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Valerie Mueller
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Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, ASU
Work on climate change impacts, focusing on human mobility
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon
Non-resident fellow at IFPRI
Livin’ it up in Spain 2025-6 .. more

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 19h
#EconSky My university is recruiting world-leading researchers (not currently at Canadian universities) to nominate through the federal government’s recently announced Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program
www.tru.ca/research/res...
Canada Impact+ Research Chairs | Thompson Rivers University
www.tru.ca

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 19h
Omg. None of these are alike 🤣

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 22h
I’m here to start a war. Puglia has the best food in the world.

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Steve Koller @stevekoller.bsky.social · 3d
NYC Council passes law that would require landlords to provide cooling systems capable of maintaining 78°F "in rooms in which tenants sleep, upon the request of the tenant."

Cooling season would run from June 15 - September 15. Bill is currently on Mayor's desk waiting to be signed. (1/2)

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d
If this is true, we need to be checking our google scholar pages all the time for fake articles being listed there. Soon the metrics used to evaluate us by universities will be tarnished, not that I was thrilled about their use before.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 4d
This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Jani Erola

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 4d
A vacancy for a professorship in economic sociology at the @eui-eu.bsky.social’s School of Transnational Governance. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu

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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 4d
Another great postdoc opportunity at Notre Dame! We’re seeking a scholar of American racial & ethnic politics to join our fantastic and growing postdoc cohort

Major upside: the opportunity to interview with our poli sci dept for conversion to a tenure-track line

apply.interfolio.com/179415

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 4d
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Reposted by Valerie Mueller

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 4d
This.

Thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...
For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
www.youtube.com

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 5d
Pierre-Louis Vezina, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Piotr Lewandowski show that, far from displacing local businesses, Ukrainian refugees in Poland sparked an entrepreneurial boom as they inspired Polish entrepreneurs and created new supply chain opportunities.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
Figure shows the number of firms registered with Ukrainian owners. Data from the National Court Register (KRS) and Central Register and Information on Business Activity (CEIDG). When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, over a million Ukrainian refugees fled to Poland. This column shows that far from displacing local businesses, these refugees sparked an entrepreneurial boom. Ukrainians started nearly 39,000 firms in just two years. In addition, every 10% increase in Ukrainian firm registrations triggered a 2.3% rise in Polish entrepreneurship. Survey data reveal two mechanisms driving this multiplier effect: Ukrainian businesses inspired Polish entrepreneurs to launch similar ventures, and Ukrainian firms created new supply chain opportunities with local partners.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 5d
My oldest got whooping cough at 6 weeks from my husband’s relative in 2007. He was hospitalized for 2 weeks and was choking and turning purple. He survived but I would not wish any parent go through that, which means all of us including babies need to keep this vaccine up to date.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 5d
Congrats!!

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Steven Ruggles @stevenruggles.bsky.social · 5d
Here is the percentage of white males age 30-39 working in professional, technical, and managerial jobs between 1850 and 2024. The current generation has not been squeezed out of such jobs. If there is any lost generation here, I would say it is boomers who were 30-39 in 1990. (@ipums.bsky.social)

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · 5d
I'm still in disbelief, but I have some doubly good news: I got tenure, and in January I'm starting as an Associate Professor at @notredame.bsky.social's Keough School of Global Affairs. I'm excited to keep working on making immigration policy better in theory and practice.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 5d
Glenn said it was Josh Brolin. And I didn’t believe him. I couldn’t get past the hair.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 5d
That’s cute!

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 5d
Last night we watched the new Knives Out movie.

My take: I like the hot priest. Where have I seen him? Oh that steamy tennis movie.

My husband: This movie is not accurate of the Catholic Church. Priests don’t give homilies from the podium since Vatican II.

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 6d
📷New blog post: Where Papers Go Before (and After) rejection at a top field journal? This blog post explore this and more. One key finding is that desk- and referee-rejected manuscripts end up getting published at roughly the same rate elsewhere.

i4replication.org/where-papers...

