a lot of people have heard about the rooftop solar boom in Pakistan Looks like same thing is now unfolding in the Philippines www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Philippines leads the world in rush to solar as power prices soar

People in the Philippines are flocking to install solar power ​on rooftops and escape the burden of soaring electricity prices, making it the world's biggest spender on solar panels since ‌the war in ...

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Organisational capital is shaped by managerial decisions. Wei Cai, @andreaprat.bsky.social, & Jiehang Yu propose a new way of measuring this capital using employee reviews on Glassdoor. CEO-related variation accounts for roughly 1/3 of organisational capital. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Some economists argue that the strain led to technological change that only amplified substitution

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last mo.

Wrote an essay for Engelsberg. Something I’ve been thinking about recently, inspired by the Strait of Hormuz closure. engelsbergideas.com/essays/abrah...

I can('t) believe we're still months into this.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last mo.

Departure passport control for non-EU at Frankfurt terminal 1B is a nightmare Leave lots of time

"one of the biggest ever job-cutting programmes by a European company." www.ft.com/content/d076...

This is fascinating

Kris Inwood@kris-inwood.bsky.social · last mo.

The 1901 population census is the single most complete tally of Indigenous peoples in territory claimed by Canada. This new paper argues the census was a colonial construction limited by its presuppositions but still informative of the diversity of First Nations including a large number of Metis.

Going to go out on a limb: I don't think being anti-airconditioning will be a winning political strategy for EU parties.

Poor Anthropic. Imagine having your intellectual property illicitly extracted, what kind of company would even do that?

It's kind of wild--I was taking a normal train to Oxford yesterday for a conference: a normal commute I've done for years. Yes, there have always been issues. But yesterday, the system seemed to be melting down over the heat. It seemed pretty ominous, even for the state of UK infrastructure.

Are you a graduate student, recent graduate, or anyone else interested in building decarbonization, infrastructure finance, or thermal energy networks? CPE has an opening for a temporary fellowship supporting our work on thermal energy networks. DM me for more info! publicenterprise.org/careers/

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Jobs Thermal Energy Networks Fellow Location: Remote Job Type: Part-time, contractDuration: ~10 hours/week up to 8 monthsCompensation: $12-25,000; negotiableReports to: Director of Energy  Th...

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ANDY BURNHAM HAS RETURNED FROM EXILE

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

lmao

Look what they took from you.

Changing your name to the Department of War, starting a war, and then immediately losing that war. 10/10 bit.

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org

I thought about this a lot today

Bassano@bassano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

This is antithetical to industrial strategy and the UKs innovation ambitions.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Proposed staff cuts at some of the UK’s leading science departments should prompt ministers to reconsider whether the future of subjects key to industrial strategy ambitions are left to the markets, experts have said.' 1/2

💥New | Without guidelines academic authorship defaults to power politics ✍️ Lorenz Graf-Vlachy #AcWri #AcademicSky #ECRchat

Without guidelines academic authorship defaults to power politics - LSE Impact

In many areas of social science co-authorship is the default. Drawing on a meta-analysis of academics in fields related to management, Lorenz Graf-Vlachy outlines a pervasive culture of questionable a...

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lovely bsky.app/profile/tyle...

Tyler McBrien@tylermcbrien.com · 3mo ago

🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️ I turned @allyjar.bsky.social's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map. Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)

This is a very good and thoughtful paper. I recommend reading the papers that this workflow actually produces. They are quite strange to read: signals of competence such as rigorously explained empirics but much more underdeveloped positioning of the research. www.nathanwilmers.com/paper_factory/

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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 supremacy in nuclear submarines is under threat v good from The Economist www.economist.com/internationa...

France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

For a climate treaty to be maximally robust, strong, and self-enforcing, it must properly balance supply- and demand-side instruments, from Geir B. Asheim and Bård Harstad www.nber.org/papers/w35128

Take a look at these fantastic photographs of Indian life by Raghu Rai. He has died aged 83 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Raghu Rai’s masterful images of Indian life – in pictures

Recruited to Magnum Photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1977, the veteran photographer, who has died aged 83, made defining images of grand and intimate Indian life for five decades

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‘When Queen Elizabeth II flicked the switch at Calder Hall, an electronic dial immediately lit up showing the number of kilowatts the station was generating. Years later, one of the engineers discovered that this was powered by a man turning a handle.’ www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-britis...

Why British nuclear flopped

Britain gave an elite group of engineers sweeping power and massive resources to deliver a nuclear power revolution. But their nuclear dreams crumbled.

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@sabineweyand.bsky.social is a superstar and history will remember her as such. And she is very obviously correct on this matter. And the issues at stake are really important. www.ft.com/content/a714...

EU’s top trade official leaves after clashing over Trump deal

Sabine Weyand refused to endorse US tariff agreement as WTO-compliant

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