Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville.bsky.social
sociology prof @Tufts and 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow studying our contradictory relationship with nature. extraction, knowledge, conservation, political division. projects on the Delta Smelt and partisanship and the environment. https://calebscoville.com
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Caleb Scoville
@calebscoville.bsky.social
· Apr 16
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.”
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from the foreword of Project 2025. absolutely brilliant reactionary political rhetoric. the line about those who shower *before* work versus *after* got me. it’s just too good. now I want to teach a class analyzing this as a literary work. more folks on the left need to study this stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
from the foreword of Project 2025. absolutely brilliant reactionary political rhetoric. the line about those who shower *before* work versus *after* got me. it’s just too good. now I want to teach a class analyzing this as a literary work. more folks on the left need to study this stuff.
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
currently in a kafkaesque xfinity broken internet loop. what's special about this one is that it's taken away virtually 100% of my limited working hours while the kids are in a half day of school. how's your day going?
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
currently in a kafkaesque xfinity broken internet loop. what's special about this one is that it's taken away virtually 100% of my limited working hours while the kids are in a half day of school. how's your day going?
probably net negative with climate/environmental impacts accouted for
Anyway, tech-wise, AI will have a "positive effect on productivity growth", the OBR say, with a 0.2 percentage point impact in five years
November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
probably net negative with climate/environmental impacts accouted for
the aftermath of discussing the environmental chapters of project 2025 in my seminar on anti-environmentalism in America
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
the aftermath of discussing the environmental chapters of project 2025 in my seminar on anti-environmentalism in America
I assigned chunks of Project 2025 to my students and as I read it I am honestly surprised by how much the authors seem to want war with China.
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I assigned chunks of Project 2025 to my students and as I read it I am honestly surprised by how much the authors seem to want war with China.
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About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Look at @katharinehayhoe.com channel her apocalyptic optimist as she describes the fossil fuel swan song that we just witnessed at COP30. For the full conversation with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and me, tune into COPOut Episode 5, which airs TOMORROW!
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Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...
November 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...
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Why has it been so much easier to build interstate gas lines than interstate electric transmission lines? This report has some answers:
cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u...
cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u...
cleanenergygrid.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Why has it been so much easier to build interstate gas lines than interstate electric transmission lines? This report has some answers:
cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u...
cleanenergygrid.org/wp-content/u...
I am not hopeful about many things, but there is an emergent shared diagnostic frame around “affordability“ that we didn’t see over the debates over inflation (between denial and exaggeration). It could lend itself to a genuine contest of policy proposals, not merely warring conceptions of reality.
Q: would you feel comfortable living in NYC under a Mamdani administration ?
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
TRUMP: I would. I really would.
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I am not hopeful about many things, but there is an emergent shared diagnostic frame around “affordability“ that we didn’t see over the debates over inflation (between denial and exaggeration). It could lend itself to a genuine contest of policy proposals, not merely warring conceptions of reality.
Great new @bloomberg.com piece by Jessica Stolzberg on ongoing struggle against stupidest and most harmful part of current 'Conspicuous Consumption' yard hygiene.
The diff this has made in DC is ... incredible.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The diff this has made in DC is ... incredible.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.
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We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com.
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans.
washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
you'd think as a society we would have figured out staplers by now but no
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
you'd think as a society we would have figured out staplers by now but no
as a geriatric millennial, this reads like a mix of things I do/did because of my age, things I do/did because am cheap/not rich, and things I have never heard of www.performativepuritytest.com
Performative Purity Test
The Official Performative Purity Test
www.performativepuritytest.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
as a geriatric millennial, this reads like a mix of things I do/did because of my age, things I do/did because am cheap/not rich, and things I have never heard of www.performativepuritytest.com
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I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
Long a coveted voice, Larry Summers withdraws from a half-dozen groups amid Epstein ties. Harvard’s not among them. - The Boston Globe
Former Harvard president Larry Summers is no longer affiliated with a series of centers and think tanks with which he’s long been involved, officials confirmed Tuesday.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I spoke with the Boston Globe about the Summers situation
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
TLDR: other professors like myself can no longer trust Summers to perform a key duty of a university professor, which is to advise & mentor students
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/18/m...
the crisis is massive, but the political issue is that there are more homeowners than renters by about 2:1.
Housing is one of the top issues all around the country.
One thing I think about a lot is that a presidential candidate who runs on a "rent is too damn high" platform could really win.
One thing I think about a lot is that a presidential candidate who runs on a "rent is too damn high" platform could really win.
It’s despicable. Where I live they build apartments they rent to undergrads for $1500 a month for a room and shared kitchen/living space. And also a bunch of short term rentals.
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 AM
the crisis is massive, but the political issue is that there are more homeowners than renters by about 2:1.
the Epstein files is a once in a generation opportunity to take out the trash.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
the Epstein files is a once in a generation opportunity to take out the trash.
i am so ready for woke2
"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
i am so ready for woke2
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Oh, Canada...
November 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Oh, Canada...
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Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%
I introduced my kid to Are You Afraid of the Dark? last night. Still holds up.
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I introduced my kid to Are You Afraid of the Dark? last night. Still holds up.
A hex on grad programs that don't just accept a PDF of a letter of recommendation. You may think you're very special, but actually, you're not.
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A hex on grad programs that don't just accept a PDF of a letter of recommendation. You may think you're very special, but actually, you're not.