Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University Pueblo. My research looks at intersections of human, animal, and environmental well-being. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Briscoe-3 Posts here reflect my own opinions.https://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3mghvlwfnpc2oI wrote a new short piece for @speciesunite.bsky.social on plant based food (and lack thereof) in prison. https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/should-incarcerated-people-receive-plant-based-food07 Mar 2026 13:10 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghvlwfnpc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3mdhnaqjdyk2tI published a blog post for @vegansociology.bsky.social about my experience teaching the book Tender is the Flesh in my Crime and Society in Science Fiction class. Check it out here: https://www.vegansociology.com/2026/01/28/the-loneliness-and-madness-of-teaching-tender-is-the-flesh/28 Jan 2026 06:25 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdhnaqjdyk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3macefryk6c2iWhile doing my MA I hit a deer near this stretch of highway, which was one of the catalysts for me to write my book Stocks or Stakeholders - where I advocate for wildlife crossings. It's come full circle as the largest crossing in North America has just been built there. Well done @colorado.gov! https://governorsoffice.colorado.gov/governor/news/cdot-completes-construction-i-25-greenland-wildlife-overpass-north-americas-largest-wildlife18 Dec 2025 23:48 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3macefryk6c2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lxuqg3fflk2sI published a new paper in Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy on presidential politics and the carbon intensity of well-being in the US. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2025.254981702 Sep 2025 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxuqg3fflk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lvk5xzzqac2oI write about these bad faith animal welfare arguments against renewable energy in chapter 4 of my new book. Fossil fuel production kills many more animals both directly and indirectly than renewables. At the same time, we can do more to reduce the impact of renewable energy production on animals. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2025 02:37 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvk5xzzqac2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lvbf5utiu22nIt is tempting to visit animal "wildlife centers" or "sanctuaries" that offer you the chance to get close to animals. The problem is many of these organizations are actually roadside zoos more concerned with profit than animal welfare. Read more in my new piece for @speciesunite.bsky.social https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/roadside-zoos-are-animal-welfare-disasters31 Jul 2025 14:51 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbf5utiu22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lur4a5n3zk2qThis sale is on just about everything including my new book, Stocks or Stakeholders. Use code DGBSUMMER25 https://brill.com/display/title/62085 @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Jul 2025 03:29 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lur4a5n3zk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3luooczjabk25I think the carbon intensity of well-being is one of the most useful sustainability measures. What's more important than reducing environmental impact and improving human well-being? Being able to explore and interact with this measure helps people understand it. I've made a dashboard to do so - https://public.tableau.com/views/CarbonIntensityofWell-Being/Dashboard1?:language=en-US&:sid=&:redirect=auth&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link24 Jul 2025 04:15 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3luooczjabk25https://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lu7hhbjwos2mI was fortunate to work on this paper on illegal bird hunting in Fereydunkenar, Iran, with Seyed Ahmad Mir Mohamad Tabar, Maryam Sohrabi, and Meysam Farajpour, now published in Environmental Sociology https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.253425418 Jul 2025 03:02 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu7hhbjwos2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3ltrpdt57f223My new article with Jennifer Givens and @jbfitzgerald.bsky.social was just published in Environmental Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2025.253091512 Jul 2025 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltrpdt57f223https://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3ltdngb4jrk2sMy book, Stocks or Stakeholders, was released last week as an ebook and this week in hardcover. I was happy to be part of Animals & Society Institute's book series with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social as their books and journals played a big role for me as a student and continue to as a scholar. https://brill.com/display/title/6208507 Jul 2025 01:34 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltdngb4jrk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lrdkx6ozxs24Lots of vaccine news these past two weeks. I wrote a short piece for @speciesunite.bsky.social on the bird flu vaccine, which had its funding terminated at the end of May, and why intensive animal agriculture means bird flu is likely to remain a threat to animal and human health. https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/the-bird-flu-vaccine-just-lost-us-funding-do-we-still-need-it11 Jun 2025 13:59 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdkx6ozxs24https://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3llr4lz7qfc2cSurvey research from Pew says people perceive rudeness to be on the rise since COVID-19. It very well may be, but I'd wager that a similar study pre-COVID would find the same. What do you think? https://newscsupueblo.org/2025/03/31/rudeness-in-the-digital-age-effects-of-technology/01 Apr 2025 14:49 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llr4lz7qfc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3llaz3kvpgk26This short piece draws from and highlights the work of @joshsbicca.bsky.social with CSU's Prison Agriculture Lab and Amy Fitzgerald's article in the Journal for Critical Animal Studies to explain how the prison and animal industrial complexes reinforce each other. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Mar 2025 05:03 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llaz3kvpgk26https://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lizeuh7zh22dI just published a new article in @springernature.com's Discover Animals that shows states with longer working time have lower animal shelter save rates. Another reason to shift away from our work-centric culture with policies like a 4 day workweek. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s44338-025-00056-z25 Feb 2025 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lizeuh7zh22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3ld5ekporys2oI wrote another short article for Species Unite summarizing a few of the dangers posed by overuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture. https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/the-dangers-of-antibiotic-use-in-animal-agriculture12 Dec 2024 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld5ekporys2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lbai6vipkc2dAnimals lost in ballot measures this past election, and animal issues contributed to Donald Trump's victory as people - including JD Vance - couldn't stop talking about the price of eggs. https://www.speciesunite.com/news-stories/animals-lost-in-the-2024-election18 Nov 2024 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbai6vipkc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/michaelbriscoe.bsky.social/post/3lb4fsbfbys2jPosting a bit late here but the new issue of Sociology of Development is out, including an article I coauthored led by Jared Fitzgerald and Jennifer Givens showing that a reduction in working time would be beneficial for humans and the environment. https://online.ucpress.edu/socdev/issue/10/317 Nov 2024 02:55 +0000at://did:plc:i54m3rixivavnwkod2damox3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb4fsbfbys2j