An expert group has identified a series of issues that are making access to food vulnerable in the UK, including the climate crisis, low incomes, poor farming policy and fragile just-in-time supply chains, leaving the UK dangerously exposed. www.theguardian.com/food/2026/fe...
This is a result from the wonderfull year I spent working in Student Life Assessment and Research at UF. One of the most welcoming and efficient workplaces I have had the privilege to experience. Scoping reviews are hard and time consuming, but it was all worth it! 3/3
Drawing from the analysis of 82 articles, we propose a holistic categorization of student success dimensions related to collegiate recreation: intrapersonal, academic, interpersonal, belonging/community, career, and institutional. 2/3
The Journal of Experiential Education have just pusblished our Scoping Review on The Relationship Between Collegiate Recreation and Student Success. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/3
🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
Great article. I understand that in-class tests are the only way to AI-proof assessments of student learning, but being able to critically research, read literature, & write cogently in a non-timed setting are different skills that I don’t want my students to lose.
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Whenever a story appears about increasing risk of wildfires, some helpful chap always likes to comment “that global burned area is declining so stop being alarmist.” A new paper explains the paradox.
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#climatechange #wildfire #fireweather
Omar El Akkad's book
Frightening to see how widely applicable this quote is these days:
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad
New article out now, where we consider water as both a driver of and challenge for democracy in the US context. Feels even more timely now than we were writing it doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
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📣 New article by me in @plosclimate.org!
We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too.
🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables
🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance
🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use
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What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?
Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online
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Book cover features a straight road extending toward the horizon through a semi-arid landscape. The title, in French, reads Les frontières des migrations africaines.
Strange times to be promoting publications, but I’m excited to share this great book, years in the making! I contributed a chapter on unaccompanied children on the move toward southern #EU.
Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).
📖OA in April.
#migration
This is very helpful and much needed work, thanks for sharing!
Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Our new publication about the evolution of public engagement toward environmental justice. #GreenSky and others may find this relevant www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I think this part is quite helpful if you want to figure out why you would like to use variables argument with avg_predictions: marginaleffects.com/chapters/com...
The most deadly hurricane in US history was the one they had no warning of - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. So this is good news from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. Warnings save lives!
A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8%
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Graduate students, please submit nominations for the Sociology of Development Graduate Student Paper Award!
Due March 1.
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Thanks to Stacy Nick for hosting Dr. Anne Mook and I to talk about fires and place attachment! Check it out in the Audit from the Colorado State University:
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We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.
Thanks for creating this! Can I be added?
"It's snowing in Florida - where's global warming now?!"
If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!
4/4 Understanding both place affection and awareness can assist community-based approaches to planning as wildfires, like the recent LA fire, become more frequent and severe.
3/4 Equally important is recognizing how communities build "place awareness"—an informed understanding of functional meanings, like wildfire risk or water scarcity.
2/4 It’s crucial to understand how people form "place affection", especially as wildfire exposure reshapes meanings like “scenic,” “calm,” or “healthy.”
1/4 Wildfires don’t shape how people connect to places alone. They interact with other forces like population shifts and climate change.
📣New research published in Environment and Behavior!
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
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