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Researching, Teaching & Organizing on The Climate Crisis
From cognitive neuroscience to the climate crisis
After 20 years of doing cognitive neuroscience, Prof Aron shifted to teaching, researching and organizing on the climate and ecological crisis.
These pages document the earlier research effort and the new climate psychology and action lab.
In such places as California & [some of] Europe the control lever to transition electricity, buildings & transportation is at the agency, regulator & city level.
These often already have big goals to cut emissions - we need a CITIZEN PUSH to IMPLEMENT.
@JustinHGillis @hal_harvey https://t.co/XOjFH1jP5j
@ScientistRebel1: Adam has done us all a great service by providing a wide-ranging, accessible treatment of the climate crisis & its solutions in this new book.
It's great for self-study or as a basis for a course on the topic. We need educators across universities to step up. This book can help. https://t.co/COdWIHpNkm
Are you a physical/bio scientist who feels unprepared to teach psycho-social-economic-justice aspects?
Are you a humanities-scholar/social-scientist who feels unprepared to teach physical science?
My new book, with materials, provides a broad treatment:
https://t.co/f9bFxk2YLy
@ucsdgreennewde1: Our organization in solidarity with striking academic workers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography ... and the wider rally outside Geisel Library.
@sruuaw @UCSD_Unions_UAW https://t.co/m0dNmPsM9Q
THE LATEST:
- Oct 2022, Adam’s review “A Neurosurgeon’s Climate Fight” in Science Magazine
- May 2022, Adam’s book on the climate crisis is in production at Cambridge University Press.
- May 2022, our first paper from the climate and psychology lab is accepted, a pre-registered report no less! Castiglione et al. Discovering the psychological building blocks underlying climate action – a longitudinal study of real-world activism, Royal Society – Open Science.
- March 2022: Megan Phelps is interviewed by local NPR radio on eco-anxiety and climate activism.
- July 2021: Ricci’s paper “Towards real-world generalizability of a circuit for action-stopping” is published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
- July 2021: Adam interviews social and environmental psychologist Kelly Fielding and grassroots organizer Masada Disenhouse.
- April 2021: Adam is interviewed by the UCSD Climate Change Review on the psychology of collective action and activism on campus.