Hiring a predoctoral fellow! Come work with www.guypincus.com and me on studying how extreme weather events affect human well-being through ecosystem channels! Please share widely across your networks! All are welcome to apply at: job-boards.greenhouse.io/bfiprep/jobs... (EOE/Vet/Disability)

A truly heartbreaking article linking the deaths of children from rabies to the collapse of vultures in India www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Humans killed millions of vultures. Now people are paying the price.

The near-extinction of vultures in India has had severe consequences.

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New WB report offers a fantastic summary of current challenges and where economics can help fill in knowledge gaps: www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Reboot Development: The Economics of a Livable Planet

New World Bank report: Find out about how policymakers can connect the dots across land, air, and water sectors to drive strong, sustainable economic growth at the national-level and unlock major glob...

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New paper published in Sci. Adv. on the limited scope for dairy farms to adapt to humid heat stress. The tl;dr is cooling equipment helps, but only mitigates up to half of the milk losses—which we interpret as an upper bound. Details below! 1/

Biodiversity is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg0344), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

Here is Vol. 1 of the Bluesky Energy & Environmental Economics starter pack. If your account is still active at the Nazi Bar, feel free to share there to help get new feeds primed--there are a lot of people here! Let me know if you'd like to be included in the next batch! bsky.app/starter-pack...