woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

The quick resegregation of higher education is particularly pronounced. In 1951, in the case of McKissick v Carmichael, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals compelled the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law to admit 4 black students. In 2025, they admitted 5. law.unc.edu/wp-content/u...

NSF falls in line with OMB and congressional Republicans in choosing outright ban on Chinese collaborations as only way to avoid security risks www.science.org/content/arti...

Save the date for the next CSH talk! In this talk, Roman Hoffmann from @iiasa.ac.at will discuss how #complexity modeling can help us better understand #climate -related #migration and immobility. • 𝟭𝟱 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆, 𝟭𝟮 - 𝟭 𝗽𝗺 at the Complexity Science Hub or online • 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿: shorturl.at/dMTAo

The White House has reconstituted the U.S. Global Change Research Program, which tracks climate change and produces the National Climate Assessment. The Trump version will focus on "positive" climate effects and be used to protect fossil fuel companies from lawsuits. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

"Academy Scholars are appointed for a two-year, in-residence, postdoctoral fellowship at The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. They receive substantial financial and research assistance to undertake robust research projects in their chosen fields and areas."

Bladenboro, N.C., where the historical markers go hard

"Duke Kunshan University invites applications for a senior faculty position at the rank of tenure-track/tenured associate/full professor in Climate Health to begin in the academic year 2026-2027."

📢 Ahead-of-print 📢 in #REEP "The Census Environmental Impacts Frame" by John Voorheis, Jonathan Colmer , Kendall Houghton, Eva Lyubich, Mary Munro, Cameron Scalera, and Jennifer Withrow. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/KCvgDEm 📈📉 #Econsky

Introduction to the NIH Health and Extreme Weather (HEW) Program Join NIH & CAFE leadership to explore new HEW Highlighted Topics, funding structures, data sharing, professional development opportunities, and more. Webinar: July 9, 3pm ET buff.ly/QV0QtwD

“Since 1776, the United States has received about 130 million immigrants—a legacy that the Founders fully expected and would have welcomed.” As a proud American immigrant, I absolutely adore this tremendous piece by @davidjbier.bsky.social and @cato.org.

Biological, biomedical and environmental drivers of stunting: "This theme issue assembles research to explain how stunting happens and how to prevent it"

Synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus), my favorite fireworks display ever, 2 years ago in Tennessee. Composite image using a modern camera and a 1964 50mm lens. I chose a focus point in front of where I thought the fireflies would be, so their lights would be rendered as out of focus orbs. 🐙🌿📷🎆

Climate change could redraw the map of flu seasons across the Americas, a @brown.edu study has found, easing winter outbreaks in colder regions while driving them higher in the tropics. Researchers traced the pattern to a surprising rule—flu spreads most easily in either very dry or very humid air.

The journal Nature Communication is hiring a fulltime Associate or Senior Editor. A PhD in the quant social sciences req: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

AC debates assume universal adoption is a climate villain. New PBL/IMAGE modeling: closing the global cooling gap entirely (3.6 billion people!) raises 2050 emissions by just 3.6%. Universal cooling’s climate footprint is… small.

Climate change will raise heat-related suicide mortality worldwide by 2050s — new Nature Mental Health study, 751 locations/26 countries. Southern Europe, 50 locations, ~22k suicides, is among the 5 regions with the steepest projected increases. #Suicide #HeatHealth #Heatwave #ClimateCrisis

The picture-wing fly. No Photoshopping here...those are its actual eyes. It does a little mating dance like some sort of tiny bird. #MacroMonday #ECK #photography #nature #insects

"This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of global literature on climate-induced migration from 1995 to 2024...Key intellectual clusters are identified around prominent scholars such as Clark Gray, Robert McLeman, and Caroline Zickgraf." 😀

Severe droughts in Senegal are linked to increased family reunification at migration destinations in Europe @natcomms.nature.com

Quantitative Methodologists out there… we are hiring at the Assistant Professor level! Please consider joining our community! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...

Using ancient DNA data to measure migration over the past 10,000 years shows that human mobility followed climate corridors and migration acted as adaptation to climate change, from Peter Huybers, Marco Tabellini, Charles A. Taylor, and Francesco Toti www.nber.org/papers/w35371

"The School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa invites applications for a Tenure-Track position at the Assistant/Associate Professor level in the area of Climate Governance and Policy (broadly defined), effective August 2027."

Come join our team! The UW Climate Impacts Group is hiring an early career social scientist to support climate change adaptation projects with our federal, Tribal, state, and local partners. Applications due July 2. Please share widely! ➡️ cig.uw.edu/2026/06/join...

