering locations. 🦋 Learn more: xerces.org/press/monarc...

Given how amazing these starter packs are, for folks following me that might be curious about sociology's contributions to research on the climate crisis, you might find this invited commentary of interest: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ClimateCrisis #Sociology #Climate #PoliticalEconomy

In a new interdisciplinary Nature Climate Change Perspective paper, led by me, @lisgilmore and Rachael Shwom, we offer a critical perspective on #climate and social “tipping points.” 🎁: rdcu.be/d2gBC 🧵

Woodburn Hall • Indiana University • November 2024 Elinor Ostrom #kevinomooney

Growing wine grapes under solar panels can increase yields by 60%. That seems like the definition of unalloyed good news www.pv-magazine.com/2024/11/29/a...

New by me —> Did this election prove that Americans’ perceptions of the economy and crime are broken? (with lots of charts + @jeffasher.bsky.social) www.niemanlab.org/2024/11/are-...

If you missed my TED Talk when it came out and prefer to watch videos on YouTube, you now can: "It's time for us to face reality and it's a bitter pill. The question isn't will climate change affect us, it’s: how many lives will be lost from the growing climate crisis?" youtu.be/do27uAjfKbg?...

Huge - and well deserved - congratulations to our colleague Goda Perlaviciute for being one of four new professors appointed in the @rug-gmw.bsky.social through the Aletta Jacobs professorship initiative of the @unigroningen.bsky.social! www.rug.nl/gmw/news/241...

Preprints of Human Ecology Review v. 28 #2 are now available online open access at: www.societyforhumanecology.org/preprints Table of Contents Linda Kalof and Thomas Dietz’s Contributions to Human Ecology: A Celebration of Two Esteemed Careers There are 12 papers. We are grateful to everyone!

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

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New resource on misinformation: www.pnas.org/post/multime...

A point recenlty made by Ed Maibach, expert in science communication: "It’s the triumph of simple, clear messages (even though false), repeated often, by a variety of sources that are (seen to be) trusted and caring. We unpack that formula here: annualreviews.org/content/jour... "

#Equity in #ustainability modeling? Trying to get my head around this. Building from excellent Giang, A. et al (2024). Equity and modeling in sustainability science: Examples and opportunities throughout the process. PNAS, 121(13), e2215688121. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.... Where else to look?