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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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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1h
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
On official UC letterhead: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA James B. Milliken President Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 universityofcalifornia.edu CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Irvine UCLA Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz MEDICAL CENTERS Davis Irvine UCLA San Diego San Francisco NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES November 18, 2025 Dear Chancellors: I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive. As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California. Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines. Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership. [continued on next image] After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption. As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders. Sincerely, James B. Milliken President

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Patrick Gerland @pgerland.bsky.social · 6h
Today, launching the World Urbanization Prospects 2025 with new UN estimates and projections of urbanization for
237 countries and areas of the world & 12,000+ cities with 50,000+ inhabitants in 2025. www.un.org/development/... - see also new online datasets and plots: population.un.org/wup/
Launch: World Urbanization Prospects 2025 | Population Division
The World Urbanization Prospects 2025 will be launched on Tuesday, 18 November 2025 at 12:45 (EST).
www.un.org

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 10h
"The Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University invites applications by environmental social scientists for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position." Interests: energy, water, health, hazards, SES, conservation, human dimensions of resources, adaptation, conflicts.
Jobs | Human Resources
Learn more about finding a career at Utah State University. Apply for open positions, and learn about the campus community and culture.
careers-usu.icims.com

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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 11h
📈🚨NEW: Extreme heat events are increasingly threatening to become mass mortality events. In @natclimate.nature.com today, we project tens of thousands of deaths in a single week across Europe if extreme heat domes coincide with rising global temperatures.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
www.nature.com

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Clark Gray

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spottingthespot.bsky.social @spottingthespot.bsky.social · 1d
Major news: the highly corrupt
@elsevierconnect.bsky.social journal STOTEN finally lost its IF!! The journal was under the hands of the corrupt editor & #papermill #fraud Damia Barcelo. Will Elsevier finally retract all the shit it published?
Clarivate finally delisted this corrupt journal.

Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Dana Howard, Clark Gray

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JAMA Internal Medicine @jamainternalmed.com · 1d
Between February and August 2025, 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials lost grant funding, affecting over 74,000 participants, with disproportionate impact on prevention, infectious disease, and behavioral trials. ja.ma/4i4tSYx
A research letter titled "Clinical Trials Affected by Research Grant Terminations at the National Institutes of Health," discusses the impact of grant terminations on clinical trials, noting study methods, results, and discussions.

Reposted by Thomas Pogge, Clark Gray

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 3d
America rose to preeminence because of three pillars that President Trump is now systematically undermining. We're so consumed by the daily outrages that I'm not sure we focus enough on the risk that Trump's long-term legacy will be a substantially diminished USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/o...
Opinion | America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat
www.nytimes.com

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Mary Quiroga @maryquiroga.bsky.social · 4d
3/5 Using matched student–teacher data from North Carolina plus high-resolution weather data, I find each additional extreme heat day lowers test scores in classrooms taught by the teachers aged 54 and over. For younger teachers, I do not find an effect.
This figure plots average normalized test scores against the number of yearly extreme heat days by teacher age bin--ages below 54 or 54 and above.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 4d
4/🧵 The generational shift isn't just among white Americans. Young Asian and Hispanic Americans show the same pattern: dramatic declines in racial resentment across education, gender, geography, and religion. This is a broad, multi-racial generational transformation.
Racial Resentment Among Hispanic and Asian Americans by Birth Year and Demographics This figure contains four line charts showing racial resentment scores (standardized 2-item scale) across birth years from 1940 to 2000 among Hispanic and Asian Americans, with separate trendlines for demographic subgroups. Y-axis ranges from low to high resentment; X-axis shows birth year with approximate ages. Education panel: Two lines show that non-college individuals consistently report higher racial resentment than college-educated individuals. Both groups trend upward from younger to older cohorts, with the gap largest among older generations. Gender panel: Male and female lines rise gradually with older cohorts. Males show slightly higher resentment than females across most cohorts, though the gap narrows among older groups. Geography panel: Four regional lines (South, West, Midwest, Northeast) show modest differences. The South and Midwest trend slightly higher than the West and Northeast, and all regions show increasing resentment among older cohorts. Religion panel: Protestants display the highest resentment levels, followed by Catholics. Non-affiliated respondents have the lowest and flattest trend, with little increase across cohorts. Protestants show the steepest age-related rise. At the bottom, the source notes this is from the 2024 Cooperative Election Study (CES) using GAM-smoothed trendlines.

