Most Dutch people are embarrassed when I point out that this is what we do.
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Most Dutch people are embarrassed when I point out that this is what we do.
Great article in the NYTimes about our comment to the DOE about their climate report. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/c...
The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
Our reponse to that DOE report drive.google.com/file/d/1PwAR...
🆕📢Ahead-of-print in #REEP📢 "Environmental and Ecosystem Services in Benefit–Cost Analysis" by Eli P. Fenichel, Lydia Olander, and Heather Tallis. 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/EUgbGoH 📈📉 #Econsky
Australian slur technology is the most advanced in the world
H=126 scholar.google.com/citations?us...
That's not it. Every Dutch person under 65 is fluent in English, happy and able to talk with any foreigner about anything their heart desires. But when we want to talk about our stuff, we switch to Dutch to exclude outsiders.
Putin: Any reasonable person fully realizes that Russia has never had, does not have, and will never have any desire to attack anyone.
It's a defense mechanism. You're welcome in our country, but we won't let you into our Dutch-speaking society.
There is a lot of the latter.
It's hard to learn Dutch when the locals immediately switch to English when they detect a foreign accent.
You should, if only to deepen your understanding of Britishness.
Laugh at them. Embrace foreigners.
Warfighters demonstrating leafality.
Countries on track to eliminate cervical cancer: -Australia by 2028 -Sweden by 2027 -Rwanda by 2030 -UK by 2040 -Indonesia by 2030 -Bhutan 2030 -El Salvador by 2030 -Canada by 2040 How? HPV vaccine. Same one RFK Jr is trying to ban. You will note USA is not on this list.
Out of favour oligarchs, ministers and generals?
Bloody Foreigner. Coming over here, with their 50th anniversary tour.
Working paper alert! I generalize discounted utilitarianism to endogenous population settings and avoid most drawbacks of existing welfare criteria. Read more here: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo.... Comments are welcome!
Here in the US, “two weeks” actually means never.
The 400-plus-page climate scientist response to the Trump-commissioned climate science critique will be posted here Tuesday morning at 9 AM Eastern: sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe... You can discuss it with LIVE with me and a couple of the authors (Dessler and Kopp) at 230 Eastern below. 1/
Some thoughts on Kotz et al. (2024) open.substack.com/pub/richardt...
FEAAE is impronounceable. FREcon on the other hand ...
We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #EconSky
Pippin and Merry is a coming-of-age subplot, from foolish sons of nobility to leaders of the little folk.
Well worth reading. Trump is setting the stage for the next financial crisis and economic meltdown.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
Trump‘s harvest
Chances are, a scammer offered her a place at Stanford for the low sum of $10,000.
This is what happens when you entrust a chatbot with the task of writing your paper about the Chimp Optimization Algorithm and the Evolutionary Programming Algorithm. doi.org/10.1109/acce...
Recommended read „Indian corridors, Russian transport schemes, Iranian transit hubs, deep water ports across Southeast Asia all are converging in ways that recall a far earlier moment in history. The metaphor of the Silk Roads is irresistible.“ Thanks to #UStariffs @peterfrankopan.bsky.social
At least while alienating all of our allies, Trump has been instrumental in bringing others closer together.
Remember: the greater the emphasis placed on a lawyer being “distinguished” or “leading” the weaker the legal argument will tend to be. A good legal argument does not need such epaulets, and a bad legal argument is not saved by them.
No big whoop, just Donald Trump pissing away three decades of U.S. diplomacy due to a fit of personal pique. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Leaving aside everything else here, Navarro also has his timeline wrong. Cooks first meeting as governor was in June 2022, when the Fed raised rates by 3/4 of a point, the biggest hike in nearly 30 years. #EconSky
Today is the last day to sign!
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
The spouting of garbage disinformation by officials entrusted to protect our health is neither Conservative nor Liberal, but it is dangerous and reprehensible.
What a gurning malevolent cunt he turned out to be, really.
🚨 GOL | Brighton 2 - 1 Manchester City | Brajan Gruda
a strongman needs an enemy to protect you from
that's not what the climate models say cooling over the North Atlantic, substantially reduced warming over Western Europe, slightly increased warming over subtropical North America
on that AMOC shutdown www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Those are the good ones. Most textbooks skip the ethics part altogether.
In a two week period: Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste. Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.
The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.
D…d…does BBC News think the Iron Curtain was an actual iron curtain?
FLAG: Missouri's governor just called a special session of the state legislature to pass a gerrymandered congressional map in favor of Republicans. Just like what Greg Abbott did in Texas.
More lawsuits please www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
someone cover the Jesus and Mary Chain www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AL...
