Plans proceed to dismantle one of the world's great centers for the study of climate change www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab
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Karine Nyborg
@karinenyborg.bsky.social
Economics Professor, U of Oslo (behavioral & environmental econ, social & moral norms). Fiction writer.
Plans proceed to dismantle one of the world's great centers for the study of climate change www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/c...
Trump Administration Readies Plans to Dismantle Renowned Science Lab
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Even in dark times there are glimpses of fun. My fiction story "Adam in the Perfectly Competitive Market" has been translated to Spanish and is now published in the Revista Economia Institucional! Big thanks to the Editors! revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/ec...
Vista de Adam en el mercado perfectamente competitivo
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Bekymret for hva COP30 faktisk lander på, nå ser det mørkt ut. Men dette gir håp for at noen land kan gå foran og ta ansvar. For det finnes ingen vei ut av klimakrisa utenom å fase ut fossil energi. Her må Norge delta. fossilfueltreaty.org/first-intern...
Colombia and The Netherlands Announce First International Conference for Fossil Fuel Phase Out — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
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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!
EJM - Econ Job Market
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Read this. We'll be hiring this fall (U of Oslo, Econ Dept). Come to Scandinavia, where life is good. ❤️ www.science.org/content/arti...
I thought science hinged on prestige. Moving abroad made me reassess my priorities
In Denmark, this Ph.D. student fell in love with an egalitarian society that values work-life balance
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New publication! Voluntary contributions tend to increase when made observable - but like monetary incentives, use of social approval may backfire. We show that when some contribution behaviors become visible, decline of other, invisible efforts may outweigh the positive effects. rdcu.be/eCB6W
The Mixed Effects of Making Contribution Behaviors Observable
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Why invest in renewables if you expect natural gas to be cheap and plentiful? The Gas Trap: Forthcoming in the JPE, by Bård Harstad and Katinka Holtsmark. www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rus...
The Rush to Quit Coal Is Leading Countries Into the “Gas Trap”
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Found this beautiful Transkription of the piece … Víkingur Ólafsson – Rameau: Les Boréades: The Arts and the Hours (Transcr. Ólafsson) Beauty and Harmony versus the madness of the world #classicalmusic #arts www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTwq...
Víkingur Ólafsson – Rameau: Les Boréades: The Arts and the Hours (Transcr. Ólafsson)
YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG
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Hvorfor er det ingen større politisk debatt om å sanksjonere Israel? Er det ingen grenser for hva de får gjøre mot Gazas sivilbefolkning? @arbeiderpartiet.bsky.social www.adressa.no/nyheter/uten...
Israelske soldater bekrefter – har fått ordre om å skyte på palestinere i matkø
Israelske soldater bekrefter at de har fått ordre om å skyte med skarpt mot ubevæpnede palestinere i matkø i Gaza, selv om de ikke utgjør noen trussel.
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Another case of a very unpleasant encounter with the US. Caricature of JD Vance found on phone and swoosh expelled from country. Great researchers and conferences over there but not tempting anymore. www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/to-b...
To bilder spolerte drømmeferien til Mads: – Følte meg helt jævlig
Mads fra Tromsø reagerer sterkt på behandlingen han fikk av amerikansk grensekontroll på vei inn i USA.
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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
What an image! Venezuelan men who narrowly avoided being imprisoned by Trump in El Salvador without trial (saved by the Supreme Court) spelled out an SOS to a @reuters.com camera drone observing the Bluebonnet ICE facility. 11 days ago, buses to the airport were turned around at the last second.
GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Buffalo have developed a nanoparticle-based vaccine candidate for H5N1 avian influenza (clade 2.3.4.4b) that achieved 100% PROTECTION in preclinical trials. The vaccine is under development for potential use in BOTH veterinary AND human medicine. 🧪🧵⬇️
During COVID, mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives worldwide. Today, Minnesota republicans proposed a bill stating that "whoever knowingly manufactures, acquires, possesses, or makes readily available to another mRNA injections or products" can be sentenced to 20 years in prison.
This morning Minnesota Republicans introduced a bill banning mRNA vaccines and labeling them "weapons of mass destruction." It would make manufacturing, possessing or administering them a crime punishable by up to 20 years in prison. www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.p...
Our NSF grant on "Source Credibility, Political Identity, and Factual Belief Revision" with Jonathan Woon was also just cancelled because it is no longer "in alignment with current NSF priorities". This is sad and frustrating!
This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
Harvard-kravene: – Et klassisk autoritært trekk
Harvard-kravene: – Et klassisk autoritært trekk
Det ville vært en tragedie om Harvard lot seg diktere av president Donald Trump, mener norsk professor.
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Just so it’s clear, the government wanted to oversee hiring and employment at a *private* institution in order to implement a purity test. When the institution refused, they took away money for life saving research (cancer etc). That’s some fascist shit.
No serious university can accept en bloc affirmative action for students and faculty based on their political views (i.e., government support). Harvard had no choice.
Climate research, storm warnings, astrophysics, you name it: down the drain. www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
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Trump vil stanse klimainnsats på delstatsnivå - inkludert Californias cap-and-trade - med ny presidentordre. Motstand fra demokrat-styrte delstater. Jubel fra oljelobbyen, inkludert American Petroleum Institute, hvor Equinor stadig er medlem. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Trump declares war on state climate laws
The president signed an executive order late Tuesday that aims to "stop the enforcement" of a broad swath of state climate regulations.
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