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The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · 4d
The UNC-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees on Thursday narrowly voted to raise in-state undergraduate tuition by 3 percent, or $211, for next academic year—a complete about-face from the day before, when it appeared a board committee had killed the plan.

www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...
UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Vote to Raise In-State Tuition After All
It appeared administrators’ preferred plan to raise in-state undergraduate tuition by 3 percent was dead. Then it rose again.
www.theassemblync.com

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 4d
New preprint w/ @brianthiede.bsky.social and the Nye lab of @unc-emes.bsky.social!:

Marine Heatwaves and Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries osf.io/preprints/so...
OSF
osf.io

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Don Moore @capture907.bsky.social · 4d
Here's 1 of 2500+ photos I took last night. My camera is looking south south east. The aurora way brighter and faster last night compared to what I saw the previous night. This is just a teaser, as I have a lot of aurora content that is crunching on my computer now.

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Roland Hatzenpichler @environmicrobio.bsky.social · 4d
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 5d
The new rules require presidential approval for courses that "advocate" race or gender ideology and ban material outside approved syllabi. Students can use a hotline to report course content. bit.ly/3XxszrC

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 5d
Just got an email from my SRO for the study section that was missed in October. Good news is that they are trying to reschedule ASAP (Dec/Jan). The bad news is that CSR is mandating that only the the top third (not half) of applications will get discussed for the next 2 rounds.

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 5d
Apropos of nothing in particular, here is a very small weevil posing majestically. (Brazil)
#Bugsky 🐙🌿
A macro photo of a weevil, in profile, upper left in the frame atop a fuzzy gray-green leaf. The weevil is orange with a coating of sparse yellow hairs, some of which are dense enough to form spots.

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Pierre Friedlingstein @pfriedling.bsky.social · 5d
Time is up for 1.5°C. The remaining carbon budget for 1.5°C is virtually exhausted: 170 GtCO2, equivalent to 4 years at the 2025 emissions levels.
Remaining carbon budget charts

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Martin Rak @martinrak.bsky.social · 5d
I was attracted by the mixture of leaves and foam spinning in the pool, so I put on the ND filter and took couple of long exposures. There was no wind at all and the atmosphere was completed by the thick fog 🤩

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 5d
"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."
Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.
The percentage of younger women in the U.S. who express a desire to migrate permanently has surged in the past decade.
news.gallup.com

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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 5d
join us with the Global Flood Partnership next Wednesday am for our ALL WOMEN remote sensing and flooding webinar! @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social @ekta-aggarwal.bsky.social and I discuss AI and flood mapping +applications re: migration + emergency response www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...
GFP 2025 fall webinar series | Global Flood Partnership
www.globalfloodpartnership.org

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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 6d
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated. Enrollment is near pre-pandemic levels, real tuition is flat or down, and the college wage premium remains high.

I explore how the narrative became disconnected from the data.

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Is college enrollment really plummeting?
Reports of the death of the bachelor’s degree have been greatly exaggerated.
cbnewsletters.chalkbeat.org

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 6d
App State Geog is hiring a dept chair:
Department Chair Geography & Planning
Personnel & SupervisionProvide leadership in recruiting, appointing, and retaining faculty and staff. Foster a positive departmental climate by addressing and preventing conflicts. Recommend salaries,...
appstate.peopleadmin.com

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 6d
Climate Change, Environmental Hazards, & Population Dynamics: 1st Climate Conference @mpidr.bsky.social discusses connections between environmental #Hazards #Sustainability & the impact on #SocialInequalities #Mortality #Migration #Fertility #HumanCapital #Health:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...

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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 6d
All the colors.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
I haven't yelled that many (overwhelmingly excited) swear words at the sky for a long time. WWOOOOOWWWWW. Reddest auroras I've ever seen!! Usually it takes a long time exposure/CCD camera to see red at all. This is BRIGHT!! You can actually see easily outside […]

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A bright red arc over a bright green arc, with some small trees silhouetted below Looking straight up at red and green pillars Looking straight up at red and green pillars, some are almost white. Bright red auroras peeking through bright green auroras, with some silhouetted trees below

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 7d
When the Dean asks if you're "excited to deploy AI in the classroom."

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 7d
The US Administration is, as it announced several months ago, preparing to severely restrict Optional Practical Training—the most important path for international students to stay and contribute to the US economy after graduation.
New Immigration Rule Will End Or Restrict Student Practical Training
An upcoming Trump administration rule is expected to end or restrict Optional Practical Training for international students.
www.forbes.com

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Human Behavior & Evolution Society @humbehevosoc.bsky.social · 7d
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University!
The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health.
More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...
Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke - HBES
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30783 Position Description The Pontzer Lab in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University seeks two Postdoctoral Associates for research in h...
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