Clark Gray

@clarklgray.bsky.social

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Professor of Geography and Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill
https://clarkgray.web.unc.edu/

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · Dec 3

Advisee brunch at Carolina Coffee Shop!

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 14h

The Economist claims that Musk's $10M donation to UT-Austin's Population Wellbeing Initiative is specifically to "provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas."

Fomenting population panic to provide cover for sexist, racist, ableist, nativist social engineering. www.economist.com/1843/2025/11...

Musk—who moved his family and many of his companies to Texas in a pointed rebuke of California’s left-leaning politics—has donated $10m to the Population Wellbeing Initiative at the University of Texas, Austin. The project aims to conduct “foundational research” on topics such as “fertility, parenting and the future of population and economic growth”, in order to provide academic ballast to pro-natalist ideas.

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Bart Bingenheimer @bartbing.bsky.social · 15h

Who remembers this?

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 15h

Another paper shows long-term effects of cash transfers on youth mobility, particularly youth mobility for marriage, in Malawi
drive.google.com/fil...

Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 16h

The Curriculum in Global Studies (CGS) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) is seeking applicants for a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor (TAP) in the area of Critical Development Studies and the Global Economy:

Teaching Assistant Professor

The position is for a full-time Teaching Assistant Professor (TAP) in the area of Global Economy, broadly defined. The position carries a 3-3 teaching load. All courses will be live, in-person instruc...

unc.peopleadmin.com

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 16h

In today's job market post, Sneha Nimmagadda shows in India that mothers misperceive how stunted their kids are, because so many other kids around are also stunted. Correcting this perception changes beliefs and feeding practices, increasing weight for age blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

When every child is stunted, no child Is? How local norms distort perceptions of growth: Guest post by Sneha Nimmagadda

blogs.worldbank.org

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d

If they were worried about population size and the labor market and future base of taxpayers, they'd embrace immigration and wouldn't be fighting against birthright citizenship.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Jacob Montgomery, Kevin Carey , and 5 more Brendan Nyhan, Jacob Montgomery, Kevin Carey, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Aaron Sojourner, Clark Gray, Kristina McElheran, Jesse R. Lasky

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 5d

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000.

More than 260,000 will be children.

Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts

Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...

www.bu.edu

Reposted by Clark Gray

Institute at Brown for Environment & Society (IBES) @brown-ibes.bsky.social · 5d

IBES is hiring! We seek a Visiting Asst Professor for the 2026-27 & 2027-28 academic years with the possibility of renewal. Scholars with expertise in energy, sustainable design, the built environment, and/or environmental justice are particularly encouraged to apply. apply.interfolio.com/176395

Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 5d

Undergraduate Program in
Population Research
Summer 2026 Session at University of Minnesota
June 7—19, 2026

NextGenPop

Next Generation of Scholars in Population Research

nextgenpop.org

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Clark Gray

spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 7d

Adrian Covaci from. @uantwerpen.be turns @elsevierconnect.bsky.social journals into #papermill safe havens! He did it with STOTEN and now he does it with Environment International! Here he seems to have edited his own paper! A new low?

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Adam H. Sobel, Benjamin I. Cook , and 4 more Richard S.J. Tol, Adam H. Sobel, Benjamin I. Cook, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, John Bistline, Clark Gray, Peter Jacobs

ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 7d

🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨
Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation
Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location
Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

Postdoctoral Scholar - Environmental Science & Policy

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

Reposted by Paul Lehmann, Clark Gray

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 7d

Our new pub finds flooding impacts on fertility differ in Bangladesh: “We detect…flood-related increases in childbearing among less-educated and higher parity women but find flood-related fertility declines among childless women and those in urban areas.”

Brian Thiede @brianthiede.bsky.social · 7d

New paper on flooding and birth rates in Bangladesh with @valmuellerasu.bsky.social (and others):

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Paul Lehmann, Valerie Mueller, Clark Gray

Brian Thiede @brianthiede.bsky.social · 7d

New paper on flooding and birth rates in Bangladesh with @valmuellerasu.bsky.social (and others):

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Alan de Brauw, Clark Gray

NBER @nber.org · 7d

Providing cash within days of a flood, vs months later, does more than shift the timing of benefits—it leads to overall improvements in food security and mental health, from Christian, Dunsch, Heirman, Kelley, Kondylis, Lane, Waidler, Adusumalli, Batmunkh and Malhotra www.nber.org/papers/w34414

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Will Jennings, David Brady , and 8 more Elizabeth Saunders, Will Jennings, David Brady, Brendan Nyhan, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, David R. Miller, Aaron Sojourner, Scott A. Imberman, Ann Bartow, Kevin Grant, Clark Gray

Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 8d

just catching up on Bill Belichick’s disastrous year as UNC coach and discovering the exact mechanics of how he secured the job. www.theringer.com/2025/10/31/c...

