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sociology prof. & ACLS fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. my views. tweets 💥

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Caleb Scoville

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I am honored, & still a bit shocked, to be among the 2023 ACLS Fellows! This will support the rounding out of my book project on the Delta Smelt, tentatively titled, "Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline"

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ACLS is pleased to announce the winners of the 2023 ACLS Fellowships. This year, the program will award more than $3.8 million in research support to 60 scholars:

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@BigMeanInternet And today’s right-wing “trads” are cosplaying as yesteryear’s “dream of the 1890s” hipsters. So much political division is just a cultural lag resentment complex.

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Check out my new article, “Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta” now out in the American Journal of Sociology!

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New article with @AndrewHMcCumber , “Climate Silence in Sociology?” for a forthcoming symposium in Sociological Perspectives edited by @pardoguerra & @fdrubio1977 . Thread to come soon, but for now here is the article:

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I am happy to report that my book project, tentatively entitled Stupid Little Fish: Extraction, Conservation, and the Politics of Environmental Decline, is now under advance contract with @ColumbiaUP !

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@GodlessLib_CB @besttrousers @BuddyYakov If single digit differences in the unemployment rate is a big deal (as it is) then tends of millions of people becoming rent burdened is also a big deal.

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I wrote a short piece for the @ASApoliticalsoc section newsletter, States, Power, & Societies, called Climate Change and the Culture Wars. Check it out here:

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New review symposium on @RebsFE ’s important book, Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States, featuring contributions from Amy Knight, Stéphanie Barral, Max Besbris, and me.

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On Rebecca Elliott’s Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in...

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@gabrielwinant Maybe because the highest level admins just rove around to different institutions and don’t have long term buy in like… faculty.

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@hyoyoonkang I guess I don’t relate because I didn’t know what academia was until someone told me phd programs pay *you* and I was like, hell yeah sign me up.

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@pengzell I say something like, “anonymous reviewers in a previous review process, were also very helpful.”

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@Catherineoscopy This reduction of elimination to biology feels arbitrary. Why don’t we get a chem(istry) break? Phys(ics) break? Socio(logy) break?

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@besttrousers @BuddyYakov Just saying that things are in fact worse than many are claiming, just in a very different way.

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@_kvelasco Depends. I tend to think of projects as being open-ended with respect to outputs and defined around a substantive case/theme/question/problem/maybe dataset. They might result in one or more articles and/or a book.

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I will have much more to say about the project on here (or wherever we end up talking about such things) in the near future, but here is a brief summary of what the book will do.

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@DanImmergluck I'd be a more efficient worker if I wasn't constantly being jerked around by landlords.

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@Noahpinion Ok but this same house costs 600k today.

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@besttrousers @BuddyYakov Yeah but rents have like doubled since then.

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thinking of a scathing takedown of the empuzzlement imperative

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@DavidKlion @RottenInDenmark Peter Thiel’s blurb.

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@david_arditi These things are mostly about what buildings people work in and the labels on their classes and journals.

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9 months

Thanks to @ei_schwartz for shepherding the project through to this stage, and to the anonymous reviewers for their generous and encouraging reading of my materials and for giving me so much to think about as I complete the manuscript over the next 12-18 months.

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@dwallacewells You may find this study on the politicization of masks to be of interest, David. In it my coauthors and I provide some relevant clues as to why this myth resonates so much:

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Mask Refusal Backlash: The Politicization of Face Masks in the American Public Sphere during the...

This research shows how face masks took on discursive political significance during the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic in the United Stat...

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@_TimBarker I googled it because I was curious and I was *not shocked*. Amazing how much this person’s public image has been scrubbed of this kind of thing.

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@nils_gilman Definitely not you! This is valuable. There is a brand of coaches and consultants on here, primarily in tech jobs, which sell their services belong people “leave” academia on a kind of abuser/therapeutic model.

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@SoilDodd Perhaps the problem is just Twitter

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@stan_okl Ah yes, the 30 or so new luxury units going up in my Massachusetts neighborhood are totally why hundreds of dilapidated 100 year old 2br apartments are going for 3k/month.

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@hyoyoonkang Seems like their ideal target market is the downwardly mobile child of a successful academic. Sorry, I’m being mean.

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@SwannMarcus89 Housing (and in many cases also childcare). That’s why millennials are mad. Our incomes may be higher but the increases are going to landlords (unless we were able to buy at an opportune moment).

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@Catherineoscopy @lauralhaynes It strikes me as deeply classist too. People with outside resources or high earning spouses are going to be more likely to take the 2/3 pay option.

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@AugustMcGinnity @santiagomayer_ I legit thought this was like 20 years ago

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@doc_thoughts You can do this! If your university doesn’t give you research leave, look into applying for an external fellowship that will support one!

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@jesshardie the toy is wrong.

