Strong piece from Gary Fields of UCSD on how the IHRA definition of antisemitism is being weaponized on our campuses and in our K-12 schools. www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/17/a...

Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement A must read for all climate activists zenodo.org/records/1758...

We show that pouring knowledge & beliefs about the climate crisis into students' heads DOES NOT RELATE to their collective action 🫨Thus knowledge/beliefs are insufficient for action, as Albarracin & Kahan have long shown 🤜We employed verified collective action rather than hypothetical intentions

Great to see 'Activating Academia for an Era of Colliding Crises' is now available as a FREE eBook📖 Thanks again to Dr. Alison Green, @swaziadam.bsky.social and @jamesgdyke.info for expertly shepherding this collection into this fantastic volume Available here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres. People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...

This story was just covered by Science Magazine! www.science.org/content/arti...

"they fail to link climate action with things that matter to people: food poverty, fuel poverty, air pollution, inequality, job insecurity, lack of housing, unfordable or non-existent healthcare... they are constrained by only being able to offer pragmatic, ‘politically feasible’ centrism?"

🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...

W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

No Kings was again a predictable disappointment. Yes - the good is making visible the scale of dissent; that’s important. The bad is No Kings is mere theater, leading to no apparent connecting-up of groups, grassroots or political movement. Reasons: quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/no-kings-b...

Happening in half an hour: webinar with @swaziadam.bsky.social on the role of social science in collective climate action 👇

UC unleashes Big Brother on faculty computers: open.substack.com/pub/drkev/p/... ⚛️ 🔭 🧪 #highereducation

🤣🤣 Left-Wing Groups Too Disorganized to Infiltrate🤣🤣 theonion.com/left-wing-gr...

Criticizing the "elder statesman" of the climate movement won't be popular, but it's necessary "It is not a mystery why people would choose to release themselves to the fantasy of a solar-powered status quo. What’s baffling is McKibben’s decision to join them" newrepublic.com/article/1997...

UC Berkeley releases names of 160 staff, faculty, and students to Trump administration for "“potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism.” Including Professor Judith Butler, much of whose family was murdered by Nazi’s during the Holocaust. Shameful. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

An honest analysis shows that: - our valiant climate mobilization has been too tiny - fossil extraction & finance are at record highs - the green technical transition for-profit is deeply inadequate - we are superseding 7 of 9 planetary boundaries. We propose a new strategy for climate mobilizers.

"Every moment spent in environments designed to fragment rather than cultivate focus, every interaction with AI designed to replace rather than support human relationship ... all ... erodes the cognition that makes democratic resistance possible." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-attent...

City planners in Paris say they are preparing for days of 50 C (122 F) heat. @charliejgardner.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...

Sorry if it hurts your feelings, but tech is competing for your electricity- and YOU will pay to subsidize them. Now that zealots stopped offshore wind and are blocking battery storage and new transmission, where will YOUR energy come from if they take yours? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Moving words from veteran activist George Lakey: "I think in order to be pessimistic, I would have to be more arrogant than I am, more of a know-it-all than I am. All the victorious struggles I’ve looked into deeply have had moments when it really looked hopeless." gridphilly.com/blog-home/20...

Historic heatwave unfolding in France. Bordeaux just observed its hottest day on record with a provisional 41.6°C (107°F) — data since 1920. Red level extreme heat warnings are in force for the south of the country. Sadly, this heatwave is far from over...

Good piece outlining how Big Tech companies' carbon emissions are soaring due to the AI boom, but it overlooks a huge piece of the puzzle It's not just the energy use of AI hurting the planet, but the fact that many tech companies are selling AI to oil companies to help them drill more

Is there a shift happening in the US jewish mainstream? This was a fantastic performance by Peter Beinart on Jon Stewart's show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kX...

This is a beautiful and inspiring video. George Monbiot understands that it's not enough to push for Climate Action, or Environmental Action or other action without also standing up for core principles of democracy.

In Gaza thousands are starving to death in the Israeli genocide Meanwhile, this is what happens to someone who speaks out against it The only explanation is that we have a complicit Zionist government here in the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live

Making Every Yard a Farm and Every Garage a Factory. Fantastic piece by Kali Akuno about Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi. ‪@coopjax.bsky.social‬ monthlyreview.org/2025/07/01/m...

Public power advocates! @ilsr.bsky.social just released our Public Power Handbook, with step-by-step guidance on how to municipalize (take over) a private electric utility: ilsr.org/articles/pub...

For climate activists, adaptation has been a dirty word. In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs. @cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

Gone. We camped by this lodge on the gorgeous North Rim of the Grand Canyon just a few weeks ago. apnews.com/article/gran...

How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.

“I estimate that 80% of people support a wealth tax and public ownership of utilities and a block on arms sales to Israel. But they’re also fed up with potholes in the streets" That's it - in a nutshell 👍 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science: 1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior 2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Good to see Bill McKibben finally got the memo that monopoly electric utilities are a huge barrier to climate progress and preparing for climate breakdown. Yay! It's not enough to just build any old renewables; it depends who builds them, for whom, under whose ownership. ilsr.org/articles/how...

🚨 Expressing intentions is not climate action 🚨 In behavioral science & environmental psychology, we often measure intentions — people saying they intend to drive less, eat plant-based, or join a protest — rather than actual behavior. There are two big problems with this: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

New paper from @fdabl.bsky.social @maiensachis.bsky.social & @swaziadam.bsky.social. They find that scientists can engage in protest without compromising their credibility - good news. However, we must temper expectations that such actions have the desired impact either. Social change is difficult.

How does knowledge conveyed in a climate crisis class relate to real-world collective action? What are the reasons for acting? @dgoldwert.bsky.social @maibached.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social @greggsparkman.bsky.social @fdabl.bsky.social @mattgoldberg100.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

Important reminder by my colleague, historian of social movements Kevin Young @thierryaaron.bsky.social @ericreinhart.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social Social movements constrained Trump in his first term–more than people realize theconversation.com/social-movem...

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

"As long as the NIH’s greatest triumphs primarily enrich corporations while ordinary people experience them as expensive miracles, there is little reason to expect mass political support for its survival." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how... @ericreinhart.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social

In dark times, it's good to read the story of a small group of organized people having a dramatic impact in making social change. The wins of the grassroots movement in the U of California published today! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @jamesgyke.bsky.social, @thierryaaron.bsky.social

Elsewhere @jasonhickel.bsky.social made this excellent point: The European Commission, the European governments, now plan to unleash hundreds of billions of financing for a massive military build-up, but they did NOT unleash that money to decarbonize & boost social provisions.

“I'm curious how you cope emotionally ... You have no illusions about how grave this all is and how compromised our lives are going to be ... How do you deal with those feelings?” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @cityatlas.bsky.social, @thierryaaron.bsky.social

Standing up for Science at UC San Diego today. [photos by Gary Fields

UC San Diego. March 7th, Noon. National Day of Action

"The point is to start with the immediacy of resilience rather than with the abstraction of greenhouse gases." "... [this] synergises with the goal of decarbonisation, rather than detracting from it. from: @rupertread.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/environment/...

Climate change target of 2C is ‘dead’, says renowned climate scientist - Prof James Hansen says pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, though other scientists disagree #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Sustainability" is such BS; our campus still: -emits ~170 000 t/yr of CO2 from burning fracked methane in the power plant -runs the campus buses on fossil gas -cuts/blows the vast campus landscape almost entirely with gasoline-powered devices -keeps purchasing internal combustion engine vehicles