Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville
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sociology prof. studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. now posting on bsky (same handle).
Tufts University
Joined April 2008
I am grateful, honored, and still a bit shocked to be named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for my project, “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.” https://t.co/3EeIRsU4jn
#CarnegieFellows @CarnegieCorp
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New article out in Geo: Geography and Environment with an interdisciplinary dream team of coauthors: “From maps to models: Participation and contestability in the dynamic management of natural resources.” https://t.co/QNzfTJ3aB4 (open access)
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the implication here is that Ai models are trained by god(s).
It looks like Nietzsche was wrong and Plato was right High powered Ai models are begin to converge on a “hidden realm” of ideals This is very hard for the layman to follow, but think of it this way: If I ask you to look at a tree, and then ask you to imagine a tree - your
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🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Link below!
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The consolidation of a US reactionary political coalition of fossil capital, monopoly tech, and natsec hawks makes a lot of sense in the context of a existential battle to control global systems of energy, innovation + production. Must read @70sBachchan @kmac in @phenomenalworld
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Correcting the below: these 18 schools are planning a friend-of-the-court brief in Harvard's suit against Trump admin over the federal funding halt, not the foreign-student ban.
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I was pleased to learn that this article is the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Article Award from the Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association (@Animals_Society). Thanks to the award committee for their service to the section!
My article, “How to divide people with things: division entrepreneurs, wedges, and the Delta Smelt controversy,” is out in the American Journal of Cultural Sociology (@CulturalSociol)! https://t.co/rsOhYvQH19 (Lack access? Let me know. I’ll send you a PDF.)
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In my capacity as Policy & Research Committee Chair, I am delighted to announce the 2025 award winners of the ASA Environmental Sociology Section. Congrats to all, and thanks to the members of the committees for their service to the section and field!
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It was a pleasure to be invited to the National Park Traveler Podcast to discuss partisanship and the environment, how we are and aren’t divided over our relationship to nature, with a cameo from a certain little fish.
nationalparkstraveler.org
Is green a red and blue construct? Put another way, is there a political partisan divide over the environment?That’s a particularly interesting question, no doubt more so in recent years as the...
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The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
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Caleb Scoville Berkeley Soc Alum is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, has been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for his research project titled “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.”
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Congratulations to Caleb Scoville, Berkeley Sociology Alum!
I am grateful, honored, and still a bit shocked to be named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for my project, “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.” https://t.co/3EeIRsU4jn
#CarnegieFellows @CarnegieCorp
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Tufts sociologist @calebscoville is one of only 26 recipients nationwide to receive a prestigious Andrew Carnegie fellowship. https://t.co/QG4W9wICRJ
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It was a bright spot in an otherwise dark week to speak to @kileyjprice at @insideclimate about the delta smelt controversy, what it means and what it might portend
insideclimatenews.org
It’s tiny, it’s silver and it’s at the center of a decades-long controversy over California’s water system. It’s the delta smelt. This threatened fish lives exclusively in the Sacramento-San...
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The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
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I decoded Trump’s delta smelt obsession on Bloomberg radio
bloomberg.com
Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and legal scholars, analyzing major legal issues and cases in the news.
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After relying on the Sacramento Bee's reporting on California water issues for so many years, it's such an honor to be quoted in it (especially by such a fantastic journalist and alongside folks I have learned so much from during the course of my research).
Talked to the nation's leading delta smelt politics expert @calebscoville about why Trump remains fixated on this tiny fish even when the facts don't add up https://t.co/vIn535dGP2
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Talked to the nation's leading delta smelt politics expert @calebscoville about why Trump remains fixated on this tiny fish even when the facts don't add up https://t.co/vIn535dGP2
sacbee.com
The functionally extinct delta smelt entered national politics in 2009, when Sean Hannity made it a symbol of environmentalism gone wrong.
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