Pilar Morales Giner
@pmorgin.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher | Mostly Environmental & Rural Sociology | Universidad de Granada | PhD UF ‘22
https://pilarmoralesginer.wordpress.com/
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Pilar Morales Giner
@pmorgin.bsky.social
· Jan 15
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📣New research published in Environment and Behavior!
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):
The Journal of Experiential Education have just pusblished our Scoping Review on The Relationship Between Collegiate Recreation and Student Success. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/3
The Relationship Between Collegiate Recreation and Student Success: A Scoping Review - Pilar Morales-Giner, Shaun Boren, Madeline Trudeau, Qichen Li, Catherine Cramp, Carla Nelson, 2025
Background: Collegiate recreation (CR) programs present the opportunity to promote student success across campuses.
Purpose: In this review, we focus on the re...
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September 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Journal of Experiential Education have just pusblished our Scoping Review on The Relationship Between Collegiate Recreation and Student Success. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/3
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🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
August 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🚨Published today🚨We highlight 3 areas to support Indigenous-led fire: sustained funding, regulatory flexibility, & community partnerships 🔥🌿 #goodfire #wildfire #Indigenous
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Great article. I understand that in-class tests are the only way to AI-proof assessments of student learning, but being able to critically research, read literature, & write cogently in a non-timed setting are different skills that I don’t want my students to lose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Great article. I understand that in-class tests are the only way to AI-proof assessments of student learning, but being able to critically research, read literature, & write cogently in a non-timed setting are different skills that I don’t want my students to lose.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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Whenever a story appears about increasing risk of wildfires, some helpful chap always likes to comment “that global burned area is declining so stop being alarmist.” A new paper explains the paradox.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#climatechange #wildfire #fireweather
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#climatechange #wildfire #fireweather
Increasing global human exposure to wildland fires despite declining burned area
Although half of Earth’s population resides in the wildland-urban interface, human exposure to wildland fires remains unquantified. We show that the population directly exposed to wildland fires incre...
www.science.org
August 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Whenever a story appears about increasing risk of wildfires, some helpful chap always likes to comment “that global burned area is declining so stop being alarmist.” A new paper explains the paradox.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#climatechange #wildfire #fireweather
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#climatechange #wildfire #fireweather
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Frightening to see how widely applicable this quote is these days:
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad
July 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Frightening to see how widely applicable this quote is these days:
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad
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New article out now, where we consider water as both a driver of and challenge for democracy in the US context. Feels even more timely now than we were writing it doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
The Future of Water and Democracy: Assessing and Improving Water Governance in the United States
Water governance—the structures and processes for making collective choices over how to allocate, deliver, and protect water supplies—poses both an opportunity and a challenge for democracy. Water go...
doi.org
April 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
New article out now, where we consider water as both a driver of and challenge for democracy in the US context. Feels even more timely now than we were writing it doi.org/10.1002/wat2...
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That's a total of 150k subscribers who hear about climate change every week (and get talking points they can use to catalyze conversations)!
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March 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
That's a total of 150k subscribers who hear about climate change every week (and get talking points they can use to catalyze conversations)!
Subscribe on IG here: www.instagram.com/talking_clim...
Email here: us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=fa37...
LI here: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/...
Subscribe on IG here: www.instagram.com/talking_clim...
Email here: us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=fa37...
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📣 New article by me in @plosclimate.org!
We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too.
🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables
🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance
🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too.
🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables
🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance
🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
March 26, 2025 at 7:34 AM
📣 New article by me in @plosclimate.org!
We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too.
🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables
🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance
🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too.
🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables
🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance
🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use
journals.plos.org/climate/arti...
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Reminder: come work with our project in a fantastic community of philosophers!
Call for Applications: Postdoc (3 Years) at the Institute of Philosophy, @univie.ac.at as part of Knowledge in Crisis.
Deadline: March 20, 2025, 11:59 PM CET
More details & application: https://philjobs.org/job/show/28733
#PhilJobs
#PhilSky
Deadline: March 20, 2025, 11:59 PM CET
More details & application: https://philjobs.org/job/show/28733
#PhilJobs
#PhilSky
Post-doctoral Researcher (3 year position), University of Vienna - PhilJobs:JFP
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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March 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Reminder: come work with our project in a fantastic community of philosophers!
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What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?
Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online
Register: buff.ly/H6NtGPw
Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online
Register: buff.ly/H6NtGPw
March 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?
Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online
Register: buff.ly/H6NtGPw
Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 18.30–20.00 UTC #online
Register: buff.ly/H6NtGPw
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Strange times to be promoting publications, but I’m excited to share this great book, years in the making! I contributed a chapter on unaccompanied children on the move toward southern #EU.
Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).
📖OA in April.
#migration
Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).
📖OA in April.
#migration
March 7, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Strange times to be promoting publications, but I’m excited to share this great book, years in the making! I contributed a chapter on unaccompanied children on the move toward southern #EU.
Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).
📖OA in April.
#migration
Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).
📖OA in April.
#migration
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Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Evolution of climate-related migration and displacement in IPCC reporting
Concerns about climate change impacts on migration and displacement have been expressed regularly by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since
papers.ssrn.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Our new publication about the evolution of public engagement toward environmental justice. #GreenSky and others may find this relevant www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework
Public engagement in environmental governance in the United States (US) has evolved from an initial regulatory approach to a more targeted effort to consider the input of the most impacted communit...
www.tandfonline.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Our new publication about the evolution of public engagement toward environmental justice. #GreenSky and others may find this relevant www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I think this part is quite helpful if you want to figure out why you would like to use variables argument with avg_predictions: marginaleffects.com/chapters/com...
6 Counterfactual comparisons – Model to Meaning
marginaleffects.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I think this part is quite helpful if you want to figure out why you would like to use variables argument with avg_predictions: marginaleffects.com/chapters/com...
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The most deadly hurricane in US history was the one they had no warning of - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. So this is good news from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. Warnings save lives!
The National Hurricane Center set an all-time record for forecast accuracy in 2024 » Yale Climate Connections
But the investments in hurricane research that led to the new record are threatened by proposed budget cuts.
yaleclimateconnections.org
February 27, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The most deadly hurricane in US history was the one they had no warning of - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. So this is good news from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. Warnings save lives!
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A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8%
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Quantifying CO2 forcing effects on lightning, wildfires, and climate interactions
A model analysis shows interactions between climate, lightning, wildfires, and changes in the interactions with global warming.
www.science.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8%
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Graduate students, please submit nominations for the Sociology of Development Graduate Student Paper Award!
Due March 1.
www.asanet.org/communities-...
Due March 1.
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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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February 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Graduate students, please submit nominations for the Sociology of Development Graduate Student Paper Award!
Due March 1.
www.asanet.org/communities-...
Due March 1.
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Thanks to Stacy Nick for hosting Dr. Anne Mook and I to talk about fires and place attachment! Check it out in the Audit from the Colorado State University:
libarts.source.colostate.edu/can-wildfire...
libarts.source.colostate.edu/can-wildfire...
Can wildfires disrupt our sense of connectedness to beloved places? - College of Liberal Arts
Based on their wildfire research, IRISS researcher Anne Mook and colleague Pilar Morales-Giner spoke with CSU's The Audit about the deeper impact wildfires can have on communities. Using the Cameron P...
libarts.source.colostate.edu
January 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Thanks to Stacy Nick for hosting Dr. Anne Mook and I to talk about fires and place attachment! Check it out in the Audit from the Colorado State University:
libarts.source.colostate.edu/can-wildfire...
libarts.source.colostate.edu/can-wildfire...
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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
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.
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"It's snowing in Florida - where's global warming now?!"
If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!
If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!
Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding
YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
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January 21, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"It's snowing in Florida - where's global warming now?!"
If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!
If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!
📣New research published in Environment and Behavior!
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
journals.sagepub.com
January 15, 2025 at 11:32 PM
📣New research published in Environment and Behavior!
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):
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Last minute add to my course intro slides
"We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Last minute add to my course intro slides
"We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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I wrote in The Conversation about the Walmart Birkin dupe, Luigi Mangione, and a changing mood of the online zeitgeist, from culture wars to class wars.
Birkin handbags, Walmart’s ‘Wirkin’ and the meme-ification of class warfare
A handbag becoming a symbol of class strife aptly defines the mood of the online zeitgeist.
theconversation.com
January 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I wrote in The Conversation about the Walmart Birkin dupe, Luigi Mangione, and a changing mood of the online zeitgeist, from culture wars to class wars.