Valerie Mueller

Do you research the intersection of climate change and health, but could use further guidance on working with spatial data? Apply for our in-person workshop in Nairobi, Kenya in collaboration with the APHRC February 1-2, 2027. Registration is free! z.umn.edu/climate-health-workshop.

Extremely excited to open up my email to learn that my paper from my new project is now formally accepted at the American Sociological Review! It's entitled "Energetic Affordances: Climate Change and Industrial Transformation." The abstract is below. I can't wait for this to be out in the world!

PAA 2029 in Quebec! www.populationassociation.org/events-publi...

Has this post-doc ad been circulating among political scientists? If not, please share! It is an amazing 2 year post doc. I was a fellow and my life was changed forever (I even work in Toulouse now!). It is the French version of the Nuffield post-doc ! www.tse-fr.eu/iast-researc...

#EconSky: It’s not too late to register for the free virtual job market workshop by Economists for Ukraine, happening THIS Friday, 11am EST! The speakers will be UC Berkeley's placement director Ben Handel and recent PhD graduate Yevhenii Usenko. More info here: econ4ua.org/events/job-m...

Congratulations to #PSID Advisory Board Member and Penn State Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography Jennifer Van Hook @vanhookjenny.bsky.social, on being elected president of the Population Association of America @popassocamerica.bsky.social. #PAA pop.psu.edu/news/jennife...

Not sure economists are fully prepared for what's coming in our field.

This program is now open for next summer (iiasa.ac.at/early-career...). The IIASA Population and Just Societies program "particularly welcomes applications from candidates interested in population change, sustainable development, and well-being."

"The Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Geography specializing in global change, risk, and resilience and the human dimensions of environmental hazards."

#EconSky: Going on the econ job market this year or know someone who is? Come to the free virtual job market workshop by Economists for Ukraine, featuring UC Berkeley's placement director Ben Handel and recent PhD graduate Yevhenii Usenko. Oct. 30, 11am EST econ4ua.org/events/job-m...

DemSem tomorrow! #DemSemTuesday

I’m looking for a postdoc (3y) to research kinship dynamics from a demographic, sociological, public health, or mathematical perspective. Reach out if you are interested and have any questions about the role or the MPIDR! 👇

In the September issue, "Misperceived Social Norms and Willingness to Act Against Climate Change" by Peter Andre, Teodora Boneva, Felix Chopra, and Armin Falk zurl.co/63lr4

My 15yo made tahini stracciatella😋🤤

Kia ora, my friends in Aotearoa! This piece is my love letter to the avifauna of Aotearoa and my expression of gratitude all of you whose efforts have preserved so many species that might otherwise have been lost. I hope you enjoy.

Together with other scientists I’m suing the 🇺🇸 US National Institutes of Health for violating our 1st Amendment rights & censoring our health science. I’m ready to shine a light on the darkest days. Buckle up, read on. This gets pretty wild… THREAD

The IPCC evolved from an organization that tried to be policy relevant to one that was devoured by politics.

"The Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) at Brown University invites applications for a postdoctoral position to start July 1, 2027."

"The Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for the Byers Family Chair in Environmental Studies to be appointed to a tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full Professor."

My own stata license

. @uncgeography.bsky.social is hiring in GIS! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/327...

We're hiring! Assistant Professor of the Social Dimensions of Wildfire Please amplify

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Yale Statistics & Data Science is running an open-rank faculty search (Asst/Assoc/Full), focused on "Applied Data Science". I moved to Yale 2y ago and am very happy here! Feel free to reach out to me if you have questions. Review begins 11/1. statistics.yale.edu/assistantass...

Together with Conghe Song, I am recruiting a co-advised PhD student for Fall 2027 who is interested in using a combination of GIS/RS and population/demographic approaches to understand human-environment issues in the global south. Please share! @geographers.bsky.social

AAG 2027 CFP @geographers.bsky.social Populations Under Crisis: Exploring the Human Dimensions of Climate and Conflict AAG 2027 / New York, New York / February 8-12, 2027 Session Organizers: Georgina Lily Gemayel: ggemayel@unc.edu Sara Ghebremicael: sghebremicael@unc.edu

RPDE is hiring predocs! 🌍 Work with @seema.bsky.social or Pascaline Dupas on development economics research at Princeton. Ideal for those heading to an Econ PhD, In person , starting summer 2027. main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/22348/s... #econjobs #phdpred #econpredoc #devecon #academia

Day 2 of Here I Stand. #FallBreak 🍂

well, we did give Hall (0.9%) & Woodford (1.1%) a better than random chance (0.6%) richardtol.substack.com/p/2026-nobel...

This is good advice for prospective PhD students. I'm getting a ton of emails that are heavily written by AI. If you can show that you've actually read some of the research yourself and have a few original thoughts about it you'll definitely stand out.

FACULTY JOB ALERT: @bloustein.rutgers.edu assistant professor position in climate change + planning law jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/282...

Long-term air pollution exposure increases chronic disease, especially hypertension, even among young, healthy adults. New evidence from US Army personnel, from Joshua S. Graff Zivin, Johnny Huynh, Timothy Frank Justicz, Adriana Lleras-Muney, and Matthew J. Neidell www.nber.org/papers/w35871

QUALITATIVE SOCIOLOGISTS: Need advice! Emily Shafer and I are using what people typed into a text box on a survey as qualitative data. What should we do when quoting them in a Soc paper? Correct misspellings, typos, "bad grammar? Put it as they typed it? With or w/o "sic"?

Not just a great resource for JMCs, but for those advising students who are considering PhD programs!

New paper in AEPP with Simone Pieralli and Jeisson Prieto: "Growing more while emitting less? Decoupling U.S. agricultural production and greenhouse gas emissions." We split each state's farm emissions growth over 1990–2015 into output, emission intensity of inputs, and TFP. 🧵

We have two ongoing job searches (Assistant or Associate) at UNC. Comparative Politics: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... Asian Political Economy: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/325... A few more days left to apply!

I just came across this today when @tressiemcphd.bsky.social posted it on Instagram. I’m sharing it with my statistics students, some of whom clearly used AI on their first homework. My TAs and I will not police AI use, and this is why I’m giving an in-class midterm and final for the first time.

We're hiring 📣 Assistant Professor in the sociology of Health & Aging as part of @bostonu.bsky.social cluster hire on 'The Future of Healthy Aging' Pref for someone with expertise in quantitative or computational approaches More info & apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32925

🚨new working paper🚨 Chris Blair (@chriswblair.bsky.social), Jeremy Weinstein, and I describe here The Dataset of World Refugee and Asylum Policies, in which we code de jure asylum policy for 205 countries, from 1951-2022. We hope you will find the paper and data helpful. osf.io/preprints/so...

Come work with me! The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota is hiring an associate or full professor in the urban and regional planning program with expertise in housing policy or neighborhood affordability. More info: hr.umn.edu/Jobs/Find-Job Job Opening Number: 376233

18th Conference of Young Demographers will happen on 3–5 February 2027, Prague The conference is fully on-site and in-person. The Call for Papers is now open and you can find absolutely all necessary information here. Submit your abstracts until Monday, 26 October 2026.

Assistant Teaching Professor position @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social - deadline approaching! Apply by Oct. 11 for priority consideration.

Happy to announce that our department is looking to hire two new colleagues at the Asst Professor level, one in American politics, specializing in public law, legal studies, administrative law and/or law and courts, the second in political behavior and/or political psychology. Ad links in reply.