🌍📉 Our new study in The Lancet Planetary Health highlights the health benefit of #cleanenergy transition: Beijing’s coal-to-clean heating policy decreased heart attacks by ~6.6%, with larger benefits for women and older adults. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🤖🧠 I'll be considering applications for postdocs & PhD students to start at Yale in Fall 2025! If you are interested in the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, & AI, I encourage you to apply! Postdoc link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_po… PhD link: rtmccoy.com/prospective_st…

The bacteria in your gut depend on where you are in the social network. And the microbes within us treat our social networks as the extended environment in which they thrive. They can spread from person to person. New #HNL work out today in nature. 1/

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org AERE

New paper characterizing trends in wildfire smoke PM2.5 in the US, incl. updated daily dataset and implications for air quality regulation. Below is animation of 2023. Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/vie… Data (BETA version): stanfordecholab.com/wildfire_smoke

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to put pressure on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research

Current Stanford University School of Medicine Postdocs! The Propel Program has opened applications for the 2025 cycle. Check your eligibility and apply today! 💻

1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Econ: Spatial Environmental Economics 🌍 How do spatial forces affect the enviro? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes? Thread, chapter explore nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, research guide. w Clare Balboni.

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

1/ Our meta-analysis of 49 top political science publications using two-way fixed effects (TWFE) models w/ panel data is conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review. [arxiv.org/pdf/2309.15983] w/ Albert Chiu Ziyi Liu Xingchen Lan 🧵

new paper on the chemical composition of wildfire smoke, how smoke composition changes when structures burn, and the cancer risk associated with historical wildfire smoke exposure in the US. out today in Environmental Science & Technology StanfordECHOLab

Here is United States law regarding the President's attempts to close our development assistance agency in secret over the weekend. It is illegal. No ambiguity. Americans decide with their actions, today, if the US is a country of laws or—something else.

Timely new paper on chemical species in wildfire smoke, expertly led by emma krasovich southworth. We find that smoke drives detectable increases in concentrations of 25 out of 27 species we examine, incl stuff like lead and arsenic, often distant from the active fire. 1/ pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

IARC #Monographs📙Vol 135 is available online. This vol covers perfluorooctanoic acid #PFOA & perfluorooctanesulfonic acid #PFOS, which are polyfluoroalkyl substances #PFAS. PFOA was evaluated as carcinogenic, Grp 1, & PFOS as possibly carcinogenic, Grp 2B iarc.who.int/news-events/ia…

Based on some requests, we've estimated the population in CA exposed to different levels of wildfire smoke from the recent LA fires. Tens of millions were exposed to some PM2.5 smoke, ~6m had a few days >25ug PM2.5, ~2m had a few days > 50ug. These are large numbers.

We StanfordECHOLab are hiring a full time RA to work with us on a range of projects at intersection of economics, data science, and the environment. Past RAs typically go on to PhD programs and have always been co-authors on published work. Plz RT! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-…

Congratulations to Dr. Kiros Berhane, (Kiros Berhane) Chair of Biostatistics at Columbia Mailman on being named an @AAAS Fellow! His research has transformed how we understand environmental health & chronic disease. A well-deserved honor! 👏 ow.ly/oXCQ50Vqooa

And, just like that, the top journal in the field of Environmental Health, published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a part of the NIH, goes dark...

Our new PNASNews paper finds exposure to a tropical cyclone around the time of primary school enrollment reduces the likelihood of ever attending school. Led by excellent Stanford postdoc Renzhi Jing. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I'm hiring a predoc - more info here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14905 #econtwitter