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Adam Aron

@swaziadam.bsky.social
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Prof at UCSD. Teaching, organizing & researching to end fossil fuels & build wider social movement capacity for defense of speech, public ownership & community resilience. 🍉

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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Vol 1 of our Colliding Crises collection in Frontiers had 13 papers, viewed 160,000 times! Submit now to Vol 2! Info: bit.ly/CollidingVol2 @jamesgdyke.info @charliejgardner.bsky.social @jeffcorbin.bsky.social @alinacongreve.bsky.social @aaup.org @rrgould.bsky.social @stephenaguilar.com
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ZNetwork.org @officialznet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What if the biggest mistake social movements can make is organizing for a world that no longer exists? Tadzio Müller and Adam Aron argue for solidarity prepping, resilient communities, and new forms of agency as crises intensify. znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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How Do We Build Social Movements for an Age of Collapse?
In this interview, Tadzio Müller argues that the climate movement needs to rethink its strategies in light of worsening ecological and political crises.
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I talked to @swaziadam.bsky.social about Germany's emerging #justcollapse movement: "If you see people having agency in a moment of catastrophe, that's inspiring. If the right organised group of people meets the right catastrophe, we can have an expansive dynamic beyond that." Thanks Adam!
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Tadzio Müller - Organizing in an Age of Collapse - Holding Ground: Climate, Ecology, and the Struggle for a Livable Future
I talk with Tadzio Müller, from Germany. Tadzio is a climate justice and queer rights activist, as well as a political scientist. For 30 years, he has been involved in struggles against globalization,...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I interviewed Tadzio. www.buzzsprout.com/2650322/epis...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Strong piece from Gary Fields of UCSD on how the IHRA definition of antisemitism is being weaponized on our campuses and in our K-12 schools. www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/17/a...
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Antisemitism, Campus Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that deny them basic political rights, including the right of...
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement A must read for all climate activists zenodo.org/records/1758...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We show that pouring knowledge & beliefs about the climate crisis into students' heads DOES NOT RELATE to their collective action 🫨Thus knowledge/beliefs are insufficient for action, as Albarracin & Kahan have long shown 🤜We employed verified collective action rather than hypothetical intentions
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Great to see 'Activating Academia for an Era of Colliding Crises' is now available as a FREE eBook📖 Thanks again to Dr. Alison Green, @swaziadam.bsky.social and @jamesgdyke.info for expertly shepherding this collection into this fantastic volume Available here: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres. People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and ecosystems, and want Big Tech to be regulated www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/new-pol...
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New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres | Friends of the Earth
New poll shows public want energy prioritised for housing and essential services, not data centres  People see data centre growth as threat to Ireland’s energy and water supplies, and …
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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 27/10/2025
A woman sits on her couch and watches a television depicting a building in shambles. A man standing behind her asks, "More senseless destruction in Ukraine?" and the woman responds, "East Wing of the White House"
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
This story was just covered by Science Magazine! www.science.org/content/arti...
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University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate
School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
"they fail to link climate action with things that matter to people: food poverty, fuel poverty, air pollution, inequality, job insecurity, lack of housing, unfordable or non-existent healthcare... they are constrained by only being able to offer pragmatic, ‘politically feasible’ centrism?"
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As dreams of 1.5°C melt away, net zero’s reckoning is overdue
People’s inability to see past net zero shows it is no longer fit for purpose
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 22/10/2025
🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment: 🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and...
🔴 REPORT | 11 Days After Ceasefire Declaration Only 520 Trucks of Food Have Entered Gaza: WFP 

🔑 Gaza Aid Assessment:

🇺🇳 World Food Program says aid deliveries into Gaza are increasing but remain far below target, with just two crossings open. No crossings are open into the famine-hit north, and Rafah remains completely closed.

📊 Aid delivery: 
Since the ceasefire began on October 10, the UN said overall it has collected 10,638 metric tonnes of essential supplies through the UN mechanism. 

