Fall 2022
I was busy around Fall 2022 and could not quickly update new stuff on my website!
I finished my manuscript on network analysis of Somali internal displacement and submitted it to the Global Environmental Change. It is currently under review while its preprint is published in SSRN. One of my two-series papers is under review in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. I also collaborated with Lisa Thalheimer on the data inventory approach of migration datasets (under revision in Climate Risk Management). I am currently working on several projects: (1) migration network modeling (with Juan Rocha), (2) event coincidence analysis of disasters and conflicts (with Jonathan Donges and Wolf Barfuss), (3) cascading failures of the food market, (4) structural shift in polarization (with Denis Patterson and Simon Levin) and (5) socio-ecological networks (with Nico Wunderling).
I had several talks this semester: CEREAL Seminar at Princeton, Theoretical Tea at Princeton, Climate Mobility Research Symposium at Columbia, Climate Mobility Group Meeting at Princeton, and AGU Fall Meeting.
My talk at the AGU Fall Meeting. Thanks to Kyeungwoo Cho for the photo
I participated in the proposal with my SRC collaborators (led by Lan Wang-Erlandsson) as an in-kind collaborator. This proposal is titled "Understanding and managing Sweden’s exposure to water resilience risks in the Anthropocene" and was accepted by Swedish Research Council on Sustainable Development (Total ~$1.5M for four years).
I recently received the Writing in Science and Engineering (WSE) Postdoctoral Fellowship. It covers around a quarter of my stipend with additional payments for lectures. I will teach writing courses at the Princeton Writing Program.
I actively worked on organizational and service activities this fall. I started as a coordinator in the CEREAL (Conversation on Environment, Responsible Energy, And Life) Seminar supported by the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton. I have been organizing an in-person workshop on critical transitions at Princeton University. This workshop is tightly engaged with the Earth Resilience and Sustainability Initiative and is supported by Princeton’s Institute for International and Regional Studies, School of Public and International Affairs, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. I also started a Front Matter Panelist in the Journal Club of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). I serve as a postdoc representative of the Climate Committee in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, organizing postdoc-faculty meetings and office hours to discuss diversity and inclusion within the department.
I can see why turning personal goals into manageable steps would invite discussion, since different people will bring different experiences to the same question. A large ambition can feel more approachable when the next step is small and specific. For me, that is a useful way into the broader subject of personal goal planning. I would probably come back to this question after trying to work through one concrete example rather than deciding immediately. How would you recognise progress before reaching the final goal?
When it comes to building confidence in everyday communication, I would rather understand one useful detail properly than rush through a long list of ideas. Practising a small conversation can make speaking up feel more manageable. It also gives the phrase communication confidence a clearer meaning than a label on its own. A short discussion of an everyday example would make this easier for me to connect with, especially as someone still learning about the subject. Which low-pressure activities help someone become more comfortable expressing an idea?
My first thought about sharing cultures through language learning is that the everyday experience deserves as much attention as the larger explanation. An everyday conversation can reveal cultural habits that a vocabulary list cannot explain. Seen this way, European cultural exchange becomes a topic to explore rather than something to sum up too quickly. I can imagine different answers depending on the situation, so I would want to understand the context before drawing conclusions. What kinds of shared activities make an exchange feel meaningful?
There is something approachable about discussing discovering the cultural heritage of Lusatia through situations people can actually picture. Language and local stories can reveal connections that are easy to miss on a map. That is the kind of detail I would keep in mind while exploring Lusatian cultural heritage. A short discussion of an everyday example would make this easier for me to connect with, especially as someone still learning about the subject. How would you introduce regional heritage through a classroom project?
Considering learning local history through school projects, I keep coming back to the difference between knowing about an idea and putting it into practice. Family memories and public records can offer different perspectives on the same place. I would keep that thought nearby when looking for ideas about Przyglow history projects. I am still thinking through the details, and a small example would help me picture how this works in practice. How could students compare these sources while respecting what each can show?