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I am looking for a PhD student in energy economics starting in the fall, focusing on household-level energy use and energy poverty. More info: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

On AI & water, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling datacenters alone. So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.

#Watertijdreis | 150 jaar Nederlandse watergeschiedenis in beeld, aan de hand van de Waterstaatskaarten @rijkswaterstaat.nl van 1865 tot 1992: watertijdreis.nl?c=51.976_4.8... 💧Geïnspireerd op www.topotijdreis.nl

We're hiring! Postdoc positions in environmental econ, political econ, microeconomic theory, U of Oslo: econjobmarket.org/positions/12.... Brilliant & friendly colleagues, lovely city, beautiful nature, family friendly norms, Oslo's best views from our lunch room!

After Elsevier cut off the tap for the journal Water Resources and Economics in 2024, the research is flowing again, with the launch of the independent new journal, Journal of Water Economics. Edited by the same team, backed by U. Waterloo. #Econsky 😃 openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/jo...

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

This is a problem.

I messed up on my teaspoon conversion, it is 9 teaspoons of water for a query (OpenAI reported 1/15 of a teaspoon). So equivalent to 0.001875% of a hamburger.

'Forever chemicals' are seeping into waterways across Europe. A vanishingly small, man-made molecule resists all attempts of removal. How will the EU eradicate the pollution? www.ft.com/content/a36c...

This Chatham House report notes the Indus supplies 80% of Pakistan's irrigated agriculture -- a system already under grave threat due to climate change. Last year, a severe drought hurt several crops in the country's breadbasket, while Pakistanis were still recovering from previous flooding.

Uitstekend rapport van de rekenkamer over schaarste drinkwater. Drie knelpunten: 1) onzekere gedragsverandering, lage prijselasticiteit, en te trage technische ingrepen. www.rekenkamer.nl/publicaties/...

Just received my first hallucinated cite, a "hallucite"? I am pretty sure this paper does not exist: Brouwer, R., Koundouri, P., Linderhof, V., Birol, E., and Ansink, E.. (2018). Evaluating the impact of climate change on flood risk in the European Union. Environ. Sci. Pol. 83, 1–11.

Just a few days left to apply to this 3-year postdoc position in environmental economics at @vusbe.bsky.social to work with me on the economics of water management (drought, contract design, nature based solutions, experiments, etc). Application deadline: May 15. workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

@icae.bsky.social seminar on Wed 7th May (this week) @erikansink.bsky.social (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) presents in person "Environmental regulation without centralized enforcement". Link to seminar series and online broadcasting in the bio. Hope to see you there!

Als Shell niet verantwoordelijk is voor CO₂-uitstoot door verbranding van hun olie (Scope 3), hoe kun je dan farmaceuten verantwoordelijk maken voor medicijnresten in het riool? fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

Postdoc position in environmental economics—come work with me in Amsterdam. www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3506...

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just think, this could have all been avoided if he had just done a PhD in Sweden

Where did that dam water go? Trump celebrated dumping billions of gallons from two dams in Tulare County, saying it was headed to farmers and Los Angeles. But that's not where it went. @ianjames.bsky.social reported on where it ended up. www.latimes.com/environment/...

I've been meaning to read this paper on mass extinctions (pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...), and today, I came across this great write-up about it in VoxDev (voxdev.org/topic/energy...). It's a great paper. I am glad I found the time to read it. Below is a short thread.

Recently accepted in #JEEM: 'Agreeing on public goods or bads' by Erik Ansink, Hans-Peter Weikard. #econsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When I was a young man there were whispered rumors among the elders that they could remember their own elders talking about a time when getting grants had been a means for doing science, rather than vice versa.

Prima analyse van @bosdaan.bsky.social en Wouter Ubink: het gaat over de schaarse ruimte in Nederland, waardoor echte langetermijn keuzes steeds sneuvelen in debatten die de politiek vooral langs lijnen van economie en identiteit wil voeren

Vanaf vandaag kan een doctorsgraad worden ingetrokken, vanwege schending van wetenschappelijke integriteit.

Secured a research grant—only to spot a typo in the project title now.

