Climate Social Science: Behavior & Systems Change
Starter pack of social scientists working on climate/environment with a focus on behavior & systems change through activism, civic engagement, policy advocacy, communication, education, and more.
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@carlietrott.bsky.social
@greggsparkman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor studying social psychology & social change in the Psychology and Neuroscience Department at Boston College (he/him). Director of the Social Influence and Social Change Lab: sisclab.bc.edu
@erkins.bsky.social
PhD in #socialpsychology interested in personal and social dynamics of pro-environmental behavior change, morality, emotions, and group processes.
@imagineadapt.bsky.social
Funded by the European Union (ERC, IMAGINE adaptation, 101039429) | Any related tweets reflect only the views of the project owner @martaolazabal.bsky.social ➡️ https://imagineadapt.bc3research.org/
@smconstantino.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Visiting Scholar Princeton SPIA. Sustainable dev’t, climate, energy, collective action, crises, behavior, decision making. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇦
@humanityandplanet.com
Clinical psychologist focused on climate and environmental change | Climate therapist; telehealth in most of US | Climate psych speaker, workshop facilitator, & educator Home base is Ann Arbor, MI🌳 https://humanityandplanet.com/ *Posts aren’t therapy
@ajamesgreen.bsky.social
Ebikes, data, medicines, behaviour change, communication, wine, food. Alleged health psychologist Lead of @iscycle.bsky.app www.ajamesgreen.com www.iscycle.ie
@josiannekollmann.bsky.social
Postdoc at Eawag, Health and Environmental Psychologist • Planetary Health • Risk perception • Distributive fairness • Policy acceptance • Water reuse
@gwwarren.bsky.social
Environmental Social Scientist | Research Fellow in Energy & Equity, University of Exeter and EDRC | ex Knowledge Exchange Fellow at ACCESS | PhD @kclgeography '23 | Climate change, risk perception, behaviour, energy, equity, knowledge exchange. He/him. 🇬🇧🇨🇭
@mhcooper.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Geography, UC Davis. Senior Lecturer, School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury. Climate, political economy, measurement and metrics, animals Here to learn.
@catherinetrundle.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist @ La Trobe University Public Health, climate justice and heat stress, nuclear afterlives, contested illness, ethnographic methods, poetry
@jakereynolds.bsky.social
Researching Green Behaviors @ Columbia Business School, New York 🗽 Columbia PhD Behavioral Marketing & Data Science 📈 | University of Cambridge BA 🎓 Behavioural Insights Team Alum 📊 Energy, Transport, and Sustainability Policy
@drjacekdebiec.bsky.social
Psychiatrist. Researcher. Author. #MentalHealth and #PlanetaryHealth https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/psychiatrists/jacek-debiec-ann-arbor-mi/121480
@claudiaterane.bsky.social
Associate professor in Psychology| Individual and structural factors on Behavior change for health and sustainability 🌱🌎 | Transport, nutrition, support for policies|🇧🇴Bolivian in 🇫🇷| EHPS Band
@daniellefalzon.bsky.social
Sociologist at Rutgers University NB Studying climate change decision-making in the UNFCCC and Bangladesh Begrudgingly moved here from @danielle_falzon on the bad app
@dgoldwert.bsky.social
PhD student @ NYU | psychological underpinnings of climate action 🍃 daniellegoldwert.com/research
@sameershah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor • University of Washington • Associate Deputy Editor @ Climatic Change • Political-ecology, climate justice, critical adaptation studies, maladaptation and water insecurity.
@elisugerman.bsky.social
Behavioral Scientist studying Judgment & Decision-Making for Climate/Sustainability Doctoral Candidate at Columbia University | Formerly Michigan Psych (Alum) & Qualtrics | Hiking, Skiing, Reading elisugerman.com
@acantle.bsky.social
2025 Rachel Carson WiR at LMU, Munich, debut novel (The Saltbox Olive - Breakwater 2025), Writers at Woody Point co-host, former CBC, MUN PhD candidate - #petrocultures #climatejustice #EnvHum Energy Futures www.theindependent.ca www.angelaantle.com
@joakimkulin.bsky.social
Associate professor at the Dept. of Sociology, Umeå University, Sweden | Political sociologist studying public opinion on climate change and climate policy. But also welfare state, immigration, political polarization, and rightwing populism.
