Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville.bsky.social
sociology prof @Tufts and Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville.bsky.social
· Apr 16
I am grateful, honored, and still a bit shocked to be named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for my project, “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.”
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this is a brilliant piece.
New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Fossil energy minimum viable scale
Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out
www.science.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:59 PM
this is a brilliant piece.
For book nominations, that is.
February 1, 2026 at 10:07 PM
For book nominations, that is.
Last chance!
I'm chairing this year's Student Paper Award and Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award committees for ASA's Environmental Sociology section. Please check out the calls and submit your best eligible work and/or that of your colleagues, students, etc. www.asanet.org/communities-...
February 1, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Last chance!
I know it’s small in the grand scheme of things but it’s truly maddening that basic functions like searching email used to work and now they don’t.
January 31, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I know it’s small in the grand scheme of things but it’s truly maddening that basic functions like searching email used to work and now they don’t.
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to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.
January 30, 2026 at 10:29 PM
to the left, sergey brin at the airport protests, 2017. to the right, sergey brin at the Starlight Ball following the inauguration, 2025.
We can solve that problem.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 AM
We can solve that problem.
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Philosophy of Social Science
History of Economic Thought
Linear Algebra
Radical Political Economics
International Monetary Theory
Philosophy of Social Science
History of Economic Thought
Linear Algebra
Radical Political Economics
International Monetary Theory
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
Intro to Ordinary Differential Equations
Digital Design
Modern Physics
Electronics Lab
Choral Conducting
January 31, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Philosophy of Social Science
History of Economic Thought
Linear Algebra
Radical Political Economics
International Monetary Theory
Philosophy of Social Science
History of Economic Thought
Linear Algebra
Radical Political Economics
International Monetary Theory
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New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
💡🔌
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
💡🔌
Fossil energy minimum viable scale
Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out
www.science.org
January 29, 2026 at 7:26 PM
New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
💡🔌
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
💡🔌
hear me out: there'd be no epstein island if nobody was allowed to become a billionaire.
we need higher taxes
The CEO of Palantir.
January 31, 2026 at 3:03 AM
hear me out: there'd be no epstein island if nobody was allowed to become a billionaire.
they used to tell us "all the boomers are going to retire from their tenure track posts and your generation will get all their jobs." now they'll say, "the esptein files will clear up so many jobs in elite academia, there will be plenty of jobs soon."
January 31, 2026 at 2:46 AM
they used to tell us "all the boomers are going to retire from their tenure track posts and your generation will get all their jobs." now they'll say, "the esptein files will clear up so many jobs in elite academia, there will be plenty of jobs soon."
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X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
January 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
when the dominated faction of the dominant class speaks for the downtrodden, and I plug my ears (except when taking field notes)
January 29, 2026 at 8:18 PM
when the dominated faction of the dominant class speaks for the downtrodden, and I plug my ears (except when taking field notes)
I'm beginning to think that most "populism" in America is actually just oped writers who want to be seen as very-serious-intellectuals and real estate developers who weren't invited to fancy cocktail parties or whatever.
OH COME ON. Brooks knows fuck-all about "society at large".
January 29, 2026 at 8:15 PM
I'm beginning to think that most "populism" in America is actually just oped writers who want to be seen as very-serious-intellectuals and real estate developers who weren't invited to fancy cocktail parties or whatever.
This is helpful. Thanks, Ed!
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM
This is helpful. Thanks, Ed!
if you have any writing on this topic (even if not scholarly) I'd be interested in collecting it as an example. thx
January 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM
if you have any writing on this topic (even if not scholarly) I'd be interested in collecting it as an example. thx
teach for america?
January 29, 2026 at 7:29 PM
teach for america?
Social movement scholars: I have a student interested in the practice of "recruitment disruption," e.g., trying to get people not to work for banks financing fossil capital. Is there any social movement scholarship on this tactic or anything like it? It's sort of like a boycott, but for labor.
January 29, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Social movement scholars: I have a student interested in the practice of "recruitment disruption," e.g., trying to get people not to work for banks financing fossil capital. Is there any social movement scholarship on this tactic or anything like it? It's sort of like a boycott, but for labor.
2026 is the year of inbox 32,853
January 28, 2026 at 5:44 PM
2026 is the year of inbox 32,853
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For DEPTH PERCEPTION, @parkermolloy.com speaks with Jedeed about the journey from growing up watching a lot of Fox News to becoming an anti-fascist journalist, and why she didn’t accept ICE’s job offer.
Learn more:
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/journalist...
Learn more:
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/journalist...
Who is ICE hiring? Laura Jedeed on the most alarming job offer in journalism
After her ICE exposé went viral, the Army vet-turned-journalist discusses covering the far right, keeping receipts, and knowing when to walk away.
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:32 PM
For DEPTH PERCEPTION, @parkermolloy.com speaks with Jedeed about the journey from growing up watching a lot of Fox News to becoming an anti-fascist journalist, and why she didn’t accept ICE’s job offer.
Learn more:
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/journalist...
Learn more:
depthperceptionbyll.substack.com/p/journalist...
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It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
January 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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Please note that the Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award will be given to a book this year, and that the deadline for that award (February 1st) is approaching fast! All relevant details here: www.asanet.org/communities-...
Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association
Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest. Following are the most recent calls for nominations
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January 13, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Please note that the Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award will be given to a book this year, and that the deadline for that award (February 1st) is approaching fast! All relevant details here: www.asanet.org/communities-...
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I'm chairing this year's Student Paper Award and Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award committees for ASA's Environmental Sociology section. Please check out the calls and submit your best eligible work and/or that of your colleagues, students, etc. www.asanet.org/communities-...
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
I'm chairing this year's Student Paper Award and Environmental Sociology Outstanding Publication Award committees for ASA's Environmental Sociology section. Please check out the calls and submit your best eligible work and/or that of your colleagues, students, etc. www.asanet.org/communities-...
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genuinely stunning image
January 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM
genuinely stunning image