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@SocJillian It’s a bogus term kept alive by textbooks. When I teach sociological theory one of the first things I tell my students is it’s not a thing and I cross it out of all of their essays since it’s a market they are plagiarizing a textbook I didn’t adding or Wikipedia

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@timgill924 sociology is a combat sport. next question

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@stan_okl Not much of a knower but I’m guessing differences within post-unification Germany could be worth considering.

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@JiaqiLiu_soc Staple three papers together and write the intro and conclusion of the book you will write over the next few years.

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@phaneritic Totally worth it! Easy to wrap in with a trip to Marin headlands.

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@jeremyfreese @ProfLBNielsen @shamuskhan @meeradeo @BerkeleyLaw Yes, but it’s not just a completion among selective school. What gets missed in this conversation is that most schools aren’t very selective at all, and those are precisely the schools that have disproportionally served minoritized, first gen and working clsss students all along.

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@timgill924 Like Hegel once said, turtles all the way down. Then bananas.

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@stan_okl I think guys like this still exist but now this look signals being an alt-right trad.

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I start with the same word every time so this was a long time coming.

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@nicoleamurray Hangover part checks out but my music is way more out of date than that.

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I’m trying to keep my yoga practice going etc. but at some level, anxiety is a reasonable response to permanent housing insecurity.

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@ProfLBNielsen @jeremyfreese @shamuskhan @meeradeo @BerkeleyLaw @ellenberrey Agree it matters. What may not have come through in my comment is I mean removing aa for all does not simply level the playing field among elites (since some states had it and others didn’t). It shuffles the deck between elite and non-elite too, in stratifying ways.

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@GodlessLib_CB @besttrousers @BuddyYakov from Moody’s. nobody is saying things are worse than the Great Recession, but if you want to know why the youths (and poors) are a little mad, maybe look at this:

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@arthur_spirling He was worried he’d lose his balance on that crate.

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@lionel_trolling Foucault

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@erikmbaker Or just look at what’s actually happening with housing and childcare.

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@DevonRGoss We gotta stop letting them do that 😂

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@CaseyStockstill We only have four people but we have had two configurations: across the aisle and two consecutive rows (one in front of the other). Counterintuitively, I actually think having half (or 3/5) of the party behind/in front of the other is better.

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@runzach @jbenmenachem @erikmbaker At first I was like, wow, Jacobin published Steven P*nker?

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@a_h_reaume @nils_gilman I agree there is a reason the services of these consultants seems to be in demand.

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@theyoungjoo You’re giving me nostalgia. My first job was as a video store clerk at Figueiredo's Video Movies in Arcata, California (I know you have Humboldt roots, does that ring a bell?) . I even had my own “picks” shelf.

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@MattPolProf This sustained left wing engagement was published in… 1996.

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Inequality by Design

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@benwurgaft @hyoyoonkang Yeah, and it’s probably mostly just a Twitter thing so it maybe doesn’t matter that much

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@jbenmenachem Yeah but the degree and kind of antagonism really depends because “institutionalism” is so vague/broad.

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@AndrewHMcCumber And you’re taking a step toward personal and societal liberation if you sign up for my course

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@Tyler_A_Harper OTOH, a lot of academic concepts (e.g., sexual harassment, intersectionality) have spilled over into mainstream institutions. The real q is not how these theories capture institutions but how institutions capture (and often twist) these theories to legitimate themselves.

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Nice piece that moves beyond the asinine “supply and demand” commodity framing and the even more asinine “decomodify housing” framing to actually specify what housing is.

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@EAKoebele I think it’s a little different for the ones who genuinely wanted it and the structural conditions have left them high and dry. In that sense it’s very easy to see the demand for someone to tell them a UX job will mean total liberation.

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@GregWert @jbouie Elite or not elite. Just support public education. There are loads of good public unis that accept most applicants that could support them even better with more resources.

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These citation network analyses created by @AndrewHMcCumber were really helpful for understanding the structure of climate change research in and among the journals we sampled.

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@ikesharpless It’s rigorous, well argued and beautifully written, but also a model in how to compassionately portray research subjects that one disagrees with, showing that seeing the world through their eyes yields analytical insights that a more dismissive/denunciatory approach misses.

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@DevinGoure @ikesharpless @jacleo13 I agree. I’ve emphasized this with my students because I want to show them how to get underneath theorists’ assumptions/premises. I actually find Marx’s normative assumptions about freedom to be unconvincing, and that’s one of the reasons I’m not a Marxist despite some affinities

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@GlassDelaney Solidarity.

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@_kvelasco I realized that my well meaning boomer interlocutors who claim the housing market is "cyclical" or "goes up and down" are like climate denialists who think global warming is due "natural variability." We're living through a full scale regime shift.

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@zra_research I basically think, except for methods classes (which should also be flexible once you have basic skills), all courses in PhD programs should basically be reading groups and/or writing workshops.

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@RachelWetts @BrownSociology @Brown_IBES @ClimateSSN Very excited to see this in the pages of the AJS! Congrats again. And looking forward to integrating this new citation into my own work on environmental political division and cultural resonance (!)

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