As announced at the Managed Retreat 2023 conference in June, the editors of Frontiers in Climate are organizing a special issue (Research Topic) entitled Managed Retreat in Response to Climate Hazards. If you are interested in contributing an article to this special issue based on your MR2023 presentation or some other recent work, including applied work with governments or local agencies (e.g. a Policy and Practice Review article), they encourage you to learn more and to submit an expression of interest.
*New* IAPHS Webinar on Bridging The Gap: Communicating Research To Policymakers & Beyond (5/30/24)
Have you ever wondered how to get your research into the hands of policymakers, or wished your findings were known by a wider audience? Population Reference Bureau (PRB) and IAPHS are organizing a webinar to highlight ways to expand the reach of your research by distilling your findings into messages and formats tailored for nontechnical audiences, including policymakers and the media. Panelists from PRB will describe how to write effectively, avoid common pitfalls in writing for nontechnical readers, identify target audiences, and use communication tools and platforms to share your research. They’ll also provide resources to help you get started. This event is open to IAPHS members and will take place on May 30th from 9:00-10:00AM PST on Zoom (register here).
*New* Call for papers: Population Inequality Matters. Vienna Yearbook for Population Research (VYPR) (Due 5/31/24)
The VYPR invites submissions for the Special Issue “Population Inequality Matters” guest edited by Vanessa di Lego, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Iñaki Permanyer, Michaela Potančoková and Miguel Sánchez-Romero. The VYPR is a platinum open-access journal published by the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2003. A double-blind peer review process starts right after submission. Articles are published online on a rolling basis. Submissions are due on May 31, 2024)
*New* Applications Are Open for the Bulitt Prize $100,000 Springboard for Change Prize (Due 6/1/24)
Are you an academic, professional, and/or grassroots leader working on a project or action to address a conservation or environmental justice issue in the Pacific Northwest? The Springboard Prize is awarded annually based on the following eligibility: an individual or collaborative group, from an underrepresented group, from Washington State or the Pacific Northwest region if their work impacts Washington, are 35 years or younger and have demonstrated academic, professional, or grassroots leadership that advances the environmental movement. Apply here by June 1st, 2024.
Postdoctoral Fellow: Population Research Center (Open until filled)
*New* JSDE Seminar to Host Arielle Bernhardt (6/3/24)
JSDE (The Joint Seminar in Development Economics) invites you to a seminar with Arielle Bernhardt from Harvard on June 3rd from 11:00-12:30 PM in 410 Savery. Bernhardt is currently postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Department of Economics. In July, Bernhardt will join the NYU Department of Economics as an assistant professor. More details on this talk will be released later!
*New* Registration Open: Software Carpentry Workshop Hosted by The eScience Institute (6/3-6/6/24)
The Carpentries is a non-profit volunteer organization whose members teach researchers how to use computing tools and tools for management, analysis and visualization of data. The eScience Institute is holding a Software Carpentry workshop on June 3rd–6th (9 AM – noon each day) entirely online over Zoom. The workshop focuses on software tools to make researchers more effective, allowing them to automate research tasks, automatically track their research over time, and use programming in either Python or R to accelerate their research and make it more reproducible. Read the full story to learn more!
Important: Please note that this time around, we are offering participants the choice to attend tutorials for either Python or R during the last two days of this workshop.
If you would like to take Python, please access registration from the following website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/902029062207/
If you would like to take R, please access registration from the following website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/902065952547/
For more details for our upcoming workshop, please refer to the following webpage:
https://uwescience.github.io/2024-06-03-uw-online/
Instructions for joining the Zoom sessions and for preparing for the workshop will be emailed to attendees prior to the event.
*New* Data Scientist Working with Healthcare Data (Open until filled)
CSSS 25th Anniversary Celebration – Measuring and Understanding the Dynamics of Populations of Scholars
On Friday, May 17th, CSDE will join the CSSS 25th Anniversary Celebration, by hosting and featuring Emilio Zagheni. The event will take place from 12:30-1:30 PM at Intellectual House and on Zoom (register here). Dr. Zagheni’s talk is part of a larger set of events celebrating the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences’ 25th Anniversary from May 16-May 17.
Emilio Zagheni is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Demography (2010) and M.A. in Statistics (2008) from U.C. Berkeley. Zagheni is best known for his work on combining digital trace data and traditional sources to track and understand migrations and to advance population science. In 2016 he received the Trailblazer Award for Demographic Analysis from the European Association for Population Studies for his role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography. This event is co-sponsored by The Population Health Initiative.
Casey and Co-authors Summarize Research on Ambient Environmental Risk Factors for Primary Headache Disorders
CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey (Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences) co-authored an article in Current Environmental Health Reports, entitled “The Environment and Headache: a Narrative Review“. In this narrative review, authors summarize the peer-reviewed literature published between 2017 and 2022 that evaluated ambient environmental risk factors for primary headache disorders, which affect more than half of the population globally. Primary headache disorders include migraine, tension-type headache (TTH), and trigeminal and autonomic cephalalgias (TAC).