I'm teaching my sociology of climate change class in the fall. There's always quite a bit of interest from journalism & comms students. So I am going to put in the curriculum some examples of powerful reporting on the climate crisis. This is a running 🧵 of such articles. Feel free to add to it.

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

Just in time for summer... the Census Bureau released new Local Air Conditioning Estimates www.census.gov/data/experim...

@lesja.bsky.social Marge and new friends traveled back with me. Turtle gang

If you wanted to know one person, you would better ask people without power instead people in power. This is because how they treated people without power reflects what kind of people they are instead of how they pleasured people in power.

I used to complain 8 inch snow at Syracuse. Now I am getting 9 inch snow at Boulder. Karma.

Oh Boulder

Boulder in MAY

WEBINAR: Supporting Family Caregivers: New Data, New Resources Wed May 06, 2026 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET More info: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/... Registration: umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My next job application

“This was not a thoughtful, phased development. It was an industrial surge imposed on our residential community.”

That's what sociologists are supposed to do instead of claiming a "new" finding by switching cardiovascular disease mortality to other cause-specific mortality.

Revised plans for critical 2026 census test raise some 🚩 🔴 Dropped test site in Colorado 🔴 Dropped language support for online response (English only) 🔴 Asking USPS workers, rather than trained Census Bureau staff, to conduct in-field operations Details in 🧵

Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739

How cold has this winter been so far? The first 2/3 of winter 2025-26 is the 7th warmest on record for the Contiguous U.S.

NEW: Our @kennystancil.bsky.social details how U.S. home insurers are responding to the climate crisis. Despite mounting damages, insurers are still raking in record profits by 1) abandoning people in higher risk areas and 2) hiking premiums nationwide. 1 = ⬇️ liabilities and 2 = ⬆️ $ to invest. 🧵

Related: "A 2022 study of formerly ‘redlined' U.S. communities, which were cut off from financial services like mortgages for being predominantly Black or immigrant, found that residents were 53% more likely to have had a peaker plant built nearby since the year 2000 than in non-redlined areas.”

Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

From coffee shops to rec centers, #Thirdplaces are vanishing. IBS Postdoc Yue Sun’s new research shows the decline is nationwide and unequal. Communities need these spaces to stay healthy and connected. Read more: ibs.colorado.edu/new-research... #communityhealth #mentalhealth #healthrisks

Climate-related disasters threaten the health & wellbeing of human populations. Elizabeth Fussell, Kate Burrows & @narayansastry.bsky.social review key survey design elements from 4 demographic surveys disrupted by large-scale disasters to pinpoint what’s critical in disaster research myumi.ch/8q8Nq

Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw: - Improved life expectancy - Lower chance of incarceration - Lowers chance of poverty - Lived in better neighborhoods - Higher human capital SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!

Climate Central has brought back the U.S. Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters database, tracking the nation’s costliest storms, floods, and fires. In the first six months of 2025, there were 14 events totaling $101 billion in losses. Read more from Desk reporter Hêctor Alejandro Arzate.

Appendix A7 most striking graph for me:

Check out this interview with Shu Xu where she discusses her recent Innovation in Aging article on vision loss and falls that uses @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social data: eyeonvision.blogspot.com/2025/09/visi...

A must read on Data Centers www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...

I wonder how many people will attend the 2026 PAA. I submitted my abstract this afternoon (one day before the due), and my submission was numbered ~ 1,600. Last year, I submitted my abstract three days before the deadline and was numbered ~ 4,300. For real?

Such an amazing life and legacy. RIP.

New in American Journal of Epidemiology! doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

Today, 33% of all the electricity used in Oregon is attributed to data centers. In Virginia, it’s 37%. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I am a sociologist living with cows

Check out this Interview with @aripeskoe.bsky.social to hear about how ratepayers are covering the costs of the infrastructure needed to support the surge in AI and data centers.

WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Do people have less #Kids because of the #ClimateCrisis? 🌍👶 In our preprint, @katyaoivanova.bsky.social and I find that environmentalists are less likely to have kids in their 20s and 30s... But by their early 40s, the gap closes. Maybe it's rather about #Postponement? 🕰️ 🔗 doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but in North America the university semester is starting ... This table of different types of classes has been useful for me in explaining to students* the structure of the class that I'm teaching * and to myself ... see next post drive.google.com/file/d/1-hKG...

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Good to see growing support for abduction or 'inference to the best explanation', recently by Spirling and Stewart in @thejop.bsky.social. This is... www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:

I...did not care for the argument, no. Outside of this case, the journal has been publishing some odd pieces, e.g., link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Female Advantages in Education & Union Formation”: @danielaurbinaj.bsky.social uses DHS & Colombia census data to assess changes in union entry & assortative mating in a middle-income setting where women are, overall, better educated. @uscsociology.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

When I need it for an RR, ArcMap is retired. RIP ArcMap

I grew up hearing relatives describe feeling brushed off in clinics and spoken to like their concerns were a nuisance. Those stories pushed me toward a PhD in Population Health Sciences and my 1st project on discrimination in healthcare. @journalgim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 Hot off the press 📣 We document tremendous growth in U.S. federal place-based funding, show it has disproportionately gone to areas with more nonprofits & stronger housing markets, and find a pattern of cumulative advantage in funding among high-poverty neighborhoods. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

🚨 Job alert: The Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto is hiring an Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... I'll be at ASA and would be happy to chat with interested candidates. Please share widely! #Socsky

Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future! We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought. Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Using data from the 1984 to 2022 General Social Survey. Adriana M. Reyes & @spattersearch.bsky.social‬ attitudes towards gov't spending on Social Security & retirement remain positive, but adults aged 65+ are less likely to support this spending than younger adults myumi.ch/MkxZ5

New (core demography) paper on US metropolitan and nonmetropolitan mortality out in the Journal of Rural Health. Stay tuned for a thread 🧵summarising the key findings! #Demography

From @sungspark.bsky.social @marasheftel.bsky.social et al: “Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Functional Limitations Among Older Adults” uses HRS data to assess effect of physically demanding work over the life course. @rutgerssph.bsky.social @ccpratucla.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...