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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.
@ucsdgreennewde1: Today!!
And please come to our End of Year Celebration from 5 to 6pm of ALL the impacts we have had:
🍾plans to retire fossil gas plants on 3 campuses,
🍾fossil finance divestment (Chase leaving, UC retirement)
🍾coalition building &
🍾a general ed teaching requirement at UCSD https://t.co/CNemXo45vk
@HersbachThom "Such funding poses serious reputational risks to Stanford & the Doerr School, which might have its name used to promote climate denial, greenwashing and policies that delay climate action."
@StanfordDaily @FosFreeResearch
@HersbachThom: Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability received $1.7 billion in funding. Should it also accept money from fossil fuel companies?
In this op-ed, I analyze the engagement criteria laid out by the school's dean; no fossil fuel companies meet them.
https://t.co/mxs0jXmIBl
Context: These are the automatic funds that UC people get their retirements put into. It's a big thing that UC makes this change, but it doesn't include companies that service the carbon industry (pipelines) & burn & finance it. Still need transparency: https://t.co/WBqh9bV9SJ
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.