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unsolicited commentary on economics and the environment. Stanford prof, +co-founder AtlasAI

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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Research Data Analyst in Dean of Research, Stanford, California, United States
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is seeking a research data analyst (RDA) to contribute to several academic research projects...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
More info on the lab here, including our roster of current and past all-star RAs, most of whom go on to grad school at great places www.stanfordecholab.com
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ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
Website for Stanford's Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We at Stanford EchoLab are hiring pre-docs for the coming year. You'll work in teams on fun projects and very likely be co-authors on submitted work. Please apply! Link here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
careersearch.stanford.edu
Research Data Analyst in Dean of Research, Stanford, California, United States
The Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) is seeking a research data analyst (RDA) to contribute to several academic research projects...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Should we be climate adaptation optimists? A nice new paper by Matt Burgess, Matt Kahn, and colleagues argues yes. I'm not so sure. Optimism is not a plan, and we need a plan. Some thoughts: www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/should-...
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Should we be climate adaptation optimists? — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
by: Marshall B , with helpful feedback & additions from Andrew W and Chris C Yes, argues a recent working paper by Matt Burgess, Patrick Brown, Matt Kahn, and Roger Pielke Jr.  The pa...
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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment @woods.stanford.edu · 22/01/2026
For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has factored public health impacts into pollution limits. Now, the equation is changing. Woods senior fellow Marshall Burke explains what that shift means — and why it matters. Read more: bit.ly/3NridYV
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...
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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Huge thanks to @jonas-wallstein.bsky.social and Brandon de la Cuesta for all the hard work on this, and for StanfordEchoLab colleagues for testing.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...
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GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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...
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Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 20/11/2025
Analysis from @marshallburke.bsky.social and colleagues indicates that while mitigating further global warming can reduce heat mortality, mass mortality events remain plausible at near-future temperatures despite current adaptations to heat. 📄 READ HERE: ow.ly/CPRy50XtOnv
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Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur - Nature Climate Change
The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from extreme heat events in Europe. Th...
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 10/10/2025
Analysis from @marshallburke.bsky.social confirms that ambient temperature is among the largest external threats to human health, and is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths per year in both the U.S. and EU. 📄 READ THE PAPER: ow.ly/ufQH50X8C2y
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Michael Eddy @michaeleddy.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I love it when papers have accompanying websites! also, neat when i found out @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social had a small role in supporting this work! 📄 & 💻by @marshallburke.bsky.social & a impressive team! adaptationatlas.org/... www.nber.org/papers/...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Cool and timely paper
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/09/2025
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 19/09/2025
A new study led by @marshallburke.bsky.social estimates that wildfire smoke emissions caused 41,380 excess deaths per year from 2011 to 2020, and rising temperatures could increase U.S. deaths from wildfire smoke more than 70% by 2050. ow.ly/RAp050WYWia
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U.S. faces rising death toll from wildfire smoke, study finds
Wildfire smoke increasingly threatens lives across the country. A new study shows smoke exposure in the coming decades will cause tens of thousands of excess deaths and predicts where exposure will oc...
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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is startling. The number of deaths every year tied to wildfire smoke now outnumber traffic fatalities, according to @washingtonpost.com coverage of a new @nature.com study from @marshallburke.bsky.social and others.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
SPACEWHALE is indeed pretty solid
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Important new paper from @marshallburke.bsky.social on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in @nature.com "climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the US under climate change - Nature
Nature - Wildfire smoke exposure and mortality burden in the US under climate change
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Sadly our wildfire smoke data start in 2006 - we depend on a satellite-based measure of wildfire smoke plumes that only came online then.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.
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SIEPR @siepr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
An extraordinary new tool from @marshallburke.bsky.social, SIEPR senior fellow @stanforddoerr.bsky.social, and Andrew Wilson. If you've got the evidence they're looking for, they want to hear from you. 👇
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Thanks to @stanforddoerr.bsky.social @stanfordimpactlabs.bsky.social for seed funding. We are hoping to scale this substantially, so if you are a funder interested in this work, please get in touch! /n
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Please get in touch if you have new evidence on the efficacy of a relevant intervention that we should include. We are launching a related small grants program to support this adaptation evaluation work, with first tranche of funds going out shortly (in an upcoming tweet). 9/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
You can see estimates for your county or your census tract, and for your county you can download a summary pdf of exposures and impacts. All the methodology is explained in linked papers and in a (currently somewhat cursory) methods doc, linked on the about page. 8/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Impacts estimates in the maps are based on years of work we + others have done to statistically isolate the impacts of these exposures on health outcomes. The goal over time is to add new geographies, exposures, and impacts, as well as up to date info on intervention efficacy. 7/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
See interventions page for extreme heat and cold interventions: adaptationatlas.org/interventions
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A key finding is that a lot of interventions being tried have very little evidence backing them, and some “interventions” not aimed specifically at climate impacts at all (e.g. better access to health services) might be some of our best tools for limiting impacts. 5/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Summarizing what’s know about intervention efficacy was itself a very big task that we worked on as a lab for over a year. We took a hard line on what counted as high-quality causal evidence. 4/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our goal with the Adaptation Atlas is to provide some of this info, starting with extreme temps and wildfire smoke, two leading health threats in the US and many parts of the world. Focused on the US for now, we measure exposures, health impacts, and what we know about interventions. 3/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Some existing public-facing tools provide info on climate and other environmental exposures. Fewer exist that provide info on the impacts of these exposures on societal outcomes like health or wellbeing. Even less systematic info exists on interventions that can reduce these impacts. 2/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread
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Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Congrats Steve!!
