It was a privilege to add my perspective to the Daily Bruin's reporting on how the Los Angeles fires have been politicized. dailybruin.com/2025/01/12/fed…

Today's the day! I poured everything I've got into this book, and now, eight years after I started working on it, it is officially published! I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make this book a reality - and to all of you for your support for my work.

Tufts posted a roundup of my refutations of the lie that regulations of the Delta Smelt are the cause of the Los Angeles fires or are making it harder to fight them in the media. as.tufts.edu/faculty-resear…

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Yesterday, executive order “Putting People over Fish: Stopping Radical Environmentalism to Provide Water to Southern California" was signed. What's with the fishy focus? On the political coherence of Delta Smelt scapegoating, sociologist Caleb Scoville for Contexts Magazine!

Talked to the nation's leading delta smelt politics expert Caleb Scoville about why Trump remains fixated on this tiny fish even when the facts don't add up sacbee.com/news/politics-…

After relying on the Sacramento Bee's reporting on California water issues for so many years, it's such an honor to be quoted in it (especially by such a fantastic journalist and alongside folks I have learned so much from during the course of my research).

The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.

I decoded Trump’s delta smelt obsession on Bloomberg radio bloomberg.com/news/audio/202…

It was a bright spot in an otherwise dark week to speak to Kiley Price at Inside Climate News about the delta smelt controversy, what it means and what it might portend insideclimatenews.org/news/07022025/…

Tufts sociologist Caleb Scoville is one of only 26 recipients nationwide to receive a prestigious Andrew Carnegie fellowship. brnw.ch/21wS2cz

Congratulations to Caleb Scoville, Berkeley Sociology Alum!

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Caleb Scoville Berkeley Soc Alum is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Tufts University, has been named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow for his research project titled “Divided by Nature: How Environmental Politics Became Partisan and What to Do About It in a Warming World.”

It was a pleasure to be invited to the National Park Traveler Podcast to discuss partisanship and the environment, how we are and aren’t divided over our relationship to nature, with a cameo from a certain little fish. nationalparkstraveler.org/podcast/2025-0…

In my capacity as Policy & Research Committee Chair, I am delighted to announce the 2025 award winners of the ASA Environmental Sociology Section. Congrats to all, and thanks to the members of the committees for their service to the section and field!

I was pleased to learn that this article is the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Article Award from the Animals and Society Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA Animals&Society). Thanks to the award committee for their service to the section!

Correcting the below: these 18 schools are planning a friend-of-the-court brief in Harvard's suit against Trump admin over the federal funding halt, not the foreign-student ban.