Submit your development economics papers to the BREAD Mexico conference! Submission deadline is Jun 19. Conference is Oct 23-24 at ITAM in Mexico City. bread-mexico-2026.github.io

We are advertising a new postdoc in Socioecological Outcomes and Monitoring of Restoration in Dryland Ecosystems based at Penn State & supervised by the amazing @idad.bsky.social. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

“Drought Shakes U.S. Wheat Outlook, USDA Predicts Smallest Crop in 54 Years“ This seems bad, right? www.northernag.net/drought-shak...

Our paper is out in Nature Human Behaviour! @rsenninger.bsky.social and I asked a simple, underexplored, question: when governments write policy documents, whose knowledge do they actually cite? 👉 rdcu.be/fhngy 🔓 seramirezruiz.github.io/papers/ramir... DOI: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

I've long been associated with The Biological Bulletin. My first paper was published there, with the cover! I've been an AE for ~ a decade, and appreciate my colleagues on the board. It is a classic journal focused mainly on marine integrative biology, and I'm always proud to publish there. 1/n

We just published one of my former PhD student’s dissertation chapters - we look at institutional mismatch across scales in a massive collective action problem in the US Great Plains biome - summary and paper link here: www.linkedin.com/posts/alexan...

Grant proposals written with the help of AI are less innovative, but more likely to be funded at NIH (but not at NSF). arxiv.org/abs/2601.15485

There's still time to register for this timely and important discussion, happening May 8 ⬇️

New OA paper in POEN led by @valmuellerasu.bsky.social w/Ashu Handa! We show that receipt of cash transfers in Kenya buffered households against cold-induced migrant trapping: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting work with a super provocative title/takeaway by @ulibarri.bsky.social et al. on community wildfire planning nationally, just out in PNAS ⬇️ "Performative planning creates a values mismatch between wildfire plans and community needs" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

Researchers surveyed hundreds of environmental economists on environmental policy topics. On some questions, 97% agree. On others, there's no consensus at all. The divide tells you a lot about where environmental policy is headed: www.mondayeconomist.com/p/consensus-...

The scope of how dry it’s been in the Southeast is remarkable! Every area in the darker shade of brown is the driest stretch on record. It’s the vast majority of the SE and N #florida. 100% of the SE is in drought… 83% severe or worse… 1/

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Congress must act: Stop the Forest Service workforce dismantlement. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...

There is a fully-funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology to pursue dissertation research among the Mayangna of Nicaragua, expanding a longitudinal study of subsistence strategies and behavioral ecology. Please share the posting! www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

#econsky if you have used the did_multiplegt_dyn package by @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social et al. to produce an event-study that is publicly available, please report it to them here: credible-answers.github.io/eventstudy_p... Also I had not spotted their website: credible-answers.github.io it looks 🔥

This story map on Tristan da Cunha is a great illustration of complex ideas on climate resilience and collective action in action: www.npr.org/sections/the...

We found that highly targeted agroforestry programs are associated with increased tree cover outside of forests, but India's flagship afforestation programs are associated with flat or declining tree cover outside of forests. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Please add your signature! I use EM-DAT frequently. "If EM-DAT were to cease operations, the consequences would not be abstract; they would be practical, immediate and damaging. It offers a carefully assembled, globally comparable database of disasters, including their human and economic impacts."

New article alert! In this paper we compare drivers of collaboration in sea level rise governance across three regions of the US. Rare to have comparative analysis! Institutions matter, especially for costly forms of collaboration! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

While mere numbers of people killed/affected by etc disasters do not tell the full story, EM-DAT is a critical resource for so many of us. It now faces the risk of termination due to the absence of sustainable funding following the dismantling of USAID. Please sign: openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🆕 Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt? Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Bin Khalid (Harvard) & Martin Mattsson (NUS) discuss how disaster relief enabled climate adaptation in Pakistan: https://ow.ly/XAgU50YiFE7

Just a casual mention of our research…in the Atlantic!!

Call for Proposals: Environmental Research Letters Focus Issue on "Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict" Full information on scope, guest editors, and submission process at: iopscience.iop.org/collections/... Ask Jamon Van Den [email protected] questions.

Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Social Sciences 7/11

I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...

Seeking applicants to a qualitative social science post-doc position - located at Purdue University, but collaborating with me and others on the human dimensions of white-tailed deer and cwd management. www.schooljobs.com/careers/ummi...

A heartening story about conservation: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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/...

This would be truly insane

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...

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!

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.

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...

Rutgers University is hiring: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)

Get your papers submitted for the WCERE 2026 in Carcavelos, Portugal #AERE #EconSky wcere2026.org

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...

🌊📊 #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

Some positions in the third phase of the Future Rural Africa programme, partly hosted by @giubresearch.bsky.social

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...

📣 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

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...

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/...

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...

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.

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

UGA is hiring a biological anthropologist. Come work with me! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/457...