@gogoalfalia.bsky.social
Primary Care Physician (MBBS, MBA, CPH) & PhD student-Health Services Research, Health Policy & Management, Texas A&M University. Interests=Climate Change, Public Health, Spatial Epidemiology, Health Equity, Rural Health & Environment in the US ❤️📍🇮🇳🇮🇪🇺🇸
@janetkswim.bsky.social
Penn State Psychology Professor and Associate Director of PSU’s Climate Consortium.
@akjorgenson.bsky.social
Global Political Economy & Climate Change. Professor @ UBC. Director: Climate & Society Lab. Journal Editor: Sociology of Development. https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/andrew-jorgenson/ https://www.climateandsocietylab.com https://online.ucpress.edu/socdev
@colognaviktoria.bsky.social
Postdoc @Swiss Institute for Advanced Study, ETH Zurichㅣ Previously at HarvardㅣTrust in science, science-policy interface, environmental psychology
@iaojala.bsky.social
Professor in Socio-Ecological Resilience, FRONT-program, University of Oulu. PhD and Docent in Psychology, Örebro University. Climate-change worry/anxiety, hope, trust, meaning, coping, climate-change engagement, critical emotional awareness, young people
@clctroy.bsky.social
Researching climate & environmental communication // Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign // PhD from Penn State // Always open to book and restaurant recommendations
@seisydney.bsky.social
The Sydney Environment Institute brings together expertise from across disciplines to address key environmental issues.
@peacewalkr.bsky.social
Social Scientist, Conservationist, Professor, Writer, Fencer. I fight for social justice and believe that we WILL create more fair, just, inclusive societies & protect this magnificent, resilient but also fragile world. IDIC. SHIELD. The Turtle Moves!
@helgej.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon and CIES-IUL. Public Policy, Environment & Climate, Policy Diffusion, International Bureaucracies | https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/helge-jorgens/cv. [Occasional music & wine recommendations]
@roednielsen.bsky.social
🎓Associate Professor of Sustainable Consumption and Innovation at Copenhagen Business School 📚 Study human decision-making & behavior, sustainable action, and somewhat randomly crowds 🌍 linktr.ee/kristianroed
@thbauwens.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | ERC grantee |Research on Collective Action | #Sustainability | Just #Energy transition | #CircularEconomy | #PostGrowth
@willallennz.bsky.social
Sustainable development and co-design practitioner, focus on supporting multi-stakeholder processes and constructive change. Sharing insights on systems thinking, adaptive management, evaluation, facilitation. More at https://learningforsustainability.net
@manuelsuter.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Lund University Research in Behavioral Ecological Economics, Sufficiency and Post-Growth Currently working on attractive future visions considering planetary boundaries and citizens views.
@martaolazabal.bsky.social
Inconformista por naturaleza. #Cities #climatechange governance | @Ikerbasque & Ramón y Cajal @CienciaGob at @BC3Research | PI @IMAGINEadapt @ERC_Research
@destenie.bsky.social
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Energy Affordability. Energy & Climate Justice. Climate Adaptation. Systems Modeling. CEO - Peoples Energy Analytics. Named a 2024 Science Defender
@adrien-fabre.bsky.social
CNRS researcher at CIRED. Founder of Global Redistribution Advocates. Youtuber: http://bit.ly/chaine_humaine Ex ENS Ulm, PSE, ETHZ. Economics, sustainability, politics.
@prof-b-t.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science @CNU. Research on US climate policy + U.S. state politics. Virginia Pollster. Mom to 2 humans, dog & cat. Loves nature. Views are my own.
@joshuabasseches.bsky.social
Renewable energy and climate politics and policy. Assistant Professor at Tulane University. Writing a book about utilities and state-level renewable electricity policymaking. More at joshuabasseches.com
@kaitlinraimi.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Public Policy @fordschool @umich. Social/environmental psychologist studying climate change communication, perceptions of technologies and nature tampering, climate migration. https://public.websites.umich.edu/~kraimi/. All views my own
@willrlewis.bsky.social
Researcher & project manager - IMAGINE Adaptation (https://imagineadapt.bc3research.org/), Basque Centre for Climate Change, Interested in imaginaries, evaluation & learning for #urban #adaptation Own views.
