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Joe Árvai

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Director of USC Wrigley and professor of psychology, biology, and environmental studies. I do research on how people think, decide, and behave in a changing world. Enjoy a cup of Joe at: https://www.joearvai.org/cup-of-joe. Instagram: @JoeArvai. 🇨🇦🇭🇺🇺🇸

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 17h

Maybe for their next trick, #NYT will account for the human and environmental health externalities of petrol (and even hybrid) powered autos. I drive an #EV for a lot of reasons. Cost of charging isn’t one of them.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 2d

This isn’t only at happening at Harvard.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

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Jenna Blyler @jailbirdjenna.bsky.social · 8d

Three Mile Island wasn’t the worst nuclear disaster in American history.

Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context.

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Familiar harms, familiar terms - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 17d

This is a false. The Nebraska “bankruptcy” has been thoroughly debunked. www.snopes.com/fact-check/n...

Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 22d

For more information or to register, go here: dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/educ...

Maymester - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 22d

🚨🚨🚨Attention @dornsife.usc.edu and @USC.edu students! Enrollment is open for the @uscwrigley.usc.edu Summer Residential College on the #Environment. Develop hands-on skills, expand your knowledge, and soak up the beauty of our campus in a MPA on Catalina Island. Classes fill up fast. Don’t wait!

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 22d

The group that authored a controversial report sowing doubt in the severity of #climatechange has been disbanded. I’ve said and written many times before, what to do in response to climate change is very much an open question. But whether climate change is real and consequential is not.

Trump administration dissolves climate contrarian group that authored controversial report | CNN

The group’s end can be traced to a lawsuit alleging the group’s formation violated federal law in several ways.

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 22d

Yes, a talented artist. Also a graceful, thoughtful, and civil activist. Class act all the way. We need more like him.

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 27d

For more information, go to: Click here for more: dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/educ... #sustainability #climatechange #transportation #greenenergy

Decision-making for Sustainability - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability

Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · 27d

🚨🚨🚨Hey @dornsife.usc.edu @usc.edu @uscwrigley.usc.edu students, I'm once again offering my class, "It's not easy being green: Decision-making for #sustainable action", in spring 2026. The class splits its time between LA and #Switzerland. There are only 16 spots so sign-up soon if you're interested.

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Sep 8

It’s right to ask legitimate questions about what, if anything, we should do about climate change. It is misleading, indeed an outright lie, to vastly understate its consequences.

Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Sep 8

Another misleading title. An article by a well established climate, junk scientist can hardly provide clarity on the consequences of #climatechange. The established fact is climate change is caused by humans and has led to extraordinarily negative outcomes for communities and species.

Opinion | At Long Last, Clarity on Climate

The Energy Department’s recent report is drawing predictable criticism from politicized scientists.

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🌈Super Gay Mom💙 @hudsonbay2la.bsky.social · Sep 4

"More than 1,000 current & former Health & Human Services employees called on Kennedy to resign in a letter to the secretary & members of Congress."

#resist

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Sep 4

At last, a bipartisan agreement: that #RFKJr is a #junkscience and #conspiracytheory peddling liar. Even those who voted to confirm him are raising the alarm.

RFK Jr. Grilled Over CDC Turmoil, Vaccines in Senate Hearing

The health secretary is grilled by lawmakers from both parties over his leadership of the agency and the future of U.S. vaccine policy.

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Aug 31

"Trusting the experts is not a feature of #science." WTF are you talking about, man?

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · Aug 29

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Aug 26

I'be been saying this since Day 1 of #ChatGPT. It's now Day 1,000. It's way past time for universities to go back to #bluebook assignments and exams. I simply do not care if students don't like it. My job is to get students to think for themselves. If that's a probkem, my classroom isn't for them.

Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.

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Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Aug 26

Exactly my point. I know the city well having lived in both Detroit and Columbus.

Joe Árvai @joearvai.org · Aug 6

mRNA vaccines got the world back on its feet during the #COVID19 pandemic. Were it not for their development, we’d still be alone and indoors, drinking too much cheap wine, and watching #TedLasso. The US government’s retreat on #science continues.