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Sara Constantino

@smconstantino.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Visiting Scholar Princeton SPIA. Sustainable dev’t, climate, energy, collective action, crises, behavior, decision making. 🇵🇹🇧🇷🇨🇦

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Sarah Brayne @sarahbrayne.bsky.social · 9d

Stanford Sociology is fortunate to have an open senior search this year! More info in the job announcement here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Senior appointment in the Department of Sociology at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 23d

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University

Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Aug 30

Wonderful to work with @talbotmandrews.bsky.social @acooperman.bsky.social @gard-murray.bsky.social on this!

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Aug 30

As wildfires burn at home in 🇵🇹 and here in CA, we have a new paper that finds: exposure to fires doesn’t necessarily predict greater support for climate change mitigation. But people closest to the 2021-2022 fires do prioritize personal adaptive action. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paying attention and paying the costs: wildfires in the American West - Climatic Change

Preliminary estimates suggest that the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires could be the costliest disaster in U.S. history to date when accounting for both direct and indirect losses. As personal exper...

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Talbot Andrews @talbotmandrews.bsky.social · Aug 30

More climate disaster won't necessarily lead to more climate change mitigation support. In our newest paper, we find people closest to the fires in the 2021-2022 fire season prioritized local adaptive action, rather than mitigation. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Paying attention and paying the costs: wildfires in the American West - Climatic Change

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Aug 29

We are hiring - come work with us! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Environmental Behavioral Sciences)

facultypositions.stanford.edu

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Wilhelm Hofmann @wilhelmhofmann.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨
The Social&Environmental Psychology Group @ruhr-uni-bochum.de is recruiting 2 PhDs and 1 Postdoc
as part of the ERC-funded SUSCON project on sustainable consumption.

Details here:

PhDs:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/7...

Postdoc:👉 jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/e...

Doctoral Researcher (m,f,x)

jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de

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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Aug 14

Americans: it takes just a minute to submit a comment to the EPA asking them to preserve the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which finds carbon dioxide emissions to be dangerous to public health/welfare..it underpins all subsequent federal regulation of CO2 emissions www.regulations.gov/commenton/EP...

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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Aug 1

Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 31

🚨 If you're interested in working on a coordinated response to the DOE climate report, please enter your info on this google form 🚨

Please RT this so as many people see it as possible.

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DOE climate report response form

We are collecting names to assemble a writing team to respond to the DOE climate working group report. If you'd like to contribute, enter your info below. At this point, there is no guarantee what we'll do (if anything), but we want to keep our options open by collecting names. If you have any further questions, feel free to email me. We are primarily looking for Ph.D. scientists at universities or government labs in appropriate fields. I realize that this will exclude some qualified people and I apologize, but we felt this was necessary for a variety of reasons.

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NBER @nber.org · Dec 9

Results from a guaranteed income program for low-income households in Compton, California, from Sidhya Balakrishnan, Sewin Chan, Sara Constantino, Johannes Haushofer, and Jonathan Morduch https://www.nber.org/papers/w33209

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Danielle Zoe Rivera @danielle-rivera.bsky.social · Jul 12

UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · Jul 7

According to a new report by those hippies at Morgan Stanley, in the past year 55% of North American companies have experienced a #ClimateChange related event that impacted their operations or business.

That's a lot!

SUSTAINABILITY AND CORPORATE STRATEGY HOW CLIMATE IS AFFECTING CORPORATES THE NEXT FIVE YEARS REGIONAL HEADLINES
SAMPLE DESIGN APPENDIX =
Over half of companies report that their business was impacted by climate-related events in the past year, increasing costs
57% of companies experienced an impact on their operations from climate-related events in the past year, with APAC companies citing a much higher incidence (73%). Extreme heat was the most common, named by 55% of those who saw any impact (65% in APAC). Extreme weather or storms rank second (53%) and are the most common in North America (57%).
Increased costs are the most common way that businesses are impacted (54%), followed by worker disruption (40%) and revenue losses (39%).

