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Colin Jerolmack

@jerolmack.bsky.social
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Author. Professor of Environmental Studies, Sociology, & Animal Studies at NYU. Books: Up to Heaven & Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom & Community in an American Town; and The Global Pigeon. More info: tinyurl.com/yp632d63.

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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NYU Environmental Studies is hiring! Tenure-track position in Environmental Governance, broadly conceived. One week left until we begin reviewing applications! Details/Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192746
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join IPK and NYU Journalism on September 16 for a talk with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social. He will discuss his new book, Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage with @jerolmack.bsky.social and @alexvitale.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NYU 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/192746
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NYU 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/192746
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wrote about how fracking never delivered jobs to appalachia as promised gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s... But i interviewed @seanholeary.bsky.social and our convo is written up here in our newsletter gasoutlook.substack.com/p/gas-outloo...
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Gas Outlook Monthly - August 2026
Summer is nearing an end, but things continue to heat up in global energy markets.
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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Marcellus Shale is the most productive gas basin in the country. But after two decades of drilling, gas-focused counties in Appalachia continue to see stagnant job growth and depopulation, says @seanholeary.bsky.social in a new report gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s...
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U.S. gas boom fails to deliver economic benefits - Gas Outlook
The Marcellus Shale is the most productive gas basin in the country. But after two decades of drilling, gas-focused counties in Appalachia continue to see stagnant job growth and depopulation, accordi...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Appreciated talking with Gas Outlook about the [false] promises and perils of fracking and data centers, and @ohiorivvalleyinst.bsky.social new report on the topic.https://gasoutlook.com/analysis/u-s-gas-boom-fails-to-deliver-economic-benefits/
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U.S. gas boom fails to deliver economic benefits - Gas Outlook
The Marcellus Shale is the most productive gas basin in the country. But after two decades of drilling, gas-focused counties in Appalachia continue to see stagnant job growth and depopulation, accordi...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Tomorrow!
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Join @ohiorivvalleyinst.bsky.social and I on Wednesday 1:00pm for a virtual "Journalist Briefing: Pre-Election Pulse Check on Jobs, Fracking, and Data Centers in Pennsylvania." Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Journalist Briefing: Pre-Election Pulse Check on Jobs, Fracking, and Data Centers in Pennsylvania. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ...
Join the Ohio River Valley Institute for an expert briefing for journalists covering Pennsylvania's fracking industry and energy economy ahead of the 2026 gubernatorial election, where debates over na...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Happening TODAY
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
I'll be on @wbai.org radio streaming at wbai.org THIS SUNDAY at 9am with @jackhites.bsky.social talking pigeons on his show ANIMAL MATTERS!
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Leo McCann @leomc76.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
'The Goffman Nobody Knows.' Really enjoyed this book review from @jerolmack.bsky.social. The book sounds fabulous. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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The Goffman Nobody Knows
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Wow. Didn’t see this one coming. A win for animals. E.P.A. Promises a Ban on Animal Testing by 2035 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/c...
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E.P.A. Promises a Ban on Animal Testing by 2035
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Attn authors! If you published a book, Anthropic likely stole it to feed its AI learning. I just got an email alerting me to a class action lawsuit. There’s a database where you can check if your published work was exploited—and get compensation: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com?utm_medium=L...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Excited to share a new paper I co-wrote w/Gary Jaworksi in History of Social Science: Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok & Interaction Ethology. Based on new archival material, we show Goffman's ambition to meld interactionism & animal studies. cc @socscihistory.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Project MUSE - Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok, and “Interaction Ethology”
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is a great story about the last pigeon flyers of Baltimore
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
“The healthiest, tastiest way to eat is also the most compassionate and least polluting,”. RIP to legendary environmental and animal defender John Robbins (Diet for a New Planet”). An heir to Baskin Robbins, he rejected the family business to advocate for a plant-based diet.
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It's a pleasant surprise to see @carlpope admit that he & other enviros downplayed methane emissions in 2010s. But a full mea culpa would mention that @sierraclub.org & other Big Greens vocally supported fracking & took petro $ for years after the Dimock catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
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Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
🧵No words for how infuriated this mea culpa from Carl Pope (former CEO @sierraclub.org) makes me feel. We openly shared with SC data on methane leaks from fracking while SC was secretly accepting $millions from the gas industry. Seriously fuck you. 1/7 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
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Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Glad to see the NYU chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social involved in this lawsuit: "Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...
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Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters
The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
"All over New York, police officers & staff start their workday by disregarding the law," @nicolegelinas.bsky.social writes. "They park their personal vehicles at bus stops, on sidewalks & in crosswalks," routinely endangering pedestrians & blocking accessible ramps. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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Opinion | Here’s How New York Police Officers Start Their Day by Breaking the Law
Cracking down on officers’ abuse of placards would signal an end to the culture of impunity that has suffused the department.