▪️ WFP spokesperson Abeer Etefa said at a separate Geneva briefing that the deliveries remain far below target: Since the ceasefire on October 10, just 520 trucks have entered Gaza carrying 6,700 tonnes of food—enough for about 500,000 people for two weeks. 

▪️Daily deliveries average 750 tonnes of food aid, well short of the 2,000-tonne target needed to meet basic demand.▪️ Limited reach and urgent needs: WFP has 26 active food-distribution points—it used to have 400 and is rapidly aiming for 145—for now, mostly in central and southern Gaza. It also supports nine bakeries serving bread to half a million people. The agency says up to 30 bakeries and wider wheat-flour access are needed, while digital vouchers are being issued to help the most vulnerable, including women-headed households and the elderly.

▪️From October 17-19, only 303 trucks carrying 6,455 pallets were offloaded—two-thirds food, one-fifth water and hygiene items. 

▪️🇵🇸 Gaza authorities earlier said on average 89 trucks had entered Gaza daily over 11 days since October 10, as opposed to the 600 mandated under the ceasefire deal.

▪️”To be able to get to this scale-up, we have to use every border crossing point right now,” WFP’s Etefa said, noting that only Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) and Kissufim are operating.

▪️UN on the ground: More than 15,000 households in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis received parcels with rice, lentils, chickpeas, tomato paste, and sunflower oil. 21 partner groups provided nearly 944,000 cooked meals through 178 community kitchens, a 40% increase in three weeks.