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Jun 28

The energy provisions in the Republicans' One Big Horrible Bill are truly so bad! Who wants this? The country's automakers don't want it. Electric utilities don't want it. Data center developers don't want it. Manufacturers in energy intensive industries don't want it. 🔌💡

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Neil Malhotra @nmalhotra.bsky.social · Mar 12

We are hiring a pre-doc at Stanford to work on (among other things) a project called Public Pulse, which will provide reports on public opinion in the US, and potentially fill the void of things like 538. Please share with your undergrads. iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2025-...

2025–26 Faculty Research Projects | Institute for Research in the Social Sciences

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Feb 27

☝️ agree

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Feb 18

Postdoc opportunity on industrial policies and related topics at the Reimagining the Economy program at Harvard www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/...

CID Visiting Researcher Program

www.hks.harvard.edu

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Feb 5

Huge: The Army Corps of Engineers has confirmed to me that it has halted evaluations for pending permit actions related to renewables.

The most confusing part? Its unclear why, and the EO they cited in their statement to me doesn't even mention renewable energy.

heatmap.news/sparks/army-...

A Key Federal Agency Has Stopped Approving New Renewables Projects

The Army Corps of Engineers has halted processing on 168 pending actions, a spokesperson confirmed.

heatmap.news

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 4

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy

If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Colin Meehan @colinme.bsky.social · Feb 4

I hope rural communities, their co-ops, and especially @nreca.bsky.social are paying attention. Literally billions in funding to bring rural communities more reliable, cheaper electric power is at risk. Thanks @jael.bsky.social @heatmap.news for reporting on this! www.electric.coop/co-ops-win-b...

Co-ops Win Big in New $2 Billion Round of DOE Grid Funding Program

Electric cooperatives won substantial funding under a new $2 billion round of the Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships program.

www.electric.coop

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Feb 4

Scoop: The Trump admin has quietly issued stop work orders on projects funded under contracts with the Energy Department that reference community benefit plans, an attempt to target a crucial part of Biden’s environmental justice legacy

cc @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/tru...

Trump’s Other Funding Freeze Attacks Environmental Justice

Companies, states, cities, and other entities with Energy Department contracts that had community benefit plans embedded in them have been ordered to stop all work.

heatmap.news

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Feb 3

putting this call out again:

are you a climate or enviro scientist whose work has been paused due to the change in admin?

is your job impacted by the IRA/BIL freeze?

do you work in decarb and have concerns about your job stability?

hit my line: [email protected]

i’m on signal too, dm for info.

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Wei Peng @weipengclimate.bsky.social · Jan 22

Thanks for the shoutout, @kmkennedy6.bsky.social !

Check out our new commentary about ways to pursue health and equity-improving energy decisions 👇👇

Kathleen Kennedy @kmkennedy6.bsky.social · Jan 22

🚨New paper alert! 🚨Excited to share this commentary on synergies between climate action and health, led by @weipengclimate.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kTSe9C~Iu...

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Kathleen Kennedy @kmkennedy6.bsky.social · Jan 22

🚨New paper alert! 🚨Excited to share this commentary on synergies between climate action and health, led by @weipengclimate.bsky.social. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kTSe9C~Iu...

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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · Jan 11

Come work as a climate postdoc with me, @jenniferhadden.bsky.social and Chris Rea at @climatesollab.bsky.social ! Deadline: January 15, 2025.
🌍

apply.interfolio.com/153582

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holly caggiano @holcaggiano.bsky.social · Jan 2

Being in a book is so cool! @smconstantino.bsky.social & I wrote this chapter while we took turns moving across the country. In great company with other chapters by @akjorgenson.bsky.social, @gruberte.bsky.social, @fisherdanar.bsky.social & more

Chapter 15: Household decision-making in the climate crisis

Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society, 2nd edition, eds. S. Brechin & S. Lee

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · Dec 12

Here it is! The amazing "political economics of environmental sustainability" program, organized by Partha Dasgupta and yours truly.
You can apply to attend here:
www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

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Sara Constantino @smconstantino.bsky.social · Dec 12

We are open to a range of disciplinary backgrounds - come join us!

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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · Dec 10

Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

Research Assistant - 133553

Apply for Research Assistant - 133553 position at UC San Diego in Remote, National on https://employment.ucsd.edu/

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