Joe Árvai
@joearvai.org
Director of USC Wrigley and professor of psychology, biology, and environmental studies. I do research on how people think, decide, and behave in a changing world. Enjoy a cup of Joe at: https://www.joearvai.org/cup-of-joe. Instagram: @JoeArvai. 🇨🇦🇭🇺🇺🇸
Just so you know: The average American’s federal income tax bill includes $36 to pay for SNAP benefits and $1,200 for corporate subsidies to businesses whose CEOs earn more in a month than a majority of tax payers will earn in a lifetime.
November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Just so you know: The average American’s federal income tax bill includes $36 to pay for SNAP benefits and $1,200 for corporate subsidies to businesses whose CEOs earn more in a month than a majority of tax payers will earn in a lifetime.
Allow me to introduce you to one of our amazing Wrigley Graduate Research Fellows, Bernie Tolentino. At @uscwrigley.usc.edu we’re doing bold and interdisciplinary #research that is leading the way to a more sustainable future. #Science means solutions. #PassItOn
Beneath the Surface: Saving our Oceans, One Kelp Forest at a Time
YouTube video by Wrigley Institute for Environment & Sustainability
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October 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Allow me to introduce you to one of our amazing Wrigley Graduate Research Fellows, Bernie Tolentino. At @uscwrigley.usc.edu we’re doing bold and interdisciplinary #research that is leading the way to a more sustainable future. #Science means solutions. #PassItOn
Well done, Brown and MIT.
Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Well done, Brown and MIT.
@uscwrigley.usc.edu and I are hosting the great Oliver Jeffers at the LA Central Library this Thursday at 5:00pm. Please come and be my guest. Tickets available here and use the code DELTAVIP2025 to get them for free:
Delta Murphy Lecture 2025: An Evening with Oliver Jeffers
Join us for the 2025 Delta Murphy Lecture, presented by the USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability!
www.eventbrite.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 AM
@uscwrigley.usc.edu and I are hosting the great Oliver Jeffers at the LA Central Library this Thursday at 5:00pm. Please come and be my guest. Tickets available here and use the code DELTAVIP2025 to get them for free:
I fully support the rights of Mr. Benioff, a USC Trustee, to say this, just as I support the rights of a USC faculty member to say “Free Palestine”. Among several reasons, this is why I personally would not sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”.
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I fully support the rights of Mr. Benioff, a USC Trustee, to say this, just as I support the rights of a USC faculty member to say “Free Palestine”. Among several reasons, this is why I personally would not sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”.
Hey, I have an idea. How about a compact to fix the broken federal government?
Opinion | Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.
www.nytimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Hey, I have an idea. How about a compact to fix the broken federal government?
Maybe for their next trick, #NYT will account for the human and environmental health externalities of petrol (and even hybrid) powered autos. I drive an #EV for a lot of reasons. Cost of charging isn’t one of them.
How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State
www.nytimes.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This isn’t only at happening at Harvard.
Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
www.nytimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
This isn’t only at happening at Harvard.
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Three Mile Island wasn’t the worst nuclear disaster in American history.
Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context.
dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...
Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context.
dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...
Familiar harms, familiar terms - Wrigley Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Creating a more sustainable and environmentally just future for our planet and all who live on it
dornsife.usc.edu
September 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Three Mile Island wasn’t the worst nuclear disaster in American history.
Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context.
dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...
Read about what was and the research @joearvai.org, @aitormarcos.bsky.social, and I are doing to understand risky decision-making in this ✨unusual✨context.
dornsife.usc.edu/wrigley/2025...
This is a false. The Nebraska “bankruptcy” has been thoroughly debunked. www.snopes.com/fact-check/n...
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is a false. The Nebraska “bankruptcy” has been thoroughly debunked. www.snopes.com/fact-check/n...
🚨🚨🚨Attention @dornsife.usc.edu and @USC.edu students! Enrollment is open for the @uscwrigley.usc.edu Summer Residential College on the #Environment. Develop hands-on skills, expand your knowledge, and soak up the beauty of our campus in a MPA on Catalina Island. Classes fill up fast. Don’t wait!
September 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🚨🚨🚨Attention @dornsife.usc.edu and @USC.edu students! Enrollment is open for the @uscwrigley.usc.edu Summer Residential College on the #Environment. Develop hands-on skills, expand your knowledge, and soak up the beauty of our campus in a MPA on Catalina Island. Classes fill up fast. Don’t wait!
