Imagine if hundreds of people died in hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many ppl. They are a silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear. Hope this by @economist.com helps save lives as Europeans wake up to danger bsky.app/profile/eate...

Can the ECB stop chasing oil price spikes, please? This is the message of this important study in a nutshell. Inflation is all about fossilflation. So, we need a way to stabilize our economies that does not undermine the green transition we need, which is exactly what rate hikes end up doing.

Tightening against an energy price shock is a crude response, that only works if it chokes the economy, and green investment with it. It shouldn't be so controversial for the ECB to accept it.

Very interesting paper and thread by friends on the tensions between inflation fight and accelerating the transition (which is key to anchor long term inflation expectations).

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

Counterpoint: Easy to make case that the ECB should not have hiked in an undifferentiated manner. The EMPN team are making that case in our upcoming Monetary Dialogue Paper, out next week. @claraleonard.bsky.social @jvtk.bsky.social

When oil prices rise, the ECB hikes rates. The show is entering its 6th season. From ongoing work of the EMPN network with @claraleonard.bsky.social, @jvtk.bsky.social & Eric Monnet.

The latest Banking on Climate Chaos report finds that financing of fossil fuels has increased.  But financing varies largely by region. The US and Japan have invested the most, while Europe has declined.

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

As part of our Max Planck Law Fellow Group, we have been running a webinar series on Independence and Democracy in the EU. This Wednesday, 10th June from 2.30 PM we are hosting what promises to be a very interesting discussion on US cryptomercantilism vs EU monetary sovereignty.

Do join us for a presentation by @jvtk.bsky.social and comments by @goldmatt.bsky.social ! Sign up here - law.mpg.de/event/europe...

Step out of this.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

⏰This proposal looks really well thought-through and may also contain important insights for the EU. 💡Doing away with liability is an effective way to cut red tape and promote new private sector initiative. 😎 Expect the European People's Party to make a similar EU proposal soon.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

The @pkrugman.bsky.social and @lugaricano.bsky.social debate centres on whether Europe's relative position depends on how productivity is measured. Using industry-level data, I break the gap down into its sectoral and capital components to see what is driving it. substack.com/@andreistere...

Wishing OpenAI all the best with "Why is there something rather than nothing?"

EW gaat door de ondergrens

Fully share the conclusion about the slim chances of EUR/RMB—but I recently learned from @helene-rey.bsky.social that persistent CA deficits are *not* a prerequisite for currency internationalization. The US is in fact "the banker of the world", central in gross positions www.ft.com/content/5bc0...

A hidden Brussels unit plans the continent’s disaster response - and citizens want it to do more, not less ✏️ @jamesrball.com

I am not a religious person by any means, but if I saw this in person I'd assume the gods are speaking to me directly

I'm a senior equity partner at a big global accountancy firm. I still keep a cheat sheet in my note book to remind me which way debits and credits work on the balance sheet.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Fascinating read foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/15/r...

The manifestos that appear to have been written by the shooters at the Islamic Center of San Diego are a horrifying reminder that extremist ideologies are deeply interconnected. Combating Islamophobia, antisemitism and all forms of hate requires understanding this broader ecosystem of extremism. 🧵

Dawn of the Electric World Order: Global shockwaves from the war on Iran are accelerating the energy transition “What makes this shock different from the 1970s? As analysts at Ember put it: “this is the first energy shock with a superior alternative.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw...

Fucking finally. Dit is toch oa waarom we de EU hebben zou je denken. Bizar dat dit er nog niet eerder was. www.bnr.nl/nieuws/mobil...

Briefschrijver die in De Telegraaf de aanslag op D66 vergoelijkte, blijkt niet te bestaan: ‘Het is een pseudoniem’

Wir sind in mitten einer historischen Energiekrise in der Energiekonzerne Rekordgewinne einfahren. Aber anstatt Profitmargen zu begrenzen & Preise zu bremsen subventioniert die Regierung mit jedem Cent Steuersenkung der nicht weiter gegeben wird die Profite noch.

What can we learn from automating an entire quantitative social science paper, from prompt to finished product? Thread about ongoing work with @natewilmers.bsky.social 1/12 Paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

US spending on data centers & computers has grown so much that it's larger than basically all other physical investment categories—more than all single-family housing construction, factories, power plants, industrial equipment, apartments I'm running out of points of comparison

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Without looking, how may private flights do you think took off from the UK last year?

"The Impact of Marijuana Decriminalization on Crime: Evidence from Atlanta" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "a reduction in violent crime and violent crime clearances, likely due to police reallocating resources from marijuana enforcement to violent crime prevention" 😲

i call my mom every sunday to share personal news and chat. she's really into celebrities, so i tell her about the famous people i've pissed off in the last week. she gets super excited.

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Usually, when I get interviewed for a piece on something like "AI consciousness" I am relegated to the skeptics box --- some short paragraph near the end. So it is a nice change to see this piece by @hollybaxter.bsky.social Short 🧵>> www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-news...

1. Have flight delayed by 90 minutes. 2. Miss connecting flight 3. See there is an eBird hotspot 9 minutes from the airport 4. Have best birding day ever 🪶

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

Spring has arrived and you're still in your winter whites, well follow this Willow Ptarmigan and hike up the mountain where winter still reigns. Chugach State Park #Alaska #BirdsSeenIn2026 🪶

*David Coleman Voice* “Remarkable”

Since ChatGPT came online in late 2022, grant application numbers across 12 UK and EU funding bodies have increased by *57%*. For MSCA fellowships the number is *+142%*. I do believe that what we’re doing is insane and that we need to stop doing it IMMEDIATELY. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good article, summarizes nicely what Murau and @jvtk.bsky.social argued in their rethinking monetary sovereignty piece www.cambridge.org/core/journal... The new thing for me here was the claim that the offshore dollar system is not "backed by" US military might or diplomacy.

I love the lighting just before it rains! 🪶

I wonder if there is any #invertes activity in the backyard? Yes! Looks like close to last stage caterpillar of a Cloudless sulfur butterfly with A+ camo 💛 on its host plant. #InverteFest

There is a huge shift in climate politics happening RIGHT NOW in Santa Marta, Colombia. Countries are meeting to discuss a treaty to phase out fossil fuels -- the one issue that #UNFCCC has studiously avoided for 30 years. 🧵

"I have, for many years, been in favor of replacing the Fed with a computer" (Milton Friedman)