Highly recommend this book for all therapists. Ecological context is important for our clinical work regardless of our clients direct presenting concerns.

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Expert here. The weird thing is I don't expect people to trust me (on my specialty) just because. Expertise is all about knowing the broader context of new results, what's clear & what's not, and most experts are happy to help people through this if they're interested in 'doing their own research'.

Data centers are "shaping up to be the mother of all political issues...pretty much everyone pays electric rates, & under Trump they’re starting to skyrocket...he’s simultaneously accelerating demand w/ his support for data center buildout, & constricting supply by shutting down cheap solar & wind."

Just in time for Halloween, join us for this online experiential workshop with existential psychologist and terror management expert, Dr Devin Guthrie. Don’t Fear the Reaper: Learning to Live with Death & Eco-Anxiety Monday 27 October 2025 | 7pm ET | 4pm PT Sign up here: bit.ly/4pBKhHj

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

Talked with Thomas Doherty & Panu Pihkala of the Climate Change & Happiness podcast about changing minds & changing actions climatechangeandhappiness.com/episodes/sea...

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage

As we enter this new season, GGN and our partners are offering a number of ways to get connected. We have a film screening and good griever meet-up in NYC, our monthly digital drop-in Collective Grieving Space (happening tomorrow!), and our final 10-Step for 2025. Sign-up here: tr.ee/EmZhZErj3R

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs". (NM) - RIP Robert Redford

Designing walkable cities increases social interaction and consequently may improve social support and social integration. Increase in social support and decrease in social isolation are good for public health.

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

"We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft.”

He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one. Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant. Many have speculated how he’d do it. Now his gambit is clear. DC was a test. He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities. This is not a drill. Democracy is at defcon 1.

Nature Relatedness Usefully Links Well-Being, the Environment, and Sustainability. The title says it all. Check our our new brief review in Current Directions in Psychological Science (free to access). @hapassmore.bsky.social @sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile

Targeting the very people who document what is happening and tell the world — journalists. It is GENOCIDE and it must stop. Call your elected representatives. Talk to your friends & colleagues.

This is not caused primarily by "screen time". It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

I think it’s simple that a person who doesn’t do a thing and instead allows a machine to do it for them can’t claim to be part of the group or history of the profession. An artist who doesn’t make the art isn’t an artist. A writer who doesn’t write is not a writer. It’s not the ideas but the making.

Just like ozone is good up there (in the stratosphere) and bad down here (in the troposphere), cats are good in the house and bad out there.

Gaza has reached IPC Phase 5, which is the worst level of food insecurity & is associated with high amounts of death & permanent disability. For people experiencing this level of malnutrition, even if it ended today, many of the consequences (eg personal outcomes like disabilities) are irreversible.

Macy once wrote, "It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Anxieties and doubts can be healthy and creative...because they permit new and original approaches to reality."

"Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we can act. We belong to this world. The web of life is calling us forth at this time." Joanna Macy (1929-2025)

Is this Abundance?

I've been taking early walks in the park to watch and listen to birds for my sanity, and the Merlin Bird ID app has been indispensable for identifying bird songs. Merlin was funded by a grant from the NSF, the science funding agency that Trump is trying to destroy. www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

This is one thread you won’t want to miss. Schools are uniquely at risk from climate change – but they have so much potential to contribute to solutions!

Please welcome @brittwray.bsky.social to Bluesky. She studies the rise of climate distress and how to channel it for action and resilience - and is the newest addition to my starter pack of folks who study, write and speak on the intersection of mental health and the climate crisis! More here:

New article together with Salla Veijonaho, lead author, and colleagues! This longitudinal study shows the importance of youth's meaning-focused coping for turning climate distress into climate engagement and for hindering these actions to lead to more distress! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I got my hackles up with that Princeton letter from Dept. of Commerce, citing "climate anxiety" as a reason to cut climate research. sarahjaquetteray.substack.com/p/the-weapon...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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CLIMATE JOURNALISTS! We need your help. Tell us what you need! Please share this important survey. utulsapsychology.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

two months after the moss landing battery fire in california, many near the site are still ill — and say the government is not doing enough to find out why they’re sick. is moss landing an “east palestine” moment for the energy transition? i spent weeks investigating to find out. cc @heatmap.news

AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana. (From original @ccrjustice.org post, but with alt text)

Science friends! Many of you, alarmed by grant funding cuts that make expensive field ecology research difficult or impossible, have been thinking about what to do instead. Great idea. Some of you have been saying "I'll just do some social science surveys," without learning how. Bad idea! 🧵🧪

Looking for a postdoc in 🇨🇦? Liber Ero Fellowship liberero.ca * Applied conservation science * Leadership training * Open to int’l applicants * Due Nov 1 🌎🧪🦤

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025. This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.

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...

I also have this starter pack of people and organizations that focus specifically on the intersection of climate and mental health, anxiety, and behavioural change ⬇️ go.bsky.app/EMFbgjG

Great Lakes Psychiatry and Psychotherapy PLLC offers pro bono psychological support for climate scientists fired by DOGE from the Ann Arbor Lab. PM me for details. "NOAA federal firings hit Ann Arbor's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab" www.michiganpublic.org/environment-...

Ketamine gave me my life back. It's helped some of the folks I love most in the world. Some of whom would not be here without it. I know I wouldn't be. What it doesn't do is make you a fascist.

In all the movies I've seen about fighting Nazis I don't remember there being this many webinars.

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

If this trojan horse, anti-science, timber-industry-wishlist bill passes the Senate, you can kiss our federal forests goodbye. Please take action to stop the 'Fix Our Forests' Act -- here's one easy way to do this, but any way is better than not acting. 🌏