Beautiful speech by Jean-Luc Mélenchon on free time, explaining what the fight in France is really about

Homelessness, parks, public space, and democracy. A podcast with the awesome folks from City Cast Salt Lake open.spotify.com/episode/2stRG4…

Recently published research on negative attitudes towards homelessness and reported likelihood of conflicts in parks, with Nick Pitas and Lauren Mullenbach, Ph.D. in @ElsGeogPlan sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering a case involving penalties targeting involuntary homelessness. Enabling the criminalization of homelessness could undermine individual and population health. Read the full Perspective: nej.md/3Xj9I55

I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

"Many climate researchers are deeply concerned, but all we can do is sound the alarm." nature.com/articles/d4158…

#SandhurstFire remains 204 acres and 10% contained. Heat was visible overnight, but night shift saw no fire movement. Residents were allowed back. The area is closed to non-residents for traffic. Crews continue to secure the perimeter and hopefully gain more containment tonight

These kinds of conditions are prevalent in lots of community organizations that are at least nominally trying to help, but to see these at the core of the recent SCOTUS Grants Pass decision is particularly maddening.

Unfortunately, these kinds of experiences are all too common in the Salt Lake Valley. sltrib.com/opinion/commen…

We reviewed everything we could find about stigma and discrimination toward people experiencing homelessness: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/20…

Reminder: Victory for Trump is likely to all but end global hopes of staying below 1.5C, our analysis found in March carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump…

Qualitative researchers: Run, don't walk, to read this article: Braun et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2025-…

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

Recent research on homelessness in parks tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

According to a recent paper, the vast majority of academics gain their elite status the old-fashioned way, they were born with rich parents.

"Siri, what 15 second video clip serves as a metaphor for the culmination of the last half-Century of American-led, fossil fuel driven, neoliberal capitalism?" [Video by StuPal]

Homelessness is an incredibly complicated issue. But there are some relatively straightforward, bipartisan areas of agreement. We should both increase housing supply and decrease the suffering of the unhoused. #utleg Deseret News deseret.com/opinion/2025/0…

The list of scapegoats grows. nytimes.com/2025/04/09/us/…

I’m sure the Trump Admin will handle this difficult situation in a nuanced and compassionate manner washingtonpost.com/national-secur…