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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson

@schneidermayers.bsky.social
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Professor at Rice University. Climate media, environmental literature, cats, basketball. bit.ly/profmsm

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Pete Harvey @peterharveydigital.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nice blog about a study by @schneidermayers.bsky.social "he’s guessing [editors and studio heads] see the climate crisis as just another social/political issue... You sprinkle some attention on climate, and then you’re allowed to forget about it for a good long while."
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Intriguing new study by @schneidermayers.bsky.social finds New Yorker short stories rarely feature climate change — about as often as mass-market films, believe it or not. There's no censorship, no climate hushing. Wrote about what might be going on: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/new-yorker...
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Even the New Yorker has lost the plot
The climate silence is coming from inside the house.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨 New article out! Might be of interest to authors and editors as well as scholars in ecocriticism and environmental communication. We set to answer the question, "How has contemporary literature responded to, helped mitigate, or exacerbated the climate and nature crises?"
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To Delight and Misinstruct: Strategic Environmental Narratives in New Yorker Fiction
How has contemporary literature responded to, helped mitigate, or exacerbated the climate and nature crises? To begin answering this question systematically, we developed the Strategic Environmenta...
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🚨 New article out! Might be of interest to authors and editors as well as scholars in ecocriticism and environmental communication. We set to answer the question, "How has contemporary literature responded to, helped mitigate, or exacerbated the climate and nature crises?"
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To Delight and Misinstruct: Strategic Environmental Narratives in New Yorker Fiction
How has contemporary literature responded to, helped mitigate, or exacerbated the climate and nature crises? To begin answering this question systematically, we developed the Strategic Environmenta...
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Sam DiGiovanni @samdigiovanni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Welp Trump ruins another one. Midas touch of shit
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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 30/06/2026
This building heat wave is no joke. Extreme heat is responsible for nearly half of all weather-related fatalities in the United States. damweather.com/2026/06/dang...
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Dangerous heat wave underway across central, eastern U.S.
Many communities throughout the eastern U.S. will face dangerously hot days with no meaningful overnight relief into this weekend.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026
The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.
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What Climate Change Costs You at the Checkout
The higher temperatures climb, the more inflated household costs like groceries will become, economists predict.
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 21/06/2026
This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Dan Devine @yourmandevine.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
New York has a mayor who is earnestly celebrating Renaldo Balkman and Toney Douglas and Langston Galloway. Reality is melting.
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Jason Concepcion @netw3rk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
whatever that was intentional
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Blame Trump.
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Matthew Schneider-Mayerson @schneidermayers.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Trump cursed the Knicks
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Today, on the eve of the World Cup, we release our report 'Football and Climate Change: A Preview of the 2026 FIFA World Cup'. www.lboro.ac.uk/media/media/... @james7jackson.bsky.social @markdoidge.bsky.social @jennyamann.bsky.social @samtoscano.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social
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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 28/05/2026
We have a new forthcoming book! @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social and I have been working with an incredible line up of authors for an edited volume of post-revolutionary science fiction stories. It will be out in about a year, and a great follow up to Everything for Everyone.
Publishers Marketplace new book announcement square, blue border. Reads: 

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Deal Report
WHEN WE WIN
By Eman Abdelhadi, M. E. O'Brien
Imprint: Haymarket
Authors of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE Eman Abdelhadi and M. E. O Brien, ed.'s WHEN WE WIN: DISPATCHES FROM REVOLUTIONARY FUTURES, a collection of stories that imagine liberated worlds in which today's freedom struggles have triumphed, featuring contributions from Jordy Rosenberg, Mimi Lok, Anand Gopal, and Sophie Lewis, to Dao Tran at Haymarket, for publication in spring 2027 (world).
Rights: roisin@haymarketbooks.org
Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
May 26, 2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/05/2026
@nycsanitation.bsky.social I’d like to report a sweep
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 26/05/2026
Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court
The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Introducing the @heatmap.news and @mit.edu Electricity Hub, our new zip code-level look at what exactly you’re paying for on your electricity bill and how it stacks up against … anyone or everyone else: electricity.heatmap.news
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2026
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/01/2026
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump
A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 24/01/2026
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 30/11/2025
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!
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Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Ence Morse @ence.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 12/11/2025
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Between banning books, non-white people, genders, immigrants, comedians, journalism… And then pushing AI which just regurgitates new ideas… America is headed into a deep cultural recession. This place is bleak and getting increasingly boring.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Said it before, will probably die saying it, we are never going to solve the climate disinfo problem if we don't fix media. As @maxboykoff.bsky.social notes here, the public by and large learns about climate change via the media, so if the media trades in false equivalence, it's damaging!
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
If you wrote a "Trump distances himself from project 2025" story in 2024 you are either a dupe or one of our enemies. They are cackling with laughter that the media they're now destroying enthusiastically helped them dupe the voters
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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 14/09/2025
This is a great idea! 🧪 laist.com/news/educati...
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UCLA researchers host science fair to showcase work suspended by the Trump administration
On Thursday evening, dozens of researchers hosted a science fair at UCLA to demonstrate the long-term impact of frozen grants.
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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/08/2025
We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 01/08/2025
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor statisti s. This is the end of being able to trust the data from the federal government on employment, GDP, or any other critical information. They will only want to produce information that pleases Trump, not the truth. This is how you get a failed state.
News article titled "Trump orders firing of BLS commissioner, after large summer revision" by Andrew Ackerman. It reports that President Donald Trump ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after the agency released major downward revisions to May and June jobs data. Trump announced the decision on social media, stating she would be replaced with someone "much more competent and qualified." The revisions removed 258,000 jobs from earlier counts, marking the largest two-month downward adjustment since the pandemic.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ. The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
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Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
i’m finding it requires more and more cognitive dissonance to enjoy indulgences as the fascism becomes increasingly omnipresent and suffocating
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/07/2025
The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians Also, once it’s history, it’s too late
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
feel like this goes beyond politics and into tech and maybe culture. there's a kind of future blindness it feels like. a focus on both tearing down structural things/institutions and replacing them with nothing. or building things that disrupt institutions/infrastructure w/ little thought to future
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
the TX GOP is redrawing the congressional map so houston voters won't be able to elect democrats to represent them houston: you can speak at the public hearing saturday 7/26 at 11am University of Houston Main Campus 4455 University Drive Student Center, Houston Room (Room 220)
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Tom Raftery @tomraftery.com · 14/07/2025
Climate media coverage is falling off a cliff, just as the crisis accelerates. And that’s not just bad for business, it’s dangerous for democracy. Let’s talk. 👇 1/7
2004-2025 media coverage of climate change
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I wrote today about why we should shudder about ICE and CBP adding 19,000 new agents and officers — because we should terrified of WHO would want to join CBP and ICE amid politicized authoritarian images like this: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/four-fears...
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Four Fears about ICE, Trump's New Masked Monster
We're about to pour $200 billion into immigration enforcement—it's a terrible idea, sure, but understanding *specifically* why is important.
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David S. Cohen @dsc250.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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