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Clark Gray
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Professor of Geography and Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill
https://clarkgray.web.unc.edu/

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · Dec 3
Advisee brunch at Carolina Coffee Shop!
Four people having brunch

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Korie Dean @koriedean.bsky.social · 22h
New @theassemblync.bsky.social: UNC-Chapel Hill trustee John Preyer, perhaps most widely known for his role in the Belichick hire, has resigned from the board www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
UNC-Chapel Hill Trustee John Preyer Resigns
Preyer championed efforts to revamp the university’s budget and launch a civics school, but he may be remembered most for his role in hiring Bill Belichick.
www.theassemblync.com

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Ariel Ortiz-Bobea @arielob.bsky.social · 1d
A little bit late, but I'm looking to hire a postdoc at Cornell to measure the private value of soil health improvements in US ag. A 2-year gig.

Well suited for an ag/resource economist or data scientist w/ interests in soil health and solid programming & econometric chops.

ad coming soon!

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Andrew B. Watkins @windjunky.bsky.social · 1d
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 1d
176 tiny maps (1850-2025)

Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet.

This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Fabián Muniesa , and 5 more

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d
If the figures we're getting out of Iran are in the right league, this weekend was, I think, one of the bloodiest state crackdowns of all time. People are talking 12,000-20,000 dead; for comparison Hungary in 1956 was about 2,500, Tiananmen - across country, in multiple cities - probably 1000+

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 2d
With data from >100k special issues, we set out to tackle this problem.

Guest editors publishing in their own issues is a form of "endogeny". In this study, we define special issues with extreme endogeny as Published In Support of Self (PISS).

So, how much of this literature is PISS?

4/n

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Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough.bsky.social · 3d
I just texted someone an excerpt from my color-coded spreadsheet of summer camps, which reminds me that maybe non-parents don't realize that many working parents have to create color-coded spreadsheets of summer camps as they piece together coverage across the entire summer.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 3d
The Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota (@minnpop.bsky.social) is hiring a postdoc in Population Health. Happy to chat about the MPC, UMN, and the Twin Cities, which are all awesome in my humble opinion!

pop.umn.edu/training/pos...
APPLY NOW: Postdoctoral Fellowship Available Population Health Training Program JOIN OUR INNOVATIVE PROGRAM! Fellows in this Population Health Science Training Program work closely with academic mentors in social and health science fields to build skills in interdisciplinary population health research to prepare them for academic careers focused on addressing pressing public health problems. We seek exceptional candidates in either social science or health science fields who have earned a PhD to join our diverse and accomplished cohort of trainees, and we particularly welcome candidates from backgrounds underrepresented in research.

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
Population & Development Review is seeking applications for Editor(s)! For more info, visit popcouncil.org/wp-content/u...
Picture of the PDF linked in the post about PDR editors.

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Communications Sustainability @commssustain.nature.com · 3d
🤒Higher temperatures are associated with more violence-related visits, particularly for younger individuals and those with lower income or educational attainment.
👉Read the study by @robbieparks.bsky.social and co-authors at www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#sustainability #climatechange 🧪
Annual Medicaid interpersonal (n = 327,577) and self-inflicted (n = 17,271) violence-related hospital visits, by sex and age for 1999–2012

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 3d
A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis

The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway

They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 4d
Gotta say, felt weird setting up my little course websites and revising assignments while the secret police are liquidating the Union

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 5d
Postdoc with Nina Brooks at U Michigan:
Postdoctoral Research Associate | U-M Careers
careers.umich.edu

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Emily Mann @emannphd.bsky.social · 6d
Job: Open-rank position in Environmental Health and Implementation Science in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina. uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/196...
Open Rank (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor )
uscjobs.sc.edu

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DEMO LLN 🇧🇪 @demographielln.bsky.social · 6d
📢JOB OFFER
Postdoc fellowship within the project “Climate change-related #mortality in different population groups in urbanized Belgium” (TEMPUR), funded by the FNRS and FWO.
🔎Full details: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/399708
📆Deadline: 15/02
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Demography, Center for Demographic Research (DEMO), Louvain University, Belgium
The Centre for Demographic Research (DEMO) at UCLouvain invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral fellowship (2 years) within the research project “Climate change-related mortality in differen...
euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 7d
Maggie's gateway was Baby Sitter's Club graphic novels. Eventually moved onto chapter books without prompting.

