Nicola Ulibarri
@ulibarri.bsky.social
Associate professor at UC Irvine. Nuevo mexicana. Environmental policy & management, water, climate, collaborative governance, and diversifying academia. https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ulibarri/
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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Associate Professor Nícola Ulibarrí of the @ucirvine.bsky.social Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy has won the Academy of Management's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for research that flips conventional wisdom about conflict on its head. ow.ly/WQ9450X31J4
September 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Associate Professor Nícola Ulibarrí of the @ucirvine.bsky.social Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy has won the Academy of Management's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for research that flips conventional wisdom about conflict on its head. ow.ly/WQ9450X31J4
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The @ucirvine.bsky.social Labor Center seeks a research director for impactful work on workers' rights and economic justice. Direct questions to wnicholl@uci.edu. The application review date is Sept. 22, so get on it at ...
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09842
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Labor Center Research Director
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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August 27, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The @ucirvine.bsky.social Labor Center seeks a research director for impactful work on workers' rights and economic justice. Direct questions to wnicholl@uci.edu. The application review date is Sept. 22, so get on it at ...
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09842
recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09842
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Urban planning & public policy Associate Professor @ulibarri.bsky.social of @ucirvine.bsky.social and Division Chief Nick Freeman of @ocfireauthority.bsky.social explain "How Social Ecology Makes Your Life Better" when it comes to battling and preventing wildfires in our latest Impact Series video.
August 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Urban planning & public policy Associate Professor @ulibarri.bsky.social of @ucirvine.bsky.social and Division Chief Nick Freeman of @ocfireauthority.bsky.social explain "How Social Ecology Makes Your Life Better" when it comes to battling and preventing wildfires in our latest Impact Series video.
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Also, we can do lots of JAM: Joint Adaptation and Mitigation. Stuff that reduces both emissions and vulnerability to climate impacts.
- Air-sealing buildings (and adding intentional filtration/ventilation) reduces heat/cooling demand, hence emissions, as well as health impacts from wildfire smoke.
- Air-sealing buildings (and adding intentional filtration/ventilation) reduces heat/cooling demand, hence emissions, as well as health impacts from wildfire smoke.
"We can only adapt now, it's too late to decarbonize" feels like one of those anti-science spaces where the far left meets the far right. As an adaptation specialist: yes, we need to adapt and adaptation saves lives, but it has LIMITS and we'll meet them quickly if we don't stop using fossil fuels.
July 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Also, we can do lots of JAM: Joint Adaptation and Mitigation. Stuff that reduces both emissions and vulnerability to climate impacts.
- Air-sealing buildings (and adding intentional filtration/ventilation) reduces heat/cooling demand, hence emissions, as well as health impacts from wildfire smoke.
- Air-sealing buildings (and adding intentional filtration/ventilation) reduces heat/cooling demand, hence emissions, as well as health impacts from wildfire smoke.
I'm famous!
Commencement ceremonies are, of course, big news to UC Irvine and our School of Social Ecology. But the school's two ceremonies Monday also made big news because of the keynote addresses by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Watch KTLA 5 News coverage here: youtu.be/Q8rrNZ3wd6Q
KTLA News
KTLA covers California Attorney General Rob Bonta at UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology commencement June 16.
https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/congratulations-class-2025
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June 21, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I'm famous!
