49c coffee at Mr French off Pearse St. Fair play for effective marketing, it's a hidden cafe that is surely on the radar for many students now. I wonder how that translates into regular custom. If their coffee is better I can imagine some may go out of their way in future.

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Bringing a guitar with me through airport security and they think I must be famous and want to get a photo with me. "Are you a famous musician?" "Not yet" 😂

This is such a beautiful piece of music. From the new Yann Tiersen album music.youtube.com/watch?v=axe1...

Looking forward to speaking at this climate lecture on the future of European climate policy from an Irish perspective. @yai.ie @esri.ie

After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

It pays to shop around and switch energy supplier. My contract had lapsed by a few months with my current supplier. I switched to a competitor for a better rate. I received a counter offer from my old supplier, a lower rate back dated to the end of my contract and cashback

The ESRI summer internship programme is now open for applications. Always a great learning opportunity for recent grads and an enjoyable few months. There is one project in energy, with scope to apply some interesting quasi-experimental techniques. candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

A really striking visualisation, even though this isn't a pretty picture in terms of content.

The @bencasselman.bsky.social article about economists’ influence is good and you should read it. Some thoughts inspired by it and reactions I’ve seen (potentially interrupted by meetings)… www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/b...

Some risky investment advice in squid game

Congestion Pricing Verdict: Case Coased

@virginmediatv.bsky.social stretching the Die Hard Christmas movie debate by showing us #DieHard 3. 😅 #DieHardIsAChristmasMovie

We're hiring a Research Analyst on a fixed-term three year contract. If you are proficient in #microsimulation, interested in tax and welfare policy and want to work at @esri.ie Dublin, this could be the job for you! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

A reminder that the ESR is inviting papers for a special issue on “Energy, Environment and Climate Change Economics” edited by Dr. Niall Farrell @esri.ie, Dr. Kelly de Bruin @esri.ie and Dr. Jason Harold (UniGalway). Details below, submission deadline of Feb 14th 2025 www.esr.ie/index.php/es...

I am editing a special issue of the Economic and Social Review on “Energy, Environment and Climate Change Economics” Dr. Kelly de Bruin and Dr. Jason Harold are fellow guest editors. Please share (and submit)! Details: esr.ie/index.php/esr/…

Surely "stalled" is misrepresenting the situation. Later in the article, it reads: "Last year, about 77pc attended college, but this year the figure has slipped to about 76pc."

Just walking out the door of the office and, dropped on the floor in front of me, I saw a sign that the Christmas season was well and truly upon us

CBI warns of Ireland’s wide-ranging economic exposure to geopolitical developments

In Galway on Wednesday for the Young Academy Ireland town hall. Join us! www.ria.ie/events/young...

There is some top economics research taking place in Galway lately, and a lovely bunch of people there! This is a great position.

For any Galway-based early-career researchers, there are still tickets available for Young Academy Ireland’s first public town hall. Tickets available 👇🏻 www.ria.ie/events/young...

The "starter pack" idea is a stroke of genius. It really accelerates network formation and the establishment of blue sky as the platform of choice

The Economic and Social Review is Ireland's leading journal for economics and applied social science and is now on Bluesky. Please follow and share folks! @orladoyle.bsky.social @isweconomics.bsky.social @beta1hat.bsky.social @stephenkinsella.bsky.social @morgenrothedgar.bsky.social

#helloworld. I'm an Irish economist, carrying out research on energy and environmental policy. Looking forward to some interesting economics discussions on here. Grateful to @kevindenny.bsky.social for the invite, shared on the other place

I've returned to blue sky after a long absence. It's a lot busier and there's a great buzz, reminds me a bit of those two weeks when Mastodon was the place to be. Hopefully the momentum continues!

In Paris today for an @IEA workshop on the "affordability and social impacts of clean energy transitions". Will be speaking about some @ESRIDublin work that relates to the debate.

CfP alert for workshop “Mapping the Effects of Environmental Policies” organized by @moritzdrupp.bsky.social. It aims to explore how distributional effects of environmental policies can be captured more comprehensively & made available for the public. Deadline 11.03. More: uhh.de/wiso-meep-cfp

Hear, hear

Blue sky > Threads >...> Twitter. Only problem: it's quiet. I think we're gonna need a bigger user base

Inflation not over yet. Philip Lane of @ecb speaking at @ESRIDublin today. 2024 will likely bring wage increases and demand recovery. Market forecasts not necessarily accounting for these factors

Tap. Tap. Is this thing on? 📢 Call for papers: CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2024, 15/16 March in Munich. Keynote by @NataliaFabra www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Quick Stata tip: I've written a book that compiles 97 of my Stata tips. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the companion .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatati...

Well-meaning policies can sometimes make things worse. Careful, evidence-based decision making important.

The UK is talking seriously about separate markets for electricity based on its generation source, renewables vs fossil fuels. Some are realizing what a problem that would be. www.ft.com/content/cfb4... Exactly what hedge contracts do, protect from price volatility wout distorting price signals.

Political economy is the most important frontier in climate policy research IMO, this is a nice reformulation of the problem to incorporate these constraints

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One week left to apply for our energy economics postdoc position. Would suit any social scientist with an interest in sustainability. For the econ nerds, there's plenty of scope to examine novel aspects of consumer behaviour and preferences #econtwitter #Econjobmarket

Come join us @ESRIDublin - we are recruiting a postdoc in Energy Economics. This is an EU Horizon project assessing consumer attitudes to new energy storage technologies. Scope for candidate to explore novel aspects of behaviour & attitudes. Please share! #Econsky #energysky #jobfairy

For the mathematicians in the room, that's the second derivative pointing in the right direction at last. For the rest of us: bathtub overflowing, and we are no longer turning up the spigot even further. Good news. Now, to get CO₂ emissions down, to zero. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...

Yes it is time we paid for nature - we’ve been using it for free for decades and the bill is due. V glad to see this in the FT on.ft.com/45GPcM3 (FT folks - you’re all here but no official account yet?)

Nice paper by ESRI colleagues showing how machine learning can help identify who is in energy poverty.

Machine learning for energy poverty targeting www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The 4th Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics will take place at University College Cork in Ireland, March 19-21, 2024. Details and registration info: blogs.cornell.edu/ireland-mast... We hope you can join us! Cc: @diveq.bsky.social @johnmullahy.bsky.social

First impressions - this place is like the rose-tinted Twitter of old. A step up from Mastodon, which I really enjoyed. There was a real community feel for the brief period where Mastodon was full of action. I think the decentralized structure helped with that, wonder if that can be recreated here

#helloworld. I'm an Irish economist, carrying out research on energy and environmental policy. Looking forward to some interesting economics discussions on here. Grateful to @kevindenny.bsky.social for the invite, shared on the other place