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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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NBER @nber.org · 15h

Characterizing the potential and limits of using satellite imagery and machine learning technology to measure ground conditions, from Proctor, Carleton, Chong, Fransen, Greenhill, Katz, Murayama, Sherman, Tseng, Druckenmiller, and Hsiang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34315

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Peter Ellis @freerangestats.info · 1d

We're #hiring a demographer at Pacific Community-SPC to help Pacific Island countries and territories with their population statistics! Based in Fiji, we're seeking someone with a relevant Masters or PhD, 10+ years experience, and strong skills in #rstats or Stata. careers.spc.int/job/statisti...

Statistics Adviser (Demography)

Suva-based position (Fiji) Attractive expatriate package Join the principal development organisation in the region Description The Pacific Community (SPC) is...

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 1d

Global coastal human settlement retreat driven by vulnerability to coastal climate hazards - Nature Climate Change

Coastal settlement retreat reflects human behavioural adaptation to increasing coastal climate hazards. Using night-time light data over 1992–2019, this study finds that over half of global coastal settlements have retreated, driven by insufficient infrastructure protection and adaptive capacity.

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 2d

At its peak, about 1 in 7 deaths in sub-Saharan Africa caused by HIV/AIDS. It is now one in 20. PEPFAR takes a lot of credit. Since the launch of PMI in 2005, death rates from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are down by a third. This is the time to double down, not walk away.

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 2d

Postdoc w/Miyuki Hino

Post-Doc Research Associate

This full-time position will contribute to projects on natural hazards and disasters.The primary projects will focus on extreme weather events and their impacts to communities in the Southeastern US. ...

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 4d

Every day is #UKFungusDay for me.

Caloboletus calopus - Bitter Beech Bolete

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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 5d

🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!

"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Rafiuddin (Rafi) Najam @rnajam.bsky.social · 6d

Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty.
Link:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.

Assistant Professor

This position is located in the Department of Public Policy within the College of Arts and Sciences. This tenure-track position includes 40% teaching, 40% research, and 20% service to the department. ...

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Nathan Harness @nathanharness.bsky.social · 8d

I found this rove beetle friend on the rainforest floor. They are so so fast, you can imaging me chasing it around with my camera just rolling around in the leaf litter. Just unbelievable colors. In person the rainbow iridescence is stunning. It’s hard to say much here beyond just wow.

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Don Moore @capture907.bsky.social · 8d

There were several nice bursts last night. The first was around 930pm (what an early treat!). This is another bigger one about 125am. This timelapse covers about 5 minutes of time.

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

One fascinating new paper published in REHO shows that there is a positive relationship between daily temperature and incidence of domestic violence (using administrative data from Brazil)
link.springer.com/ar...

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 10d

US GEOG majors declined by almost 50% over the past 10 years 😢. Environment is doing well, though, and Data Science is through the roof. You will be surprised to learn that we are working on a new BS in Geospatial Data Science at UNC 🙃.

Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social · 11d

Ten-year changes in majors by field -- when I first made this for the American Historical Association in 2018, history had the bottom slot, so slightly nice to see that it's rising.

A chart "Change in degrees, 2014-2024", with increases for Statistics and Computer science, and steep drops for most humanities and humanistic social sciences.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 12d

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 12d

Looks like it 😢

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 12d

Carolina Sociology is hiring!

• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Assistant Professor

This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.

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Dilek Yildiz @dyildiz.bsky.social · 16d

🚨Registration for the 2025 Wittgenstein Centre Conference Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century is open 🥳

➡️Join us in Vienna or online to hear the latest research from the top migration scholars 🤓

➡️This year we also have a Round Table to discuss how science can inform policy!

Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) @demographyvienna.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Registration is open & the agenda is now available!
Participate in the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century", taking place from Nov 19–21 2025 at @oeaw.bsky.social in Vienna and online.
🔗 www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...

#WICVienna #demography

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natureandspace.bsky.social @natureandspace.bsky.social · 19d

OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik:

#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 20d

Extreme heat damages crops and increases the number of strongly undernourished households in terms of calories, iron, and other nutrients. While some households cope by buying food grown elsewhere, the poorest remain highly vulnerable.

Read today's article to learn more:

The effect of growing season temperature on calorie consumption, home-grown and purchased, in the next year

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CAFE Climate & Health @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social · 20d

For 25+ years, SEDAC has provided vital population, environmental, & socioeconomic data. Through our collaboration w/ CIESIN climate.columbia.edu, SEDAC data will live on harvarddataverse.bsky.social, ensuring long-term preservation and access.

Learn more and explore: https://loom.ly/BID_wE8

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 23d

I am not big on the importance of nomenclature but for me most of these qual examples are pop studies (which is also cool), not demography. Demography = counting!

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 23d

Chlorociboria aeruginascens - Green Elfcup. 🍄📷 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

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