Video: UN Briefing. October 21, 2025. Geneva.
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
W/ @genevievelakier.bsky.social, the @aaup.org today released a letter to the Offices of the General Counsel at US colleges & universities. We detail why the Compact violates the Constitution & urge that no one signs it. www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
No Kings was again a predictable disappointment. Yes - the good is making visible the scale of dissent; that’s important. The bad is No Kings is mere theater, leading to no apparent connecting-up of groups, grassroots or political movement. Reasons: quartzevelyn.substack.com/p/no-kings-b...
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“No Kings” Betrays 1776
Liberal democracy requires a 21st-century reckoning.
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Happening in half an hour: webinar with @swaziadam.bsky.social on the role of social science in collective climate action 👇
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Kev Abazajian @abazajian.net · 19/09/2025
UC unleashes Big Brother on faculty computers: open.substack.com/pub/drkev/p/... ⚛️ 🔭 🧪 #highereducation
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UC Gives Access to All Faculty Computers to the Trump Administration
In an era of federal investigation and prosecution of political opponents, UC hands the keys of faculty computers to the Trump administration.
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🤣🤣 Left-Wing Groups Too Disorganized to Infiltrate🤣🤣 theonion.com/left-wing-gr...
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Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate
NEW YORK—Admitting that they had been working for several years without any discernible success, FBI agents confirmed Wednesday that a local left-wing political group was too disorganized to infiltrat...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Criticizing the "elder statesman" of the climate movement won't be popular, but it's necessary "It is not a mystery why people would choose to release themselves to the fantasy of a solar-powered status quo. What’s baffling is McKibben’s decision to join them" newrepublic.com/article/1997...
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Bill McKibben’s Far-Too-Sunny Outlook for Solar Power
His new book makes the case for going big on solar power—and abandons climate angst for ecomodernist optimism.
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Steve Katz @stevenkatz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
UC Berkeley releases names of 160 staff, faculty, and students to Trump administration for "“potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism.” Including Professor Judith Butler, much of whose family was murdered by Nazi’s during the Holocaust. Shameful. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
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UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
An honest analysis shows that: - our valiant climate mobilization has been too tiny - fossil extraction & finance are at record highs - the green technical transition for-profit is deeply inadequate - we are superseding 7 of 9 planetary boundaries. We propose a new strategy for climate mobilizers.
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"Every moment spent in environments designed to fragment rather than cultivate focus, every interaction with AI designed to replace rather than support human relationship ... all ... erodes the cognition that makes democratic resistance possible." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-attent...
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The Attention Wars
Why the Battle for Human Focus Determines Everything Else
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
City planners in Paris say they are preparing for days of 50 C (122 F) heat. @charliejgardner.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/w...
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As Heat Waves Intensify, Paris Plans for Record Temperatures
City planners say the day when temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 Celsius, could stall the French capital is not far off. They are already starting to prepare.
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All Our Energy @allourenergy.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sorry if it hurts your feelings, but tech is competing for your electricity- and YOU will pay to subsidize them. Now that zealots stopped offshore wind and are blocking battery storage and new transmission, where will YOUR energy come from if they take yours? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...
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Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Moving words from veteran activist George Lakey: "I think in order to be pessimistic, I would have to be more arrogant than I am, more of a know-it-all than I am. All the victorious struggles I’ve looked into deeply have had moments when it really looked hopeless." gridphilly.com/blog-home/20...
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Grid interviews legendary activist George Lakey on his inspirations, the current political moment and what keeps him motivated - Grid Magazine
George Lakey has seen his fair share of grim political moments. He has, after all, spent nearly seven decades fighting for civil rights, peace and environmental justice. At 87, Lakey recognizes that n...
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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Historic heatwave unfolding in France. Bordeaux just observed its hottest day on record with a provisional 41.6°C (107°F) — data since 1920. Red level extreme heat warnings are in force for the south of the country. Sadly, this heatwave is far from over...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Good piece outlining how Big Tech companies' carbon emissions are soaring due to the AI boom, but it overlooks a huge piece of the puzzle It's not just the energy use of AI hurting the planet, but the fact that many tech companies are selling AI to oil companies to help them drill more
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Big Tech’s Net-Zero Goals Are Looking Shaky
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Is there a shift happening in the US jewish mainstream? This was a fantastic performance by Peter Beinart on Jon Stewart's show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5kX...
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Peter Beinart - "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning" | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
This is a beautiful and inspiring video. George Monbiot understands that it's not enough to push for Climate Action, or Environmental Action or other action without also standing up for core principles of democracy.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In Gaza thousands are starving to death in the Israeli genocide Meanwhile, this is what happens to someone who speaks out against it The only explanation is that we have a complicit Zionist government here in the UK www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK police hold pro-Palestine protester, 80, for almost 27 hours and search house
Marianne Sorrell, a retired teacher from Somerset, says she is ‘very traumatised’ after arrest at Cardiff rally
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/07/2025
Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live
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Mass starvation spreading across Gaza, aid agencies warn, as pressure on Israel grows – Middle East crisis live