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Plz apply and share widely! Applications due Dec 1, GRE scores required. As a new program, we will be extremely invested in the success of our new arrivals. /n
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Our goal is to train the next generation of leaders in the design and analysis of global environmental policy solutions. Coursework is anchored in the quantitative social sciences and includes courses in econ, computer science, env science, law, and political science. 3/
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
More info and to apply: esos.stanford.edu/global-envir... Students are fully funded for 5 years, cohorts are small, and students will work closely with a community of distinguished faculty that have a strong record of research and placing mentees in academic careers. 2/
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Global Environmental Policy
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We at @stanforddoerr.bsky.social are excited to announce a new PhD program in Global Environmental Policy, accepting applications this fall for Sept 2026 start. We're looking for folks with interest in social sciences, data science, and enviro science and who have strong quant training 1/
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FSI Stanford @fsi.stanford.edu · 21/08/2025
Wildfire smoke is spreading pollutants more widely than ever before. @marshallburke.bsky.social spoke with @emilypont.bsky.social of @heatmap.news about what’s driving the increase, and what can be done to prevent and mitigate the risks: ow.ly/5ILx50WIv7w
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Wildfires Have Crashed the East Coast’s Air Quality
Same goes for the Midwest, according to Stanford air quality researcher Marshall Burke.
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Heatmap News @heatmap.news · 18/08/2025
"Nothing else compares in the U.S." @marshallburke.bsky.social explains exactly why wildfires have made the East Coast's air quality so much worse to @emilypont.bsky.social. Full interview below.
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Wildfires Have Crashed the East Coast’s Air Quality
Same goes for the Midwest, according to Stanford air quality researcher Marshall Burke.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT! tinyurl.com/3enzuubc
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Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Social Sciences (Global Environmental Policy)
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Dana Nuccitelli @dananuccitelli.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I read EPA’s 302-page proposal to nuke the endangered endangerment finding so that you don’t have to, and wrote about what the insanity all means for @climateconnections.bsky.social. Thanks to @gregdotson.bsky.social, @hausfath.bsky.social, @michaelemann.bsky.social for the input. Article & 🧵(1/14):
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The Republican campaign to stop the U.S. EPA from protecting the climate » Yale Climate Connections
An audacious effort to destroy climate regulations is likely headed for a showdown at the Supreme Court.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Yes! Data through 2023 are here: www.stanfordecholab.com/wildfire_smoke we have 2024 too, let me make sure it’s up
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wildfire_smoke — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.
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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 24/07/2025
I am sickened by what we’re seeing in Gaza right now. The IDF has blocked aid while shooting people waiting in food lines for what little aid is actually coming from the sham Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Israel needs to lift its blockade and the U.S. needs to stop sending bombs.
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More than 100 aid groups warn of 'mass starvation' in Gaza amid Israel's war with Hamas
A statement released by the 115 aid groups warned of "record rates of acute malnutrition" in the Gaza Strip.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2025
Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children.
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Mass starvation stalks Gaza as deaths from hunger rise
Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
If you have a clever causal identification strategy that can help figure this out, and need funding, let us help! /n bsky.app/profile/mars...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We just currently don’t have strong causal evidence that tree planting programs reduce temperature-related health impacts. This matters bc we want to know how to reduce these impacts, and at what cost. Figuring this out seems like an important research priority. 9/n
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This of course does not mean we shouldn't plant trees! Trees are great for tons of other reasons (nice to look at, can reduce air pollution, habitat for other critters, etc). Trees are great! People are willing to pay a lot for them: 8/n www.nber.org/papers/w32063
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Cool cities: The value of urban trees
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
And even having causal evidence that variation in existing tree cover shapes heat-health relationships does not tell us the impact of programs that seek to expand tree cover: many planted trees might not survive, e.g. tree mortality can be quite high: auf.isa-arbor.com/content/45/5...
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Urban Tree Mortality: A Literature Review
Tree survival is a performance metric for urban forestry initiatives, and an understanding of the factors that influence mortality can help managers target resources and enhance survival. Furthermore,...
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