Announcement (it is online and free!) The water-energy-food nexus symposium 2025 is here: www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...

🇬🇷 Exciting week in Kozani (Greece) for our 5th TEAMIT+ consortium meeting! Key highlights: • M1 in Pamplona - 2/12/2025 (Understand) • M2 in Bidart, France - 4/12/2025 (Innovate) • M3 Bootcamp 1 Greece 3/2026, fo Bootcamp France - 5/2026 (create) Recruiting open now: teamit.plus/register/

Economics Seminar at @upna.bsky.social ! 📅 Date and time: Monday, September 14, 12:00 PM. 📍 Location: Meeting Room, Department of Economics (Los Madroños Building, 2nd floor, ECON-2026). 👤 Speaker: Iker Arregui-Alegria (@lusemlu.bsky.social) 📜 Title: "Basque".

Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉 Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community. #HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

13 articles and one book of mine, shall I be proud or worried?

Interesting opening paragraph from a 1982 report. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...

Petrol and diesel vehicles continue to lose market share to 🔋EVs in the UK 🇬🇧 In the 12 months to August, petrol vehicles made up less than half (47.9%) of vehicles registered in the UK. Diesel registrations fell to just 5.8% Battery EVs rose to 22.5%🔋📈

Many colleagues have been asking for the slides from my keynote at the WEHC. You can find them on the Knowledge Transfer tab of my webpage, or use the direct link below. Feel free to share with anyone who might find them useful! drive.google.com/file/d/16QF6...

@.hannahritchie.bsky.social I think you may like to see how I used some of your beautiful energy visuals in my keynote energy past (and present and future!) at the World Economic History Congress youtu.be/oQ0Wc06MQV4?...

Some meat for thought about the Spanish blackout. I keep saying it is more about social sciences (markets,incentives, regulation) than about technology! -as most of our current pressing problems! ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u...

Here you have my keynote at the #WEHC2025 where I did explain lots of things about energy history (and present, and future). The bit about the adoption of electric lighting got missing from the video! (read Roger Fouquet instead!) www.youtube.com/live/GMu7y4s...

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza - BBC News

The scale of this is hard to comprehend. If this dam is built and generates at the advertised output (300 TWh), it would generate more electricity annually than every natural gas plant, nuclear plant, coal plant, wind farm and solar farm in Canada, combined (261 TWh in 2023). 😳

Without the ability to know what the total energy use of their customers with PV installed, utilities won't be able to efficiently, in terms of cost, pollution, and meeting demand, make plans related to securing adequate generation capacity. #EnergySky #HeatPump reneweconomy.com.au/how-electric...

"Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country."

El periódico La Verdad de Murcia se hace eco de nuestra investigación sobre para quién es el agua embalsada: www.laverdad.es/agro/falso-m...

Like the ones in the 1960s made in Spain???

Apparently in Sweden (Affärsvärlden by Christian Sandström) claim it was the clouds. Here the (lack of) clouds on 28th April over the Iberian Peninsula🤦‍♀️ view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...

Que la mañana del lunes 28 estuvo rara está claro. EDF v.2 sobre #Golfech1 (parada antes de la desconexión y el apagón) www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/a...

Quién me iba a decir a mi que iba a poder intervenir junto a tres sabios! debió ser cosa de brujas (o de apagones!)

En el capítulo de las cosas importantes que se hacen en mi departamento de la UPNA está esto que publica hoy El País

El mito del control del gobierno a las elétricas (ni entonces, ni ahora) www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.publ...

Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis theconversation.com/spain-and-po...

LA VIÑETA | El apagón ✍️Por Manel Fontdevila

Situación del sistema eléctrico peninsular a las 07:00h: ➡️Recuperado el 99,95% de la demanda (25.794MW). ➡️Seguimos trabajando desde el Centro de Control Eléctrico para la total normalización del sistema.

Spanish grid operator Red Electrica is undertaking the painstaking process of 'black starting' generators: a careful balance of re-energizing power plants AND adding back demand simultaneously so that the supply & demand can stay balanced & frequency doesnt get out of control & cause another outage.

Spain is going to experience a rarer event than a blackout: a black start. All grids operate at a set frequency (Spain: 50Hz) and that's achieved by spinning turbines in gas, coal, nuclear or hydro power plants. Getting to that stable frequency takes time. More: www.nationalgrid.com/sites/defaul...

Los que sabéis de redes eléctricas. 28 de abril 2025, 12:30pm, minuto antes del apagón en España y Portugal: 58.66% de generación fotovoltaica ¿problemas de acoplamiento?¿es el máximo histórico? Estamos en abril y los máximo solares de medio día no han hecho más que empezar…¿nos ayudáis a entender?

‘Filibuster’ comes from Spanish ‘filibustero’ which literally means “freebooter.” freebooter = a pirate or plunderer

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Trade wars are to economic science what flat-earthism is to astronomy: impossible to justify with existing knowledge

Spain’s rooftop PV installations hit 1.18 GW in 2024 #energysky -- via pv magazine global: www.pv-magazine.com/...

Buena sesión en el Congreso de la Asociación Española de Historia Económcia, aquí en la Sesión 19. “Shocks externos, cambio tecnológico y políticas energéticas”, presentando con Maria Isabel Bartolome Rodriguez y Diego Sesma nuestro trabajo sobre el agua para generación eléctrica #energy

Lots of good meat for thought in this long threat in #energy

If you've got some #Python skills and want to help us archive federal energy & climate data we hare hosting a data archiving hack-a-thon this Wednesday, 2-5pm Eastern US time! #EnergySky www.eventbrite.com/e/hackathon-...

Just deleted the @EUGreenDeal Twitter account (4k followers) on which I distributed news on the EU Green Deal brought forward by the previous European Commission, the past 5 years. Will try to keep you posted on the new Commission's Clean Industrial Deal here! #20JanuaryTwexit #ClimateSky #EnergySky

May be a good day to remember clean transition is happening, regardless…

Second request: If you are a professional scientist or science communicator who is at least 18 years old and uses social media (including Bluesky) for professional purposes, please consider taking this survey. 🧪🌎 #SciComm Please help us to share it. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Don’t be a pessimist. Or an optimist. Be an activist. Good piece. I have always been an optimist…

Hoy, en los periódicos del Grupo Noticias (I)

Aquí podéis ver la conferencia que di en Canagua el pasado 26 de noviembre bajo el título "Mitos y Bulos sobre la transición energética" youtu.be/am78REHlTc8?...

All I want for Christmas…is industrial decarbonization 🤷🏻‍♀️🎄 What do we do about steel, cement, and all the rest? @leahstokes.bsky.social and I break it down in a new episode of A Matter of Degrees. www.degreespod.com/episodes/sea...

“Historia del arte de los hombres de occidente”.(hay más titulaciones que merecerían ser renombradas)

Sometimes you need to be told what you do right: www.dwell.com/article/why-...

The reason the growing dominance of social media in our communication is causing a global shift towards fascism, xenophobia, and conspiracism is because it’s an information space where: -the most visible ideas are viral ones -the most viral ideas are the most shocking -nothing has to be true

“It’s like being at war. The common enemy is the virus. And we were acting in many situations and in many respects as if the enemy were each other.” I talked to Anthony Fauci about his long career battling HIV/AIDS, Covid, bird flu, and more: www.scientificamerican.com/article/anth...

IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...