Sechindra Vallury
@sechindra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Georgia.
Quantitative social scientist, climate adaptation, institutional economics, development studies
www.sechindravallury.com
Quantitative social scientist, climate adaptation, institutional economics, development studies
www.sechindravallury.com
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Sechindra Vallury
@sechindra.bsky.social
· Sep 25
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.
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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/...
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>
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January 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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/...
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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This would be truly insane
Florida is trying to do the same thing btw www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Florida Proposes H-1B Hiring Ban at All Public Universities
All Florida public universities would be banned from hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas under a policy change that the Florida Board of Governors will consider next week.
www.insidehighered.com
January 28, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This would be truly insane
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How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Big news in the Metcalf house…
Today, Libby was officially named Dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana & Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station. More to share in coming days, but I’m just so damn humbled to watch this Wonder Woman!
Today, Libby was officially named Dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana & Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station. More to share in coming days, but I’m just so damn humbled to watch this Wonder Woman!
January 21, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Big news in the Metcalf house…
Today, Libby was officially named Dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana & Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station. More to share in coming days, but I’m just so damn humbled to watch this Wonder Woman!
Today, Libby was officially named Dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana & Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station. More to share in coming days, but I’m just so damn humbled to watch this Wonder Woman!
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Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.
January 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.
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NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan
www.nsf.gov
January 17, 2026 at 2:41 AM
NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
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Rutgers University is hiring:
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)
January 17, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Rutgers University is hiring:
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)
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Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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🌊📊 #Postdoc opening: Coastal Adaptation Governance
Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
#adaptation #resilience #academicjobs
Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
#adaptation #resilience #academicjobs
January 15, 2026 at 11:18 PM
🌊📊 #Postdoc opening: Coastal Adaptation Governance
Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
#adaptation #resilience #academicjobs
Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
#adaptation #resilience #academicjobs
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Some positions in the third phase of the Future Rural Africa programme, partly hosted by @giubresearch.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Some positions in the third phase of the Future Rural Africa programme, partly hosted by @giubresearch.bsky.social
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Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
P26: Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge, and authority
This panel explores how climate governance, through adaptation and Loss and Damage, reflects deep epistemic inequalities. It asks how knowledge, power, and justice intersect, and how reimagining gover...
nomadit.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
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📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
www.tse-fr.eu
December 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...
🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse
Application deadline: December 15
Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...
@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr
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Open PhD position here in UMN forest resources in the analysis of forest change in tropical mountains, with a focus on geospatial analysis. Applications due Dec. 8. More information and instructions on how to apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Open PhD position here in UMN forest resources in the analysis of forest change in tropical mountains, with a focus on geospatial analysis. Applications due Dec. 8. More information and instructions on how to apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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When fixed effects aren't fixed...
Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator
Data that span multiple units and time periods allow controlling for time-invariant heterogeneity correlated with the covariates. While researchers can do this in different ways, the fixed effects es...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When fixed effects aren't fixed...
Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Posting for a colleague:
The School of Politics, Security and International Affairs at UCF is looking for a new tenure-track faculty in space, science and technology politics.
jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...
The School of Politics, Security and International Affairs at UCF is looking for a new tenure-track faculty in space, science and technology politics.
jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, Politics of Space/Science/Technology - Orlando, Florida, United States
The OpportunityThe School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA) in the College of Sciences (COS) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) invites applications for a nine-month, te...
jobs.ucf.edu
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Posting for a colleague:
The School of Politics, Security and International Affairs at UCF is looking for a new tenure-track faculty in space, science and technology politics.
jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...
The School of Politics, Security and International Affairs at UCF is looking for a new tenure-track faculty in space, science and technology politics.
jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...
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SFI Resident Professor Sam Bowles has co-authored a new book of problem sets and solutions based on the new microeconomics, with applications to inequality, climate change, and other pressing issues in today’s world. Available now.
Test your knowledge of #inequality. CORE author Sam Bowles has co-authored a new book of problem sets packed with real-world data. Sam explains how the book helps students learn more about the things they care about.
openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
SFI Resident Professor Sam Bowles has co-authored a new book of problem sets and solutions based on the new microeconomics, with applications to inequality, climate change, and other pressing issues in today’s world. Available now.
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Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center is a wonderful nonprofit that rescues and rehabilitates AZ wildlife. They are currently caring for 12 black bears, including several underweight cubs rescued in recent days. Please consider donating: southwestwildlifeconservationcenter-bloom.kindful.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center is a wonderful nonprofit that rescues and rehabilitates AZ wildlife. They are currently caring for 12 black bears, including several underweight cubs rescued in recent days. Please consider donating: southwestwildlifeconservationcenter-bloom.kindful.com
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Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU is hiring at the assistant or associate level in urban climate!
JOB AD: Assistant or Associate Professor (Urban Climate focus) (Arizona State University) urbanaffairsassociation.org/2025/10/23/a...
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU is hiring at the assistant or associate level in urban climate!
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My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
Careers
The Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota seeks outstanding applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position focused on forest regeneration dynamics. This may include focus areas of early stand dynamics, forest genetics, climate-adaptive seed/tree selection, nursery systems, or environmental stress physiology, which may fall within broader disciplines such as silviculture, restoration ecology, or forest operations. This is a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position with research (50%) and teaching (50%) responsibilities. The successful candidate will have access to office and laboratory space in the department. The position is available beginning August 2026, with review of applications beginning December 8, 2025.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities include but are not limited to:
hr.myu.umn.edu
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
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Applications due Oct. 31
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Applications due Oct. 31
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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.
Join our next IGRI Research Seminar on Tuesday, 7 October 2025 from 12-1PM EDT! Ute Brady, Ismael Lare David, Daniel Detzi, Irene Pérez Ibarra, and Alicia Tenza Peral will present their IGRI Working Group Report: Grammar of Rules-In-Use.
RSVP: lnkd.in/e_3ppb6p
#research #policy #seminar
RSVP: lnkd.in/e_3ppb6p
#research #policy #seminar
September 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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.