Sechindra Vallury

Best practices for moving from correlation to causation in ecological research - Nature Communications Different scientific traditions offer seemingly disparate approaches to inferring causal relationships in ecological systems. This Perspective unifies the causal assumptions and methods from...

Excited to share our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com We synthesize causal discovery & inference approaches across traditions (regression adjustment, quasi-expts, SEMs, Granger causality, convergent cross-mapping, and more) into a unified workflow for ecologists. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt? Disaster relief can discourage people from adapting to future disasters – for example, by reducing incentives to relocate. But in low-income settings, cash relief can also ease liquidity constraints and enable adaptation. Evidence from Pakistan’s 2010 floods shows that both of these forces exist but that they offset each other, so that cash relief does not cause more people to stay in disaster-prone areas.

🆕 Do disaster-relief cash transfers trap people in risky areas, or help them adapt?

Today on VoxDev, Muhammad Bin Khalid (Harvard) & Martin Mattsson (NUS) discuss how disaster relief enabled climate adaptation in Pakistan: https://ow.ly/XAgU50YiFE7

How Many Wolves Is Enough? Now that thousands live in the United States, some people would like to kill more of them.

Just a casual mention of our research…in the Atlantic!!

Call for Proposals: Environmental Research Letters Focus Issue on "Initial and Enduring Environmental Consequences of Armed Conflict"
Full information on scope, guest editors, and submission process at: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...
Ask Jamon Van Den jamon.vandenhoek@oregonstate.edu questions.

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

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I am hiring a postdoc @ Univ of Iowa. Potential project focuses include flood-risk infrastructure planning, disaster recovery processes and outcomes, insurance program externalities, or uncertainty in climate damage attribution. Please consider applying/sharing! jobs.uiowa.edu/postdoc/view...

Job Opportunities | University of Montana, Helena College & UM Western

Seeking applicants to a qualitative social science post-doc position - located at Purdue University, but collaborating with me and others on the human dimensions of white-tailed deer and cwd management.

www.schooljobs.com/careers/ummi...

From bad omen to national treasure: The rare bone-swallower stork saved by a female army Once known as a bird of ill omen, India's endangered hargila has gained an army of protectors. Now it's beginning to bounce back.

A heartening story about conservation:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Millions of Delhi residents lost water for days. Some say it’s still toxic | CNN Ravinder Kumar wades through ankle-deep sludge every day to leave his home in Sharma Enclave in northwest Delhi – yet inside the brick tenement, he does not have a drop to drink.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/i...

Job 🚨: The European Institute (@lse-ei.bsky.social) at LSE is hiring an assistant prof in International Migration. I'm not in the hiring committee but happy to answer Qs about the department, LSE or this bloody weather that is actually pretty pretty today.

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

This would be truly insane

How many STEM Ph.D.s were lost from the U.S. federal government last year?

My colleagues @mghersher.bsky.social and @policyhound.bsky.social dug into a recent data release to find the answer. A @science.org exclusive.

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Great news and a wonder woman indeed!! She'll do great! Congratulations to y'all!

Big news in the Metcalf house…

Today, Libby was officially named Dean of the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana & Director of the Montana Forest and Conservation Experiment Station. More to share in coming days, but I’m just so damn humbled to watch this Wonder Woman!

Papers due Feb 6! Machine Learning for Remote Sensing at ICLR 2026 (in person in Rio de Janeiro). This workshop promotes trans-disciplinary research through diverse view-points to tackle pressing questions, such as climate change, social inequalities, biodiversity, and food security.

NSF seeks public input on its Fiscal Year (FY) 2026–2030 NSF Strategic Plan

NSF needs to hear from you. Among other points, I suggested: keep politics out of science; stop using the threat of cancelling scientific grants to try to control universities; increase NSF funding for fundamental research. Pls send around. Deadline is January 27. Thanks
www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

Rutgers University is hiring:
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track (Economics of Health, Environment or Inequality)

WCERE 2026 The World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) is a special five-day gathering of environmental economists from around the world. The 2026 edition will be held at the N... The World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE) is the international conference of environmental and resource economists organised every four years by the World Council of environm...

Get your papers submitted for the WCERE 2026 in Carcavelos, Portugal #AERE #EconSky
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International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Elevated houses on a stormy coast, with the large text "postdoc, coastal adaptation governance, first review Feb 1".

🌊📊 #Postdoc opening: Coastal Adaptation Governance

Research + practitioner partnerships. Interdisciplinary. Decisions, policies, ethics. First review Feb 1

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#adaptation #resilience #academicjobs

I had the same issue yesterday. Restarting camera services fixed the issue for me (sudo killall VDCAssistant). Hope that works for you too. My network services also did not work after the update.. had to do a couple of full machine restarts to fix it.

Some positions in the third phase of the Future Rural Africa programme, partly hosted by @giubresearch.bsky.social

Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...

📣 One week left to apply to our Toulouse Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences!

We have an exciting program for this year: www.tse-fr.eu/sites/defaul...

🗓️ May 26 to June 19, 2026
📍 Toulouse

Application deadline: December 15

Apply here: www.tse-fr.eu/toulouse-sum...

@tse-fr.eu @iast.fr

Open PhD position here in UMN forest resources in the analysis of forest change in tropical mountains, with a focus on geospatial analysis. Applications due Dec. 8. More information and instructions on how to apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator Data that span multiple units and time periods allow controlling for time-invariant heterogeneity correlated with the covariates. While researchers can do this in different ways, the fixed effects es...

When fixed effects aren't fixed...

Important work by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc Bellemare that should influence econometric practice.

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Assistant Professor, Politics of Space/Science/Technology - Orlando, Florida, United States The OpportunityThe School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs (SPSIA) in the College of Sciences (COS) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) invites applications for a nine-month, te...

Posting for a colleague:

The School of Politics, Security and International Affairs at UCF is looking for a new tenure-track faculty in space, science and technology politics.

jobs.ucf.edu/jobs/assista...

SFI Resident Professor Sam Bowles has co-authored a new book of problem sets and solutions based on the new microeconomics, with applications to inequality, climate change, and other pressing issues in today’s world. Available now.