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Global Political Economy & Climate Change. Professor @ UBC. Director: Climate & Society Lab. Journal Editor: Sociology of Development. https://sociology.ubc.ca/profile/andrew-jorgenson/ https://www.climateandsocietylab.com https://online.ucpress.edu/socdev .. more

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 15h

📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict

Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Conference Alert! Abstract Submissions Due Soon!🚨🚨 “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", Happening July 2026, University of British Columbia. Open to all Topics Within a GPE Framework. Lots of Travel Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 4d

Submissions Due Soon! "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", July 2026, University of British Columbia. Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73 #politicaleconomy #sociology #globalpoliticaleconomy #globalization #internationalpoliticaleconomy

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 8d

I have family roots in Delta. My grandfather was mayor. I remember the IPP being built. One of the engineers who was brought in to help moved across the street from my grandmother. They installed solar panels on their roof. Always thought about doing research on it. Glad you’re doing it.

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 16d

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 17d

A superb and nuanced analysis by @r-thombs.bsky.social. Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level? url: academic.oup.com/socpro/artic...

Does international trade drive CO2 emissions at the U.S. state-level?

ABSTRACT. Whether and how trade impacts carbon emissions in Global North nations like the United States (U.S.) remains contested. Prior analyses focus on n

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Reposted by Andrew K. Jorgenson, Horacio Larreguy, Valerie Mueller , and 4 more Andrew K. Jorgenson, Horacio Larreguy, Valerie Mueller, Michael Kevane, David Schlosberg, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Kate Lowe

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 25d

The School of Planning, Policy, and Environmental Studies at San José State University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies. We welcome applicants from all fields of environmental studies who apply an environmental justice lens to their work. jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor - Environmental Studies

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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 29d

Call for papers! @danielleresnick.bsky.social , @philbakernz.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue in the journal Food Policy on "Rebuilding Global Food Governance amidst a Crisis of Multilateralism" - Papers due Feb.1, 2026. For more info, see link!

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Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Food Policy | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Food Policy at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Samuel L. Perry , and 7 more Stephen P. Jenkins, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Samuel L. Perry, Lesley A. Hall, Will Lowe, Markus Klein, Étienne Ollion, Patrick Präg, Samuel Coavoux, Jani Erola

Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 29d

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

#sociology

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 10

Colleagues, please help spread the word and submit an abstract! The Global Political Economy Network is a super welcoming and dynamic scholarly community with great breadth and depth. And visiting Vancouver in the summer is not too shabby either. Travel support is available!

Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Conference Alert! Submit an Abstract & Spread the Word! "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", July 2026, University of British Columbia. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73 #politicaleconomy #sociology #globalpoliticaleconomy #climatecrisis #globalinequality

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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · Sep 10

JOB ALERT FOR #SOCIOLOGIST: Come work with me. We have FOUR Assistant Professor positions in the Sociology Department at the University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1672106...

Assistant Professors - Sociology, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, AB, ...

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 9

Sounds super duper interesting!

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Funding is Available for Participants -- See Details in the Call For Papers!

Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 8

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

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Reposted by Mel Bartley, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Nancy T. Ammerman , and 6 more Mel Bartley, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Nancy T. Ammerman, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Jo Barraket, Alessandro Nai, Joanna Tai, Yue Qian, Marco Albertini

Kathleen Broussard @kbroussard.bsky.social · Sep 8

TWO new Assistant Professor positions in Sociology at USC! Seeking candidates with expertise in the following: 1) Institutions & Inequalities and 2) Socially Informed AI and/or Data Science (links to job ads below👇). Happy to talk about what it's like to work/live here! #sociology (1/3)

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Reposted by Katharine Hayhoe, Richard S.J. Tol, John Drury , and 10 more Katharine Hayhoe, Richard S.J. Tol, John Drury, Andrew K. Jorgenson, Hugo Mercier, Lesley A. Hall, Emilio Zagheni, Rebecca Sear, Paul E. Smaldino, Jussi T. Eronen, Melanie C. Green, Clark Gray, Léa Tardieu

James Holland Jones @juemos.bsky.social · Sep 7

My department is hiring an assistant professor of environmental behavioral sciences. The research area is open but we are particularly interested in people with research on collective action or computational social sciences.

Happy to answer questions about the Doerr School or the department.

