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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The UC Merced Office of Sustainability coordinated a tour of LEED certified buildings on campus last week raising the visibility of these efforts nationally for higher education abc30.com/post/uc-merc...

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UC Merced recognized for sustainable spaces on campus

UC Merced is being recognized for its sustainable spaces on campus.

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ASA Collective Behavior & Social Movements @asa-cbsm.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Please join us in congratulating all the section winners at the business meeting at our 2026 ASA! Here are all their names and publications:

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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Jale Tosun, Heidelberg U. In 2022, my colleague Spyros Bakas and I launched the journal Climate Action at Springer Nature. Today, npj Climate Action received its first Impact Factor of 5.8, ranking it in the first quartile (Q1) in both Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies.

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UC Merced Community and Labor Center @ucmercedclc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NEW REPORT | The Merced High-Speed Rail Survey examines community preferences on one of the state's largest climate investment programs - High Speed Rail. This is the first representative survey of residents impacted by the High-Speed Rail. 🔗Full report: clc.ucmerced.edu/sites/g/file...

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UC Merced Community and Labor Center @ucmercedclc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NUEVO INFORME | La Encuesta sobre el Tren de Alta Velocidad en Merced examina las preferencias de la comunidad respecto a uno de los programas de inversión climática más grandes del estado. Esta es la primera encuesta representativa de los residentes afectados por el Tren de Alta Velocidad.

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

MUST READ for anyone thinking about which climate actions are most likely to be successful! @r-thombs.bsky.social and @akjorgenson.bsky.social analyze which types of climate policies are most effective at decoupling of carbon emissions from economic growth. academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

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Does stringent climate policy decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions?

Abstract. A foundational question in environmental sociology is whether economic growth can be sufficiently decoupled from greenhouse gas emissions. Schola

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

New article in American Sociological Review, coauthored with Grant, Longhofer, and Vasi. We theorize about and empirically demonstrate how affective polarization is shaping the climate crisis, with a focus on CO2 emissions from power plants throughout the world. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kathy Hochstetler @hochstet.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I wrote about just transition in Brazil for UNRISD - TLDR, lots of different impacts, from new kinds of energy, from old ones, with different implications for different groups (some hit urban, some indigenous, some quilombolos, some labor) www.unrisd.org/en/library/p...

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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New and fascinating open access book on the role and impact of Climate Ambassadors.... bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

19th Central American Sociological Association Meetings held this week at the National Autonomous University of Honduras (UNAH). Conference theme highlights the role of sociology in addressing the climate crisis @clacso.bsky.social

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UC Merced Political Science @ucmpolisci.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

@ucmerced.bsky.social Ph.D. candidates Eliana Fonsah and our own Nihan Karagul are recipients of the competitive dissertation fellowship from the @ucigcc.bsky.social. Congratulations to both! 👏 Read more: ucm.edu/3ocptd

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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

New PhD in our sociology department at UCM: sociology.ucmerced.edu/news/2025/dr...

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Dr. Luis Rubén González Completes Ph.D. | Sociology

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Paul Almeida @fast-reggae.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New article on music and trauma in El Salvador...https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-abstract/78/1/53/206678/Faith-Trauma-Resistance-and-Resilience-in-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext

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Tulane Political Science @tulanepolisci.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A recently published volume of The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action includes contributions from Tulane Political Science's own Professor Moises Arce, Assistant Professor Joshua Basseches (@joshuabasseches.bsky.social), and PhD Student Zoe Sullivan: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action

Abstract. This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot ad

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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Very useful new handbook chapter by @hochstet.bsky.social, analyzing how, and to what extent we can think of "green transitions as climate action." Necessarily, she shows how this requires a much more global view than is typical. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

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UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A new article from 2023-24 IGCC Fellow Luis Rubén González Márquez—alongside @ucmerced.bsky.social professor Paul Almeida—analyzes how local economic threats from authoritarian forms of pro-market development models generate labor protest. Now available online: bit.ly/4iB20uT

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The Glocal Foundations of Threat-Driven Labor Resistance to Authoritarian Capitalism

Labor has stood as a central actor in the waves of contention against authoritarian forms of pro-market development in the Global South. In this paper, we analyze the local-level conditions that foste...

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Pleased to share this new collab piece, "Ecologically Unequal Exchange as a Catalyst for Climate Action", available as part of the The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action. It is freely available on on ResearchGate too. doi.org/10.1093/oxfo... #climate #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #sociology

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Tiago Carvalho @tiagomlcarvalho.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Our chp (w/ P. Gardner) on Extinction Rebellion with @OUPAcademic it's out. We look into one of the most influential climate movements of our time. Published in Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (ed. Paul Almeida Link: t.co/q0mNtd4XZz

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