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Meaghan Guckian, PhD
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core faculty @ antioch university new england. behavioral scientist studying environmental decision-making.
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🚨job alert🚨

I'm looking to hire at least one PhD student for next year, looking at decarbonization-oriented technology deployment within an ethical frame of resource allocation and justice outcomes.

Full ad attached! Pref for CEEES admissions; deadline is 1 January.
Screenshot, job description: The “Ethical Technology Transitions to Mitigate Climate Change” program seeks one PhD student to be advised by Dr. Emily Grubert either in Notre Dame’s Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences (CEEES) program (School of Engineering) or the Sustainable Development (SD) program (Keough School of Global Affairs). This position is fully funded for four years (anticipated stipend: $36,000/year) and will be supported by the resources associated with the Ethics and the Common Good program chair for three years, with remaining funding to come from other sources that might carry additional deliverable requirements (e.g., a secondary project) that will be clearly communicated to the candidate. The primary research area for this position will focus on ethical considerations related to technology deployment for reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, with a particular focus either on modeling distributional effects of particular deployment patterns associated with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions pathways (CEEES PhD) or on designing governance systems for emerging technology systems, including Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR); hydrogen; renewable electricity; or end use electrification technologies (SD PhD). Teaching requirements are aligned with the requirements of the specific degree program. Funding is available for conference attendance, and students will have the opportunity to work with and/or mentor undergraduate research assistants.
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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emorwee.bsky.social
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
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
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katharinehayhoe.com
Read about the Gates memo in the news? Wondering what @kimcobb.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @weatherwest.bsky.social, @sammyroth.bsky.social and I think about it?

No need to wonder: @coveringclimatenow.org is hosting a free webinar panel. Join us THIS AFTERNOON:
The Bill Gates Memo: Climate Scientists Respond With Urgency — Covering Climate Now
Ahead of this month’s COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming “will not lead to humanity’s demise” and that effort to reducing emissions a...
coveringclimatenow.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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ulliecker.bsky.social
Why Misinformation Must Not Be Ignored

Quite proud of this paper, which just received the journal's APA Editor's Choice award 😊

Big thanks to my coauthors Li Qian Tay, Jon Roozenbeek,
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social, John Cook, @naomioreskes.bsky.social, and @lewan.bsky.social
apajournals.bsky.social APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · Sep 26
Why #misinformation must not be ignored - A new, open access article by @ulliecker.bsky.social and colleagues, published in American Psychologist bit.ly/4pJ20fY
September 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
mlguckian.bsky.social
This will surely be excellent.
amywestervelt.bsky.social Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · Sep 16
If you're a @drilledmedia.bsky.social listener you know I think social scientists are key sources if we want to understand why governments haven't acted on climate. So imagine my nerd delight to get my hands on an incredible new batch of research on climate obstruction. drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
Welcome to the World of Obstruction
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
September 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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timmonsroberts.bsky.social
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.

NYT just covered it. 1/n

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
www.nytimes.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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naomioreskes.bsky.social
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Just wrapped up Chairing the board meeting for KeepFishWet.org. We just launched a 10 minute "mini lesson" on how to engage in responsible and effective catch-and-release. Download the lesson here: www.keepfishwet.org/mini-lesson
Keep Fish Wet
Keepemwet Fishing promotes releasing fish in the best condition possible to reduce the impact sport anglers have on fisheries around the globe.
KeepFishWet.org
June 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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climatescibreak.bsky.social
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱

Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".

#climate #arresteddevelopment #climatescience
June 2, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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cplusc.bsky.social
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.
Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute
There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.
climateandcommunity.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
📢 Trump's top-line climate disinformation strategy combines 4 tactics—Sleight-of-Hand, Fossil Fuel as the Main Character, Gaslighting, and Flood the Zone with Shit—to construct the lie that Democrats (not climate disasters) are killing people.

Find out more👇

www.endclimatesilence.org/newsletter
Trump's right-wing disinformation also had a very specific emotional effect — or at least intent - which gave it power as political speech: it tried to turn people's horror over what was happening in LA - indeed, over the big, amorphous climate crisis - into anger. And Trump directed that anger towards Democratic elected officials. In this way, he transmuted feelings of helplessness into an emotion that can increase perceptions of agency and he used that emotion to his political advantage. In the face of terror, anger is a comfort, and scapegoating people as Trump scapegoated LA mayor Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome (who he called Gavin "Newscum") is a time-honored way to redouble that sense of agency and create social cohesion to boot. Meanwhile, voices on "our side" were reduced to repeating bland facts. Trump repeatedly turns climate-change disasters into events in which Democrats supposedly hurt the American public. He did it this past summer with Hurricane Helene, and he did it again with the LA blazes. And the right-wing propaganda machine surrounds that false narrative with a barrage of lies. Yet the way to combat and overcome this strategy is not by fact-checking or even just by connecting climate disasters to climate change. It's to clearly and repeatedly — in every venue and across all platforms - to tell a story of our own: climate change is caused mostly by our use of fossil fuels, and Trump's plan to expand fossil fuels and suppress clean energy is the kind of policy responsible for the loss of people's homes, the destruction of their communities, and even their very deaths. Could you imagine Democratic politicians saying such a thing? Could you imagine mainstream journalists writing it? It seems almost impossible to believe they ever would. The introduction of this discourse into the public sphere would be
January 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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🚨 🚀🌍 Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law is launching three online tools – the Climate Backtracker, the Inflation Reduction Act Tracker & the Silencing Science Tracker – to keep tabs on the Trump administration’s climate rollbacks & anti-science actions: https://buff.ly/4jsf5HJ
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January 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!!

Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
SCIENCE IRL: Community SciComm mini-grant
Skype a Scientist is offering $300-1,000 mini-grants to support boots-on-the-ground science communication. The Science IRL mini-grants will support projects that put either 1) important science messa...
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January 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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georebekah.bsky.social
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change.

Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk:

www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
www.noaa.gov
January 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM