Currently listening to economists and social psychologists discover sociology from 75 years ago (with all its faults). This is the indignity every sociologist lives every day.

U.S. policy changes mean Canadian children with cancer are losing access to clinical trials #Canada As U.S. ends funding for brain tumour research group, Canadian doctors worry about impact on young patients www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Forged signatures. Flawed assessments. Night bulldozing. Mongabay’s investigation in Nepal exposed a hydropower project 90x bigger than reported—threatening red pandas, snow leopards & Indigenous yak herders. Independent journalism matters. 🌍 Support our work: www.mongabay.org/donate.

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Billionaire Trump donor Elon Musk owns X. Billionaire Trump ally Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. With this acquisition, both CNN and CBS News would be owned by billionaire Trump donor Larry Ellison. Oligarchs’ monopoly over our media is spiraling out of control.

The Mets, the US, and the biosphere competing for fastest collapse.

Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.

5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1 www.oah.org/2025/02/05/o...

Part of the problem starts before college. Most legislators across the country had their last formal exposure to Earth science education in the 8th grade. We need to fix that. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch... See this piece from @kendrawrites.com (With some quotes from me)

Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.

Anti wind energy fossil fuel coalition pressures professor: Washington-based firm, Marzulla Law, who for decades now, have been representing extractive firms, lumbering firms, mining firms, oil and gas companies, including some of the largest ones. www.ripbs.org/news-and-cul...

Why Trump’s undermining of US statistics is so dangerous | Daniel Malinsky

If I were the democratic leadership, or their donors, I would be setting up shadow everything. Shadow congress. Shadow CDC. The overwhelming message being: here is where you come for facts. Here is what science really says. Here is what polling really says. Why aren’t they doing this?

The Guardian #Climate

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

A thing Zohran & his campaign have powerfully tapped into -- and that his scavenger hunt captures so perfectly -- is that a vast majority of the people who live here genuinely *love* New York City. We wouldn't stay here otherwise!

A coal-fired plant in Michigan was supposed to close. But Trump forced it to keep running at $1M a day. #Climate

Heat extremes attributable to climate change have led to a 25–38% average reduction in monitored tropical bird populations since 1950, according to a study in Nature Ecology & Evolution. go.nature.com/3UIIpP7 🧪

“The world loses 273 billion tons of glacial ice each year" Over the past decade or so, glacier losses were more than a third higher than during the period 2000-2011 Our ice world is disappearing and it will take us with it www.bbc.com/news/article...

An astonishing rise in global humidity last year - up by a record amount on 2023 Notwithstanding sleepless nights, ever-climbing humidity also brings huge health issues www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Over 400 dead now across Pakistan, India, and Nepal. Horrific. www.cnn.com/2025/08/15/i...

Wildfires have spread dangerously close to capital cities including Madrid, Athens and Podgorica in the past week, as data shows the number of blazes in Europe has jumped by nearly 50 per cent compared with last year. www.ft.com/content/3ad8...

Undermining faculty autonomy : system allowing faculty senates — bodies made up of professors who approve and advise university leaders on curricula, faculty hiring and other academic issues — to be abolished under a new Texas state law @AAUP www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/t...

Such an interesting time and place to be an environmental sociologist.

Oil exploration in the Congo basin rainforest could be a disaster for nature and the climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵 www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of fire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. Living in the Pyrocene means a new reality: knowing what the latest wildfire smoke forecasts are, in order to plan your outdoor activities. I review the best tools to do so:

Wetlands are disappearing faster than any other ecosystem. More than 170 countries are meeting this week in Zimbabwe to find solutions. The U.S. isn’t one of them.

That, crucially, is why it's *useless to argue with fascists*. There are no fascist ideas, no fascist philosophies, only retrospective justifications. The whole impulse of fascism is to free oneself from the restrictions imposed by reason & decency. It is against reason, and thus immune to it.

Paramount & CBS bent the knee to the Trump regime and slashed Stephen Colbert's show—all for a merger. So we’re taking to the streets to show support for Colbert, and to let the regime & its billionaire backers know we see right through their BS. 📅 July 27 📍 524 W 57th St ⏰ 3 - 6pm See you there.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Two sources tell WashPo EPA readying a decision to completely rescind the climate-critical endangerment finding (re: greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare) and eliminate all resulting limits on motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Britain has saddled itself - or more accurately, UK govt has saddled Britain's consumers - with paying for the most expensive nuclear plant ever And I'm bored of saying it, but that means other more cost-effective & faster action on climate change will not happen www.ft.com/content/e1e1...

Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, per a report from Human Rights Watch

“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.” RIP, Joanna R. Macy (May 2, 1929 – July 19, 2025)

The EPA informed Colorado on Wednesday that the state could not close coal-fired power plants to improve air quality in the West.

I’m looking forward to Stephen Colbert sharpening his knife over this year to show the capitulating Paramount what free speech is all about.

SCOTUS first said that POTUS is personally immune from prosecution for violating the law. Now it ruled that the rest of us cannot obtain injunction relief if we are impacted by an illegal, unconstitutional action by POTUS. The rule of law is dissolving before our eyes; US is becoming an autocracy.

PBS and NPR defunded; VoA shrunk and run by MAGA; Trump take-over of Kennedy Center; now Colbert cancelled. (Trump gloated: "Kimmel is next.") We are rapidly moving toward a media environment that is simply MAGA, like communist China and Putin's Russia's one-dimensional media space: pro-goverment.

Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

Students Want the Liberal Arts. Administrators, Not So Much. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

The more I think about it, the more insane it is that the entire climate movement isn't mobilizing against data centers. They are clearly a way to continue, if not expand, fossil fuel use, they are extremely water intensive, they prey on desperate communities without creating many long-term jobs 1/

US government announces $200 million Grok contract a week after ‘MechaHitler’ incident

“researcher Devin Lea analyzed more than 20,000 buildings that had been removed from FEMA flood maps. It found that the amendments occurred more often in places where property values were higher, more white people lived and buildings were newer.”

AI requires that they destroy the biosphere you depend on to live in order to unemploy you.

Watch every second of this video: what is happening in USA. Armed ICE agents tried to interrogate kids of color -- all of them U.S. citizens -- who were at baseball practice in NYC. ICE agents then harass coach but he knew his and the kids' constitutional rights. (h/t @jonfavs.bsky.social)