The other part of the story is that GPS was the only place to take a chance on admitting me despite having an unusual application profile—both for the masters and the PhD.
“I studied political science in undergrad, but it lacked that quantitative component — this factored into my graduate school search and led me to GPS.” -
@LC_Sanford
Luke earned his Ph.D. from GPS in '21 — now a professor at
@YaleEnvironment
.
Full story:
Yale's brand new Institute for the Foundations of Data Science is recruiting 2-3 year postdocs to "work with leading theorists and domain scientists (🙋♂️)" . Salary is $95K with $10K dedicated research/travel fund. Apply here:
PhD rejections:
Round 1: Everywhere (accepted to UCSD policy masters with no funding)
Round 2: Harvard Stanford Princeton Yale Berkeley MIT Michigan Columbia UCLA etc.
Round 2 accepted: UCSD, Washington
Ended up with a great cohort and the best advisors 10/10
Only had budget for 6 schools (didn't know abt waivers), so ended up with:
Princeton ❌
Yale❌
Duke❌
NYU❌
Stanford ❌
Applied to one other school not because there was much fit (3 of my eventual 4 advisors weren't even on faculty yet) but strictly on vibes:
MIT✔️
The combo of low grad student pay and little affordable housing in the area is pretty terrible at UCSD. Grad students should not be expected to pay >50% of their stipend on university-owned housing.
#FairUCNow
Students at University of California San Diego, and across the state, are demonstrating to demand housing justice, fair pay, and respect. San Diego police are on scene to ensure traffic is diverted to promote the safety of those involved in the demonstration.
#FairUCNow
#TuesdaysWithTeamcounterfactual
is back on 2 May (10am ET / 4pm CET) w/
@LC_Sanford
and "Machine Learning for Impact Evaluation: Environmental effects of land tenure formalization" Not yet among >1000 people registered for the
@idoimpact
series? Go to:
After many interesting and productive conversations at the last APSA, we're trying to grow and connect the environment/climate political economy crowd by hosting a 1-day pre-conference
@APSAtweets
.
Lots of options for participation, lots of time for forging new collaborations
Going to
@APSAtweets
in LA? Interested in the political economy of environment and climate?
Consider applying to this "incubator" pre-conference to be hosted at UCLA (deadline 4/14):
We aim to spark new research and collaborations!
#postdocposition
I am looking for two postdocs to join the SPIRES Lab at the Yale School of the Environment. More information here:
Please RT, more information below:
Looking for good examples of general interest journal social science papers (Science, Nature PNAS) that focus on theoretical innovations rather than empirical applications. Any good examples?
Shout out to the absolute dream team of
@mollyeroberts
and
@jaburney
who were so supportive and encouraging and invested from start to finish. Always had great feedback, trusted me as a collaborator, and did all they could to make grad school financially feasible.
I benefited from a robust graduate student union at UCSD and support unionization and living wages for grad students. Science isn’t worth it if it requires the people doing the science to be mistreated.
Just had the pleasure of chairing a great methodology poster session. You can find the posters here: then click 8: Political Methodology. People on the cutting edge of a number of different methods! Go check out their posters and give them some feedback!
My friends at
@UCBerkeley
are hiring! If the selling point of a top poli sci department and awesome colleagues isn't enough, I'd like to point out that you'd also be teaching at the great state of California's SECOND best institution of higher learning 💪🤣
Grad Students: If you aren’t at my university, and you want me on your dissertation committee, don’t email me and say you can’t meet on Sundays because it’s your “surfing day.” Sunday should be a writing day, first of all. Second, we meet when I say so. Period.
Nice thread! Jumping on this opportunity to say I would be excited to meet with any grad students/postdocs (actually anyone) working on environmental politics or applied methods or applied machine learning or… something else that you might want to talk about!
But don't just go after the big names -- look up other junior scholars! Some of them may be way more active in the field than the seniors, & their schedules may be more open. Again, as a student, you don't need some concrete reason to meet with them, and ppl are
If you haven't been suddenly gripped by panic that you might have made a coding error six months ago, causing you to have to stop doing dishes and go pull up your code, have you even done research?
Check out this awesome paper by
@mdgordo
! He shows that contrary to what you might think, targeting disaster aid based on observable damage doesn’t make people better off than giving aid to everyone in affected regions—it does worse!
In an effort to get this out before twitter collapses, here is my 🚨JMP🚨 thread
#econtwittter
:
Question: How should we target disaster reconstruction aid?
Answer: Maybe we shouldn't.
More below and at my website:
Glad to see this paper (co-authored w/
@jurpelai
& Jacob Kopas) just accepted at the
@The_JOP
Why do governments protect some areas of the rainforest but not others⁉️
We use spatial data from the 🇧🇷 Amazon rainforest to answer this question
🧵👇
(1/7) Sharing a new paper w/ Albert Chiu,
@liuziyi233
, & Xingchen Lan:
We surveyed six newly proposed estimators as potential remedies to TWFE models under HTE and conducted a systematic reanalysis of 38 recently published papers in APSR, AJPS & JOP.
