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Amanda L. Molder, PhD

@amandalmolder.bsky.social
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Staff Scientist @uscwrigley.usc.edu. Social scientist researching #envcomm #scicomm of climate change, carbon management, wildfires, Rx fire. Alum of UW-Madison, Colorado State & UC San Diego. California is home. amandamolder.com

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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Now, the class he was scheduled to teach can no longer be found on the ASU class search website." 👏 www.instagram.com/p/Dd-r-9eKsti/ Great reporting by the ASU @statepress.bsky.social Full story ICYMI: www.statepress.com/article/2026...
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The State Press on Instagram: "Last month, we brought you the story of a professor ASU hired despite his resignation from University of Wisconsin-Madison following an investigation into complaints fro...
434 likes, 7 comments - statepress on October 1, 2026: "Last month, we brought you the story of a professor ASU hired despite his resignation from University of Wisconsin-Madison following an investig...
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am honestly disturbed by how many science communication folks have completely ignored this issue. Like, not a word.
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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
19 people who follow my account also follow this guy's account. I am assuming at least half of y'all aren't aware of this egregious case of misconduct. Please take a moment to learn about your colleagues who are unsafe for trainees. captimes.com/news/educati...
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And today Scheufele is posting like it’s just another day… about AI scholars contaminating academic publishing. I can think of some other things destroying the academy: fucking your students? being psychologically abusive to the ones you don’t want to sleep with? The hubris is wild.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
In the latest round of pass the harasser, this Professor slept with students and now is moving into a leadership role at Arizona State University 🧪 #metoo madison.com/news/local/e...
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Records: UW-Madison professor engaged in sex with students, exploited 'power imbalance'
The records were released in response to a request from the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This should be a bombshell in the world of science communication. Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard are big names, and the allegations here are nauseating and revolting. 🧵 captimes.com/news/educati...
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More details in this story on ASU professor Dietram Scheufele’s sexual and professional misconduct while at UW-Madison www.statepress.com/article/2026...
Professor Dietram Scheufele
November 10, 2025
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); and/or who were also taking his classes while engaged in the
consensual sexual relationships.
2. Pressuring female
to flirt with him; making inappropriate explicit, sexual,
and intimate comments to the female
and advisees in private social media
platforms such as Signal, an application designed to never collect or store any sensitive information as they are end-to-end encrypted, private, and secure, as well as soliciting and having uncomfortable late night private dinners and/or drinks with a female student that may have constituted an assault.
3. Conditioning the professional and academic benefits that his faculty position provides to female
upon behaving and looking in a certain way for Dr. Scheufele. Conditioned
benefits included, but are not limited to, invitations to research meetings and collaborations, offers of research funding and the selection of teaching assistants, decisions on paper authorship and conference attendance, and the allocation of and network resources.
4. Academically and professionally retaliating against female |
involved in
sexual relations with Dr. Scheufele who wanted to withdraw from his class or end their romantic relationship, or who have rejected his flirtatious advances. This included not receiving research funds, withholding information, leaving them off of emails regarding research, not responding to their multiple requests to meet with them or provide guidance/advice regarding their research.
5. Issuing both promises of benefits to avoid exposure, and threats of retaliation, if the female
| exposed their discomfort. This also included intentionally isolating the
students that Dr. Scheufele was in relationships with from one another and other students and faculty members.
6. Making academic, professional, and compensation promises to employees/former advisees who were engaged in previous sexual relationships with Dr. Scheutele.
7. Treating less favorably students who did not…
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Dr. Susan G (she/her) @madtownmama.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How many women’s careers were sidelined or destroyed by this man, who was basically rewarded with a settlement and another prestigious job at a different university? captimes.com/news/educati...
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I was an assistant professor in Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard’s department. I didn’t see evidence of sexual relationships with students but I saw a whole lot of the hostile environment described in this article. The students deserved so much better than these fucking assholes.
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“A prominent UW-Madison professor and artificial intelligence expert has resigned after an investigation found he violated a university policy on consensual relationships…Scheufele has since been hired by Arizona State University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.”
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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captimes.com @captimes.com · 03/09/2026
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Wisconsin State Journal @madison.com · 20/08/2026
Dietram Scheufele’s departure follows an investigation completed in September 2025 into complaints filed by three female students.
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Prominent UW-Madison professor agrees to resign after investigation
Dietram Scheufele’s departure follows an investigation completed in September 2025 into complaints filed by three female students.
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Verasight @verasight.io · 17/08/2026
Congratulations to Sara Ostad Rahimi, @amandalmolder.bsky.social, @brossard.bsky.social, and eight co-authors on a new article in the Journal of Risk Research, published with Verasight survey data. 1/n
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A grad school highlight: doing #ScienceCommunication fieldwork in Hawaiʻi with Dr. Katie Abrams. We found that a simple photo opportunity encouraged tourists to keep safer distances from endangered turtles, showing how communication can support conservation. 🐢 Blog: beatofhawaii.com/the-photo-th...
