Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 14ha student journalist asked me for a comment on “viewpoint diversity.” rather than answer their specific questions, I offered the following comment about one reason I find the terms of the debate to be frustrating and insufficient. 1238
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleBrian Schaffner @bfschaffner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026we’re hiring an assistant professor in American politics 🐘 apply.interfolio.com/194599 14024
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give up. I’m moving into a cave. 743485677
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleNate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 29/09/2026✅ Book has cover (and looks v. nice) ✅ Proofs are proofed ✅ Available for pre-orders now All systems go, set to drop on March 9... press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... 0124
Reposted by Caleb Scovillebleddwgan @radekllundain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026What will finally drive me mad is people using compute as a noun 4734
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleSammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“The rail line has been there since the 1880s, but in the last five years, there’s been no other time in history where we’ve had this much impact.” El Niño is accelerating the climate threat to SoCal's Pacific Surfliner: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @summerrlin.bsky.sociallatimes.comEl Niño threatens the beloved Pacific Surfliner. Can the iconic train survive the winter?A section of railway in San Clemente, as well as other portions in coastal Orange County, have repeatedly shut down for landslides, coastal erosion and rockfalls. Another stormy winter is coming. 811938
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleNoel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 12708307
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 25/09/2026fake list. no Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! 100
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleDaniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm thrilled to be quoted in @dharna.bsky.social's terrific piece on the candidates running on climate politics in new and surprising ways. Candidates *can* center climate politics and win—by embedding them in the everyday crises of working class life. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comDisaster insurance, datacenters, right to repair: meet the midterm candidates running on green policiesSome of the everyday struggles animating voters have a climate link lurking in the background 11711
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 23/09/2026we are entering that critical moment in the semester where there is a non-trivial chance of the responses to all of those outstanding scheduling polls colliding into tangle of calendar conflicts. 050
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tufts University’s Environmental Studies Program has three openings this year. These are all full time non-tenure track teaching positions (although the PoP position is a bit different than the other two). Full time teaching faculty are unionized (SEIU) at Tufts University. Ads below: 102
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journeyheated.worldThe open houses at the edge of disasterWhat are buyers being told about climate risk in Miami? I posed as one to find out. 421278408
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If any of these guys spent 1 hour with someone outside of their ideological bubble they might have learned something. For example, if you think you can cut the deficit via personnel cuts, you are a fucking clown who does not deserve to be listened to. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-... 445976
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 21/09/2026there‘s still time for me (my 40th is next June) 000
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 21/09/2026it seems like a condition of being called an "industry" should be actually making something. 230
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleLe Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare youwkyt.comUK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence hallsThe University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings. 391126393
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do others in non-PhD granting sociology departments get frequent emails (with strong AI writing energy) from prospective PhD students asking if they are accepting graduate students? I always offer a polite and informative reply but it’s a bit strange. 000
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026*stares in river water over-promised since 1922* 2327
Reposted by Caleb ScovillePaul Ford @ftrain.com · 16/09/2026hey I heard you like sankey diagrams that show huge populations making terrible decisions 18417100
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Incentives are a lie. 271
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026what planet do people who worry more about the “AI apocalypse” than climate change live on? 161
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think most people don't understand that the politics of a lot of podcast bros is rooted, not so much in "ideology," but in an antipathy for politics itself, and therefore a rejection of whoever happens to be in power at the moment, especially when things (vaguely) seem to be going badly. 061
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I am increasingly frustrated with analyses of partisan sorting that treat party labels as contingent (Democrat/Republican) but ideological ones (liberal/conservative or left/right) as obvious and transhistorical. Clearly there is contingency to the latter as well. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Why So Many Voters Hate Both Parties (Gift Article)Most voters have messier views than their partisan labels would suggest. 252
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/c...nytimes.comTrump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal. 042
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 16/09/2026somewhere in Virginia, there is a datacenter full of skeets berating OPs for not including alt text. 010
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleDaniel Kay Hertz @danielkayhertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Your 20s are for believing everything is structural and your 30s are for learning that actually it's often just some guy or small group of guys (gender neutral) 2787080
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Just came across this "climateskeptics" thread about my work. Setting aside the illiteracy of the post, the author's free associations unwittingly support the thesis of my work on how environmental problems acquire partisan meaning. www.reddit.com/r/climateske... 3121
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026For sociology, Cao finds similar patterns with an interesting breakdown by subfield: 173
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent” 1821759391
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/09/2026Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.nyti.msE.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power PlantsGeneration of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States. 265728477
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleSeth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.networks.h-net.orgBrown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown. 2275235
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleTomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Another clear and knowable downstream consequence of letting scammers get rich off crypto was that that money would boomerang back into politics in ways that were highly likely to try to skirt around fundraising laws and distort policy incentives. 354895
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Fielding questions re: this article w/bizarre factual errors. First, there's no "Montecito County" in CA. Second, 2 fires are actually in *Monterey,* & 3rd in *Mendocino*. Third, 60k ac have *not* burned in either fictional Montecito nor real Mendocino.🤨latimes.comThree Montecito County fires near Big Sur have burned nearly 60,000 acresIn Mendocino County, the total area burned by three fires grew to nearly 60,000 acres on Saturday. 72845232
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...nbcnews.comLutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer fundsA top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues. 1773207927
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleColin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026NYU Environmental Studies is hiring! We seek applications for a tenure-track position in the area of Environmental Governance, broadly conceived, at the rank of Assistant Professor. Please Re-post, apply if interested, and spread the word. apply.interfolio.com/192746apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 012
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleDaniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport. 164115653180
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 01/09/2026about as close as you can get to a real world experiment in the effects of elite cues. 051
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 01/09/2026what does “political economy” even mean anymore? 100
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 01/09/2026BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comHouse passes funding bill to avoid shutdown before midtermsContinuing resolution to approve government spending until 11 December passes 370-48 and will now go to Trump 422985
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 01/09/2026The emissions scenarios underlying the next generation of climate model runs that will be featured in the upcoming IPCC 7th Assessment Report are officially out! I have a big new explainer over at Carbon Brief taking an in-depth look at what they mean and whats changed: www.carbonbrief.org/... 7234115
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 01/09/2026RIP Wendell Berry www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...nytimes.comWendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim. 020
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Not going to pile on this extremely wrong post, but instead point out that a big difference between 2026 and 2008 is that people who experienced 2008 were at different points in the lifecourse than they are now. That and the fallibility of memory make subjective comparisons over time very difficult. 330
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I had no idea there were spiders this big in Massachusetts! And apparently they eat fish. #fishingspider 170
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 26/08/2026the natural gas death spiral is increasingly visible in our eversource bills. we are edging toward canceling our natural gas account with each appliance replaced... 1143
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleRolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, the beloved global entertainment icon who sold more than 100 million records and whose songwriting prowess and sure-handed approach to her career reshaped the face of country music, popular music, and the entertainment industry at large, has died. 🕊️ 23839294
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleKatharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 39786355
Reposted by Caleb ScovilleRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Also this is the best map I've seen of where the water goes. 79% to ag, 56% of that 79% to livestock.nytimes.comThe Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the Water. (Published 2023)Hint: It’s less about long showers and more about what’s for dinner. 77831
Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 19/08/2026My sister and I sadly lost our father, Richard Scoville, this summer. It was sudden, and by all accounts, premature. This obituary was the most difficult thing we have ever written, but I believe it captures his spirit as well as words can. lostcoastoutpost.com/2026/aug/19/...lostcoastoutpost.comOBITUARY: Richard Scoville, 1963-2026 290