Let’s please make sure
@Shugars
gets a job! Mostly because she is a top-notch academic and person, but also to keep the supply of lanyards (and other public goods she provides the community) flowing
Also: I know many people are very reasonably unable to attend
#APSA2021
in person this year
DON’T WORRY! I have plenty of lanyards to give out at future conferences as well
…And, of course, if I do get another academic job this year, I’ll invest in even more!
Interested in using econometrics+remote sensing to measure the impacts of conservation policy? Join to hear about research (w/ Alberto Garcia) showing common pitfalls and solutions. Super excited to present in
@idoimpact
's fantastic Conservation Impact Evaluation seminar series.
Lula's election in Brazil came just in time to save the Amazon rainforest. He has signalled a strong commitment to zero-deforestation, but he faces a complicated scenario ahead. I wrote a short Conversation piece:
@ACU_IHSS
@ACUmedia
Did you see the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Carbon Offset Markets () and want to learn more? Sign up for free public webinars with top experts in the field! Hosted by
@SaraKuebbing
and
@bradfordlab
and myself.
Our
#YaleForestForum
held on Thursdays starting 9/8 asks: What Makes a High Quality
#Forest
#CarbonCredit
? We will dive into multiple points of view and expertise.
This series is free and open to the public.
Register here:
@GarrettMAA
It's about what differences in air pollution during the shutdown can tell us about environmental racism in California. Longer thread coming once things are finalized!
My dad recently got a kids book about the Han dynasty for our daughter since she recently visited China, ended up with this book which was clearly written and illustrated by an AI (and is part of a larger series which is all like this):
Hi
#AcademicTwitter
who has a "lab manual" that you use to set expectations and procedures for RAs/grad students/collaborators/etc.? Working on one and would love to see some examples if you're willing to share.
The other part of the story is that GPS was the only place to take a chance on admitting me despite having an unusual application profile—both for the masters and the PhD.
Very exciting first session at the intersection of environmental science and causal inference, a great opportunity for those interested in environmental politics to get involved
So I think we will have to do this again. Fun, engaging, and energetic day gathering colleagues old and new to discuss and brainstorm research on climate and environment. Stay tuned!
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn…
Delighted and honored to have won this year's Best Paper Award from
@epovb
@APSAtweets
for my paper on strategic election timing, now published
@cps_journal
Paper:
Very happy to share that I am now at
@YaleMacMillan
's Council on East Asian Studies as the Japan Foundation CGP (
@JF_NewYork
) Postdoctoral Associate! Looking forward to my time in New Haven!
Doomsday update just dropped:
"If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it opens the door for the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet to slide into the sea. ... It’s not only goodbye Miami, but goodbye to virtually every low-lying coastal city in the world."
@cullenhendrix
Also, if you’re on the market please remember that even a “good” market is still brutal and unfair for systemic reasons that are 100% out of your control.
@gordon_h_hanson
I have great mentors at
@YaleEnvironment
Some of the things they help me with include:
1. Which department service to do
2. How to choose grad students and RAs
3. A strategy for which papers/journals to pursue/target
4. Intros to important people or opportunities
@polisciprofhi
UCSD grad student
@gabederoche
is doing excellent work on climate change and migration in a comparative context and might be able to give advice (check out his website: )
2 useful papers today on how you can get basically any answer you want from regressions using arcsinh(y) or log(y+1)
I made these graphs to show the problem: The mean of the transformed var (black lines) varies like crazy by what units you choose for y
🧵 on my own take-aways
@VivianoDavide
@HarvardEcon
@StanfordGSB
@UCSDEcon
Congrats Davide! It has been clear that you are wildly talented since our first conversation (during your first year!) so no surprise. Excited to see what you'll accomplish at this next stage.
I'm thrilled to announce I'll be spending next year at
@PrincetonSPIA
Niehaus Center as a Postdoctoral Researcher!
Incredibly grateful to those who made this possible. Because it takes a village, y'all!
@lockhartm
I had the opposite experience where I was less stressed living on campus than off...
Probably we should just pay grad students enough that they can live either in campus housing or off campus!
As the
#MPSA
deadline approaches,
@CesarBenAlvarez
and I are planning on putting together a last-minute environmental politics panel. If you have a suitable paper and like us waited until the last minute, reach out!
I chatted with a grad student and new mom yesterday, who was struggling to make time for some research with a 2 month old baby and wondered if she should quit. Thought maybe she wasn't able to manage her time ok.
So just to say publicly: Newborns are HARD, and work can wait 1/.
Just had the pleasure of chairing a great methodology poster session. You can find the posters here: then click 8: Political Methodology. People on the cutting edge of a number of different methods! Go check out their posters and give them some feedback!
Fields are basic units of agriculture. 🌾 Digital field boundaries are needed to deliver field-level analytics to farmers. But most of the world lacks field boundary datasets.
A thread on filling the data gap with satellites and deep learning, from our latest paper. 🛰
🧵 1/n
@joshfjelstul
This is super cool! 🎉 🎊 Looks like for now it’s just men’s World Cup right? It would be awesome if it eventually included women’s too! Is that in the works?
@cullenhendrix
At least from the demand side! Though probably even more than the normal competition from those stuck in contingent positions because of the pandemic job market slump.