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The Photo That Protected Hawaii Turtles Better Than Any Rule
Most Hawaii turtle protection leans on rules, barriers, and warnings. A NOAA-funded study found something that worked better: giving visitors a photo they could only get by staying at least 10 feet ba...
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How much will burn in the 18 months to come? Some already call it a “Super Duper El Niño,” and “Godzilla El Niño”. In fact, this El Niño will make 2027 the hottest year on record, and there is a chance that global average temps would jump to 1.7 degrees next year. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...
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Opinion | The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
As we near the one year anniversary of the 2025 LA fires, read this op-ed from @dwallacewells.bsky.social: "Which City Burns Next?" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o... I also recommend this 5-part YouTube series "Danger in Plain Sight" from @wildland-zko.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCeV...
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Opinion | Which City Burns Next?
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Beyond grateful to be part of this smart, passionate cohort of @uscwrigley.usc.edu post-docs whose research on #climatechange and #carbonmanagement is "critical, timely, and necessary". dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...
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"Critical, timely, and necessary": New Wrigley Institute postdocs collaborate on climate and carbon solutions - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
If you missed my ESIP talk last week but are interested in this topic, here is the recording: youtu.be/Cit5-OnN-jU?...
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Media on Fire: How Wildfire News Shapes Understanding and Policy
YouTube video by ESIP
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I'm delighted to share insights from my #wildfire #communication dissertation #research with the Earth Science Information Partnership Federation Wildfire Cluster tomorrow - Oct 9th at 1pm PST / 4pm EST. This is open to the public, register here: www.esipfed.org/event/wildfi...
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Wildfire - ESIP
Monthly on the second Thursday. Join via Zoom. All meetings are scheduled in U.S. Eastern Time Zone. Convert to your time zone.
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Mark Parrington @mparrington.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
With the recent rapid increases in #wildfires as we head into summer, a timely reminder of this excellent starter pack on #wildfire experts put together by @fkearns.bsky.social go.bsky.app/RmQuXhp #IIFF
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Californiaaaaa…. Here we come! 💛 Excited to share that we're moving back to the west (best) coast in July after eight long years away and I am starting a research administrator position with @uscwrigley.usc.edu this fall. I am grateful to get to work on climate change social science research!
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ph(almost)DONE! 👩‍🎓🎉 It was so special to celebrate this big milestone. I’m beyond grateful for the love and support from those who helped me get this far ❤️ Feeling proud and overwhelmed! Now to finish that dissertation… #onwisconsin
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
One of my favorite things about Wisconsin is the #prescribedfire community and spring burn season. Joined an excellent burn last week - we set the local dog park on fire 🔥 #rxfire #goodfire
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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder @wiscobirder.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This study, co-authored by my UW–Madison colleague Dietram A. Scheufele, confirms what many of us know: Black women in STEM face deep, persistent bias. We must keep pushing for equity. I stand with Black women in science. Always. #Blacksky #STEM #SciComm #UWLSC www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our new study (collab between @uw-lsc.bsky.social & @scicommlab.bsky.social) examined public perceptions of scientist' credibility in film and has depressing results - biases persist as Black female scientists are rated less warm and competent, compared to peers. Open access at #ScientificReports
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Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Race and gender biases persist in public perceptions of scientists’ credibility
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
New paper! We examined the power of short films in the classroom and found that they impacted content knowledge, students’ perceptions of scientists, self-identification as scientists, and understanding of the nature of science. Fun collaboration w/ @scicommlab.bsky.social. Check it out 👉 #scicomm
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Engaging short film activity that supports learning, science identity, and nature of science comprehension | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Improving students’ science identity and nature of science (NOS) comprehension are two major goals of reform efforts to enhance student learning and persistence in undergraduate biology education (1). Yet both are hard to achieve. Science identity refers to how a person perceives themself as a “science person” and how they are recognized as a “science person” in social contexts (2, 3). Science identity is dynamic and often influenced by students’ lived experiences and social interactions with others (4, 5). Students from groups STEM has historically excluded, such as underrepresented minorities, women, and people with disabilities, are more likely to persist in STEM if they have a strong science identity (6, 7). Therefore, cultivating science identity in undergraduate biology students can have great implications for motivating a diversity of students to choose science careers.
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Amanda L. Molder, PhD @amandalmolder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It’s fantastic to connect with so many folks interested in #scicomm on here. Thanks for creating and adding me to this #scicomm start pack list @nielsmede.bsky.social!
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