@clarklgray.bsky.social
Professor of Geography and Environment, UNC-Chapel Hill https://clarkgray.web.unc.edu/
At its peak, about 1 in 7 deaths in sub-Saharan Africa caused by HIV/AIDS. It is now one in 20. PEPFAR takes a lot of credit. Since the launch of PMI in 2005, death rates from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa are down by a third. This is the time to double down, not walk away.
06.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Caloboletus calopus - Bitter Beech Bolete
Every day is #UKFungusDay for me.
04.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 272 🔁 41 💬 8 📌 3
🚨GRFP DEADLINE ALERT!🚨 I missed this in my original solicitation read-through, so FYI 📣LETTERS ARE DUE BEFORE PROPOSALS📣 this year!
"Reference letters are due Friday, November 7 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)."
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Exciting news. We are hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Public Policy. Focus areas: environmental policy, international development, or poverty.
Link:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
Submission Deadline: November 3, 2025.
Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Red green and yellow beetle on a leaf
Red green and yellow beetle on a leaf
I found this rove beetle friend on the rainforest floor. They are so so fast, you can imaging me chasing it around with my camera just rolling around in the leaf litter. Just unbelievable colors. In person the rainbow iridescence is stunning. It’s hard to say much here beyond just wow.
01.10.2025 01:40 — 👍 287 🔁 74 💬 4 📌 3There were several nice bursts last night. The first was around 930pm (what an early treat!). This is another bigger one about 125am. This timelapse covers about 5 minutes of time.
01.10.2025 01:39 — 👍 234 🔁 42 💬 7 📌 0
One fascinating new paper published in REHO shows that there is a positive relationship between daily temperature and incidence of domestic violence (using administrative data from Brazil)
link.springer.com/ar...
US GEOG majors declined by almost 50% over the past 10 years 😢. Environment is doing well, though, and Data Science is through the roof. You will be surprised to learn that we are working on a new BS in Geospatial Data Science at UNC 🙃.
28.09.2025 16:38 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes
1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.
2. "alignment with Administration priorities"
3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.
a brief 🧵 w/receipts
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Looks like it 😢
26.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Carolina Sociology is hiring!
• Tenure-track in computational sociology or advanced quantitative methods
• Open rank in population health.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
🚨Registration for the 2025 Wittgenstein Centre Conference Demographic Perspectives on Migration in the 21st Century is open 🥳
➡️Join us in Vienna or online to hear the latest research from the top migration scholars 🤓
➡️This year we also have a Round Table to discuss how science can inform policy!
OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik:
#camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Extreme heat damages crops and increases the number of strongly undernourished households in terms of calories, iron, and other nutrients. While some households cope by buying food grown elsewhere, the poorest remain highly vulnerable.
Read today's article to learn more:
For 25+ years, SEDAC has provided vital population, environmental, & socioeconomic data. Through our collaboration w/ CIESIN climate.columbia.edu, SEDAC data will live on harvarddataverse.bsky.social, ensuring long-term preservation and access.
Learn more and explore: https://loom.ly/BID_wE8
I am not big on the importance of nomenclature but for me most of these qual examples are pop studies (which is also cool), not demography. Demography = counting!
15.09.2025 20:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chlorociboria aeruginascens - Green Elfcup. 🍄📷 #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday
15.09.2025 17:43 — 👍 107 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0Not uncommon, but always beautiful; the ever flappy-flappy #pelagic #SeaButterfly #Pteropod, Corolla spectabilis. This one is feeding, as can be seen by the mucus net that it’s currently reeling in.
#corollaspectabilis #plankton #blackwater #blackwaterdiving #gug #chrisgug #gugunderwater #ocean
Related note: Tobaccoville has the weirdest shape of NC towns (shaded area in map)
09.09.2025 23:22 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 1🚨 The Cornell Population Center is recruiting our next CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow (start: Aug 2026).
We welcome outstanding early-career scholars in all disciplines engaging population research.
Apply + share widely: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30347
"Howell was able to obtain at least one UNC-Chapel Hill syllabus outside of his public records request...Shortly after the Oversight Project's post, people spammed Petsko's X account with homophobic comments. The hate became so overwhelming that Petsko decided to leave the platform."
09.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The @uncpopcenter.bsky.social is recruiting for a postdoc for our Population Science Training Program. Applications are due November 17th, with a start date of August 2026. For more info about the program, visit www.cpc.unc.edu/training/pop...
To apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/306...
AAG’s Nystrom Award is now accepting applications! This award supports a $1,000 prize for a paper based upon a recent #dissertation in #geography, to be presented at #AAG2026.
Finalists are also invited to submit their papers for publication in The Professional Geographer. buff.ly/W6ttUnE#GeoSky
Climate change is shifting where rice can grow.
Long considered a southern crop, it has crept north into Missouri.
It’s a crop that can thrive where others can’t. But for many farmers, making the transition to a new crop is nearly impossible.
In a parallel with the devastating destruction of the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia in Iran -- once one of the world's largest saltwater lakes -- has now also been completely destroyed by overpumping, #water diversions, and increased evaporation from climate change.
www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/862...