The group that authored a controversial report sowing doubt in the severity of #climatechange has been disbanded. I’ve said and written many times before, what to do in response to climate change is very much an open question. But whether climate change is real and consequential is not.
Trump administration dissolves climate contrarian group that authored controversial report | CNN
The group’s end can be traced to a lawsuit alleging the group’s formation violated federal law in several ways.
www.cnn.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The group that authored a controversial report sowing doubt in the severity of #climatechange has been disbanded. I’ve said and written many times before, what to do in response to climate change is very much an open question. But whether climate change is real and consequential is not.
Yes, a talented artist. Also a graceful, thoughtful, and civil activist. Class act all the way. We need more like him.
September 16, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yes, a talented artist. Also a graceful, thoughtful, and civil activist. Class act all the way. We need more like him.
🚨🚨🚨Hey @dornsife.usc.edu @usc.edu @uscwrigley.usc.edu students, I'm once again offering my class, "It's not easy being green: Decision-making for #sustainable action", in spring 2026. The class splits its time between LA and #Switzerland. There are only 16 spots so sign-up soon if you're interested.
September 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🚨🚨🚨Hey @dornsife.usc.edu @usc.edu @uscwrigley.usc.edu students, I'm once again offering my class, "It's not easy being green: Decision-making for #sustainable action", in spring 2026. The class splits its time between LA and #Switzerland. There are only 16 spots so sign-up soon if you're interested.
Another misleading title. An article by a well established climate, junk scientist can hardly provide clarity on the consequences of #climatechange. The established fact is climate change is caused by humans and has led to extraordinarily negative outcomes for communities and species.
Opinion | At Long Last, Clarity on Climate
The Energy Department’s recent report is drawing predictable criticism from politicized scientists.
www.wsj.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Another misleading title. An article by a well established climate, junk scientist can hardly provide clarity on the consequences of #climatechange. The established fact is climate change is caused by humans and has led to extraordinarily negative outcomes for communities and species.
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"More than 1,000 current & former Health & Human Services employees called on Kennedy to resign in a letter to the secretary & members of Congress."
#resist
#resist
September 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"More than 1,000 current & former Health & Human Services employees called on Kennedy to resign in a letter to the secretary & members of Congress."
#resist
#resist
At last, a bipartisan agreement: that #RFKJr is a #junkscience and #conspiracytheory peddling liar. Even those who voted to confirm him are raising the alarm.
RFK Jr. Grilled Over CDC Turmoil, Vaccines in Senate Hearing
The health secretary is grilled by lawmakers from both parties over his leadership of the agency and the future of U.S. vaccine policy.
www.wsj.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
At last, a bipartisan agreement: that #RFKJr is a #junkscience and #conspiracytheory peddling liar. Even those who voted to confirm him are raising the alarm.
"Trusting the experts is not a feature of #science." WTF are you talking about, man?
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Trusting the experts is not a feature of #science." WTF are you talking about, man?
I'be been saying this since Day 1 of #ChatGPT. It's now Day 1,000. It's way past time for universities to go back to #bluebook assignments and exams. I simply do not care if students don't like it. My job is to get students to think for themselves. If that's a probkem, my classroom isn't for them.
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
mRNA vaccines got the world back on its feet during the #COVID19 pandemic. Were it not for their development, we’d still be alone and indoors, drinking too much cheap wine, and watching #TedLasso. The US government’s retreat on #science continues.
Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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I love James Talarico!
August 1, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I love James Talarico!
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More of this guy, please. (TX Rep. James Talarico)
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 AM
More of this guy, please. (TX Rep. James Talarico)
Motherfucking #windfarms. With delicious windfarm chips and artificial reefs to make SpongeBob happy. Nice. youtu.be/TRzEzU7kwyQ?...
Samuel L. Jackson Wants You to Eat Seaweed (and Back Wind Farms)
YouTube video by Creative Boom
youtu.be
July 31, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Motherfucking #windfarms. With delicious windfarm chips and artificial reefs to make SpongeBob happy. Nice. youtu.be/TRzEzU7kwyQ?...
If what the timing suggests is true, this is another cowardly move by CBS. Edward R. Murrow and Mike Wallace are rolling in their graves.
Fans React to Colbert ‘Late Show’ Cancellation With Puzzlement and Anger
www.nytimes.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
If what the timing suggests is true, this is another cowardly move by CBS. Edward R. Murrow and Mike Wallace are rolling in their graves.