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.

This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.

Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

blog.arxiv.org

Reposted by Jen Nelles, Clark Gray

Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 9d

Happy #30DayMapChallenge to all those who celebrate!

Day 1 is points and mine is a love letter to all the international undergraduate students who choose the United States for their studies. Thanks for being here!

#30DayMapChallenge2025 #points

Map of international undergraduate students in the US

Reposted by Ted Temzelides, Clark Gray

Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · 10d

Humphrey School at Minnesota is hiring an associate professor in "water resources, sustainable agriculture, or the nexus of food-energy-water issues." Come join me in the frozen north!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

Careers

We seek applications for a tenured faculty position at the associate professor level in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP). The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, maintain a research affiliation with the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (CSTEP), and support graduate students in the M.S. in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (MS-STEP) professional degree program, the Ph.D. in Public Affairs program, and the certificate program in Sustainable Environmental, Social and Governance Leadership.

hr.myu.umn.edu

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IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · 10d

New blog post from IPUMS DHS on how to create forecasts of child nutrition using DHS, CHIRTS, and CHC-CMIP6 data - check it out at tech.popdata.org/dhs-research...

Using Historical and Projected Climate Data to Forecast Child Malnutrition

In the final post in our series on future estimation we create a model to predict child malnutrition and plug in projected climate scenario data to predict a future level of child malnutrition.

tech.popdata.org

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Courtney Boen @courtneyboen.bsky.social · 10d

The Brown Population Studies & Training Center is accepting applications to our Global Fellows Program. The program is for early- & mid-career demographers. We are especially interested in applications from scholars from low & middle-income countries. Share & apply! pstc.brown.edu/programs-and...

Global Fellows Program in Demography

The PSTC has a long-standing tradition of hosting scholars, researchers, and practitioners from diverse corners of the globe.

pstc.brown.edu

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Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · 11d

Been looking for a fresh specimen of Leucauge sarawakensis for a long time! Each time we found one, someone walked into its web. Hence, the ex situ shots.

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Rachel Franklin 🦚 @rsfrankl.bsky.social · 11d

Paying $586 to register for my annual disciplinary conference is forcing me to do some hard math

About $40 per minute of presentation time

About 43 cents per allowable abstract word

🤯

Reposted by Loretta Lees, James P. Collins, Clark Gray

Jesse M. Keenan @keenanclimate.com · 12d

Are you researching climate change, human mobility, and housing? If so, join us in Nola (January) for "Multiplied Displacements: The Climate-Housing Nexus" (free registration & some travel funding available) w/ @uoftcities.bsky.social & @buoncities.bsky.social architecture.tulane.edu/events/multi...

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ipumsi.bsky.social @ipumsi.bsky.social · 12d

New paper collaboration from IPUMS MICS and UNICEF! Harmonized Data from Household Surveys on the Status and Well-being of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families: MICS and IPUMS MICS shs.cairn.info/journal-popu...
@ipums.bsky.social @unicef.org

Harmonized Data from Household Surveys on the Status and Well-being of Children, Adolescents, and Their Families: MICS and IPUMS MICS

Suggestions for you

shs.cairn.info

Reposted by Alan Richardson, Brian Keegan, Clark Gray

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 12d

Good morning, faculty colleagues of all ranks and types of employment. By show of hands, comments, puke emoji, etc., how many of of you are experiencing claims that your institution is in a “budget crisis,” that is going under- or unexplained, yet has resulted in austerity?

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Hélène Benveniste @helenebenveniste.bsky.social · 13d

📢Applications are open for the @stanfordkingctr.bsky.social
2026-27 Postdoctoral Fellows Program! Deadline: Dec 1.📢

I'm interested in mentoring postdocs on climate migration, global environmental governance, political economy of decarbonization.

More info: kingcenter.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

For Prospective Postdoctoral Fellows

kingcenter.stanford.edu

Reposted by Karen R. Lips, Clark Gray

Capital Weather Gang @capitalweather.bsky.social · 13d

Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.

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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 14d

Another candidate has now filed w/ the FEC to run in #nc11 as a Democrat--WNC native, scientist, and current Orange County registered voter Paul Maddox.

For more, see this @coryvaillancourt.bsky.social profile: smokymountainnews.com/news/item/40...

#ncpol

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Clark Gray

Natural Hazards Center @hazcenter.bsky.social · 14d

We're excited to open our special call for the Health and Extreme Weather Research Award Program. We're seeking proposals for novel research to advance our understanding the complex threats to human health posed by extreme weather. Click to learn more: bit.ly/3WWSFnL

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