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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.
@KA_Nicholas: Tough love from a climate scientist: "Many of you are freaking out about climate deniers, who are a small but vocal group. Meanwhile, I’M freaking out about YOU: the concerned but passive majority. Stopping climate heating depends on YOU getting active." https://t.co/xun9HS5l3z
@FosFreeResearch: 1. BREAKING: WE JUST WON OUR FIRST OFFICIAL FOSSIL FREE RESEARCH POLICY! 🧵📰
@Princeton has announced what represents the 1st official FFR policy at a university-wide level: refusing to take research money/grants from 90 fossil fuel companies. Read more👇
https://t.co/iZ4G3AwDdm
We are launching our IRB-approved research study next week with ~ 30 participants.
They will learn the skills of collective action organizing to achieve emissions reduction on campus.
Ambitious, disruptive.
Can we learn anything generalizable?
Can we scale to your school later? https://t.co/JdTePvohZL
So clever!
#BanFossilAds
@BrandalismUK
Where I am, we have:
- ExxonMobil touting collaborations with University of California scientists in greenwashing propaganda for carbon capture and sequestration.
- Buses driving around with "clean natural gas" on the side. https://t.co/WU1UnHWsAN
THE LATEST:
- 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.