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
As #whereistrump is trending on X amid questions about Trump's health, the press pool saw the president enter a vehicle at the White House for the ride to his Virginia golf course. There's a long history of coverups about presidents' health as I detail in my book:
People should be allowed to publish as much as they want, but assessment can impose discipline. For example, with your rule, a tenure committee would consider only 18 papers. UK REF has two limits: 6 papers max per individual, 2 papers per person max per department, for a 6 year period.
Rosneft net income drops 68% in first half, blames OPEC for weak oil prices reut.rs/4lXTua1
1/9 Here's a nerdy 🧵 on bias stemming from measurement error. It can matter *a lot* in assessing impacts of climate change (and its precursor, CO2). The question here: How are higher CO2 concentrations affecting crop yields? 🌽
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
The damage this man has done is incalculable.
Holy crap, a 26 MW wind turbine! 185 meter hub height! 310 meter rotor diameter! electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
can’t believe we’re gonna have a First Couch
Seems bad
A US appeals court ruled that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool. The case is widely is expected to be appealed to the Supreme Court reut.rs/47l6pz9
Lots of right-wing political pastors and charlatans about to get rich from FEMA money.
The legions of LEGO YouTubers are about to lead the next Whiskey Rebellion.
If you are a wealthy criminal defendant, it makes sense under this administration to hire the AG’s brother to represent you.
I'm comfortably for as much independence of the Fed as possible from politicians of any type. I also don't think there is anything undemocratic in democratically setting up institutions that are protected from continuous political pressure
That's also why Putin would not kidnap her. Much simpler to just ask Trump.
I assume that she had the highest security clearance until a few months ago. I'd kidnap her if I were Xi.
Putting someone at risk of physical harm because they dared to oppose you in an election is about as odious as you can get. But they will think up ways to become even more odious. The fascist Republicans could impeach and convict today, but they don't want to. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
“She never even replied to his tweets, your honor!”
When a black man gets shot by a police officer in any circumstance, "he didn't comply". When a white woman doesn't comply to repeated requests to stand down *and then* gets shot by a police officer (we all saw it, no argument there), she gets the hero treatment. Sounds about white.
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I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
"Who heeds the call to conserve in an energy emergency? Evidence from smart thermostat data" by Dylan Brewer and Jim Crozier was just accepted at #JAERE. Read more here: buff.ly/ZGMBclg
“Russia’s economy is rapidly approaching freezing point,” warns one Russian paper today, adding “The economy risks going into the red.” Another paper reports: Russia’s Education Ministry has sent schools “a list of patriotic songs for children to learn.” #ReadingRussia
NY Times Headline Editors Hide All Evaluations Behind Others’ Words. Critics Call That Gutless www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Waiting for that tipping point when most sensible people realise that transporting a single 80kg person in 2.5 tonnes of SUV was not the height of technical advancement but peak stupidity for the human race. Tax SUVs out of existence
BREAKING: Thailand's Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office for an ethics violation after a year in power, in another crushing blow to the Shinawatra political dynasty that could usher in a new period of turmoil reut.rs/45G9CYX
Shorter DAG: Farage could do real damage but Starmer can't prevent that without hurting Starmer.
My Prospect piece yesterday set out how a illiberal radical government with a firm majority and competent advisers could easily abuse the UK constitution - and that the UK more vulnerable to this than US. But. This sort of warning is not new. It has been over a hundred years in the making. >
ditto for the Fed, the BLS, and de minimis imports
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
From a journal editor: I’m at the coalface of it here, and you wouldn’t believe some of what we see when editing. Proper academics who don’t seem to realise that they swim in what is actually a very small pond. 1/2
They're now saying it out loud: The Administration's goal is to undo the political independence that Congress granted the Fed, so that the President can directly set rates.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Science faces a replication crisis: billions wasted, progress slowed, policy misled A new idea from @i4replication.bsky.social Brodeur & Barbarioli in @ifp.bsky.social's #LaunchEngine imagines how to build automated replication infrastructure for *better* & *faster* science ifp.org/the-replicat...
it's starting www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
Excited to see our paper in print! 'Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Lenient? Evidence from US Offset Markets.' www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A 4-year limit on student visa length would upend PhD programs.
At night in Russia Afipsky and Novokuibyshev oil refineries are on fire after drone attacks.
The CIA's top Russia expert spent days preparing Trump's team for Alaska summit with PUtin. Days later the officer was summoned to security and stripped of security clearance with no explanation.
Still a mystery to me how the country getting most punished by Trump for Russia's behaviour is... not Russia?
bullshit with whiffs of eugenics and misogyny
“overburdened with mitochondrial challenges”: Grade A pseudoprofound bullshit
Again, I say to you, The modern GOP does not want you to do the math.
Almost at 200 signatories now!
Shuler: Thirteen billionaires in one picture—four of whom now run agencies of our federal government. If you’ve ever met someone who says the word “oligarchy” is too confusing or too complicated, well, you can explain it with that one photo.