More than 100 aid agencies, including Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children and Oxfam, say ‘our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away’ Palestine Red Crescent says the situation in Gaza is “only getting worse”, with spokesperson Nebal Farsakh calling it an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe”. Farsakh said in a video posted to X on Tuesday that there has been no food, clean water or medicine entering the Gaza Strip for more than four months. This has resulted in a catastrophe where people are literally starving to death. More people are being admitted to hospitals with malnutrition especially among children, pregnant women and the elderly. Continue reading...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Making Every Yard a Farm and Every Garage a Factory. Fantastic piece by Kali Akuno about Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi. ‪@coopjax.bsky.social‬ monthlyreview.org/2025/07/01/m...
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Monthly Review | Making Every Yard a Farm and Every Garage a Factory: The Theory and Practice of Cooperation Jackson
This article will be released in full online August 18, 2025. Kali Akuno of Cooperation Jackson outlines the ongoing projects and objectives of the Mississippi-based collective Cooperation Jackson.
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John Farrell @johnffarrell.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Public power advocates! @ilsr.bsky.social just released our Public Power Handbook, with step-by-step guidance on how to municipalize (take over) a private electric utility: ilsr.org/articles/pub...
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A Handbook For Public Power Campaigns - ILSR Energy Democracy Initiative
A one-stop resource for public power advocates preparing campaigns to take over their electric utility.
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
For climate activists, adaptation has been a dirty word. In this piece today I ask whether a new UK-based proposal from the Climate Majority Project @climatemajority.bsky.social has legs. @cityatlas.bsky.social @anne-urai.bsky.social www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
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Is it strategic to refocus towards climate adaptation?
As global heating accelerates and climate damages mount all around us, and as climate organizations and activists grow desperate about what to do, SAFER provides important new thinking. The challenge,...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Gone. We camped by this lodge on the gorgeous North Rim of the Grand Canyon just a few weeks ago. apnews.com/article/gran...
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Wildfire destroys a historic Grand Canyon lodge and other structures
Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Ed Keeble said the Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 12/07/2025
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.
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What To Do When You See ICE in Your Neighborhood
How can you deter the Trump administration's immigrant deportation machine when it pops up in your community? Follow these steps.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
“I estimate that 80% of people support a wealth tax and public ownership of utilities and a block on arms sales to Israel. But they’re also fed up with potholes in the streets" That's it - in a nutshell 👍 www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Signs of new life: is the British left making a comeback?
Talk of a new party led by Jeremy Corbyn is just the latest example of a growing clamour for leftwing alliances
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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In our now published letter in @pnas.org, we raise two wider issues for behavioral science: 1) Intentions are poor predictors of behavior 2) Effects on intentions need not generalize to effects on behavior We join calls for researchers to measure actual behavior: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Expressing intentions is not climate action letter published in PNAS: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512457122
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Good to see Bill McKibben finally got the memo that monopoly electric utilities are a huge barrier to climate progress and preparing for climate breakdown. Yay! It's not enough to just build any old renewables; it depends who builds them, for whom, under whose ownership. ilsr.org/articles/how...
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Virtual Event: How Communities Can Maximize Clean Energy Benefits for All - ILSR
Join ILSR for a free virtual event on how to maximize the benefits of clean energy for communities through local ownership
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Fabian Dablander @fdabl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
🚨 Expressing intentions is not climate action 🚨 In behavioral science & environmental psychology, we often measure intentions — people saying they intend to drive less, eat plant-based, or join a protest — rather than actual behavior. There are two big problems with this: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵
Title page of a short commentary submitted to PNAS by Florian Lange, Cameron Brick, Adam Aron, and myself
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Dr Samuel Finnerty @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New paper from @fdabl.bsky.social @maiensachis.bsky.social & @swaziadam.bsky.social. They find that scientists can engage in protest without compromising their credibility - good news. However, we must temper expectations that such actions have the desired impact either. Social change is difficult.
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
How does knowledge conveyed in a climate crisis class relate to real-world collective action? What are the reasons for acting? @dgoldwert.bsky.social @maibached.bsky.social @thierryaaron.bsky.social @greggsparkman.bsky.social @fdabl.bsky.social @mattgoldberg100.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Important reminder by my colleague, historian of social movements Kevin Young @thierryaaron.bsky.social @ericreinhart.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social Social movements constrained Trump in his first term–more than people realize theconversation.com/social-movem...
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Social movements constrained Trump in his first term – more than people realize
Pushback works.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 14/03/2025
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"As long as the NIH’s greatest triumphs primarily enrich corporations while ordinary people experience them as expensive miracles, there is little reason to expect mass political support for its survival." www.bostonreview.net/articles/how... @ericreinhart.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social
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How to Save the NIH - Boston Review
Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
In dark times, it's good to read the story of a small group of organized people having a dramatic impact in making social change. The wins of the grassroots movement in the U of California published today! www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... @jamesgyke.bsky.social, @thierryaaron.bsky.social
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Elsewhere @jasonhickel.bsky.social made this excellent point: The European Commission, the European governments, now plan to unleash hundreds of billions of financing for a massive military build-up, but they did NOT unleash that money to decarbonize & boost social provisions.
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“I'm curious how you cope emotionally ... You have no illusions about how grave this all is and how compromised our lives are going to be ... How do you deal with those feelings?” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... @cityatlas.bsky.social, @thierryaaron.bsky.social
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Adam Aron @swaziadam.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Standing up for Science at UC San Diego today. [photos by Gary Fields
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