Pilar Morales Giner

Omar El Akkad's book

Frightening to see how widely applicable this quote is these days:

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad

The Future of Water and Democracy: Assessing and Improving Water Governance in the United States Water governance—the structures and processes for making collective choices over how to allocate, deliver, and protect water supplies—poses both an opportunity and a challenge for democracy. Water go...

New article out now, where we consider water as both a driver of and challenge for democracy in the US context. Feels even more timely now than we were writing it doi.org/10.1002/wat2...

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📣 New article by me in @plosclimate.org!

We can’t decarbonize energy by focusing on supply alone—we must tackle demand too.

🔹 Efficiency has cut more emissions than renewables
🔹 Smarter demand = less fossil fuel reliance
🔹 Cleanest energy is energy we don’t use

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What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?

Just a few places left for the Foundation's debut Conversations event with Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social.

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Book cover features a straight road extending toward the horizon through a semi-arid landscape. The title, in French, reads Les frontières des migrations africaines.

Strange times to be promoting publications, but I’m excited to share this great book, years in the making! I contributed a chapter on unaccompanied children on the move toward southern #EU.

Ed by Andrea Réa (ULB, Belgium), Mamadou Dime (UGB, Senegal), & Bob White (UdeM).

📖OA in April.

#migration

This is very helpful and much needed work, thanks for sharing!

Two students & I reviewed every #IPCC report since 1990, identified, summarized how migration/displacement were assessed. Resulting 33p report too massive for a journal article available free, open access here here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Evolution of Public Engagement in United States Environmental Governance: A Justice-Centered Framework Public engagement in environmental governance in the United States (US) has evolved from an initial regulatory approach to a more targeted effort to consider the input of the most impacted communit...

Our new publication about the evolution of public engagement toward environmental justice. #GreenSky and others may find this relevant www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think this part is quite helpful if you want to figure out why you would like to use variables argument with avg_predictions: marginaleffects.com/chapters/com...

The National Hurricane Center set an all-time record for forecast accuracy in 2024 » Yale Climate Connections But the investments in hurricane research that led to the new record are threatened by proposed budget cuts.

The most deadly hurricane in US history was the one they had no warning of - the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. So this is good news from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social. Warnings save lives!

Quantifying CO2 forcing effects on lightning, wildfires, and climate interactions A model analysis shows interactions between climate, lightning, wildfires, and changes in the interactions with global warming.

A new study finds that with every degree global warming, the global mean area burned by fires each year will increase by 13.8%

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Section Award Nomination Calls | American Sociological Association Many ASA Sections offer awards to recognize achievement in their respective areas of academic interest.  Following are the most recent calls for nominations

Graduate students, please submit nominations for the Sociology of Development Graduate Student Paper Award!

Due March 1.

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Can wildfires disrupt our sense of connectedness to beloved places? - College of Liberal Arts Based on their wildfire research, IRISS researcher Anne Mook and colleague Pilar Morales-Giner spoke with CSU's The Audit about the deeper impact wildfires can have on communities. Using the Cameron P...

Thanks to Stacy Nick for hosting Dr. Anne Mook and I to talk about fires and place attachment! Check it out in the Audit from the Colorado State University:
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Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.

We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.

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YouTube video by Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe Climate vs Weather | Global Weirding

"It's snowing in Florida - where's global warming now?!"

If you've ever thought that (or heard anyone else say it), I have a Global Weirding episode for you!

4/4 Understanding both place affection and awareness can assist community-based approaches to planning as wildfires, like the recent LA fire, become more frequent and severe.

3/4 Equally important is recognizing how communities build "place awareness"—an informed understanding of functional meanings, like wildfire risk or water scarcity.

2/4 It’s crucial to understand how people form "place affection", especially as wildfire exposure reshapes meanings like “scenic,” “calm,” or “healthy.”

1/4 Wildfires don’t shape how people connect to places alone. They interact with other forces like population shifts and climate change.

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📣New research published in Environment and Behavior!
How do wildfires affect community place meanings in rural Colorado? 🏞️Dr. Anne Mook and I explore this in "Ash Everywhere". journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#wildfires #sociology #UGR
Key insights (thread 🧵):

Typed Versus Handwritten Lecture Notes and College Student Achievement: A Meta-Analysis

Last minute add to my course intro slides

"We conclude that handwritten notes are more useful for studying and committing to memory than typed notes, ultimately contributing to higher achievement for college students."

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Birkin handbags, Walmart’s ‘Wirkin’ and the meme-ification of class warfare A handbag becoming a symbol of class strife aptly defines the mood of the online zeitgeist.

I wrote in The Conversation about the Walmart Birkin dupe, Luigi Mangione, and a changing mood of the online zeitgeist, from culture wars to class wars.

Me please