Joan Kim (she/her)

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Charlotte Kate Weatherill (2025) entitled: '‘Operation Hurricane’: Narrating Climate Change as Imperial Mess' with an orange banner at the top.

🏝️New in Geo!🏝️

'"Operation Hurricane": Narrating climate change as imperial mess' by Charlotte Weatherill

This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section: 'Political Ecologies of Islands: Environmental & Climate (In)Justices'.

doi.org/10.1002/geo2...

Exactly. A lot of the time, a call for empathy for the dominant group is actually a call for sacrifice from the oppressed.

They use the word “empathy” to make the injustice feel like a moral imperative.

Hot off the press!

Want a current compendium of major psychological challenges and solutions to environmental sustainability?

Elke Weber & I break down this multifaceted issue in the new, FREE, chapter of The Handbook of Social Psychology, 6th ed:
openpublishing.princeton.edu/read/environ...

Tl;dr: We find that understanding relations between people and nature predicts biospheric attitudes and pro-env behavioral intention beyond political ideology.

We'll also be presenting this work at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social conference 👀

Our paper is finally out! 🎉🎉🎉

Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship Predict Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions (www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17...)

“We find that two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%, meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 times the average per capita contribution.”
[Reminder that 10% wealthiest includes 810 million people, who earn more than $125k annually]

Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”

⭐️ Please share ⭐️

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

Palestinian, Turkish, Indian, Iranian, Gambian-British, Korean — they’re coming after all in a real way. Black, brown, Asian, Muslim or not, this is a story of rounding up, kidnapping, people of color. If you are a member of these groups or an ally, and you’re a citizen, you need to fight back.

We have found the first documented case of an immigrant being imported to the US by politicians and then committing a bunch of heinous sex crimes

3 people and a dog. 2 people holding signs saying, "Our oceans are rising and so are we" and "Science saves lives."

4 interdisciplinary huskies at the Boston #standupforscience protest! Representing @northeasternu.bsky.social's Marine and Env Sciences, Psychology, and Public Health. @megansouza17.bsky.social

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

The People Carrying Out Musk’s Plans at DOGE (Gift Article) The Times identified 50 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.

Names and faces of the people wrecking our government in the cause of DOGE
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Free virtual boot camp seeks to recruit and educate civil rights advocates The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Heads up, lawyers and law students. The @americanbar.org is stepping up.
www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

2023-24 Religious Landscape Study (RLS) Dataset Archives

Religion data for reuse! Those stories about U.S. religion you're currently seeing in the news? They're from the Pew 2023-2024 Religious Landscape Study. While anyone can explore the data with their online tools, Pew has also shared the underlying dataset: doi.org/10.58094/3kw...

Farmers, investors, miners and parents: how unconventional climate advocates can reach new audiences About 40% of Australians don’t believe humans are a major cause of climate change. Reaching these sceptic holdout groups may require unconventional approaches.

Researchers find that groups like Farmers for Climate Action and the Investor Group on Climate Change have a more sympathetic reception than typical left-leaning groups. Can these "unconventional advocates" play a role in expanding the climate movement? See below👇 theconversation.com/farmers-inve...

“Your work is your rebellion” 💪

www.reddit.com/r/labrats/co...

Academics have been perfecting our skills at flighting fascism during faculty meetings.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

My friend said that her NIH funding came in 30 minutes before the ban was supposed to go in effect and was approved at 1 in the morning.

People aren't giving up.

Advancing the Scientific Study of Structural Racism: Concepts, Measures, and Methods This review provides ten actionable recommendations for advancing the scientific study of structural racism through theoretically grounded and empirically robust measures and methods. By offering conc...

What is structural racism, and how do we measure it?

@tyson-brown.bsky.social, @pahoman.bsky.social, and I have a forthcoming Annual Review article on @socarxiv.bsky.social. Check it before studying structural racism is banned (and follow Tyson and Trish, new to Bluesky). osf.io/6zbgh/

ok tenured faculty. what advice do you have for pre-tenure professors who are expected to write/ get grants for tenure? is it too early to panic? delay clock? hoard startup? cry?

This is how you say “go fuck yourself sideways with a porcupine” in inspector general speak.

Going to be interesting to see how the administration responds

I should have made clearer in my original post (to explain this closing remark)

We found that specific prejudices (anti-Black, anti-gay, anti-feminist, anti-illegal immigrant) are becoming more correlated over time (2004-2020).

#PrejudiceResearch

Cover of The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod

First time on Bluesky 👋☁️

🟠 Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be out in March (and in >10 languages later this year)! 🔵

📘 It’s about what makes some brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds and bodies, and what it means to break free 📙

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI

Amazon
Boeing
Brown-Forman
Caterpillar
Ford
Harley-Davidson
John Deere
Lowe’s
Molson Coors
McDonald’s
Meta
Nissan
Stanley Black & Decker
Target
Tractor Supply
Toyota
Walmart

Support who supports you ✨✊

Left side of image shows a website for "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Engineering", right side of image shows a "Page Not Found" error.

DEI-related content was still up on NSF's site last night, so thought maybe someone there was making a stand... but no... pages about diversity are now being removed.

LEFT: Yesterday
RIGHT: Today

[this page was top google hit for NSF + DEI]

#academicsky #neuroskyence #psychscisky

a man from schitt 's creek says he 's feeling this like deep aching sense of dread ALT: a man from schitt 's creek says he 's feeling this like deep aching sense of dread

In retrospect, getting large numbers of anxious academics to join one small social media platform en masse was a mistake