I've been profoundly aware of urban design the last couple of days: how parks and trees on streets make the city tolerable in these temperatures.

Juraj Mikurcik@jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · last mo.

This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.

“Mobility Framing Effects”: @nmurken.bsky.social @jaspertjaden.bsky.social & Schewel show that elicitation of migration aspirations has a dramatic effect, finding a 12-ppt drop in intention when asked abt intention to stay. @rwi.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social. It's on IVs - the credibility revolution’s workhorse in economics. To show how problematic they are, we look at what IV aficionados do & think. IV users can dismiss our assessment as too critical, but not theirs, right? 1/6 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Seminarwandern“ in Berlin (03.–05.12.): Promovierende und Postdocs des @rwi.bsky.social trafen sich in der Jugendherberge Berlin Ostkreuz zu einer zweitägigen Klausurtagung mit Forschung, traditioneller Wanderung und informellem Austausch. Highlight: der Besuch im Berliner RWI-Büro. Voller Erfolg!

The Economist data team is ten years old!! Thank you so much to @misssarahleo.bsky.social for hosting, and for the incredibly on-point drinks menu

Val Kilmer has died at 65

Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65

A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.

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Man kann gar nicht genug betonen, wie wichtig #Phoenix und die Streams aus dem Bundestag für die #Demokratie sind. Partizipation hilft!

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#GDRI_rep Update 5: We have a new report. We reproduced the paper entitled "Partisan Effects of Information Campaigns in Competitive Authoritarian Elections: Evidence from Bangladesh" by Ahmed, Hodler and Islam published at the Economic Journal. See below for links to report and authors' responses.

One of my favorite scenes in one of David #Lynch 's best movies: Mulholland Drive youtu.be/h2XnBsLP9lE?...

Mulholland Drive - I've Told Every Little Star

YouTube video by Green Grass

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David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78 variety.com/2025/film/ne...

David Lynch, Visionary Director of ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Blue Velvet,’ Dies at 78

Director David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like 'Blue Velvet,' has died. He was 78.

variety.com

Die extreme Rechte wird nicht gewählt, weil Menschen nicht WISSEN wie sie drauf sind, sondern weil es diesen Menschen egal ist oder sie es gut finden. Im Jahr 2025 kann die politische Strategie nicht sein die extreme Rechte inhaltlich zu entzaubern oder zu entlarven. Nein,…

In case you were wondering how things are going in Germany & on X, after Elon Musk announced his support for the far-right "Alternative für Deutschland" (AfD) in the upcoming Federal election: The chart below shows sums of tweets x impressions by members of parliament over the past 7 days...🧵⤵️