Colin Jerolmack
@jerolmack.bsky.social
Author. Professor of Environmental Studies, Sociology, & Animal Studies at NYU. Books: Up to Heaven & Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom & Community in an American Town; and The Global Pigeon. More info: https://tinyurl.com/yp632d63.
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NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...
NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...
October 23, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NOV. 6: NYU Gallatin Gallery Presents Dr. Shatima Jones's CROWNED HEIGHTS, a celebration of the Black barbershops & beauty salons of Brooklyn & her signature class, "(De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair." Details: wp.nyu.edu/gallatingall...
Excited to share a new paper I co-wrote w/Gary Jaworksi in History of Social Science: Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok & Interaction Ethology. Based on new archival material, we show Goffman's ambition to meld interactionism & animal studies. cc @socscihistory.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok, and “Interaction Ethology”
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October 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Excited to share a new paper I co-wrote w/Gary Jaworksi in History of Social Science: Erving Goffman, Thomas Sebeok & Interaction Ethology. Based on new archival material, we show Goffman's ambition to meld interactionism & animal studies. cc @socscihistory.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM
For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
Reposted by Colin Jerolmack
For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
September 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
For Climate Week, join IPK on September 25 for a book talk with @hannamorris.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power with @aronczyk.bsky.social and @jerolmack.bsky.social.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
This is a great story about the last pigeon flyers of Baltimore
For decades, the pigeon men of Baltimore have trained their birds to compete in races. Now, they're fighting to keep the sport alive.
Baltimore’s Last Pigeon Men
A tradition steeped in history, the city’s pigeon-racing culture remains alive, if not quite thriving.
www.baltimoremagazine.com
September 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is a great story about the last pigeon flyers of Baltimore
“The healthiest, tastiest way to eat is also the most compassionate and least polluting,”. RIP to legendary environmental and animal defender John Robbins (Diet for a New Planet”). An heir to Baskin Robbins, he rejected the family business to advocate for a plant-based diet.
June 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
“The healthiest, tastiest way to eat is also the most compassionate and least polluting,”. RIP to legendary environmental and animal defender John Robbins (Diet for a New Planet”). An heir to Baskin Robbins, he rejected the family business to advocate for a plant-based diet.
It's a pleasant surprise to see @carlpope admit that he & other enviros downplayed methane emissions in 2010s. But a full mea culpa would mention that @sierraclub.org & other Big Greens vocally supported fracking & took petro $ for years after the Dimock catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's a pleasant surprise to see @carlpope admit that he & other enviros downplayed methane emissions in 2010s. But a full mea culpa would mention that @sierraclub.org & other Big Greens vocally supported fracking & took petro $ for years after the Dimock catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
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🧵No words for how infuriated this mea culpa from Carl Pope (former CEO @sierraclub.org) makes me feel. We openly shared with SC data on methane leaks from fracking while SC was secretly accepting $millions from the gas industry.
Seriously fuck you. 1/7
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Seriously fuck you. 1/7
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🧵No words for how infuriated this mea culpa from Carl Pope (former CEO @sierraclub.org) makes me feel. We openly shared with SC data on methane leaks from fracking while SC was secretly accepting $millions from the gas industry.
Seriously fuck you. 1/7
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Seriously fuck you. 1/7
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/o...
Glad to see the NYU chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social involved in this lawsuit: "Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...
Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters
The lawsuit says the detention of noncitizen students and faculty members deprives U.S. citizens of their right to engage with foreign-born peers.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Glad to see the NYU chapter of the @aaup.bsky.social involved in this lawsuit: "Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Arrests of Campus Protesters" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/n...
"All over New York, police officers & staff start their workday by disregarding the law," @nicolegelinas.bsky.social writes. "They park their personal vehicles at bus stops, on sidewalks & in crosswalks," routinely endangering pedestrians & blocking accessible ramps. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
Opinion | Here’s How New York Police Officers Start Their Day by Breaking the Law
Cracking down on officers’ abuse of placards would signal an end to the culture of impunity that has suffused the department.
