Colombia, a significant exporter of coal/oil, has chosen to stop licensing new exploration & boost other industries, incl. renewable energy, tourism, agriculture - inviting others "to be on the right side of history”. A report by “some very rock star academics” will show how countries can transition

Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 4mo ago

Colombia convenes climate ‘coalition of the willing’ to break global fossil fuel deadlock

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers

A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

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"Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance.’" Glad we got rid of cancel culture though. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

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Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 6mo ago

The native workforces of today's wealthiest countries are rapidly disappearing due to fertility that is low and very unlikely to rise—ever, and certainly not in time to make a difference. The brilliant Lant Pritchett spells out the implications for migration policy: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Mette Frederiksen and her use & exporting of far-right-copied anti-immigrant policies would like a word

Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year

Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.

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Big development as the UK government rules out any new North Sea oil and gas exploration. A decision which recognises the ongoing movement away from fossil fuels and underscores the urgency of managing the transition in a planned and just way. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6926de...

Check out the October 2025 issue (23,5) of @jeeanews.bsky.social Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics. @jeeanews.bsky.social

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100. Our paper on that is out today.🧵

One of the main benefits of doing a US PhD is the extra time you get, that's one of the big reasons I advised my students to apply for US programmes. We offer a four year degree here, there'd be no advantage over us. The US is euthanising its massive advantage in research for no good reason.

Oren Samet@osamet.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

The employment rate of non-EU born migrants exceeded that of the UK-born for the first time on record. Confirms other evidence that recent migrants (even if they did not arrive on work visas) are very likely to be working/have high employment rates.

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities. It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree. Likely to enter force within days.

Thanks to all for participating in our joint workshop on #PublicAdministration and #StateCapacity @unihohenheim.bsky.social. Frederico Finan from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @hjortj.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk gave great keynote lectures.

Trailblazer and economist extraordinaire Mica Sviatschi just got tenure at Princeton! Mica didn’t need much guidance and I bet Miguel Urquiola wisely undid much of my rookie attempts at it, but I’m very proud of the first PhD student I properly co-advised (and the other awesome PhD advisees since)

I will take this as an excuse to plug that excellent careful work on the economics of fertility patterns in sub Saharan Africa has been done by researchers like (my past PhD student) Celine Zipfel, paper here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3v897...

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

Ah yes, that’s the first thing that comes to my mind when thinking of sub-Saharan Africa. People there have fewer smartphones!

We at @ucleconomics.bsky.social have extended the application deadline to our MA degrees by a week (until May 8th)--all nationalities warmly welcome!

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last yr.

American students turn to UK as Trump takes aim at US universities https://www.ft.com/content/ebb2b7e7-5dea-47a2-8386-f12eda692c0f

I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. @jeeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...

Five years 3 million deaths www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study

Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV

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“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus” Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV on.ft.com/3QX1HhP

Very glad to present the February 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 papers from some of the world's best economists, in a wide range of fields. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2... @jeeanews.bsky.social

i just made the mistake of reading the comments on a NYT article on foreign aid. My god, some people are just way too dumb to understand how lucky they are to have been born in a rich country. Not better or more deserving, just lucky. It's so simple and obvious.

foreign aid to fight infectious diseases is a kind of enlightened self interest, since infectious diseases that go around come around. Aid for fighting AIDS, now suspended by Executive Order, is no exception. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/cons...

🆕 How does the loss of biodiversity impact economies and human well-being? 🔊 Today on VoxDevTalks, Eyal Frank (University of Chicago) discusses how the real-world impacts of biodiversity loss can be quantified: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

Kai Kupferschmidt@kakape.bsky.social · last yr.

“USAID-backed studies have been shuttered, data streams have dried up, researchers and technical staff have been fired or put on leave, a system to predict food crises has been muzzled, and a USAID-supported global health journal has stopped reviewing manuscripts.” From our @science.org news team 🧪

Civil service was designed to protect government employees from political retaliation. That’s not working so well lately… #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/civi...

Count us out. www.ft.com/content/176c...

Big majority of Greenlanders do not want to be part of US, poll finds

Survey is first to be done since Trump revived his interest in buying Arctic island

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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