@robraonain.bsky.social
Social psychologist | Postdoc Researcher in Political Communication at the DCU Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo) | Public deliberation, Misinformation, Climate Change, Intergroup attitudes, Politics, Prejudice | He/him Views my own
@ianwalker.bsky.social
Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings @locastproject.bsky.social. Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Trustee, Wheels for Wellbeing. My views Guinness World Record for the fastest bicycle ride across Europe drianwalker.com
@monicabarnard.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Sussex | Intergroup contact, sustainable behaviour, social identities
@loisplayer.bsky.social
Behavioural Scientist | Climate Policy & Behaviour Change 🌏 | Novel Computational Methods - NLP & LLMs 👩💻 | Research Consultant | Currently Contracting at European Climate Foundation ✨ loisplayer.com
@atamorimmaia.bsky.social
Socioenvironmental Scientist | Climate Justice, Adaptation, Cities, Intersectionality | Researcher at the Basque Centre for Climate Change | Brazilian living in Spain with a Kiwi | Posts in EN, PT, ES, DE, FR
@sean-p-goodwin.bsky.social
Climate Change Adaptation | Nature-based Solutions | Monitoring & Evaluation | Cities | Basque Centre for Climate Change | IMAGINE Adaptation (own views)
@oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social
phd student @ICTA_UAB, Barcelona & laCaixa fellow. climate policy and politics; ecological economics. co-founder of rethinking economics denmark diy-anything, bike enthusiast, 🇵🇸
@climateajumma.bsky.social
Psychologist | Academic | Resilience Expert | Climate Wayfinding Facilitator
@docsamantha.bsky.social
Professor of Public Health @ Deakin, Australia. Editor-in-Chief @healthpromint.bsky.social Board Member ICARA. Commercial and political determinants of health with current projects on: gambling, fossil fuels, menopause, conflicts of interest.
@gracearnot.bsky.social
Living on stolen Wurundjeri and Bunurong country | Researching commercial and political determinants of health, youth engagement and climate justice @ Deakin University
@chriswrightau.bsky.social
Professor University of Sydney. Author of Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations (2015) & Organising Responses to Climate Change (2022)
@fisherdanar.bsky.social
Director, Center for Environment Community, & Equity and Professor, AU | NonRes Sr Fellow, Brookings | Chair, Political Soc, ASA | IPCCWG3 AR6 | www.danarfisher.com | TED Talk on Saving Ourselves: go.ted.com/danarfisher
@laurla11.bsky.social
Human-environment geographer, Washingtonian, Central America enthusiast, exhausted parent
@jaishrijuice.bsky.social
Social-ecological scientist. Adaptations, transformations, emergence in rivers, landscapes, fires, biodiversity, cities, communities, people. History/archaeology nerd. Aspiring polyglot. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jaishri-Srinivasan/research
@maliniranga.bsky.social
Associate Prof, American U. Critical geographer writing 'The Urbanization of Caste Power: Land, Labor, and Environmental Politics in Bengaluru' (Cambridge) and 'The Climate of Labor Justice: Planetary Ecologies of Race, Caste, and Freedom.'
@gruberte.bsky.social
civil engineer / environmental sociologist. energy, water, climate, buildings, justice. fossil phaseout / universal programs. she / her. bunnies.
@dustinmulvaney.bsky.social
Professor, Environmental Studies🌎 San José State University @CalState.Bsky.social Fellow, Payne Institute @ Colorado School of Mines, Climate & Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social, Switzer Network. www.dustinmulvaney.com 📍Popeloutchom, Monterey Bay 🌅🦦
@zacjtaylor.bsky.social
Climate adaptation, finance, and the built environment. Floridian in the Netherlands. Assistant Professor, TU Delft. Academic Lead, Resilient Delta. Co Lead, Red&Blue: Real Estate Development & Building in Low Urban Environments www.redblueclimate.nl
@jsizek.bsky.social
Environmental historian and legal geographer of California desert's landownership checkerboards, Native American land trusts, groundwater, dirt bikes, and vacation homes. Also projects on the Northwest Forest Plan and cervid Chronic Wasting Disease.
