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Caleb Scoville

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sociology prof @Tufts and 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · Apr 16

I am grateful, honored, and still a bit shocked to be named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for my project, “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.”

www.carnegie.org/awards/honor...

#CarnegieFellows @carnegiecorp.bsky.social

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 2d

Perhaps the term “advocacy” is too specific or too high a bar. I am just interested in discourse from pro/anti choice orgs.

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 2d

All good. I'm most interested in long-running orgs to understand long term discursive patterns, not as much in the politics of today, although newer ones are interesting too.

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 2d

If one were to do an analysis of statements by the most influential organizations working on abortion (both pro-choice and pro-life organizations), what would they be? I have a working list, but hoping to crowdsource orgs I'm missing.

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 2d

If one were to do an analysis of statements by the most influential organizations on immigration policy/politics on both sides of the aisle (including anti-immigration and pro-immigration positions), what would they be? I have a working list but hoping to crowdsource orgs I'm missing.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

A fireball lit up the sky across the Los Angeles area on Thursday night after an explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, alarming nearby residents who said it felt like an earthquake. The cause of the explosion was not clear. No injuries were reported. nyti.ms/42pPCaW

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 7d

The New England upper class, on the other hand, is educated professionals who inherited some monopoly.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 8d

maybe turning over a major political party to reality tv spectacle wasn't a good idea?

NPR @npr.org · 8d

JUST IN: President Trump has told top U.S. commanders that the military would be used against "enemy within."

Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within'

Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 8d

🌍New in Geo!🌍

'From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources' by @calebscoville.bsky.social et al.

This paper compares how participation is conceived in static vs dynamic ocean management.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo by Caleb Scoville, Razvan Amironesei, Lily Xu, Melissa Chapman, Nicholas R. Record & Carl Boettiger entitled: 'From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources' with an orange banner at the top.

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Lily Xu @lilyxu.bsky.social · 9d

Very happy to be part of this new paper brilliantly led by @calebscoville.bsky.social on new opportunities for stakeholder participation with dynamic management compared to static management of natural resources! 🌳🌏🙋

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 11d

New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.”
doi.org/10.1002/geo2... (open access)

How does stakeholder participation in natural resource management change when conservation rules are grounded in near real-time data? Recent technological advances have increased the feasibility of the ‘dynamic management’ of natural resources, which promises to align the spatiotemporal scales of management with ecological variability and resource use. Drawing on Kelty's (2020) concept of ‘contributory autonomy’, this article offers a critical comparison of how participation is conceived of in the more established context of static conservation areas and planning versus the emergent field of dynamic management. A systematic review of the dynamic ocean management literature reveals a varied, but shallow engagement with the topic of stakeholder participation in that context. Whereas static management regimes are governed by relatively intuitive and contestable maps, dynamic management is governed by models and data flows. Overall, the decision-making stakeholder of participatory mapping processes under static management is displaced by the stakeholder conceived as an ‘end-user’ of a dynamic management product and consultant in its design. Yet, these shifts also open up potential points of contestation, which may pattern the future theory and practice of participation in dynamic management: counterdata, countermodelling and data chokepoints. Beyond the empirical focus on oceans, this article contributes to broader conversations about the political stakes of environmental data, and algorithmic and artificial intelligence-driven natural resource conservation by considering how possibilities for participation are foreclosed, enabled and reconstituted by new spatiotemporal and technological conditions.

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 9d

fossil fuels are expensive, dirty, and literally destroying the life support systems of the planet. a political opposition that doesn’t run with this deserves to go the way of the dinosaurs.

Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 9d

Estimates by Lazard

Electricity cost per megawatt hour
solar
$ 58
onshore wind
62
gas
79
coal
122

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 9d

Estimates by Lazard

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9d

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

Comedian Tim Dillon said on his podcast last month that he signed up for financial reasons.
He said he had been offered "a large sum of money" - $375,000 for one performance - and said that other comedians had been offered as much as $1.6 million. He told his detractors to "get over it," adding, "So what if they have slaves, they're paying me enough to look the other way."
But in an episode of the Tim Dillon Podcast last week, the comedian announced he'd been removed from the lineup for the comments he made about the country's record on slavery.

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 9d

sign of the times: I could tell the genx men in the cafe were talking about the new Jeff Tweedy (triple) album without an explicit mention of his name.

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

Age yourself with a film you saw in a cinema as a kid

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

Sometimes I wonder if I’m wasting my time doing media analysis and then I see stuff like this and…

“"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?“

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

the absolute concentration of power in a single institution controlled by a single individual. what could go wrong?

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

it’s honestly kind of funny that they’re called the Republican Party because this is the kind of stuff classical republicans were super worried about, for good reason.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10d

Awarding scientific grants based on scientific merit? That pales in comparison to my strategy, giving grants based on political loyalty

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Wp EXCLUSIVE
White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies The proposal could potentially transform the government's vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

I guess he was being conservative.

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 10d

very interesting reflections from Corey Robin here on why and when he changed his mind on the threat that Trump poses to democracy in America.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Let me first start by saying that during the first Trump term, I was part of a fairly small group of people on the left who were very skeptical of a lot of the warnings about authoritarianism, fascism, autocracy and strongman politics.

I think I had a lot of evidence on my side. I wasn’t just being ornery. There were many ways in which, compared to, say, George W. Bush — if we’re thinking about political repression or transforming institutions — Trump was quite a piddling actor. I know the second Red Scare, I know the labor wars in this country, I know about the battle over abolition. It seemed like Trump was small potatoes. Not just because of the ways he was constrained. It also seemed like: What was the revolution that Trumpism was counteracting? You had nothing like the New Deal, or what we’ve just been describing. So I was skeptical.

What shook me out of this was the assault on government workers and the firings. That was the first thing. For me, employment sanctions are always the canary in the coal mine. There’s a long history of it. It’s really the way a lot of American political repression has happened. W.E.B. Du Bois, in “Black Reconstruction in America,” says it’s employment sanctions that is the driving engine during this very violent moment against Black people.

Then, all of a sudden, you see these mass firings happening. There’s all kinds of reasons to worry about that if you care about climate change. And a lot of people were talking about all those things, but I was thinking about it instantaneously as McCarthyism.

The other thing was, of course, the capitulation of law firms and universities. And the record of elites and institutions, unfortunately, is not so great. So seeing those institutions start capitulating, often to financial threats. Not: We’re going to put you in jail. But: We’re going to take away your funding.

Americans have a weird attitude toward money. On the one hand, it’s the most important thing in America. And on the other hand, we have this very moralistic idea: Well, if it’s just money, stand up to the [expletive]!

And it’s like: Could we put these two worlds together? [Laughs.]

The economy is a medium of political coercion in this country. It always has been. Trump didn’t invent that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe not, but useful content for Lisa Cook’s lawyers

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 11d

Does this count as an official statement?

Trump posted a cartoon of himself telling Jerome Powell he's fired.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 11d

Trump is launching an authoritarian takeover of Portland hoping to provoke conflict in my hometown. I urge Oregonians to reject Trump’s attempt to incite violence in what we know is a vibrant and peaceful city. I will do everything in my power to protect the people in our state.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

BREAKING: Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, as he expands military deployments in U.S. cities.

Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, to handle 'domestic terrorists'

President Donald Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon, to handle “domestic terrorists” as he expands his controversial deployments to more American cities.

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Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 11d

solidarity

Caleb Scoville @calebscoville.bsky.social · 11d

Being deployed to Portland will radicalize so many American servicepeople. They will, as I did during my seven years there, develop expectations about brunch, coffee, and beer that cannot be realistically met anywhere else in this country.

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