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
RIP to urban legend (no pun intended) Donald Shoup aka Shoup Dogg, whose tome “The High Cost of Free Parking” turned the tide against car-centrism in urban planning and development
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is devastating. Master thinker, ethnographer, humanist, and revolutionary
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
RIP DAVID LYNCH. When he was an art student in Philly, my grandmom convinced her boss to rent him an apt. & helped him covertly paint EVERYTHING in interior black & recruit neighbors as cast for “the Grandmother” (1970). He sent her letters & premiere tix for years after youtube.com/watch?v=vWAE...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Am I the only parent who considers it a miracle when their child actually recovers an article of clothing from the school lost and found?
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
There's still time to APPLY TO NYU'S BRAND NEW ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PHD PROGRAM! This will be a totally unique experience, bridging the natural & social sciences. Be part of the first cohort, who we'll welcome into a brand new space on Washington Square! Apply by Dec. 15! as.nyu.edu/departments/...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Sociologists & Animal Studies folks! Check out latest issue of Symbolic Interaction, celebrating 50 years of Goffman's Frame Analysis, with an article I co-authored that re-frames Frame Analysis as an ahead-of-its time thesis on Animal metacommunication & mind onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind
Erving Goffman's concept of framing is one of his most enduring contributions to social science. Despite the canonical status of Frame Analysis (1974) in multiple fields, few acknowledge its intellec...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Great piece by Kate Morgan in @washingtonpost.com on learning to love pigeons again. I'm quoted! : “Because of climate change & urbanization, we’re in this moment where animals have to adapt to living w/ people. Pigeons are on the leading edge of that.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/11...
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We domesticated, then discarded pigeons. Can we learn to love them again?
For most of human history, pigeons have been our pets and partners. But sometime in the last half-century, the relationship soured.
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Great piece by Kate Morgan in @washingtonpost.com on learning to love pigeons again. I'm quoted! : “Because of climate change & urbanization, we’re in this moment where animals have to adapt to living w/ people. Pigeons are on the leading edge of that.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/11...
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We domesticated, then discarded pigeons. Can we learn to love them again?
For most of human history, pigeons have been our pets and partners. But sometime in the last half-century, the relationship soured.
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy (vegan) Thanksgiving. This banger always gets me in the mood: youtu.be/aQv7TMcZ_eE?...
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Grey - Vegan Thanksgiving (Official Music Video)
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
As @peter-singer.bsky.social writes in @nytimes.com & his @princetonupress.bsky.social book, let's use Thanksgiving to reflect on our contributions to unnecessary animal suffering. & for God's sake, dispense w/Presidential "pardoning" of the turkey, which is really an attempt to pardon our own guilt
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hey! Interested in learning more about, or applying to, NYU's new Environmental Studies PhD program? THERE'S A WEBINAR TOMORROW, NOV. 21! Check it out, and spread the word! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: NYU Environmental Studies Information Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A webinar hosted by the NYU Department of the Environmental Studies about their new PhD program. There will be a 30-minute presentation outlining the program and the application and admissions process...
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Given the prez election & new admin's doubling down on fossil fuel, my recent open access article may be useful to enviro advocates. I explore how we can forge alliances with rural conservative towns by supporting greater local democratic decision-making over fracking www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Community rights and energy politics in a pro-fracking Appalachian town - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Community rights and energy politics in a pro-fracking Appalachian town
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Please share & apply! NYU Environmental Studies Dept. is launching a NEW PHD IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES! All applicants are fully funded for 5 years. No need to have advisor lined up in advance. An INFO WEBINAR is coming up on NOV. 21; apply by DEC. 15. Follow link for info: as.nyu.edu/departments/...
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Dean Chahim @deanchahim.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Now that everyone is here: our Environmental Studies department is starting an interdisciplinary PhD program - apps are due Dec 15! If you know anyone interested in combining theory and methods from across social+natural science/humanities (and engineering!) pls share! as.nyu.edu/departments/...
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Doug Jerolmack @dougjerolmack.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I just joined this place AND we are hiring a climate scientist in my department at Penn: apply.interfolio.com/153721 Please share and apply! We start reviewing November 20, and we are open minded about what constitutes "climate science".
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Colin Jerolmack @jerolmack.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Hello folks. I’m new here. I’m an author and professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at NYU with interests in environmental politics/governance, energy, human-animal relations, culture, & ethnography. I’ve written a book about the community & political aspects of fracking, & one on pigeons:
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