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Sechindra Vallury

@sechindra.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy, University of Georgia. Quantitative social scientist, climate adaptation, institutional economics, development studies www.sechindravallury.com

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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

04.11.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
Assistant or Associate Professor in Genomics, Epigenetics, and Biomes The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for an open faculty position to begin August 1, 2026, for a scientist who can contribute to the domain...

UGA is hiring a biological anthropologist. Come work with me!

www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/457...

04.11.2025 18:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU is hiring at the assistant or associate level in urban climate!

24.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Careers The Department of Forest Resources at the University of Minnesota seeks outstanding applicants for a full-time tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position focused on forest regeneration dynamics. This may include focus areas of early stand dynamics, forest genetics, climate-adaptive seed/tree selection, nursery systems, or environmental stress physiology, which may fall within broader disciplines such as silviculture, restoration ecology, or forest operations. This is a 9-month, full-time, tenure-track faculty position with research (50%) and teaching (50%) responsibilities. The successful candidate will have access to office and laboratory space in the department. The position is available beginning August 2026, with review of applications beginning December 8, 2025.ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities include but are not limited to:

My department is hiring an assistant professor of forest regeneration. The University of Minnesota department of forest resources is a great place to work, I really really like it here, and hope we end up hiring someone I can collaborate with. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

17.10.2025 17:14 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Applications due Oct. 31

03.10.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Much of global agricultural adaptation policy still equates adoption with success. But adaptation is an uneven, iterative process shaped by capacities and social inequalities. We call for rethinking interventions around the long-term trajectories and needs of marginalized communities.

25.09.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Rethinking adaptation interventions in agricultural systems for sustainability Global policy frameworks have accelerated investments in agricultural adaptation interventions. However, prevailing approaches often conflate adoption…

New article alert! This was a fun piece to write:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

25.09.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Interested in using the Institutional Grammar to code non-policy documents, like interview transcripts, etc.? Come join us for the Oct 7 IGRI research seminar when the IGRI informal rules working group led by the fab Irene Perez Ibarra will showcase a rules-in-use IG coding protocol.

25.09.2025 01:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Agriculture & Environmental Sustainability Funded Ph.D. and Master's positions at UGA.

Multiple funded Ph.D. and Master's positions in my lab. Topics broadly cover climate and agricultural adaptation, and energy & water governance (U.S. & Global South). Apply by Dec 1, 2025.

Details: www.sechindravallury.com/graduate-opp...

Please share with prospective students!

21.09.2025 20:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Applied Econ Jobs | ZoΓ« Plakias | Substack Job opportunities for applied economists. Click to read Applied Econ Jobs, by ZoΓ« Plakias, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

I share a lot of jobs for agricultural, environmental, development, + regional economists via listservs. I recently moved this to a Substack to decrease listserv traffic for those folks not interested in postings + to make posts more accessible to all. Use the Search tab to filter jobs. #EconSky

07.03.2025 17:11 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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21.08.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New job ad: Assistant Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College apply.interfolio.com/172357

Please share with your networks. I am the search chair and happy to answer questions!

21.08.2025 18:50 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 8

Early word we'll have funding to recruit a Post-Doc in the Human Dimensions of Wildlife space - specifically working on hunter behaviors in deer management across several midwestern states. On the ground work, experiments, many academic & agency partners! Spread the word to any potential applicants.

12.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

We're hiring! Please share with your networks!

The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026
jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

29.07.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 95    πŸ” 101    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
Environmental Changes and Human Migration: Advances in Modeling and Analysis Human migration represents one of the most complex and multidimensional manifestations of global environmental changes, interacting with economic opportunities, social networks, conflict, governance, ...

AGU CFP "Environmental Changes and Human Migration - Advances in Modeling and Analysis: We seek contributions from a wide range of disciplines in this session: sociology, anthropology, public policies, economics, hydrology, ecology, climate modeling, coupled natural-human modeling, and the like."

17.07.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Professor Andrew Reid Bell presents: Anatomy of a migration model, and implications for adaptation research

🚨 #AARES #AARESSA Hybrid Event
Professor Andrew Reid Bell presents:
Anatomy of a #migration model, and
implications for adaptation research
πŸ—“οΈ 16 June 2025
πŸ•š 12-1pm ACST
πŸ“ Yungondi Building, Y1-70; UniSA City West Campus Adelaide SA
πŸ’» Zoom
🎟️ FREE | Register now mailchi.mp/aares.org.au...
#econsky

06.06.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How to write a first-class paper Six experts offer advice on producing a manuscript that will get published and pull in readers.

A grad student turned me on to this paper about how to do good science writing. Some great tips here. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

30.05.2025 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Supreme Court decision limiting scope of NEPA is interesting including liberal judges concurring. It rests agency discretion to decide whether to consider "upstream" and "downstream" effects in project scope. Read it! The case is a good overview of NEPA law!
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

30.05.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#StandWithSapelo

18.04.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”Š Listen Now: 854: Ten Things I Don't Want to Hate About You This American Life from This American Life on NPR One | 59:20

Reminds me of a recent episode of This American Life. The reasons given for constantly bending the truth and the absence of proper oversight are unbelievable.

one.npr.org/i/fis-113428...

06.04.2025 21:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Have a good environmental social science research job, post doc, assistant prof, research associate? Lmk! Trump fired one of my former students…

03.03.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're ever tempted to give a meaningless referee report for the purpose of telling the author to cite 10 of your marginally relevant papers, just stop right there. Reviewers and editors (like myself) see right through that and will have those references removed before publication. #AcademicSky

25.02.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Support Critical Government Data Preservation | Institute for Social Research

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

22.02.2025 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 453    πŸ” 152    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 8

Sounds promising. Will give that a try, thank you!

22.02.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Haven't seen this specific resource, but I'm familiar with Anselin and Rey. Will check this out, thanks!

22.02.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Nearly 36,000 observations. Tried both contiguous and distance-based weights with different normalizations. The model runs fine in R and residuals look fine. impacts() throws memory allocation errors after running a while in all scenarios.

22.02.2025 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I read that Stata is better with estat impacts for large datasets. But, my coefficients on spregress with dvarlag and ivarlag look wildly different from R. Has anyone else experienced such discrepancies between R and Stata for SDM estimation? 2/2 #econsky

22.02.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Running a spatial durbin model on my cross-sectional data to capture spatial lags in my DV and regressors in R. I used lagsarlm(), but running into computational issues with impacts() to get direct/indirect effects. 🧡1/2 #econsky

22.02.2025 17:04 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
Climate Change and Human Mobility
YouTube video by California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Climate Change and Human Mobility

@americaadapts.bsky.social led an interesting discussion w/ @keenanclimate.com, @weatherwest.bsky.social, and myself on Climate Change and Human Mobility, organized by the CCST, UC Center for Security Politics, and the UC Disaster Resilience Network. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzT8...

21.02.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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