@michelelbarnes.bsky.social
Assoc Prof @ University of Sydney / Head of the Social Dynamics & Environmental Change Lab I specialize in social networks, social-ecological networks, climate adaptation/transformation, and sustainability projects...and also sharks �
@miker66.bsky.social
Settler on Wangal land, researcher @ UNSW: renewable energy integration, just transition (he/him)
@joobilly.bsky.social
Professor @ Temple. Founding Strategic co-director @cplusc.bsky.social.; Founding (ex-) Director, McHarg Center. Books: Design With Nature Now (Lincoln) A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation (Island Press) Building Postcarbon Futures (exp 2025)
@mills-novoa.bsky.social
Geographer. Climate justice. Director of the Climate Futures Lab. Berkeley Prof. Extreme fruit enthusiast.
@aldasky.bsky.social
Political economy of climate emergency. Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley; Director, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative, or (SC)2; Founding Co-Director, Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social. A Planet to Win (Verso). he/him
@jmijin.bsky.social
Assist prof, env studies; Fellow, Climate Jobs Institute and @cplusc.bsky.social; Board, Greenpeace Fund; just transition; labor/climate. #COYS 🇰🇷🇺🇸 📚: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/ https://mijincha.com
@pmbigger.bsky.social
Research Director @cplusc.bsky.social. Political economy in the climate+ecological crisis. Anti fascist always. Terrible taste in music. climateandcommunity.org // https://bit.ly/pb_pubs
@heidizamzow.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher in Psychological and Behavioural Science at The London School of Economics and Political Science
@timhaney.bsky.social
Sociologist @ Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. Into the environment, disasters, cities, and science/knowledge. Also into permaculture, my loved ones, exercise, and any place that has warm weather and palm trees. www.timhaneyphd.com
@catherineprice.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the School of Geography, University of Nottingham. Working on the Biochar Demonstrator Project. My research can be found at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Catherine-Price-9
@violetcv.bsky.social
Transdisciplinary research, aguas, afectos, environmental conflicts, participation | Andaluza en Bilbao | De campo y de ciudad | Pensando con el Mar Menor | @BC3Research | she/her/la/ella | Views my own 🇵🇸 violetacabello.net/
@antvalentim.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in European Politics at LSE Prev. Postdoc at Yale & PhD from Humboldt Uni Berlin | Environmental politics, political behaviour, political elites. antoniovalentim.github.io
@mwdevine.bsky.social
Cultural / ecological anthropologist @ the University of Georgia. I study how people live in a changing climate. Passionate about the commons, mutual aid, and collective action; interdisciplinary and community-led work; scicomm www.meredithwelchdevine.com
@yacoub06.bsky.social
Committed to natural goods valuation, human well-being, sustainability and climate. PostDoc biodiversity economics at @iDiv & Leipzig University, Germany
@direnkocakusak.bsky.social
Environmental Researcher & Policy Consultant. Research Analyst at Global Energy Monitor. Opinions my own. #renewables, #climatechange, and #datascience
@lslothuus.bsky.social
Climate, energy, political theory, social movements | Postdoc at the University of Sussex researching fossil fuel phaseouts | Visiting Fellow at LSE | PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh | www.lukasslothuus.com
@smeedha.bsky.social
🌱 🌎 Ⓥ Climate Justice ✊🏽 she/ they Social Work | Human Geography Academic-ing in the great Midwest. *car door slammer @smeedha@mastodon.bida.im
@yolandaariadne.bsky.social
Lecturer/Assistant Prof, IR, University of St. Andrews: Working on Forests, Conservation, Colonialism, Climate Change. Views my own
@anthfletch.bsky.social
Professor of Political Ecology at Wageningen University. Conservation, tourism, development, climate change, basic income studies
@ellengfield.bsky.social
Assistant Prof, Faculty of Education, Lakehead University ~ researcher of policy & practice of climate change education in Canada ~ 🫶🏼🌿🎈PI: Accelerating CCE in Teacher Education https://accelerating-cce.ca/
@rvermapuri.bsky.social
Anthropologist • Political Ecologist • Author • Photographer • Adventurer • Thinking out of the box • Acting with a conscience • Degrowth • Wellbeing Alternatives • Climate Change • Loss&Damage • Development • Decoloniality • Bhutan • Madagascar • Kenya •
@tiezasantos.bsky.social
PhD Cand. 🎓 Complex Systems Transformation | Global Politics & Intl. Development | Climate Resilience | Envi. & Water Governance | Sustainable Cities | Water-Energy-Food Nexus | Sustainable Finance | Open Sci & SciComm 🇩🇪 🇹🇭 🇵🇭 views mine;reposts≠endorsements
@fdabl.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics & Institute for Advanced Study, Amsterdam || Climate action, tipping points, sufficiency, social movements. https://fabiandablander.com/
@originalnatog.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ Uni Of Manchester. Political geographer interested in emergencies, disasters, governmental rationalities, climate change… https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/nathaniel.ogrady.html
@saminaustralia.bsky.social
🌱 Environmentalist: climate, policy and food systems. Social justice. Traveller. Geo-politics. Optimist. Pun aficionado. I like to build new things and try to leave the 🌏 a bit better than we found it. 🇬🇧,🇩🇪 + aprendiendo 🇪🇸 🏡 Melbourne. All views my own.