Prediction: the Earnings Test (if genuinely implemented) will both accelerate department mergers and also become the justification for mergers that upper admin desires for other budgetary reasons BUT the fact that programs that can’t get to 30 grads through reasonable aggregation are exempt will…

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Look what's out in paperback! My grimsweet fantasy road trip (on foot) w/ a humble deputy courier forced to guide uppity court officials on a back country route that includes a ravenous fungal ghost plague, court intrigue, & a mysterious haunt. First of a duology. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

One of my favourite funding schemes! We are offering up to £300k for international interdisciplinary research on the theme of mobilities - the movement of people, things and ideas. Apply by 7 October. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Look at this goofball sticking its tongue at you! This leafhopper nymph (Amblyscarta) is one of the most brightly colored insects you can find in the Amazon region. This is a freshly hatched nymph.

Potential postdoc opportunity! We're looking for someone to do Good Work Fast at the interface between zoonotic disease ecology and global climate and land-use projections. Strong skills in statistics and geospatial modeling are the non-negotiable here. In-person in New Haven. More essential info 👉

Anyone going to AGU 2026 - submit to our session! GC036: Data-driven approaches to quantifying climate impacts on human well-being. If your research deals with the causal effects of climate variability + change on people, we want to hear about it. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

Postdoc opportunity 📢 IBES seeks candidates for distinguished Voss Postdoctoral Fellows in any field relevant to environmental research. Appointments start July 2027 with an expected term of two years. Submit step-one proposals by Sept 1! ibes.brown.edu/opportunitie...

In “Wildfires & Birth Outcomes,” @conteristo.bsky.social & @mariarubiocab.bsky.social assess how exposure to wildfire & PM2.5 during pregnancy is associated w/ lower birth weight & increased risk of LBW & preterm birth. @mpidr.bsky.social @cedemografia.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

This is a deep-sea isopod. Dr. Johanna Weston, a deep-ocean biologist and guest investigator at @whoi.edu, is confident this is Bathyopsurus nybelini, one of her favorite animals. Learn why via the YouTube caption: youtube.com/shorts/DenUj...

Air pollution and internal migration in the US from 2005–2019, from Michael Keller, Christopher R. Knittel, Benjamin Krebs, and Simon Luechinger www.nber.org/papers/w35317

"Georgetown’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) and the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) seek a postdoctoral fellow interested in computational social science to join a project that involves using organic data to develop indicators of forced migration."

🚨Out today in @nature.com our new paper uses deep learning to map four decades of global human migration. By building the first comprehensive, four-decade dataset of annual flows (1990-2023), we reveal that global migration has nearly tripled since 2000. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Collared Parachute for #StickOfTheWeek … and what a stick it is. #FungiFriends

What looks like a bebeh #octopus is actually a full-grown male paper #nautilus, riding atop of a mauve stinger #jellyfish. Shot using #scuba, while drifting in the open #ocean, far from shore, over the deep abyss, at night. #papernautilus #cephalopod #symbiosis #blackwater #blackwaterdiving

UNC-Chapel Hill has been lagging behind peer universities for years in how much it pays faculty. Some professors are warning that the large pay gaps are impacting recruitment and retention. www.wunc.org/education/20...

🆕 An improved nighttime-lights dataset for development research Today on VoxDev w/ Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo), Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University), Elias Papaioannou (London Business School) & Tanner Regan (George Washington University): https://ow.ly/r7gw50Z9gnl

Tracking rural markets using satellite imagery offers a new way to monitor economic conditions in remote, data-scarce regions – as demonstrated by a new research paper and online dashboard.

My next novel, Mortedant's Peril, is a fantasy murder mystery set in a fantastic city and led by a man who can speak to the dead. But only a very small amount. torpublishinggroup.com/mortedants-p...

Gogmagog - for all your watery journey through the sixty-mile-long ghost of a dragon needs. And who doesn't need a watery journey through the sixty-mile-long ghost of a dragon?

🆕 #Blog: When climate shocks reduce harvests, children pay the price: Evidence from #Nigeria. 🔗 https://on.cgiar.org/4dS81Du 🖊️ By Mulubrhan Amare and Bedru Balana @cgiar.org#Blog

Analyzing the health impacts of the shrinking Great Salt Lake in Utah. Marginal annual costs range from $81 to $175 million per 100 km squared, exceeding mitigation costs, from Lena Harris, Eric C. Edwards, and Danae Hernandez-Cortes www.nber.org/papers/w35270

What does this translate to in human terms? By September 2025, the shutdown had pushed ~2.7 million additional people across the threshold into "acute food crisis" (IPC Phase 3) or worse. Of these, ~1.6 million reached the "humanitarian emergency" level (Phase 4). 9/11

🆕 Natural disasters destroy more than homes – they scatter communities too Today on VoxDev, Travis Baseler (University of Rochester) & Jakob Hennig (Deraja) discuss how landslides in Uganda reduced income and life satisfaction for years post-disaster: https://ow.ly/MFVu50Z6xKx

In our just published #openaccess paper (doi.org/10.1038/s414...) in @natcomms.nature.com, we introduce U-HAT, a high-resolution #urban-resolving #airtemperature (AT) dataset that can more accurately capture the unique spatiotemporal patterns of AT over #cities. [1/n]