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

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Reposted by Andrew K. Jorgenson, Jean‐Frédéric Morin, Juan Cole , and 7 more Andrew K. Jorgenson, Jean‐Frédéric Morin, Juan Cole, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Jussi T. Eronen, Silvia Secchi, Martijn Duineveld, Duncan McLaren, Tim Stephens, Prakash Kashwan

Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · Sep 7

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org

110 top experts from around the world

13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change

A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this

Will be free online Oct 14 1/x

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Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · Sep 5

At long last, I can post my team's summer project: applied modules to teach how ML/AI tools are changing social science and humanities research: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/

Highlights:

LegalBERT to analyze anti/pro-immigrant sentiment in 19th c. BC law: ubcecon.github.io/praxis-ubc/d...
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Praxis - Embedding Driven Text Analysis of Crease’s Stance Towards Chinese Immigrants

This notebook aims to demonstrate how machine learning can assist with historical and other humanity research.

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 3

Call For Papers!: "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", a conference at University of British Columbia from July 21-23, 2026. Please share with faculty and grad students! Details here: www.climateandsocietylab.com/call-for-pap...

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · Sep 3

I have a new preprint, with Mike Vandenbergh and @eithorpe.bsky.social examining the wild uncertainties in estimates of the environmental footprint of large language models and discussing the implications for climate policy. 🔌💡

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The Energy and Environmental Footprint of AI

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create major economic and social benefits but also to rapidly escalate electricity demand and its associated e

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Aug 30

@shastingssimon.bsky.social : regarding Canadian context, this might be of interest: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inequality is driving the climate crisis: A longitudinal analysis of province-level carbon emissions in Canada, 1997–2020

The authors conduct a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between carbon emissions and income inequality for the Canadian provinces for the 199…

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Joakim Kulin @joakimkulin.bsky.social · Aug 25

Happy to see this study published in @environmentalpol.bsky.social Vol 34, Issue 6. In it, I show how rightwing populists, especially those holding nationalist attitudes, consistently employ climate delay discourses (here whataboutism) to justify climate inaction. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Climate whataboutism and rightwing populism: how emissions blame-shifting translates nationalist attitudes into climate policy opposition

In the evolving discourse on climate change, the phenomenon of ‘whataboutism’ has emerged as a pervasive rhetorical strategy to deflect responsibility for the emissions of one’s own country by shif...

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Aug 14

Inequality has played a notable role: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inequality is driving the climate crisis: A longitudinal analysis of province-level carbon emissions in Canada, 1997–2020

The authors conduct a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between carbon emissions and income inequality for the Canadian provinces for the 199…

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Aug 12

My family and I are now officially permanent residents of Canada 🇨🇦.

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Aug 9

wonderful news, congrats!!

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Aug 7

So the Trump admin is now revising the prior US National Climate Assessments. This barely made the news. This is blatant war on science.

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · Aug 7

Birkenhead Lake, British Columbia.

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · Jun 30

New paper. I wish this wasn't the case, but most progress on reducing US greenhouse gas emissions is likely spurious. Why? EPA underestimates methane emissions from oil and gas. Relevant today as Repubs vote to gut IRA's methane monitoring/mitigation program. 🧵

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Two graphs from the paper.

The left graph shows US net greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2022. The official EPA estimates decline fairly steadily from 6.6 gigatonnes per year in 2005 to 5.5 in 2022 (17% below 2005 levels), largely reflecting natural gas displacing coal for electricity generation. The adjusted estimates, which reflect independent measurements of methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure, end at 6.3 gigatonnes per year in 2022 (only 5% below 2005 levels).

The right graph shows 2022 emissions increasing linearly with the assumed global warming potential of methane. Climate scientists are divided on whether to use the 100-year GWP, 20-year GWP, or something in between. With methane warming impacts assessed via the 20-year GWP, the central 2022 emissions estimate is 7.9 gigatonnes per year - 20% *above* the EPA's official 2005 estimate.

Caption: Figure 1: Left: United States net greenhouse gas emissions over time. Right: Scaling of 2022 net emissions with methane’s GWP. After adjustment to reflect recent measurements of methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure, United States net emissions remain nearly as high as their 2005 level.

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · Jan 17

UBC folks -- join me, Simon Donner, and Holly Caggiano Tuesday Jan. 21 for an informal conversation about the implications of Donald Trump's inauguration for climate policy. BYO lunch.

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Climate Conversation: Climate Policy and the new US Administration

With the inauguration of Donald Trump for a second term as President on January 20, 2025, the role of the US federal government in climate action is expected to shift significantly. Join us for an in...

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holly caggiano @holcaggiano.bsky.social · Jan 19

Important piece by @koslov.bsky.social & Katie McConnell in NYT today. We need to completely change how we think about wildfire planning & the real feasibility of managed retreat

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Opinion | There Is No Way to Retreat From the Risk of Wildfires

Some more realistic ways to think about the challenges ahead.