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Clark Gray
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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!
Four people having brunch

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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 1d
UNC v Dook fit check
Shirt ✅
Pants ✅
Shoes ✅
RJ Davis socks ✅
Me in unc sweater with a shirt that says puke, but in the old English Duke font, flicking off the camera while being hyped as fuck for a basketball game Pic of my sweatpants that say Carolina down my leg and you can also see my Carolina blue fly knit Nike air max 90s A picture of my socks, which yes, they DO have former UNC basketball star RJ Davis’ face on ‘em

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 2d
Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever.

This is the country we live in now.

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 2d
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪
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Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
eos.org

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NBER @nber.org · 3d
Place-based estimates of the impact of climate change on agricultural output depend on farmer adaptation choices at the extensive margin, from Robert Huang and Matthew E. Kahn www.nber.org/papers/w34771

Reposted by Mor Naaman, Rafael H. M. Pereira, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham , and 3 more

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Gabriel Agostini @gsagostini.bsky.social · 4d
Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
Over the past 15 years, all but three of 187 research universities had made public commitments to faculty diversity , pushed by years of student protests and demands. You can see how well they did with for various schools at the link. Below, I'm showing UNC.
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Figure showing the share of Black, Hispanic, Native American, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander students and faculty at UNC from 2010 to 2024

Reposted by Michael D. McDonald, Clark Gray

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 4d
NEW: This year’s #2030Census test in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., is using an unrelated survey form that includes a U.S. citizenship question, according to a regulatory filing (To be clear, this is for the “2026 Census Test,” not an actual census)
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PR...
Is this person a citizen of the United States? Yes, born in the United States ➔ SKIP to question 10a Yes, born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Northern Marianas Yes, born abroad of U.S. citizen parent or parents Yes, U.S. citizen by naturalization – Print year of naturalization C No, not a U.S. citizen

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net

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🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇹🇼 🇵🇸 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 5d
High young adult #mortality makes reaching old age less likely in the US than elsewhere. That's true in all states, but in WV and MS more than one-fourth of 20-year-olds are not expected live to retirement age.

State analysis inspired by @financialtimes.com and @drjenndowd.bsky.social #demography
data plot showing the fraction of 20-year-olds who are expected to die before ages up to 65. At 2022 rates, the expected fraction of 20-yr-olds who will die before 65 is * 7% in Sweden * 8% in Spain * 10% in France * 17% in the US There are truly shocking levels in some states. More than one-fourth of 20-year-olds in West Virginia and Mississippi will not live to retirement age.

Reposted by Jennifer Bussell, Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Larry W. Hunter , and 1 more

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 5d
Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign.

(1) $48.7 billion for NIH
(2) Full IDC recovery
(3) No more multi-year funding
(4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

Reposted by Fabrice Ardhuin, Clark Gray

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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 6d
Climate 'fingerprints' mark human activity from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean

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Warming stripes for different layers of the atmosphere and ocean from 1960-2025. The ocean and troposphere are warming, the stratosphere is cooling.

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Clark Gray

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NBER @nber.org · 7d
Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739

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Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social · 7d
Call for Applications! NextGenPop is an undergraduate program in population research, 2-week on-campus summer experience and virtual components hosted by the University of Minnesota, June 7 – 19, 2026. Deadline Feb. 5
NextGenPop
Next Generation of Scholars in Population Research
buff.ly

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Erika Wise @wiseclimate.bsky.social · 7d
New paper in ERL led by Feng Wang evaluating gridded daily climate products. Interesting results include: 1) how day-shifting affects the records; 2) Pierce vs Livneh precip data (a surprise!); and 3) differences don’t really matter for tree growth modeling. doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Evaluation of daily gridded climate products using in situ FLUXNET data and tree growth modeling
Evaluation of daily gridded climate products using in situ FLUXNET data and tree growth modeling, Wang, Feng, Wise, Erika K, Anchukaitis, Kevin J, Chang, Qing, Dannenberg, Matthew P
doi.org

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 7d
It's become fashionable to talk about how a warming planet will see more cold-air outbreaks because of changes to the "polar vortex".

