Carlyle Carl
carlylecarl.bsky.social
Carlyle Carl
@carlylecarl.bsky.social
Former member of fake band Angry Carl. Academic pinko.
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📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢

Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength.

The key findings are covered in two reports this year:
* ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...
* Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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CAT Global Update 2025 🚨 Ten years after the #ParisAgreement we see little to no measurable progress in warming projections - for the fourth consecutive year.
The 2035 #NDCs have made no difference to our warming outlook.
🔗 bit.ly/CAT_Global_2...
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Drawing on 41 semi-structured interviews with wealthy members of the business class living in and around Manchester, this paper explores how therapy culture has travelled upwards, to the executive and owning class, through CEO peer groups.

#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/3nhvM3M
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Oh hey here's me in 2009, about journalists overestimate how much people already know, and the consequences that has. Holds up pretty well, I think! www.mediamatters.org/legacy/why-w...
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Ha! I meant to post these two here + this paper and somehow ended up posting it to my feed, not here! But all these works really get into how people actually interact with and see yhw state www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race–Class Subjugated Communities
Against the backdrop of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, we ask what the American politics subfield has to say about the political lives of communities subjugated by race and class. We ar...
www.annualreviews.org
October 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Mettler's Submerged State (let us make our deliverisms break thru the surface)

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Submerged State
“Keep your government hands off my Medicare!” Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler’s provocative and timely book: why are many Americans unaware of government social be...
press.uchicago.edu
October 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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two more good resources for this neck of the woods

Thorson's Invented State (w a hopeful look at remediation)
academic.oup.com/book/55770?l...
The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public
Abstract. Many Americans hold substantial misperceptions about what the government actually does. However, they get the facts wrong not because they are la
academic.oup.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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NEW: About 90,000 people living near larger chemical plants face an unacceptable risk of developing cancer, the EPA says.

New rules adopted last year could’ve cut that number to 3,000 residents — a drop of 97%.

But Trump has halted those efforts.
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these pla...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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@pengzell.bsky.social asks about the social sciences, which I haven't looked at in a while. Indexing these against 2008 rather than peak, and struck that economics has been on a downslope for 6 years now, while psychology, the worst discipline, continues to rise rapidly.
bsky.app/profile/peng...
September 28, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Suriname’s government has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its tropical forests, a move conservationists say is among the most ambitious commitments to climate and biodiversity ever made by an Amazonian nation.
Suriname pledges to shield 90% of forests, far beyond global conservation goal
Suriname has pledged to permanently protect 90% of its forests, far surpassing the global 30x30 goal.
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September 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Mario Guevara @bittersouth.bsky.social The only known journalist detained by ICE on US soil sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner. This is Mario Guevara’s harrowing account of what’s happened to him, in detainment, since his arrest on June 14. bittersoutherner.com/journalist-m...
Journalist Mario Guevara Speaks - Letter from ICE DETENTION FACILITY — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
The only journalist detained by ICE on US soil, sends a letter to The Bitter Southerner.
bittersoutherner.com
September 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Looking to retire and relocate? Deciding where to land isn't as easy as it sounds. Retirement experts say many retirees face challenges like rising costs and community support.
Retiring and relocating? Take a holistic approach
Looking to retire and relocate? Deciding where to land isn't as easy as it sounds. Retirement experts say many retirees face challenges like rising costs and community support.
bit.ly
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference.

But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.
June 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This is the future they want us all to accept soon, but they’re going to soft launch it by hurting Black communities first, and you know why.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
NAACP calls for emergency shutdown of Musk's supercomputer in Memphis
The civil rights group alleges that the project’s pollution could be harmful to nearby residents.
www.nbcnews.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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New from me in Ms. magazine: Making workplaces more family-friendly will make them better for everyone - I’ve got four specific tips for leaders on how to do it. msmagazine.com/2025/05/30/w...
Four Concrete Ways Business Leaders Can Ease the Burden on Working Parents
As a mom of two, an executive and someone who’s worked to elect pro-family leaders, I know firsthand how broken our system is for working parents—especially as the Trump administration pushes for high...
msmagazine.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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For Fulbright Applicants, a DEI Disqualifier

The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4kg5Fii
Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
bit.ly
May 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025?

Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of
Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk
Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk

Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...
50th Edition - Spring 2025
A new national poll from the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School reveals a generation navigating financial hardship, frayed social bond
iop.harvard.edu
May 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🆕📄Journal of Marriage and Family w/ M. Jacob📄

Parenthood in Europe: Not More Life Satisfaction, but More Meaning in Life

Previous research in soc was very focused on satisfaction & happiness.
BUT: many find meaning equally or more important than happiness.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 26, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
www.technologyreview.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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The relationship between the percentage of a county's population with a BA and Democratic vote share was basically the same in 2024 as it was in 2020 (B=.89 vs .91). Interestingly, % of the population with a grad degree predicts better predicts Dem vote share relative to BA%. 1/2
May 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Sociologists come to shocking conclusion: Trump’s biggest supporters are motivated by bigotry and want him to hurt the people they dislike. (gift link) www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
Is Trump’s base racist? Social scientists begin to weigh in
Is President Donald Trump’s base racist? Social scientists are beginning to weigh in
www.sfchronicle.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
www.propublica.org
May 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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April 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM