Applications due Oct. 31

Much of global agricultural adaptation policy still equates adoption with success. But adaptation is an uneven, iterative process shaped by capacities and social inequalities. We call for rethinking interventions around the long-term trajectories and needs of marginalized communities.

New article alert! This was a fun piece to write:

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Interested in using the Institutional Grammar to code non-policy documents, like interview transcripts, etc.? Come join us for the Oct 7 IGRI research seminar when the IGRI informal rules working group led by the fab Irene Perez Ibarra will showcase a rules-in-use IG coding protocol.

Multiple funded Ph.D. and Master's positions in my lab. Topics broadly cover climate and agricultural adaptation, and energy & water governance (U.S. & Global South). Apply by Dec 1, 2025.

Details: www.sechindravallury.com/graduate-opp...

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I share a lot of jobs for agricultural, environmental, development, + regional economists via listservs. I recently moved this to a Substack to decrease listserv traffic for those folks not interested in postings + to make posts more accessible to all. Use the Search tab to filter jobs. #EconSky

I became aware of this excellent resource only recently. Highly recommend! Thanks for the amazing effort!

New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

Early word we'll have funding to recruit a Post-Doc in the Human Dimensions of Wildlife space - specifically working on hunter behaviors in deer management across several midwestern states. On the ground work, experiments, many academic & agency partners! Spread the word to any potential applicants.

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

AGU CFP "Environmental Changes and Human Migration - Advances in Modeling and Analysis: We seek contributions from a wide range of disciplines in this session: sociology, anthropology, public policies, economics, hydrology, ecology, climate modeling, coupled natural-human modeling, and the like."

🚨 #AARES #AARESSA Hybrid Event
Professor Andrew Reid Bell presents:
Anatomy of a #migration model, and
implications for adaptation research
🗓️ 16 June 2025
🕚 12-1pm ACST
📍 Yungondi Building, Y1-70; UniSA City West Campus Adelaide SA
💻 Zoom
🎟️ FREE | Register now mailchi.mp/aares.org.au...
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A grad student turned me on to this paper about how to do good science writing. Some great tips here. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Supreme Court decision limiting scope of NEPA is interesting including liberal judges concurring. It rests agency discretion to decide whether to consider "upstream" and "downstream" effects in project scope. Read it! The case is a good overview of NEPA law!
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Reminds me of a recent episode of This American Life. The reasons given for constantly bending the truth and the absence of proper oversight are unbelievable.

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Have a good environmental social science research job, post doc, assistant prof, research associate? Lmk! Trump fired one of my former students…

If you're ever tempted to give a meaningless referee report for the purpose of telling the author to cite 10 of your marginally relevant papers, just stop right there. Reviewers and editors (like myself) see right through that and will have those references removed before publication. #AcademicSky

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

Sounds promising. Will give that a try, thank you!

Haven't seen this specific resource, but I'm familiar with Anselin and Rey. Will check this out, thanks!

Nearly 36,000 observations. Tried both contiguous and distance-based weights with different normalizations. The model runs fine in R and residuals look fine. impacts() throws memory allocation errors after running a while in all scenarios.

I read that Stata is better with estat impacts for large datasets. But, my coefficients on spregress with dvarlag and ivarlag look wildly different from R. Has anyone else experienced such discrepancies between R and Stata for SDM estimation? 2/2 #econsky

Running a spatial durbin model on my cross-sectional data to capture spatial lags in my DV and regressors in R. I used lagsarlm(), but running into computational issues with impacts() to get direct/indirect effects. 🧵1/2 #econsky