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Leslie Root @lesja.bsky.social · 7d
"US demographics are a real problem" no ❤️ they're not ❤️

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John Johnson @jdjmke.bsky.social · 7d
In my latest newsletter I investigate what domestic migration patterns show about where Americans are choosing to live (and leave). Interestingly, the patterns often correspond better to ecoregions than political boundaries. Some of them surprised me. Read more:
Where Americans Choose to Move and Where They Leave
Domestic Migration from 2020 to 2024
bluebookmke.substack.com

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Christina Belanger, Ph.D @belaforams.bsky.social · 7d
“…an intro. sociology course on race and ethnicity was canceled, a comm. course on religion and the arts was renumbered and stripped of core curriculum credit, and a philosophy prof. was told to remove Plato readings and other material related to race and gender from a core course or be reassigned.”
Texas A&M restrictions on race, gender could affect 200 courses
With the semester set to begin next week, professors have been directed to alter courses, and some classes have been removed or reassigned from the core curriculum at the College Station campus.
www.texastribune.org

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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 7d
A truly gonzo Executive Order from the Trump Administration removes US from not just the UN Framework Convention on Climate change, but also the IPCC (!), the IUCN, the IPBES (the IPCC of biodiversity), and all sorts of other organizations. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 8d
The murdered woman was the mom of a 6 year old. That kid was having a regular school day today, and now their mom is dead.

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 9d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 9d
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️

`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.

github.com/echolab-stan...
GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
github.com

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James P. Collins @jpcollins.me · 10d
"Nutrition is a central determinant of human health, yet the direct impacts of climate on dietary intake remain poorly understood ... [we] show that both extreme heat and cold trigger a shift toward energy-dense diets, adding a previously overlooked behavioral channel to the climate–health nexus."
Extreme Temperatures Promote High-Fat Diets
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 10d
🆕 How climate change could trap workers in agriculture

Today on VoxDev, Ishan Nath (Harvard Kennedy School) discusses how climate change is likely to keep more labour in agriculture in regions where agricultural productivity suffers most: https://ow.ly/wAK250XRP56
How climate change could trap workers in agriculture
Climate change is likely to keep more labour in agriculture in the very regions where agricultural productivity suffers most, exacerbating the ‘food problem’ just as economies would benefit most from diversifying away from agriculture.
ow.ly

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10d
New paper, led by Estelle McLean, on the value of data from Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems. These data sources are particularly suitable for complex longitudinal analyses which require consideration of household and familial contexts, but their complexity may result in their under-use
Versatility, value and limitations of using health and demographic surveillance system data for secondary analyses: guidance for researchers, using examples from existing analyses - Journal of Populat...
Journal of Population Research - Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSS) are geographic open cohorts operating in countries with absent/incomplete vital registration. Data on demographic...
link.springer.com

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 11d
This is one amazing photo.

Jets of water vapour and ice crystals blasting out through four deep fractures in the icy shell of Saturn's tiny moon Enceladus.

This is the only alien ocean we know of that we can directly access.

(1/2)
The curved, icy surface of Enceladus, with several jets extending into space.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14d
An official account of the United States government is dreamposting about deporting 80+ million citizens

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Madalsa @madalsa.org · 17d
Love this piece from @dancohen.org on how Northwestern libraries are integrating library resources into LLM chatbots, encouraging 'the student.. to consult the texts themselves, which popular chatbots eschew during spasms of summarization."
All hail the index!
newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Library’s New Entryway
An interface that combines the advantages of the traditional index with the power of LLMs is the path forward
newsletter.dancohen.org