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Dóra Piroska @piroskadora.bsky.social · 6d
My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions.

careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
Assistant Professor (f/m/d)
careers.ceu.edu

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 8d
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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Princeton Economics @princetonecon.bsky.social · 8d
The Economics Department at @Princeton is saddened to share the news of Professor Kate Ho's passing. Professor Ho was an exemplary teacher, researcher, adviser, colleague, and friend. She will be dearly missed.

https://bit.ly/497s4Lw
Kate Ho at the beach.

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Students Demand Action @studentsdemand.bsky.social · 9d
The two victims of the Brown University shooting deserved to come home from their final exams alive. Honor them by reading and sharing their stories. Give the shooter #NoNotoriety.

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tenuretracker.info @tenuretracker.bsky.social · 9d
University of Florida is hiring:
Assistant Professor of International Relations

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Beth Tellman @socialpixel.bsky.social · 9d
first agu in person since 2022 and first sans kids since 2019!!! so excited to be in NOLA presenting work from Social Pixel Lab along with Seth Bryant and Brooke Cox on flood mapping- and the latest from @floodbase.bsky.social too! see where to catch us below!

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Zoë Plakias @zoeconomy.bsky.social · 9d
Terrible flooding hit western WA communities last week + more rain is on the way. My household is not impacted but many folks around us are. If you have the capacity to donate time (locally) or money (from anywhere), please check out the ways to help people in two of the impacted counties below!
Here are ways to support those impacted by flooding in Whatcom and Skagit | Cascadia Daily News
Where to donate time, money and in-kind goods
www.cascadiadaily.com

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Em Gunter 顧安 🍉 @emgunter.bsky.social · 10d
Feel free to boost this if you'd like.

I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.

Reposted by Valerie Mueller, Sebastiaan Faber, Maria Sobolewska

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11d
This is an insane proposal, which has to be taken serious anyway, as that is the time and place we live in.

Expect similar plans to be discussed in GOP-controlled states soon (in my state higher teaching loads have been pushed by some Republicans for a while).
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
www.forbes.com

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James P. Collins @jpcollins.me · 11d
Major env demography study finds rainfall caused >8% of deaths in Mumbai 2006-2015. The effect lasted over several weeks and was greater among young children, women, and low-elevation slum residents. Sea-level rise likely exacerbates this threat by overwhelming drainage systems.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 12d
Immensely proud to see two newish publications out that begun their life as masters theses a wee while ago... links below
The geography of intergenerational mobility in Europe How do opportunities for intergenerational mobility depend on where you live? We address this question using European Social Survey data, studying the association between parents’ and children’s occupation, and how it varies by region of residence. Absolute mobility, largely driven by shifts in occupational structure, differs from relative mobility, which reflects the extent to which opportunities are equal across social origins. Capital regions emerge as hubs of absolute, but not necessarily relative, mobility. Absolute mobility correlates with human capital, labor market, demographic, and spatial factors. In contrast, relative mobility is primarily shaped by economic disparities between social classes. Greater inequality entails less mobility, even comparing different places within a country. How robust are country rankings in educational mobility? We investigate the impact of analytical choices on country comparisons in intergenerational educational mobility using a multiverse approach. A literature survey gives rise to 2,880 plausible ways of measuring educational mobility, which we apply to European Social Survey data from 16 countries. Although some countries consistently appear at the top or bottom of the mobility rankings, most show substantial variation. Beyond our methodological contribution, we report two substantive findings. First, some countries often characterized as low-mobility emerge as matching or surpassing the egalitarian Nordic countries, reinforcing the view that wider mobility differences cannot be attributed solely to the education system but must be sought elsewhere, such as the labor market. Second, the choice of parameter—such as regression coefficients, correlations, or categorical measures—is the single most influential factor that shifts country rankings. As different parameters carry distinct theoretical meanings, researchers should treat parameter choice not merely as a robustness check but as an opportunity to test and refine competing theories.