Great and sobering.piece on what AI might mean for universities by @rorytruex.bsky.social rorytruex.substack.com/p/will-ai-br...

Will AI Break the University?

Field Notes from a Tough Year

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Er zijn nadelen verbonden aan bloktarieven (huurders, meerdere gebruikers op een meter, ondoorzichtigheid), maar experimenteren kan geen kwaad.

Gertjan Kleinpaste@gkleinpaste.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Misschien beginnen om die gigantische datacenters, die fors hebben gelogen over hun enorme waterverbruik, een eerlijke prijs laten betalen? En de industrie een beetje gelijktrekken met particuliere consument? www.gelderlander.nl/opinie/water...

The figure in this paper is fascinating. It's the opposite of the famous image of how renewables growth was always under-estimated in energy projections.

#DrogeVoeten | NL betaalt voor het eerst mee aan projecten in België om water vast te houden, om te voorkomen dat Geul in Z-Limburg overstroomt: tinyurl.com/ynjnddc9 💧Gaat om her-meanderen van beken en aanleg van waterbuffers, kades en dijken. In vervolg op ⬇️ Zie ook het mooie: tinyurl.com/4556dwd6

Paul van de Vijver@paulvdvijver.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#BuienBeterBergen | “Grenzeloos Gulpdal, veilig door natuur” -project @ark-rewildingnl.bsky.social afgerond: www.naturetoday.com/intl/nl/natu... @naturetodaynl.bsky.social 💧Daarmee weer een stap gezet in terugbrengen van #Sponswerking in dal van #Geul en #Gulp

I coded up an open-source, not-for-profit AI paper reviewer that rivals the performance of @reviewer3com.bsky.social, Refine.ink, and Stanford Agentic Reviewer (according to Gemini 3.1). Costs <$2! Live @ coarse.ink. Plug in paper, @openrouter.bsky.social key, and email. #econsky

If you haven't yet changed how you teach and evaluate thanks to AI, you probably need to. This is not something that educators asked to happen, but it is worth noting what is out there - in this case an OpenClaw tool designed to cheat.

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I am looking for a PhD student in energy economics starting in the fall, focusing on household-level energy use and energy poverty. More info: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Doctoral researcher, ENERPOL MSCA Doctoral Network

Doctoral researcher, ENERPOL MSCA Doctoral Network

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On AI & water, it looks like all US data center usage (not just AI) ranges from 628M gallons a day (counting evaporation from dam reservoirs used for hydro-power) to 200-275M with power but not dam evaporation, to 50M for cooling datacenters alone. So not nothing, but also a lot less than golf.

#Watertijdreis | 150 jaar Nederlandse watergeschiedenis in beeld, aan de hand van de Waterstaatskaarten @rijkswaterstaat.nl van 1865 tot 1992: watertijdreis.nl?c=51.976_4.8... 💧Geïnspireerd op www.topotijdreis.nl

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!

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...

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it! That’s just me though.

This is a problem.

I messed up on my teaspoon conversion, it is 9 teaspoons of water for a query (OpenAI reported 1/15 of a teaspoon). So equivalent to 0.001875% of a hamburger.

'Forever chemicals' are seeping into waterways across Europe. A vanishingly small, man-made molecule resists all attempts of removal. How will the EU eradicate the pollution? www.ft.com/content/a36c...

This Chatham House report notes the Indus supplies 80% of Pakistan's irrigated agriculture -- a system already under grave threat due to climate change. Last year, a severe drought hurt several crops in the country's breadbasket, while Pakistanis were still recovering from previous flooding.

Chatham House@chathamhouse.org · last yr.

The Indus Waters Treaty was considered an exemplar of resource diplomacy. Its suspension can only fuel tensions between India and Pakistan.

Uitstekend rapport van de rekenkamer over schaarste drinkwater. Drie knelpunten: 1) onzekere gedragsverandering, lage prijselasticiteit, en te trage technische ingrepen. www.rekenkamer.nl/publicaties/...

Drinkwater onder druk

Drinkwaterbesparing: tijd voor resultaten Het is onzeker of de doelen die de minister van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat stelt voor de besparing van drinkwater zullen worden gehaald. Dat zegt de Algeme...

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Just received my first hallucinated cite, a "hallucite"? I am pretty sure this paper does not exist: Brouwer, R., Koundouri, P., Linderhof, V., Birol, E., and Ansink, E.. (2018). Evaluating the impact of climate change on flood risk in the European Union. Environ. Sci. Pol. 83, 1–11.

Just a few days left to apply to this 3-year postdoc position in environmental economics at @vusbe.bsky.social to work with me on the economics of water management (drought, contract design, nature based solutions, experiments, etc). Application deadline: May 15. workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

@icae.bsky.social seminar on Wed 7th May (this week) @erikansink.bsky.social (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) presents in person "Environmental regulation without centralized enforcement". Link to seminar series and online broadcasting in the bio. Hope to see you there!

Als Shell niet verantwoordelijk is voor CO₂-uitstoot door verbranding van hun olie (Scope 3), hoe kun je dan farmaceuten verantwoordelijk maken voor medicijnresten in het riool? fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

Farmaceutische industrie begint rechtszaken over kosten waterzuivering

De EU heeft een richtlijn aangenomen voor schoner rioolwater. De rekening gaat naar producenten van geneesmiddelen en verzorgingsproducten. Die vinden dat oneerlijk.

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Postdoc position in environmental economics—come work with me in Amsterdam. www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3506...

Post-doc in Environmental Economics

A Postdoctoral Fellow position is available at the Department of Spatial Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, starting in Fall 2025. Are you interested? Please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amster...

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A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Just think, this could have all been avoided if he had just done a PhD in Sweden

Where did that dam water go? Trump celebrated dumping billions of gallons from two dams in Tulare County, saying it was headed to farmers and Los Angeles. But that's not where it went. @ianjames.bsky.social reported on where it ended up. www.latimes.com/environment/...

The water unexpectedly released from dams on Trump’s order didn't help farms or L.A.

The Trump administration abruptly sent water flowing from two California dams. The action could leave less water in dams for the summer, when farmers typically use it.

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I've been meaning to read this paper on mass extinctions (pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...), and today, I came across this great write-up about it in VoxDev (voxdev.org/topic/energy...). It's a great paper. I am glad I found the time to read it. Below is a short thread.

Recently accepted in #JEEM: 'Agreeing on public goods or bads' by Erik Ansink, Hans-Peter Weikard. #econsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

When I was a young man there were whispered rumors among the elders that they could remember their own elders talking about a time when getting grants had been a means for doing science, rather than vice versa.

Prima analyse van @bosdaan.bsky.social en Wouter Ubink: het gaat over de schaarse ruimte in Nederland, waardoor echte langetermijn keuzes steeds sneuvelen in debatten die de politiek vooral langs lijnen van economie en identiteit wil voeren