Dani Grant

The School for Environment and Sustainability at University of Michigan is recruiting another postdoc aimed at improving community resilience and protecting vulnerable populations from compound wildfire hazards!

Link: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

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I'm excited to share that I will soon be a postdoc at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability 🌲 with Dr. Paige Fischer examining wildfire smoke risk perceptions and response!

🚨New WP🚨
Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction
-Sig more effective than consensus messaging
-Works for Republicans
-Evidence of persistence @ 1mo
-Scalable!
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

For academics in the US: the University of Toulouse has quickly put together a program to help bring scholars to France whose work is under attack by the Trump administration. The priorities area are: humanities, climate sciences, health, and space research.

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I was proud to write for the New York Times for more than 20 years, but I’m not proud of the newspaper’s buried coverage of the nationwide #handsoff protests. Compare the printed front page today to 1970 Earth Day.

Most Christian American religious leaders silently believe in climate change, and informing their congregation can help open dialogue | PNAS Religious leaders shape the attitudes and beliefs of their congregations. In a nationally representative sample of U.S. religious leaders (N = 1,60...

🚨New PNAS Paper w/@stysyropoulos.bsky.social 🚨
90% of US Christian religious leaders accept humans drive climate change. Sharing this info w/Christians boosts seeing climate action & voting for candidates who take climate action as consistent w/their church's values. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2419705122

I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing.

I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft."

Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.

A shark so small it fits in photographer Andy Murch’s hand

ATTENTION: look at this wee lil Catshark.

Thank you for looking at this wee lil Catshark.

(Photo by Andy Murch)

World’s first trillionaire may emerge in 10 years, disparity report finds Antipoverty group Oxfam said the world’s five richest people have almost doubled their wealth since 2019, while nearly 5 billion people have become poorer.

"since 2019, the world’s five wealthiest people have almost doubled their wealth, while nearly 5 billion people have become poorer."

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

bless our lord and savior, the Caleb McDaniel Rice generic syllabus date generator🙏

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Grad students were murdered worse by 30 Rock…

How your money is helping subsidise sexism in academia – and what you can do about it Studies reveal women’s research receives tougher assessment, less funding, fewer prizes and less citation than men’s.

A 2023 study of almost a quarter of a million US academics showed that women are leaving research at much higher rates than men are, and toxic workplaces is the number one reason. What can be done about it? #AcademicChatter #Academia #STEM #sciencejobs theconversation.com/how-your-mon...

Agreed!👇

And if you want to hear more on friendship + why we need to dedicate more resources to exploring it, come see me talk this Fall at UCSD or UCSB 🫶

#psych #socialpsych #friendship

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PhD Scholarship - call for applications! Go study the cultural evolution of mentalising or religion with @josephwatts.bsky.social at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. For more info visit the link! josephwatts.org/2024PhDschol... #BioAnth

An interesting finding, but this abstract is *so good.* It reads as such an accessible and compelling summary of the research. No jargon. Clear narrative. Anybody would understand the key point from it.

Something to aspire to.

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