@alexandracronin.bsky.social
Environmental Peacebuilding 🌿🕊️🧱 | Transboundary Freshwater Conflict and Cooperation ⛲️ | Maritime Affairs 🌊 | Energy Justice ⚖️ 📚 MA The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy 📚 BA Wellesley College ✨Views my own✨
@ryankatzrosene.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Ottawa studying contentious CLIMATE POLITICS. Especially interested in aviation/high-speed rail; nuclear debate; green/de-growth; meat production/consumption; and all things Canada🇨🇦. Co-Host http://EcopoliticsPodcast.ca
@stevenmejia.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Washington State Sociology byway of UCLA and UC Irvine. Global Sociology. Views are my own. Like/Repost ~= endorsement. https://www.stevenamejia.com/
@bbrayshay.bsky.social
Works at Royal Holloway University of London; Oral History of the UK Environmental Movement (OHEM) rhul.ac.uk/ohem A Director and Editor at Living Maps livingmaps.org.uk Sings with the Climate Choir- Dances to electro-beats Loves Yoga
@lisaschipper.bsky.social
Climate adaptation & development•Prof Development Geography @giubresearch.bsky.social• Co-EiC @climdevjournal.bsky.social• Associate @sei.org & @ecioxford.bsky.social•IPCC AR6 CLA•she/her/Du•Servant to 4 rescue 🐈⬛ from 3 continents•🇸🇪 #ShowYourStripes Köln
@kimanh.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor and human-environment geographer @Temple University. Political ecology | environmental justice | water | climate change | infrastructure | borders | Asia | kimberley.thomasresearch.org
@lkmsmith.bsky.social
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow Climate, emotions, behaviour change, gender, planetary (and death) care She/They 🌈🍁
@aashkadave.bsky.social
Information and library science PhD candidate at UNC, researching how we find and understand information about climate risk and change. Affiliate @citap.bsky.social. Previously MIT, HKS, AP, UGA
@dschlosberg.bsky.social
Prof of Enviro Politics, Director Sydney Environment Institute, Univ of Sydney. Environmental, climate, multispecies, and ecological justice; just adaptation and resilience.
@wouterpoortinga.bsky.social
Professor of #EnvironmentalPsychology @WSofArchi, @PsychCardiffUni, and @cast-centre.bsky.social Ffrîsiad a fabwysiadwyd gan Gymru Interest in Public engagement with climate change, Sustainable lifestyles & behaviour, and Environment & health
@moiranics.bsky.social
#SocialScientist and Public #Climate Comms and Engagement Guest Lecturer @UCL Energy Institute Ex @Ofgem | energy flex researcher *Sharing research and views in a personal capacity*
@maxliboiron.bsky.social
Doing Feminist & Anticolonial science through plastic monitoring. Author: Pollution is Colonialism (2020), Discard Studies (2021). They/them, Michif, 2S, hermit. CLEAR lab at @clear-lab.bsky.social
@danielle-rivera.bsky.social
🇵🇷 Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture + Environmental Planning at UC-Berkeley | Just + Equitable Environments | Disaster (and Disastrous) Research | Occasionally gardening + a dog
@rushtondr.bsky.social
Professor of Education & Head of Education, University of Stirling 🏴|Geography | Education | Curriculum | Environmental & Sustainability Education 🌍| Teacher Education | BERA Blog Editor| Crochet fan 🧶https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1924129
@rossmittiga.bsky.social
Associate professor (senior lecturer) at SOAS University of London, working on the political ethics of the climate crisis. Book "Climate Change as Political Catastrophe" (OUP, 2024): https://shorturl.at/bjGJN https://www.rossmittiga.com/ 🌹