I'm honored and excited to receive this year's Best Article Award from @aompnp.bsky.social! This is easily one of my favorite articles I've written, and it's awesome to see it recognized -- 13 years after I started collecting the data:)
Congrats to @ulibarri.bsky.social, winner of AOM-PNP's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for "An Analysis of Micro-Scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance" (doi.org/10.1093/jopa...) #AOM2025 #pasky
June 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I'm honored and excited to receive this year's Best Article Award from @aompnp.bsky.social! This is easily one of my favorite articles I've written, and it's awesome to see it recognized -- 13 years after I started collecting the data:)
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Congrats to @ulibarri.bsky.social, winner of AOM-PNP's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for "An Analysis of Micro-Scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance" (doi.org/10.1093/jopa...) #AOM2025 #pasky
June 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Congrats to @ulibarri.bsky.social, winner of AOM-PNP's 2025 Best Journal Article Award for "An Analysis of Micro-Scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance" (doi.org/10.1093/jopa...) #AOM2025 #pasky
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REMINDER: Register by this Thursday for Igniting Solutions: What Can OC Learn from the LA Wildfires? The UC Irvine Climate & Urban Sustainability Program event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 9, in SBSG 1517. Please RSVP here: campusgroups.uci.edu/SoEco/rsvp_boot?id=1939704
Igniting Solutions: What can OC learn from the LA Wildfires - School of Social Ecology
Join the Climate Urban Sustainability Program (CUSP) team and UC Irvine experts for an insightful roundtable as we dive into lessons learned from the recent LA fires, explore Orange County’s curren...
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April 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
REMINDER: Register by this Thursday for Igniting Solutions: What Can OC Learn from the LA Wildfires? The UC Irvine Climate & Urban Sustainability Program event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, May 9, in SBSG 1517. Please RSVP here: campusgroups.uci.edu/SoEco/rsvp_boot?id=1939704
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Through words and video, learn how UC Irvine urban planning & public policy Associate Professor Nicola Ulibarri countered the "dominant narrative" about water in California during an all-day summit presented in Sacramento by UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab. socialecology.uci.edu/news/how-dry-we-arent
April 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Through words and video, learn how UC Irvine urban planning & public policy Associate Professor Nicola Ulibarri countered the "dominant narrative" about water in California during an all-day summit presented in Sacramento by UC Berkeley's Possibility Lab. socialecology.uci.edu/news/how-dry-we-arent
This April Fools, here's my favorite @theonion.com article related to my work!
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April 1, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This April Fools, here's my favorite @theonion.com article related to my work!
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On my way home from 2 invigorating days thinking about how to build abundance for essential policy areas for all Californians with the Abundance Policy Consortium. Grateful to see the power of community and our local and state governments -- there's still so many of us doing important work!
March 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
On my way home from 2 invigorating days thinking about how to build abundance for essential policy areas for all Californians with the Abundance Policy Consortium. Grateful to see the power of community and our local and state governments -- there's still so many of us doing important work!
New paper led by Jie Wang: Motivations for collaborative governance in China: a systematic review of the literature. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Motivations for collaborative governance in China: a systematic review of the literature
This article highlights the role of political context in shaping motivation of actors from the public sector, the private sector, and civil society to work together collaboratively. Most studies on...
www.tandfonline.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
New paper led by Jie Wang: Motivations for collaborative governance in China: a systematic review of the literature. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl.
can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities
can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities
February 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
not paying indirect costs for research is like only paying the players in the Super Bowl.
can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities
can't have a Super Bowl without coaches, referees, security, janitors, announcers, stadium staff, and a stadium - and you can't have research without supporting people and facilities
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Are you a young scholar working on cities and climate change? Maybe you want to be an @ipcc.bsky.social chapter scientist for the Special Report on cities. Check it out: www.ipcc.ch/2025/01/27/c...
Call for Applications: Chapter Scientists to support the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities — IPCC
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February 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Are you a young scholar working on cities and climate change? Maybe you want to be an @ipcc.bsky.social chapter scientist for the Special Report on cities. Check it out: www.ipcc.ch/2025/01/27/c...
I LOVE the obstacle course metaphor. I know so many talented minority scientists (including my husband) who were pushed out of academia because their records were a little too "weird" (not "innovative" or "boundary spanning")
Important read on "Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course" by @aaberhe.com, @waterbarnes.bsky.social and colleagues
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course - Nature Geoscience
Inclusive and equitable geoscience requires identification and removal of structural barriers to participation. Replacing the leaky pipeline metaphor with that of a hostile obstacle course demands tha...
