Jale Tosun, Heidelberg U. In 2022, my colleague Spyros Bakas and I launched the journal Climate Action at Springer Nature. Today, npj Climate Action received its first Impact Factor of 5.8, ranking it in the first quartile (Q1) in both Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies.

New article on how nation states structure volumteering (across world regions) and implications for civic engagement around sustainable development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

NEW REPORT | The Merced High-Speed Rail Survey examines community preferences on one of the state's largest climate investment programs - High Speed Rail. This is the first representative survey of residents impacted by the High-Speed Rail. 🔗Full report: clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/g/file...

NUEVO INFORME | La Encuesta sobre el Tren de Alta Velocidad en Merced examina las preferencias de la comunidad respecto a uno de los programas de inversión climática más grandes del estado. Esta es la primera encuesta representativa de los residentes afectados por el Tren de Alta Velocidad.

MUST READ for anyone thinking about which climate actions are most likely to be successful! @r-thombs.bsky.social and @akjorgenson.bsky.social analyze which types of climate policies are most effective at decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

New article in American Sociological Review, coauthored with Grant, Longhofer, and Vasi. We theorize about and empirically demonstrate how affective polarization is shaping the climate crisis, with a focus on CO2 emissions from power plants throughout the world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I wrote about just transition in Brazil for UNRISD - TLDR, lots of different impacts, from new kinds of energy, from old ones, with different implications for different groups (some hit urban, some indigenous, some quilombolos, some labor) www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...

New and fascinating open access book on the role and impact of Climate Ambassadors.... bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

My @ucmerced.bsky.social colleague @fast-reggae.bsky.social just pointed me to this collection he's editing -- now open for submissions. www.nature.com/collections/...

19th Central American Sociological Association Meetings held this week at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). Conference theme highlights the role of sociology in addressing the climate crisis @clacso.bsky.social

@ucmerced.bsky.social Ph.D. candidates Eliana Fonsah and our own Nihan Karagul are recipients of the competitive dissertation fellowship from the @ucigcc.bsky.social. Congratulations to both! 👏 Read more: ucm.edu/3ocptd

New PhD in our sociology department at UCM: sociology.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr...

ucm.edu/81aqqr Grad Program recognized @ucmerced.bsky.social

New article on music and trauma in El Salvador...https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-abstract/78/1/53/206678/Faith-Trauma-Resistance-and-Resilience-in-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

A recently published volume of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action includes contributions from Tulane Political Science's own Professor Moises Arce, Assistant Professor Joshua Basseches (@joshuabasseches.bsky.social), and PhD Student Zoe Sullivan: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Very useful new handbook chapter by @hochstet.bsky.social, analyzing how, and to what extent we can think of "green transitions as climate action." Necessarily, she shows how this requires a much more global view than is typical. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

A new article from 2023-24 IGCC Fellow Luis Rubén González Márquez—alongside @ucmerced.bsky.social professor Paul Almeida—analyzes how local economic threats from authoritarian forms of pro-market development models generate labor protest. Now available online: bit.ly/4iB20uT

Pleased to share this new collab piece, "Ecologically Unequal Exchange as a Catalyst for Climate Action", available as part of the The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action. It is freely available on on ResearchGate too. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... #climate #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #sociology

Our chp (w/ P. Gardner) on Extinction Rebellion with @OUPAcademic it's out. We look into one of the most influential climate movements of our time. Published in Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (ed. Paul Almeida Link: t.co/q0mNtd4XZz