But here's the thing: It's not actually happening.

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fact-check...
Fact check: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common
Sometimes it just gets cold
www.theclimatebrink.com

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Climate Risk Economics @climateeconomics.bsky.social · 7d
New paper looks into "The debt burden of tropical cyclones and climate change"

=> across all TC-exposed countries, debt-to-GDP ratios are on average 30% higher due to the cumulative effects of TCs since 1990, while GDP levels are on average 10% lower

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The debt burden of tropical cyclones and climate change
eartharxiv.org

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 7d
That flow tho.

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 7d
A snowy North Carolina from space this morning. 😍

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 9d
This is fun!

1. Ecological plant geography
2. Population ecology
3. Statistics for ecologists
4. Third world developmental issues
4. Development economics
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 9d
Duke’s student newspaper is all over this. Neither Ariely nor the university are saying anything so far www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Duke professor Dan Ariely had longstanding friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, newly released files show
Ariely is named in 636 of the some 3 million newly released files. He was a prominent professor at Duke over the course of his correspondence with Epstein.
www.dukechronicle.com

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Madalsa @madalsa.org · 9d
New gas power plant -- behind the meter, only to service datacenter -- on the site of coal-fired power plant in Homer City PA, will generate 4.4 GW of power, as much as peak winter demand of Scotland.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · 9d
Big flocks of robins (100+?) show up in my yard in St. Paul every few days, I think they are eating hackberries (but I imagine they would eat through them pretty fast). I thought they went south for the winter? Its weird to hear them twittering like its spring in sub-zero temps.

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Mark Nance @mnance.bsky.social · 9d
I’m fairly certain that in my 17 years at NC State that I’ve seen exactly two protests. This is not a campus of radicals or activists. Both protests have been in the last month, targeting ICE and its illegal, thuggish tactics.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Marine Biology (we got to go out on a boat!)
2. The History of the Holocaust
3. Logic and Critical Thinking
4. Eastern Religions
5. The French Revolution
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:

1. Origins of Nazism
2. Dante’s Divine Comedy
3. Behavioral Ecology & Conservation Biology
4. Principles of Evolution
5. Thinking and Speaking About Thinking and Speaking
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 9d
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Introduction to Islamic Studies
2. Introduction to Rock Music
3. African Music
4. Arabic 101
5. Southern Politics

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 9d
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d
Breaking News: Texas A&M ended its women’s studies program and changed hundreds of courses over race and gender to comply with new policies limiting how race and gender ideology may be discussed in classrooms.
Texas A&M Ends Women’s Studies and Overhauls Hundreds of Classes on Race and Gender
New policies limiting the teaching of race and gender issues led administrators and professors to change hundreds of courses. School leaders say the rules could hurt A&M’s reputation.
nyti.ms

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 10d
Population science/demography folks: Looking for a list of journals that either a) don't have OA fees, b) have reasonable OA fees (a few hundred), or c) allow authors to deposit the author's accepted manuscript in PubMed.

Does this exist somewhere? Do we need to start such a list?
a cartoon character with a sign that says south park behind him
ALT: a cartoon character with a sign that says south park behind him
media.tenor.com

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Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · 10d
Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
Assistant Professor in International Migration
Assistant Professor in International Migration, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="te...
jobs.lse.ac.uk

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 11d
Stop Guessing, Start Planning.
Ever look at a single snow forecast and think, "But what are the actual odds?"

The Probabilistic Precipitation Portal is a resource to help you get ahead of the storm by moving beyond a single number to give you the full picture. www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/Prob_Precip/
👇
NWS Probabilistic Precipitation Portal
www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 11d
"Unlike the original, the state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on media and technology, global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality. It also scraps a section on the government-led genocide of Native Americans."
Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook
The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...
www.insidehighered.com