Some of our colleagues need to take note of this paper!

An art high school has an exhibit up in Sapporo Station, and the work is fantastic. These are all pretty big, & the subject matter is hilarious 😆 This giant electric bear attacking Sapporo as animals & people flee in terror was my favorite, though a runner-up was deer aliens invading & taking over.

Boosting research integrity 👇🏼 Nowadays with extra-high return, thanks to AI and fake news

The new journal EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY will soon be accepting submissions!

Great paper. Once, in Bogota, Maria Claudia Lopez and Marcela Tarazona-Gomez and I ran an experiment with spouses. Lots of selfish behaviour within couples, largely absent when choices were between helping each other or helping an outsider. A common enemy etc. ideas.repec.org/p/ngi/dpaper...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Truly remarkable: Poland used to be a climate laggard. Today, wind and solar are increasingly replacing coal in the Polish electricity mix with almost 30% of all electricity generated to date this year from wind and solar. In 2000 coal provided 95% of Polish electricity. Today it is at 51%.

LDP Diet member Nishida Soji attended event at Russian embassy on 12 Nov. Nishida said he is opposed to Japan’s sanctions on RU. He blamed Ukraine for the war, saying it was started by Maidan Revolution of 2014. He compared it to Pearl Harbor which, in his view, was caused by the US oil embargo.

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!

Global CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels are likely to increase this year, while those from land-use change will fall

Paul G-P with the public goods provision

New piece from Tokyo Review: Writing about Japan's declining suicides, Peter Chai from Waseda University argues that the numbers obscure the unequal distribution of risk www.tokyoreview.net/2025/11/japa...

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

Don’t get me started on the #HPV mess. How many unnecessary deaths because of the 9 year pause?

📢 What’s current in #REEP? 📢 "Inflation Reduction Act: Origins, Policy Implications, and Research Gaps" by John E. T. Bistline ( @bistline.bsky.social ) and Catherine Wolfram ( @cwolfram.bsky.social ). 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/xlWk4NK 📈📉 #Econsky

Full paper here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/65r3g...

Full text in English: On 8 November, China's State Council Information Office released a white paper titled "Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality China's Plans and Solutions." english.www.gov.cn/archive/whit...

Key highlights include that climate adaptation could yield labor income benefits equivalent to 150 million jobs by 2050, a combination of new jobs created by investments in infrastructure or nature-based solution and jobs that are protected from negative shocks and impacts.

Starting my #econtwitter #econsky recap 🧵 for #neudc2025 @TuftsEconomics! First session: displaced persons. Tamim shows that a housing subsidy for Syrian refugees in Jordan had only minor positive economic effects + led to a deterioration in relations btw hosts + refugees

Last week, Chile, Mexico, and Peru announced new steps toward trade integration with Asian partners.

Shy Dubai Guy, Richard Tice MP for Boston & Skegness finally admits to "sea level issues" in his constituency news.sky.com/story/humans...

New research published in PLOS Climate by Sadavarte et al. suggests that the economic value of the damages attributable to internal combustion engine vehicles over their lifetime is currently 2 to 3.5 times that of lithium-ion battery EVs journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Born #OnThisDay in 1867 was Marie Skłodowska–Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two disciplines: Physics for her work on radioactivity, and Chemistry for her discovery of radium and polonium. #WomenInSTEM

[email protected] has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development) Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc. ... is one hour from London, 20 mins from Birmingham 90 mins from the Peak District National Park Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

{renv} is the package you need that you never know you needed For easy to get up and running and honestly makes your life exceptionally easy. docs.posit.co/ide/user/ide...

It’s not laws that make the Spanish, the Italians and the Greeks into moderate drinkers, but social norms. Why are they so much more powerful? And why are many countries so set on using criminal law to influence their citizens’ behaviour instead? buff.ly/KRIr43W

A network of peer reviewers in Italy is targeting medical journals, threatening “both the scientific record and patient safety,” a team of researchers including @deevybee.bsky.social report.

Takeda’s dengue vaccine has demonstrated strong protection against infection and hospitalization for seven years, marking the longest efficacy reported among any available dengue vaccines.

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...

A rapidly growing share of letters to journals may be drafted by machines, undetected by editors. Study quantifies recently ‘prolific debutante authors’ who had published no letters before 2022, when ChatGPT debuted. #academicjournals #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

We can confidently say that National Security Officials are “overwhelmingly overconfident and that their judgments are especially prone to false positives”—statements they judged to be true with a probability of 90% were true just 57% of the time: buff.ly/Q5U3pJH

The National Party of Australia dumped its Net Zero policy as Australia is moving too fast, & faster than its peers in the OECD. Well, fossil CO2 emissions in the last 10 years have gone down * -0.5% per year in Australia * -1.4% per year in the OECD Australia is somewhat of a laggard...

Here is a rock song "HC1 Heartbreak" (MP3 and Lyrics) econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/aisongs/hc1_... based on my research paper arxiv.org/abs/2411.14763 on robust standard errors and large scale methodological replications. Made with Suno and ChatGPT. AI amazes me again and again.

Eschernomics: Google AI's interpretation of compensating variation says that whatever the price change you must give up money to return to the old welfare level. #EconSky

The movie business changed dramatically starting in the late 1990s

After 10 years of criticism of their empirical specification and their estimator, Burke and Hsiang just re-estimate the same model: www.bcentral.cl/documents/33...

Here are some www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... econjwatch.org/articles/glo...

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

This year, I saw bears twice in Iwate. Before that, I had only seen one in my entire life—more than 30 years ago.It really makes me feel how unusual things have become.

👻What a STRANGE phenomenon! We are SO delighted to be able to share this news: Strange Pictures has been shortlisted for @waterstones.bsky.social #BookoftheYear !! www.waterstones.com/book/strange...

Climate change hits hardest poor people in hot places. We need to help them not be so poor and help them not be so hot. Neither climate change, nor malaria, nor malnutrition will decimate civilization. Nevertheless, we need to solve all of these problems. www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...

1/ How is Germany's #Energiewende going, and how should it proceed? In our brand-new piece in Communications Earth & Environment, we show that the expansion of variable renewables has progressed substantially in recent years, but electrification and flexibility have not kept pace. A short 🧵

Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

I reckon the collapse of Northern Rock was worse for consumer confidence. Wonder who the Chair was?

I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today. If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