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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 1d

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

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 · 1d

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

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 · 5d

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 · 13d

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 15d

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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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 15d

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

academic.oup.com

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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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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 22d

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 · 26d

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!

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 27d

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

More 👇

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

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

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 29d

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

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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Pallavi Banerjee @pallavib.bsky.social · 28d

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 · 29d

Sounds super duper interesting!

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 29d

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

Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 29d

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

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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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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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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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.

ubcecon.github.io

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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

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...

www.climateandsocietylab.com

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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

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...

www.climateandsocietylab.com

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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. 🔌💡

dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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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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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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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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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