Nathaniel Geiger
@nathanielgeiger.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Social psychology and climate change communication. Speaking for myself, not the university. https://nathanielgeiger.wixsite.com/michigan
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Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Since 1990, the emissions share of the richest 1% has increased by 13%, and the richest 0.1% has grown by 32%, while the poorest 50% has decreased by 3%.
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To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Bari Weiss vs. climate change
At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent.
heated.world
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
To understand how Bari Weiss might approach climate coverage at CBS, I read every climate article the Free Press has published.
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
Almost every one reinforced a common fossil fuel industry talking point—that climate change is exaggerated, that solutions don't work, and that fossil fuels = freedom
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Hmmm. Anyone think we’ll now get the punditry class to engage in weeks long debate about the need for the right to moderate and move more to the center to improve its electoral chances? …Anyone??
November 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hmmm. Anyone think we’ll now get the punditry class to engage in weeks long debate about the need for the right to moderate and move more to the center to improve its electoral chances? …Anyone??
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For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
For any unfamiliar with the quality of journalism at Teen Vogue, it's well known for hard-hitting stories on "politically sensitive" topics including climate.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
Then there's CBS: the only major network to increase climate coverage in the last few years. They just axed nearly their whole climate team.
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Journalist Michael Grunwald explains how corn ethanol – once hailed by George W. Bush as climate-friendly – is actually worse for the climate than gasoline.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/how-...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/how-...
How a Bush-era ‘green’ solution made climate change worse » Yale Climate Connections
Journalist Michael Grunwald digs into this and other uncomfortable truths about food and agriculture in his new book, ‘We Are Eating the Earth.’
yaleclimateconnections.org
October 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Journalist Michael Grunwald explains how corn ethanol – once hailed by George W. Bush as climate-friendly – is actually worse for the climate than gasoline.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/how-...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/how-...
These are the people who now hold power in our states and country.
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
These are the people who now hold power in our states and country.
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Come join OS at UM!
Organizational Studies at UMich is hiring a full-time lecturer. We're a small but growing program with amazing students at a wonderful university. If this ad sounds like you, please apply. apply.interfolio.com/174964
October 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Come join OS at UM!
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Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Heads up that the NSF #GRFP guidelines suddenly changed and now only current first-year grad students are eligible...my second-year student who intentionally waited to maximize her chances is devastated, as countless others will be. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Those poor cars!
The Trump administration has canceled grants for street safety, pedestrian trails, and bike lanes in communities around the country. One official wrote that a project was canceled because it created "a road diet that is hostile to motor vehicles."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
www.bloomberg.com
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Those poor cars!
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KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?
KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI
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"The median analysis has about 10% power"
If true, this suggests that disciplinary expectations need to change, either in terms of huge increases in sample size, huge decreases in the complexity of models or desired precision of estimates, or some combination of both.
If true, this suggests that disciplinary expectations need to change, either in terms of huge increases in sample size, huge decreases in the complexity of models or desired precision of estimates, or some combination of both.
The pretty draft is now online.
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...
September 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"The median analysis has about 10% power"
If true, this suggests that disciplinary expectations need to change, either in terms of huge increases in sample size, huge decreases in the complexity of models or desired precision of estimates, or some combination of both.
If true, this suggests that disciplinary expectations need to change, either in terms of huge increases in sample size, huge decreases in the complexity of models or desired precision of estimates, or some combination of both.
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Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Self-care is overrated—helping others has the biggest benefits for everyone involved
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
A new 2-week intervention finds that helping others improves well-being more than "self-kindness", with benefits for depressed mood, anxiety, and loneliness due to social connection psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
This is a great set of articles and we (@janetkswim.bsky.social, John Fraser, and I) were happy to be able to contribute our work to the set.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
August 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is a great set of articles and we (@janetkswim.bsky.social, John Fraser, and I) were happy to be able to contribute our work to the set.
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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🪦 New in @pnas.org: we analyzed 38 million U.S. obituaries to ask what signals a life well lived:
What values are people most remembered for?
How do legacies shift with cultural events?
How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What values are people most remembered for?
How do legacies shift with cultural events?
How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
An exploration of basic human values in 38 million obituaries over 30 years | PNAS
How societies remember the dead can reveal what people value in life. We analyzed
38 million obituaries from the United States to examine how perso...
www.pnas.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
🪦 New in @pnas.org: we analyzed 38 million U.S. obituaries to ask what signals a life well lived:
What values are people most remembered for?