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January 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I LOVE the obstacle course metaphor. I know so many talented minority scientists (including my husband) who were pushed out of academia because their records were a little too "weird" (not "innovative" or "boundary spanning")
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If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
If you’re in the US and you’d like to know what projects and vital services federal grants currently fund in your state, you can search here: www.usaspending.gov
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
And you can find the contact information for your elected representatives here: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
They need to hear from you.
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The freeze of the NIH is just the latest culmination of the right's long war on science, education, and democracy.
Here are some of my ideas for what I think scientists can do about it. 🧪 conservechange.medium.com/five-things-...
Here are some of my ideas for what I think scientists can do about it. 🧪 conservechange.medium.com/five-things-...
Five things scientists can do to fight the rise of fascism.
Access to trustworthy information is among the most important preconditions for safeguarding democracy.
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January 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The freeze of the NIH is just the latest culmination of the right's long war on science, education, and democracy.
Here are some of my ideas for what I think scientists can do about it. 🧪 conservechange.medium.com/five-things-...
Here are some of my ideas for what I think scientists can do about it. 🧪 conservechange.medium.com/five-things-...
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Hi Bluesky 👋🏼 I'm an Urban Water Specialist @ucanr.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social. My research focuses on designing and managing urban environments to create sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between natural ecosystems and people. #WaterResources #NatureBasedSolutions #WaterJustice
January 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Hi Bluesky 👋🏼 I'm an Urban Water Specialist @ucanr.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social. My research focuses on designing and managing urban environments to create sustainable and mutually beneficial relationships between natural ecosystems and people. #WaterResources #NatureBasedSolutions #WaterJustice
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I'm a big proponent of prescribed fire, but it's absurd to see articles about how lack of Rx fire in *forest* settings has contributed to the LA fires. Very little if any of the acreage that has burned is forest, or even woodland. So many inaccurate takes out there. www.newsweek.com/controlled-b...
How red tape strangled California forest management before LA fires
"Mother nature doesn't wait for paperwork."
www.newsweek.com
January 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I'm a big proponent of prescribed fire, but it's absurd to see articles about how lack of Rx fire in *forest* settings has contributed to the LA fires. Very little if any of the acreage that has burned is forest, or even woodland. So many inaccurate takes out there. www.newsweek.com/controlled-b...
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Get people safe. Get the fires out. Then, build back different. No more building for the climate of the 20th century. Build back like we know climate disasters are coming. Build back like we know climate disasters are here.
January 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Get people safe. Get the fires out. Then, build back different. No more building for the climate of the 20th century. Build back like we know climate disasters are coming. Build back like we know climate disasters are here.
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We've been studying wildfire recovery for the last 4 years. It's a horrible mess. Many survivors think the worst is over when the fire ends, but then comes paperwork, weird federal rules, scams, etc. Some never rebuild or lose everything. Follow guidance from those who have been there, done that.
I've seen a few posts asking what those who have lost everything in #LAFires can do now. Strongly recommend looking at resources from @afterthefireusa.bsky.social on their website. Started by Tubbs Fire survivors. They've been through it, follow their advice. afterthefireusa.org
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January 9, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We've been studying wildfire recovery for the last 4 years. It's a horrible mess. Many survivors think the worst is over when the fire ends, but then comes paperwork, weird federal rules, scams, etc. Some never rebuild or lose everything. Follow guidance from those who have been there, done that.
Media coverage about the #PalisadesFire highlights the need for dialogue about values to guide planning & response. Is a firefighter's life worth more or less than a celebrity's house? Or a 1000yo artefact? There are people who (validly) value each, yet with climate change we will face tradeoffs
Celebrities among thousands evacuated in Los Angeles fires
Wildfires that ripped through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles forced many Hollywood stars, including Mark Hamill, Mandy Moore and James Woods, to evacuate their homes.
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January 8, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Media coverage about the #PalisadesFire highlights the need for dialogue about values to guide planning & response. Is a firefighter's life worth more or less than a celebrity's house? Or a 1000yo artefact? There are people who (validly) value each, yet with climate change we will face tradeoffs