valerie berseth

Really looking forward to #4S2025 - I'll be in Seattle speaking about my work with #SEEKCommons this year on #openscience as a distrust technology. Reach out if you're going to be there!

#STS #sociology #environmentalstudies

I am honoured to receive the Early Career Prize from Environmental Sociology for: lnkd.in/e27ABipc

Finding: Adaptation technologies are not always seen as threats to naturalness and can be seen as necessary to restore what was lost #environmentalsociology #conservation #climateadaptation #wildlife

WHITE HOUSE RALLY · VizEvents The White House has just frozen federal funding, a move that could halt payments within days to states and households relying on essential programs like SNAP food aid, housing assistance, education, h...

Folks are starting to protest in response to the federal funding ban. These times are starting to get scary. Please be careful whatever you do and read up at @aclu.org before you go! Details are here: www.mobilize.us/climateactio...

Bernie Sanders Is 'All For' Canada Becoming The 51st State If The U.S. Will Also Adopt Universal Healthcare Sen. Bernie Sanders has sparked conversation on social media with a post tying universal health care to an idea floated by President-elect Donald Trump. According to The Associated Press (AP), at a di...

I cannot stress enough how irrelevant it is to talk about what services would change pos/neg if the US annexed Canada.

I've heard a lot of this lately and stunned at how casually people are skipping past the violent takeover part of the threat.

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#environmentalSTEM #environmentalsociology #sociology #researchethics #climatechange #ai #biodiversity #climateadaptation #environmentalethics

Climate Change‐Conscious Methodologies: Ethical Research in a Changing World Caption: Climate-change conscious methodologies require responsible and human-centered research, attending to shifting vulnerabilities over time, adapting methodologies, and adopting a community-cent...

How do we conduct ethical environmental research in a world on fire?

Excited to share a new article in #WIRES with Angeline Letourneau outlining Climate Change-Conscious Methodologies #cccm - open access here:

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Are you a #gradstudent or #postdoc in the #PNW? Check out the NW Climate Adaptation Science Center Research Fellowship Program - up to $65k to support research related to #climateadaptation for natural and cultural resource management. Deadline March 10

nwcasc.uw.edu/about/fundin...

Common(s) in Science and Technology? Dispatches from the SEEKCommons Network | Platypus As a distributed network of researchers, technologists, and environmental activists, we proposed, therefore, to shift the frame from debates about the promises and perils of “openness” to the anthropo...

For the last year I've been a fellow with #SEEKCommons, an incredible network of people pushing for the #commons as "a political principle for #communitybuilding around common tools and approaches to #socioenvironmental studies"
Read more about this innovative and exciting work here:
#sociology #sts

Swimming Against the Current: Navigating Distrust in Open Science | Platypus In the effort to build trust in science, the complexities of distrust must be confronted. Open science practices alone are unlikely to address deeper issues of power and people’s past experiences with...

What can salmon 🐟 teach us about trust?

Read/listen to my post on #Platypus about the challenges for #openscience in addressing ongoing histories of distrust, and lessons from the amazing journeys salmon take to the ocean and back. #digitalsociology #environment #socialscience #seekcommons

Taking care of knowledge, taking care of salmon: towards Indigenous data sovereignty in an era of climate change and cumulative effects In this paper, we argue that Indigenous data sovereignty (IDS) is vital for addressing threats to ecosystems, as well as for Indigenous Peoples re-establishing and maintaining sovereignty over their t...

Today's morning read - very important and meaningful work for anyone who works on environmental data #indigenousdatasovereignty #openscience #datagovernance #environmentaldata #coproduction

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Survival basics: Emergency kits In a natural disaster or other emergency, the key to survival is being prepared. Be ready with an emergency kit for your family. Emergency kits contain the basic needs for life: food, water, warmth, f...

Feels like a great time to share this Cascadia Go Bag list:

extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog/pub/... (Spanish available)

#cascadia #tsunami #emergencykit #oregonseagrant #PNW #kitdeemergencia

Talk in Action Talk in Action examines the language, identity, and interaction of social institutions, introducing students to the research methodology of Conversation Analysis. Features a unique focus on real-world applications of CA by examining four institutional domains: calls to emergency numbers, doctor-patient interaction, courtroom trials, and mass communication, Provides a theoretical and methodological overview of the roots of CA, reviewing the main developments and findings of research on talk and social institutions conducted over the past 25 years Showcases the significance of this subject to everyday events, making it ideal for students coming to the field for the first time Written by two leading figures in the field of Conversation Analysis

Is #methodsmondays a thing? I went back to this text this morning and always find it a thoughtful and useful resource for understanding interview dynamics

#qualitativeresearch #sociology #conversationanalysis #interviewing #socialscience

You may know your moon sign, but what ~salmon~ are you? 🌊 I'm a Chinook 😊
www.salmonsociety.com/journey/

#salmon #peopleandnature #quiz #fish #biodiversity #chinook

Biocultural Empire Human species supremacy is one of the most persistent fictions at work in the field of modern British imperial history today. This open access collection challe…

Very excited to dive into this over the holidays, specifically "Biocultural Histories of the Black Anthropocene" and "Papering over Muddy Histories: Imperial Logics of Space in the Anthropocene"
#postcolonial #anthropocene #environmentalstudies #sociology #environmentalhistory

Listening to discussions about sea otter reintroduction in Oregon. "If there are Indigenous words for sea otters but they are not here, why?" #stateofthecoast #oregonseagrant #elakhaalliance

Attending the #StateoftheCoast conference this weekend and we kicked off with sharks. Did you know some sharks eat beavers??? Also don't fear sharks but don't cuddle them either