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"All over New York, police officers & staff start their workday by disregarding the law," @nicolegelinas.bsky.social writes. "They park their personal vehicles at bus stops, on sidewalks & in crosswalks," routinely endangering pedestrians & blocking accessible ramps. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
RIP to urban legend (no pun intended) Donald Shoup aka Shoup Dogg, whose tome “The High Cost of Free Parking” turned the tide against car-centrism in urban planning and development
Donald Shoup was a giant in urban planning academia who singlehandedly changed the world. He also had great personal style and consistently Had That Shit On. laist.com/news/transpo...
LA parking reform pioneer remembered for humor, dedication
Donald Shoup died at home in L.A. at age 86 earlier in February. Students and peers remember the former professor for his dry wit and relentless study of parking policy.
laist.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
RIP to urban legend (no pun intended) Donald Shoup aka Shoup Dogg, whose tome “The High Cost of Free Parking” turned the tide against car-centrism in urban planning and development
This is devastating. Master thinker, ethnographer, humanist, and revolutionary
More awful news on an awful news day: UC-Berkeley sociologist and past ASA president Michael Burawoy was killed last night in a pedestrian vs. SUV driver hit-and-run.
My deepest condolences to his family, friends, students, & colleagues.
(Via the Mercury News & @pardoguerra.bsky.social)
My deepest condolences to his family, friends, students, & colleagues.
(Via the Mercury News & @pardoguerra.bsky.social)
February 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is devastating. Master thinker, ethnographer, humanist, and revolutionary
RIP DAVID LYNCH. When he was an art student in Philly, my grandmom convinced her boss to rent him an apt. & helped him covertly paint EVERYTHING in interior black & recruit neighbors as cast for “the Grandmother” (1970). He sent her letters & premiere tix for years after
youtube.com/watch?v=vWAE...
youtube.com/watch?v=vWAE...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:10 PM
RIP DAVID LYNCH. When he was an art student in Philly, my grandmom convinced her boss to rent him an apt. & helped him covertly paint EVERYTHING in interior black & recruit neighbors as cast for “the Grandmother” (1970). He sent her letters & premiere tix for years after
youtube.com/watch?v=vWAE...
youtube.com/watch?v=vWAE...
Am I the only parent who considers it a miracle when their child actually recovers an article of clothing from the school lost and found?
December 16, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Am I the only parent who considers it a miracle when their child actually recovers an article of clothing from the school lost and found?
There's still time to APPLY TO NYU'S BRAND NEW ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PHD PROGRAM! This will be a totally unique experience, bridging the natural & social sciences. Be part of the first cohort, who we'll welcome into a brand new space on Washington Square! Apply by Dec. 15! as.nyu.edu/departments/...
PhD
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December 9, 2024 at 6:44 PM
There's still time to APPLY TO NYU'S BRAND NEW ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES PHD PROGRAM! This will be a totally unique experience, bridging the natural & social sciences. Be part of the first cohort, who we'll welcome into a brand new space on Washington Square! Apply by Dec. 15! as.nyu.edu/departments/...
Sociologists & Animal Studies folks! Check out latest issue of Symbolic Interaction, celebrating 50 years of Goffman's Frame Analysis, with an article I co-authored that re-frames Frame Analysis as an ahead-of-its time thesis on Animal metacommunication & mind onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind
Erving Goffman's concept of framing is one of his most enduring contributions to social science. Despite the canonical status of Frame Analysis (1974) in multiple fields, few acknowledge its intellec...
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December 9, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Sociologists & Animal Studies folks! Check out latest issue of Symbolic Interaction, celebrating 50 years of Goffman's Frame Analysis, with an article I co-authored that re-frames Frame Analysis as an ahead-of-its time thesis on Animal metacommunication & mind onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Great piece by Kate Morgan in @washingtonpost.com on learning to love pigeons again. I'm quoted! : “Because of climate change & urbanization, we’re in this moment where animals have to adapt to living w/ people. Pigeons are on the leading edge of that.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/11...
We domesticated, then discarded pigeons. Can we learn to love them again?
For most of human history, pigeons have been our pets and partners. But sometime in the last half-century, the relationship soured.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Great piece by Kate Morgan in @washingtonpost.com on learning to love pigeons again. I'm quoted! : “Because of climate change & urbanization, we’re in this moment where animals have to adapt to living w/ people. Pigeons are on the leading edge of that.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/11...
