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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of great research on the global soybean trade: Silva, R Felipe Bicudo da, E F. Moran, J D. A. Millington, A Viña, and J Liu. 2023. “Complex Relationships between Soybean Trade Destination and Tropical Deforestation.” Scientific Reports 13 (1): 11254. doi.org/10.1038/s415....

Complex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Complex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · 8d

I'm honored to be giving the Stan & Kobla Kapowitz Distinguished Lecture at MSU in November. It is in person only. Registration link is: tinyurl.com/Kaplowitz25

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · 15d

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St. Patrick's Day Medal Award 2026 - Research Ireland

The Research Ireland St Patrick’s Day Medal is awarded annually to a distinguished researcher living and working in the USA with strong Irish connections. Running since 2014, the competition was furth...

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · 16d

Dumb question. What pen do you use for book signings? I'm doing some academic talks at two universities and the hosts have arranged book signings for my "Decisions for Sustainability" and wondering what the pros use.

tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · 16d

New report from the US National Academies on risks from greenhouse gas emissions: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/09...

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · 19d

"...to my mind a discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty." Mark Twain, "The American Press" 1888

tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Aug 29

Important new webinar by the National Research Council Board on Environmental Change and Society. Please share widely. mailchi.mp/nationalacad...

Webinar: Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Aug 25

New short paper that might be of interest to some.
Thomas Dietz and Michael Vandenbergh. 2025. From Explosion to Implosion: The New Population Challenge. SSRN: Https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5404682

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Aug 11

The US NAS is conducting a fasttrack study on anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Submission of papers for consideration is welcome. survey.alchemer.com/s3/8416653/R...

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION — Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases and US Climate: Evidence and Impacts

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · Apr 2

📄 A new paper reveals how the US animal #agriculture industry fought against campaigns promoting individual dietary shifts — like Meatless Monday 🥦 and Beyond Beef 🌱

This just underscores that Big Industry hates high-impact individual #climate action 🔥🌍

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The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action

The oil and gas industry has regularly deflected responsibility towards individual consumers. In contrast, here we show that the US animal agriculture industry has not only avoided notions of indiv...

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · Mar 25

This new paper highlights a major issue in measuring and predicting individual #carbon footprints: Many studies use the same factors to calculate and explain CFPs, leading to tautological conclusions. This overlap risks misleading conclusions about the real drivers.
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The trouble with carbon footprint analysis in behavioral climate research - Climatic Change

Everyday behavior of individual citizens plays a central role in reducing global green-house gas emissions and combating climate change. A popular tool to measure and quantify the impact of these beha...

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Social & Behavioral Sciences at NASEM @sbs.nationalacademies.org · Mar 24

While the U.S. spends more on #childbirth than any other country in the world, it has worse outcomes than other high-resource nations. Our report identifies ways to improve childbirth services in hospitals, in birth centers, and for home births: buff.ly/U7Y47Zf

A pregnant woman looks at her belly while sitting on a couch at home.

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Mar 21

Yep, I'm in there too, they've got academic books and papers as well.

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Mar 21

Once new a former inmate of The Rock who knew those folks and was a consultant to the Clint Eastwood movie.

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Mar 10

Nice statement from NAS President Marcia McNutt on the need for science based analysis for policy decisions. www.nationalacademies.org/news/2025/03...

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Kristian Steensen Nielsen @kristiansn89.bsky.social · Mar 7

How well do people understand the #climate impact of #behavior?🌱

In a new paper, we examine people’s climate-impact perceptions of different behaviors and lifestyles and whether these are linked to behavior and support for behavior-regulating climate policies 🧵

#GreenSky
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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Feb 24

Love to have some refs to the latest in Q methods.

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Matt Goldberg @mattgoldberg100.bsky.social · Feb 20

Does moralizing messaging about renewable energy increase how durable message effects are? 🚨 Our new paper is now out: Testing the Durability of Persuasion From Moral Appeals About Renewable Energy

A growing literature suggests that framing issues in moral terms can make attitudes more durable. 1/x

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Feb 20

This strikes me as closely related to the large literature on values. Perhaps it's time to integrate those literatures.

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Erik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · Feb 16

The FEMA report that my team of contractors and agency staff wrote, Financing Climate Resilience, is still available on the FEMA website. Download it while you still can. Our team got the stop work order.
www.fema.gov/sites/defaul...

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Matt Goldberg @mattgoldberg100.bsky.social · Feb 12

🟦 🟥 A massive amount of research has focused on the effect of political "party cues," where people move their position on issues to be more in line with the position expressed by their preferred party.

It might seem like this type of effect would be fleeting, but it's not.

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Feb 4

A new report helps ground our perceptiosn of how things are going in the US in reality. The challenge is to get this kind of information into the public discussion.
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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Feb 3

"The Cuyahoga River caught fire in 1969."

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Jan 31

Why we don't need staff cuts across the board at federal agencies: Just spent 90+ min on hold at Social Security . When the civil servant answered she was friendly, expert and efficient. Got my question resolved in minutes. They need more staff, not less.

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tdietzvt.bsky.social @tdietzvt.bsky.social · Jan 21

Cambridge really is not doing a good job with books like yours. My Decisions for Sustainability does have a paperback but they have done essentially no promotion.

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