Michele L Barnes

@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 �

My latest article with @laurielaybourn.bsky.social in which we explore how climate impacts such as devastating wildfires can erode our collective ability to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions which are increasing such impacts. A dynamic we call derailment risk. open.substack.com/pub/jamesdyk...

Derailment doom loops arise as Trump becomes first post-1.5 President

The political fallout from LA wildfires shows how the consequences of climate change threatens to erode our abilities to reduce the drivers of climate change

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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳 With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5

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Hi all! 👋 I'm so happy to see more sociologists here these days. I study rental housing markets and family inequality. In a recent piece published in ASR, I show how network resource inequalities shape renters' housing search outcomes in LA. Check it out here! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Finding a Home during the Affordable Housing Crisis: How Social Ties Shape Renters’ Housing-Search Outcomes - Steven Schmidt, 2024

Housing searches play a central role in the reproduction of racial inequality in U.S. cities. Past research finds that movers’ social ties influence residential...

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