The EGSG redistributes resources from established academics ($15 dues) to grads ($3 dues). We support members at all career stages with opportunities to serve
as keynote speakers, and for graduate student travel grants, best paper awards, session sponsorships and more. www.aag.org/groups/econo...
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If you're a member (or occasional member) of the AAG (@geographers.bsky.social), please join the AAG Econ Geog Specialty Group (@econgeog.bsky.social)!
The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Come work with me and my fantastic colleagues! The School of Geography, Development and Environment is hiring physical geographer at the assistant or associate level. Here are the details: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Arizona's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Awareness. Residents of manufactured homes are disproportionately vulnerable to extreme heat. @mtfkear.bsky.social uncovers complexity within MH communities and discusses their resilience to heat and hazards. tinyurl.com/kear-mh
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As of today I am tenured. Happy and relieved. I have convinced myself that there is a wide wide gap between the hype and reality of the powers and security that this new status confers, especially in the US/Arizona today. Tell me I'm wrong...how can I best use my new powers for good?
Graduate students in paleoclimatology! Want to spend 2 weeks this summer in the gorgeous eastern Sierra of California at paleoCAMP (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies) 2025? Apply before January 10th! paleoclimate.camp
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me at UVA on a project about youth (18-25) financial cultures, literacies, and well-being in the digital environment.
Please share widely!
Deadline is rolling.
virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0...
Extreme heat fits this everyday disaster framing well, too.
Excited to share my recent article, “Home thermal security, energy equity and the social production of heat in manufactured housing,” with coauthors Margaret Wilder,
Karina Martinez-Molina, Laura McCann and Dugan Meyer in Energy Research & Social Science. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Economy and Society Special Issue Competition.
£5,000 of workshop/event funding available.
Application deadline: 12th January 2024.
We would particularly welcome proposals that address topics which are of particular importance for the journal.
See our website for further details.
Job Alert! Assistant Professor in Environmental Justice
@ SUNY-ESF. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions! esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=168927
Setting up our tent at Tucson Meet Yourself, a huge festival in Tucson! We are presenting the findings of our research on Tucson’s UNESCO designation and getting community members’ feedback on it!
Looking forward to sharing a new paper with awesome colleagues just accepted at Energy Research and Social Science: "Home Thermal Security, Energy Equity & the Social Production of Heat in Manufactured Housing"...Will get it on SocArXiv as soon as this asynchronous online course is ready for launch!
Looks so awesome. Adding to adding @carlyschuster.bsky.social / Forecasts to my syllabus.
I use auto-replies. I get them. Can we all just be a little more okay with not getting a reply for a few hours or days? Half the auto replies I get are followed a few minutes later by a non-auto reply anyway. Sorry, this is really just me whinging about the post reply-all chirping of my inbox.
The application deadline has been extended for this Assistant Prof. position in my department! We are a dynamic group of human geographers and earth system scientists and have a strong bench of assoc. profs to mentor early career faculty.
🧐🧐 journal bluesky est arrivé (yes that is a reference to a 1980s wine campaign)
Like if all the people you knew in a big city moved to the same small town at the same time and never told anyone they were leaving. Strange. But glad so many are here now. 😊
Come work with me on geographies of monetary policy! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on SSHRC-funded project ‘Engine of inequality? Central Banks, Economic Crisis, and Uneven Development’. Feel free to reach out with questions. Details are here: www.queensu.ca/geographyand...
Just found out that Brett Christopher's new book has a release date and it looks good as hell. Brett's keen to get it to movement folks, so lmk if you/ your org wants to be added to a list for some kind of low-cost access, or to organize a meeting once its out www.versobooks.com/products/306...
These temperatures are shocking and inhumane. //www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/01/texas-prison-extreme-heat-diary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I'm on the job market! Trained in human geography & gender studies. Research in food systems, development, race, place; philosophies of space & the subject; critical phenomenology; queer/trans & feminist geogs & more! See: sites.google.com/view/edenkin.... Please send any relevant postdocs or jobs!