How do legacies shift with cultural events?
How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
What values are people most remembered for?
How do legacies shift with cultural events?
How do age and gender shape what it means to have lived well?
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
🎉🆕💥 New paper, with Bryan McLaughlin and @pedrohprocha.bsky.social now out in
@polbehavior.bsky.social! We explore the partisan deliberative bias - the sentiment expressed by both Democrats and Republicans that the political outgroup is less capable of constructively conversing than the ingroup.
@polbehavior.bsky.social! We explore the partisan deliberative bias - the sentiment expressed by both Democrats and Republicans that the political outgroup is less capable of constructively conversing than the ingroup.
A Waste of Time? Partisan Deliberative Bias as a Barrier to Political Crosstalk - Political Behavior
Americans are increasingly unwilling to talk about politics with out-partisans. One potential barrier to such cross-cutting partisan conversations may be partisans’ tendency to stereotype out-partisan...
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July 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🎉🆕💥 New paper, with Bryan McLaughlin and @pedrohprocha.bsky.social now out in
@polbehavior.bsky.social! We explore the partisan deliberative bias - the sentiment expressed by both Democrats and Republicans that the political outgroup is less capable of constructively conversing than the ingroup.
@polbehavior.bsky.social! We explore the partisan deliberative bias - the sentiment expressed by both Democrats and Republicans that the political outgroup is less capable of constructively conversing than the ingroup.
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The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
June 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts.
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Political expression of academics on Twitter - Nature Human Behaviour
An analysis of nearly 100,000 academics on Twitter reveals strong progressive stances on climate and social issues, driven by a small, vocal subset. The study highlights potential gaps between academi...
www.nature.com
June 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An analysis of ~100,000 academics finds that a small subset of academics generate majority of social media posts.
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
That vocal minority can skew how the public—and even journalists—infer “academic consensus,” potentially fueling false perceptions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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if you set the distribution of harms from pollution (e.g. cancer and asthma rates) next to the distribution of benefits from economic cooperation (e.g. income/wealth gaps) then the narrative that environmentalism is for the rich is the thing we should find surprising!
This fascinating new research overturns longstanding assumptions. It finds that lower-income groups are more concerned about the environment and prefer environmental protection over economic growth, compared to higher-income groups. Data from the USA.
June 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
if you set the distribution of harms from pollution (e.g. cancer and asthma rates) next to the distribution of benefits from economic cooperation (e.g. income/wealth gaps) then the narrative that environmentalism is for the rich is the thing we should find surprising!
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A red flag if ever there was one:
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is selectively approving tenure bids, without explanation or comment.
www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is selectively approving tenure bids, without explanation or comment.
www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
At Chapel Hill, Only Health-Sciences Professors Have Been Getting Tenure
The UNC Chapel Hill board hasn’t tenured a single professor in fields outside the health sciences since January. The inaction has prompted confusion and alarm among faculty.
www.chronicle.com
May 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A red flag if ever there was one:
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is selectively approving tenure bids, without explanation or comment.
www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is selectively approving tenure bids, without explanation or comment.
www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...
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With everything that's going on, I haven't been sharing much about our research. But, today, I'm happy to share that @jennrichler.bsky.social wrote about our papers on "Double Standards in Judging Collective Action" for @natrevpsychol.nature.com! rdcu.be/enhkl
Ideological alignment determines whether protest action is considered acceptable
Nature Reviews Psychology - Ideological alignment determines whether protest action is considered acceptable
urldefense.com
May 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
With everything that's going on, I haven't been sharing much about our research. But, today, I'm happy to share that @jennrichler.bsky.social wrote about our papers on "Double Standards in Judging Collective Action" for @natrevpsychol.nature.com! rdcu.be/enhkl
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I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
May 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I am a staunch free speech supporter. But after ten years of freaking out about woke students deplatforming right-wing speakers, I don't have the energy to pivot to criticizing a fascist president for launching an all-out attack on free expression at universities.
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🎊 New preprint 🎊 w/ Tania Lombrozo
Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference?
Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference?
Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting
osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🎊 New preprint 🎊 w/ Tania Lombrozo
Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference?
Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference?
Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting
osf.io/preprints/ps...