Great piece by Kate Morgan in @washingtonpost.com on learning to love pigeons again. I'm quoted! : “Because of climate change & urbanization, we’re in this moment where animals have to adapt to living w/ people. Pigeons are on the leading edge of that.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/11...
We domesticated, then discarded pigeons. Can we learn to love them again?
For most of human history, pigeons have been our pets and partners. But sometime in the last half-century, the relationship soured.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:21 AM
Great piece by Kate Morgan in @washingtonpost.com on learning to love pigeons again. I'm quoted! : “Because of climate change & urbanization, we’re in this moment where animals have to adapt to living w/ people. Pigeons are on the leading edge of that.” www.washingtonpost.com/home/2024/11...
Happy (vegan) Thanksgiving. This banger always gets me in the mood: youtu.be/aQv7TMcZ_eE?...
Grey - Vegan Thanksgiving (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by PBD Grey
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November 28, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Happy (vegan) Thanksgiving. This banger always gets me in the mood: youtu.be/aQv7TMcZ_eE?...
As @peter-singer.bsky.social writes in @nytimes.com & his @princetonupress.bsky.social book, let's use Thanksgiving to reflect on our contributions to unnecessary animal suffering. & for God's sake, dispense w/Presidential "pardoning" of the turkey, which is really an attempt to pardon our own guilt
For decades now, every Thanksgiving, U.S. Presidents have fallen for a cheap publicity ploy orchestrated by factory farm turkey producers.
I'm delighted that my OpEd: "What a Lame Duck President Could Do for Lame Turkeys" has appeared in the New York Times.
I'm delighted that my OpEd: "What a Lame Duck President Could Do for Lame Turkeys" has appeared in the New York Times.
Opinion | President Biden Should End This Turkey Pardoning Nonsense
President Biden should cancel the Thanksgiving tradition of pardoning a turkey.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:52 PM
As @peter-singer.bsky.social writes in @nytimes.com & his @princetonupress.bsky.social book, let's use Thanksgiving to reflect on our contributions to unnecessary animal suffering. & for God's sake, dispense w/Presidential "pardoning" of the turkey, which is really an attempt to pardon our own guilt
Hey! Interested in learning more about, or applying to,
NYU's new Environmental Studies PhD program? THERE'S A WEBINAR TOMORROW, NOV. 21! Check it out, and spread the word! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
NYU's new Environmental Studies PhD program? THERE'S A WEBINAR TOMORROW, NOV. 21! Check it out, and spread the word! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: NYU Environmental Studies Information Session. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A webinar hosted by the NYU Department of the Environmental Studies about their new PhD program. There will be a 30-minute presentation outlining the program and the application and admissions process...
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November 20, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Hey! Interested in learning more about, or applying to,
NYU's new Environmental Studies PhD program? THERE'S A WEBINAR TOMORROW, NOV. 21! Check it out, and spread the word! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
NYU's new Environmental Studies PhD program? THERE'S A WEBINAR TOMORROW, NOV. 21! Check it out, and spread the word! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Given the prez election & new admin's doubling down on fossil fuel, my recent open access article may be useful to enviro advocates. I explore how we can forge alliances with rural conservative towns by supporting greater local democratic decision-making over fracking www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Community rights and energy politics in a pro-fracking Appalachian town - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Community rights and energy politics in a pro-fracking Appalachian town
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Given the prez election & new admin's doubling down on fossil fuel, my recent open access article may be useful to enviro advocates. I explore how we can forge alliances with rural conservative towns by supporting greater local democratic decision-making over fracking www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Please share & apply! NYU Environmental Studies Dept. is launching a NEW PHD IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES! All applicants are fully funded for 5 years. No need to have advisor lined up in advance. An INFO WEBINAR is coming up on NOV. 21; apply by DEC. 15. Follow link for info: as.nyu.edu/departments/...
PhD
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November 18, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Please share & apply! NYU Environmental Studies Dept. is launching a NEW PHD IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES! All applicants are fully funded for 5 years. No need to have advisor lined up in advance. An INFO WEBINAR is coming up on NOV. 21; apply by DEC. 15. Follow link for info: as.nyu.edu/departments/...