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We hope this is a pilot of a larger initiative beyond Texas and Wisconsin, as it was intended to originally be from my NSF Career award that was terminated in April 2025 that funded 10 flood justice fellows.

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we will pilot projects in my fall floods class- more here beth-tellman.github.io/teaching.html to seed other grant writing and project initiative your org or community is interested in. send to relevant WI folks and orgs and direct questions to me and Brooke Cox. Thanks for spreading the word!

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Teaching - Beth Tellman

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This is intended to build capacity for a civic organization and seed a longer term partnership. No satellite or AI backgrounded need we will teach you all you need to know. We have a second fellow we are recruiting from Texas (RGV). Funded visits to UW too! app here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The Social Pixel Lab is recruiting a flood justice fellow who works with communities in Wisconsin this fall from Aug-Dec 2026 to learn to make satellite-based flood maps and co-produce flood analysis with students ($5000 compensation) app due June 30 beth-tellman.github.io/floodjustice...

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i cant believe tom steyer is the first dem politician (that ive seen) to proudly and forcefully make this correct and obvious counter argument to the bigotry but im glad he did

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Thanks to coauthors Hallie Eakin, Meha Jain, Felipe de Alba, @dyligent.bsky.social who helped me get this last dissertation chapter published (2 babies, 3 jobs, and 7 years later). Data is data! It does not expire! its never to late to test an important theory with great empirics! (8/7?!?)

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TLDR: Residents in informal settlements are often blamed for destroying conservation land. But electoral strategy influences urban expansion in ways most models don't capture. Incorporating political dynamics could improve urban growth forecasts + shift accountability to actors driving change (7/7)

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Limits: we can't resolve whether electoral competition causes urban expansion or vice versa — they could influence each other. our data is pre MORENA dominance. since parties use tailor strategies to their electorate, patterns in Mexico City may not replicate elsewhere. More cities needed! 🌆 (6/7)

Hypothesis 3: Informal urban expansion is higher in electorally competitive districts. Result: ✅ yes. (Figure 3 C/D) Built-up area grows faster where dominant party support is lowest — battleground districts where parties compete hardest for new voters. but its an association, not a cause. (5/7)

Hypothesis 2: Titles flow preferentially to core party voting neighborhoods. Result: ✅ yes. (Fig 3 A/B+ Fig 4) Both the number and area of titles are significantly higher in neighborhoods with strong loyal support for the dominant PRD party, rewarding their base, but varies across the city (4/7)

Hypothesis 1: Land titles increase in the months before elections, following the "political business cycle" Result: ✅ yes. Titles rise as elections approach — from ~7/month three years out to a peak of ~70 in the election month. Urban authorities time titling when voters pay attention. (3/7)

Over 70% of urban growth globally happens through informal settlements, where residents lack titles, services, and security. We mapped and regressed 18 years of land titles and built-up expansion in Mexico City alongside electoral data to ask: does politics drive where cities grow? (2/7)

New in @pnas.org Electoral politics influence expansion and titling of informal urban settlements | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Art: Amy Kate Wolfe. Politicians move houses, titles, and infrastructure like chess pieces across the landscape. 🧵 what we found in Mexico City's urban expansion 1/7

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A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

And she’s on the Job market! hannahkfriedrich.com she’s got 12 pubs and raised $250k as a PhD student. Catch this rising star before someone else does ;)

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Hannah K. Friedrich

She’s got a rad paper coming out this month on the geography and socioeconomics of people suing their insurance companies for not paying them (enough) for damages! And more in queue :)

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