Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.
We're hiring for a post-doctoral fellow in political science. A core part of the role is teaching on a core comparative politics course with amazing folk like @msands.bsky.social
@pavisuri.bsky.social (and me!). tinyurl.com/5n743sma #psjobs
Polisky Barnard 1-year term position 2024/25 Comparative Politics—contact Sheri Berman sberman@barnard.edu for more info: teach 5 undergrad courses esp democracy/autocracy, backsliding; social movements; Euro, Latin Am, South Asian and/or Middle Eastern politics. Must have PhD by start date, $82K
"There’s also been a persistent sense of disbelief that Indigenous people could be responsible for this futuristic version of urban living...Canadians aren’t used to seeing Indigenous people occupy places that are socially, economically or geographically valuable, like Sen̓áḵw."
🚨 Call for papers 🚨
Political Economy of Climate Change and the Environment (PECE) APSA 2024 mini-conference
Deadline soon: March 1st, 2024
Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
More information:
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web.sas.upenn.edu/pece2024/
Sea walls get the headlines, but climate change is making clear that sewers and drainage systems are also in dire need of an upgrade.
I wrote about California's flooding and urban drainage issues for @tnr.bsky.social:
@chriswblair.bsky.social and @sabrinabarias.bsky.social have an excellent working paper on this in the US, looking at exposure to hurricanes, effects on climate beliefs and attitudes toward climate migration policies, and duration of effects: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@alanjacobs.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the publication of our new book "Integrated Inferences"
See here: integrated-inferences.github.io for links to:
* The book plus open access version (thanks Cambridge!)
* Accompanying R package on CRAN: CausalQueries
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My team is hiring interns! Applications welcome from PhD students with expertise in causal inference and experimentation and an interest in developing and/or applying methods to industrial applications.
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Air pollution is likely costing residents of New Delhi an average of about 12 years of life compared with their expected lifespan if the region met World Health Organization air quality standards
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
@lgilbert.co !!! ???
(Hope you feel better soon!)
What does the clean energy boom mean for fossil communities? Why do individual compensation systems fail? What will it take to turn these communities and their leaders into energy transition supporters?
An interview w/ @dustintingley.bsky.social & @agazmararian.bsky.social on @goodauth.bsky.social
I'm teaching about eco-authoritarianism today and am very happy that I wrote this piece nearly two years ago now. I still think polisci readers might appreciate it.
[Journal article version hopefully coming in January if you hate long informal essays]
andré 3000 flute album... we are so back
The UN has a zero tolerance policy for SEA by UN peacekeepers- in a new article with Radwa Saad and Laura Huber, we find that there are two negative effects from the zero tolerance policy: 1) gender segregation 2) violence against female peacekeepers. See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
salt and vinegar chips with hot sauce! and milk chocolate covered pretzels
Weaponizing vulnerability to climate change
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“Just five rich global north countries are responsible for the majority (51%) of planned new oil and gas extraction to 2050: the US, Canada, Australia, Norway and the UK. These countries have the responsibility to move first to phase out fossil fuel production.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just released an updated draft of a paper on crop burning and air pollution in South Asia with @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social . Comments welcome!
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I wrote a brief reflection about why we did this paper, and why at this time. It's a tribute to people who endure US racism and move forward, making it possible for us to fight for a better world. socialsciences.nature.com/posts/histor...
Across two experiments, exposure to a brief informative video on Japanese American incarceration and subsequent reparations led to greater support among Asian Americans for the payment of reparations to Black Americans.
New paper with Chyei Vinluan!
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Dropbox subscription, external monitor.
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pretty map!! 😀
no no just use chatgpt for this, it has been a game changer!
(So sorry if I forgot about anyone! Just so much terrific scholarship in this space, especially in South Asia, but I'm biased of course haha)
Some of fave gender scholars (mainly on South Asia: political participation, political economy, justice/security; too many papers to link individually!): Sarah Khan, Soledad Prillaman; Rachel Brulé, Nikhar Gaikwad, Rithika Kumar; Sabrina Karim, Nirvikar Jassal, Sarah Thompson, Angie Torres-Beltran
📢New #PAG19 Critical Perspectives📢 Rachel Brulé in 'Climate Shocks and Gendered Political Transformation' looks to South Asia to argue that 'climate shocks' are gendered and open new opportunities women's representation in politics.
PoliSky GenderSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