Als gevolg van klimaatverandering en milieuvervuiling dreigen er in Nederland drinkwatertekorten te ontstaan. Beleid dat inzet op waterbesparing via technische aanpassingen lijkt wel kansrijk, schrijven Ansink en Bremer. https://esb.nu/dreigend-drinkwatertekort-noopt-tot-vraagreductie/

Accounting is boring, but this seems important.

For the Dutch-speaking: Here is a piece I wrote on the claimed drinking water shortage in the Netherlands. Together with Leon Bremer I summarize the problem (is it even a problem?) and sketch some possible solutions. esb.nu/dreigend-dri...

Yet another research idea that would not pass the "ethics" criteria when applying for funding

A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923...

This is an interesting question. Haven't read the papers, only your thread and have some reservations. 1) GDP is a very good proxy for welfare (e.g., explaining 90% of variation in HDI). Testing it causally is always an issue, but near certain causal claim in poor countries. -->

The Economist covered our "Strain on scientific publishing" paper. What is this all about? We collectively churn out more & more papers *per scientist*, an increasing pace, in a rapidly changing publication landscape. Why? How? Want to make sense of this? 🧵 www.economist.com/science-and-...

Yes, I've heard of MIT's Fishbanks, but nothing beats an analog version of a fishing game.

The gov't of Denmark has reached a landmark agreement among parties that will dramatically reduce the use of nitrogen in fertilizer, take a bunch of land out of agricultural production, & plant 250K hectares of new forest. Transformational. cphpost.dk/2024-11-18/n...

One of my co-teachers just used ChatGPT to provide a summary of one of our student course evaluations. Highly recommended, for two reasons: 1) ChatGPT ignores isolated nasty comments (if any); 2) The overall supportive tone.

1/ I’ve been living in the Netherlands for almost 10 years and working in its higher education sector. In this time, I’ve witnessed a major shift: from growth and openness to foreign talent, to cuts and backlash against internationalization. How did we get here? 🧵

What could possibly go wrong...? Tap water in France and Flanders (Belgium) heavily contaminated by TFA (trifluoroacetic acid), a molecule from the PFAS family ("forever chemicals"). While health effects are unclear, some scientists say there's reason for concern, esp. as TFA exposure is widespread.

Since I haven't seen it posted on BlueSky yet: check the report by the "Global Commission on the Economics of Water". I like it quite a bit. economicsofwater.watercommission.org #econsky 1/3

At first glance, Shell's successful appeal against a landmark judgment by a Dutch court looks like a blow to those wishing to advance corporate climate action. But the devil is in the details... via @opinion.bsky.social

To celebrate my moving to BlueSky I am giving away LaTeX goodies. Always wanted to have a clean, nice-looking, readable, complete and supporting visual track changes reply to referees? Look no more: the template you're looking for is here: github.com/paolocrosett... Happy BlueSkying to everyone.

I'm often asked what I see as the point of being on social media as an academic (no one ever asks me this but let's go with it). For me, the motivating driver even at the beginning was scale. 1/

Tyler Cowen asks "How much is a rare bee worth", linking to the below FT piece (archive.ph/gPkii). I cannot find the specific bee species in any of the reporting, so impossible to answer the question. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... www.ft.com/content/ed60...

Sometimes, the monopolist is the environmentalist's best friend.

Here is my extremely brief (potted) history of institutions in macro-development thinking -- just before the AJR intervention. I had most of these thoughts prior to the Nobel week, but now they are crystallising.

Just released an RFF 📈📉 working paper on equity–efficiency–cost-recovery trade-offs in municipal water pricing. It's got it all: two-part tariffs! increasing-block rates! free water! simple theory! OLS galore! data from 700+ utilities! municipal finance! Check it out: www.rff.org/publications...

Another shoe just dropped in the ongoing Dan Ariely scandal: JMR, a top 4 marketing journal, has issued a formal “Expression of Concern” for Mazar, Amir, & Ariely (2008), the infamous Ten Commandments study 🧵

I don't know what's going on in the Netherlands but I do know Dutch universities punch *way* above their weight in international comparison. So many leading academics in my area work or trained there. This looks like a huge unforced error 🤯