I’m normally on here to talk about policy, and I would love nothing more than to live in a world where that’s useful. But I don’t want to argue about top marginal tax rates while brownshirts murder people on the street. This is fucked and I’m angry and scared and I hope you are too.

This is a thought-provoking article on reverse-centaurs, why the AI show must go on (but won’t), and how strengthening sectoral bargaining (aka labour rights) is a better antidote to the malaise of creators instead of expanded copyright… www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

When you make a job out of your hobby

be original or die

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Really outstanding post for both CS and social science folks #linkoftheday doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

legisvibing www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

The 2023 Austrian HFCS confirms key structural features: wealth remains concentrated and driven by owner-occupied housing, debt is mainly mortgage-based, and while relative inequality is stable, absolute wealth gaps have widened. 📄 Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4rCUSTy

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

In meinem Team @wienenergie.bsky.social gibt’s einen einmaligen Job: Dissertiere an der @bokuvienna.bsky.social bei @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social zur räumlichen Auflösung von Energiesystemmodellen - mit real world impact & Langfrist-Perspektive Bitte teilen! jobs.wienerstadtwerke.at/de/jobs/2599...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Heute wurde der Klimabericht #AAR2 - der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel - veröffentlicht! In Kooperation & mit Begleitung des CCCA wurde der Bericht von rund 200 Wissenschaftler:innen erarbeitet. Die Vollversion & die Zusammenfassungen findet ihr hier: aar2.ccca.ac.at

How much hydrogen should Europe produce by 2040? Our analysis suggests that targeting around 25 Mt of hydrogen in 2040 enables a 90% emissions reduction—across a wide range of plausible future scenarios. 1/n

Wir haben eine ornithologische Sensibilitätskarte für Windkraftplanungen erstellt. Sie zeigt räumlich, wo #Windkraft-Ausbau mit dem Schutz gefährdeter Vogelarten in Konflikt gerät – um Konflikte bereits in der Planung bestmöglich zu vermeiden. Mehr Infos: www.birdlife.at/artikel/erne...

Schon wieder ein Klimabericht - echt jetzt? Wird der Martin Puntigam die Margreth Keiler und mich fragen, als Live-Aufnahme für den #ScienceBusters Podcast... #AAR2 #APCC #WissenSchafftKlimaschutz 🗓️ 18. Juni 2025 | 19 Uhr 📍 VHS Urania, Wien 🎟️ 7 € 🔗 sciencebusters.at/buehnenprogr...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)

This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.

"When people put in rooftop solar, it transfers costs onto people who don't have rooftop solar. And, by and large, the people who don't have rooftop solar are poorer..." @severinborenstein.bsky.social @cbsnews.com #rooftopsolar #energygrid #electricityprices #solarincentives tinyurl.com/3p7527t2

In zwei Monaten veröffentlichen wir den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 - eine Übersicht der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Klimawandel in Österreich 🇦🇹 und den Folgen sowie Vermeidungspotentiale, Anpassungsmöglichkeiten und Transformationspfaden. aar2.ccca.ac.at/de

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

"More Wind, Falling Efficiency: The Driving Factors of German Onshore Wind Power Generation". (doi.org/10.1002/we.7...). We find that wind generation in Germany in the last 2 decades has primarily grown due to larger rotors, and due to more turbines. 1/n

Nach Jahren der Forschung zu den Vor- und Nachteilen der Windkraft in 🇦🇹 hätte ich einige Gedanken zu den Beiträgen der letzten Zeit. Doch in Zeiten wie diesen verschwinden die großen Linien zu oft hinter Kleinigkeiten. How Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Happy new year!

Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals. julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...

It is true some of this discontent is manufactured by talk shows and right-wing media and social media. But some of it is real.

We are excited to announce two open postdoctoral positions in our working group on land, resources, and energy at the Institute of Sustainable Economic Development, BOKU University, Vienna. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/295535 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/295131 1/n

Nice, short piece arguing that stranded assets are about much more than just fossil fuel reserves -- here, for example, commercial property. And if investors hope promised policies will not be carried through, they are taking on a lot of risk.

Congratulations to Daron Acemoglu of MIT, Simon Johnson of MIT, and James A. Robinson of the University of Chicago on winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/news/nobel-p...

"after insisting the gas could not flow, Energy Transfer Partners then sold it at inflated prices to the Brazos Electric Power Cooperative in San Antonio — leaving Brazos with $2.1 billion in costs and driving it into bankruptcy."

While these results on the local social cost of wind turbines are interesting, the underlying framework should also be of interest to energy system modelers and anyone working on assessing renewable potentials. Here‘s what‘s in it for energy modelers (potential assessments in separate thread) 🔌💡

Wind power has considerable benefits for the Austrian electricity systems but also comes with social and environmental cost. Our new paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.en...) quantifies the local social cost that policy makers attributed to wind turbines in Lower Austria's wind power zoning enacted in 2014.

Preferences revealed by wind turbine zoning decisions www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #energysky

Im ACRP-Projekt #NetZero2040 (geleitet von @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social) von Boku, ö. Energieagentur und IIASA haben wir quantitative Szenarien entwickelt, wie Österreich bis 2040 Klimaneutralität erreichen kann. Mehr Infos auf www.netzero2040.at.