Over the next months, the EU will decide whether to water down car emission regulations, which currently prescribe the sale of zero-emission vehicles only from 2035 Predictably, the regulation is coming under attack from various political and media actors in Germany. A THREAD

Moving journals out of the control of greedy publishers is hard, as it requires collective action. Elsevier just made it way easier for the Game Theory and Behavioral Economics communities to migrate the journal back into our hands. Recommunalise journals, stop the drain! arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820

The Drain of Scientific Publishing

The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...

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Stephanie Wang@sweiwang.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨Elsevier forces out Games and Economic Behavior (GEB) Editor, entire editorial board has resigned, current board only handling new submissions until Nov. 14 #econsky

Interesting point from about at 28:00 about the presence of large markups in the fossil fuel sector giving breathing room to fossil fuels as renewables competition becomes stronger. #EconSky

THE PHYSICIST BEHIND NET ZERO: Can we UNDO Climate Change ? || Prof. Myles Allen

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Academia was so much better before Woke. Sure, David Hume was never able to secure an academic job because he might have been an atheist. But at least no one made him use the singular "they"

1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.

The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science

As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...

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I have two pieces of good news #EconSky (1) I am going to be on holiday for a bit. (2) 📢 I have published my first paper. You can find it, open access, in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009506962600118X A thread 🧵 🧵 1/n

A rejection and an acceptance email in the span of a few hours. Living the academic roller-coaster 🎢

La vergogna (thread) Una significativa parte d’Europa sta vivendo, da oltre un mese, la più intensa fase di caldo anomalo mai registrata. In Francia (ma non solo) superata per durata e intensità la peggior sequenza dell’estate 2003. 1/8

We are excited to announce our new climate data platform: Synthesis by Berkeley Earth synthesis.berkeleyearth.org It connects historical data (e.g. weather stations, city and regional averages) with bias-corrected climate model projections of the future. Introduction 🧵

I am honoured to be among the awardees of the EAERE Award for Best Doctoral Dissertations in Environmental and Resource Economics (2026), alongside some amazing colleagues. I am grateful to the committee for this recognition.

Last week, as the Bologna Environmental Economics Group 🐝, we hosted some amazing researchers for the "Behavioural Dimensions of Climate Change" workshop! During events like these, I realise how cool it is to work in academia. #EconSky

Great start to a working week for me & my coauthor Florian Wagener: our paper 'Markov-perfect equilibria in differential games -- with an application to climate policy' has been accepted at @reveconstudies.bsky.social! It's the first top-5 for either of us, so this is an important moment. 🥳🍾 1/11

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Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.

If you are at #CCN2025, check this out.

Philippa Johnson@phil-johnson.bsky.social · last yr.

Interested in finding out what causes you to disengage from a task? Catch my talk about the dynamics of arousal and engagement at #CCN2025 @cogcompneuro.bsky.social today at 11! You'll find me in room C1.04, and Friday afternoon at poster C168.

Are you planning to attend #CCN2025? Do you want to reflect on how to direct your skills and aptitudes to tackle today's most pressing social problems? Make sure you come to Amsterdam a day early to attend our satellite event on Science for Social Good. Register here: forms.gle/TFRCZYX2qfwD...

CCN for social good - satellite registration

See https://anneurai.net/2025/05/05/ccn-for-social-good-2025-satellite-event/ for more information

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There’s a famous chart from the Conservation Research Institute, which demonstrates this. GAZE UPON THESE ROOTS, YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.

Heading to the AOM Meeting in Copenhagen? Interested in Climate Risks, Risk Perception, and Risk Management in the Supply Chain? Stop by my poster presentation on “Value Chain Dependencies and Climate Risks in the Value Chain”. @ifmbonn.bsky.social #AOM2025 #ClimateRisk #RiskPerception #EconSky

#EU manufacturing broadly outperforms the rest of the world in #productivity terms, but the industries in which it specialises are not always those in which it is relatively more productive. Policy should target weak #trade sectors. F Di Mauro, M Matani, G Ottaviano cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

The Nievas-Piketty unequal exchange paper is certainly better than Hickel's, but their counterfactual assertion of convergence between countries in 1800-2025 is based on these entirely political-economy-free assumptions

I have cleaned a bit my lecture notes on Optimal Transport for Machine Learners arxiv.org/abs/2505.06589

Optimal Transport for Machine Learners

Optimal Transport is a foundational mathematical theory that connects optimization, partial differential equations, and probability. It offers a powerful framework for comparing probability distributi...

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I couldn't agree more! The excessive focus on linearized solutions to HA models is a bit like the old joke about the drunk who is looking for a key under a lamppost because that's where the light is. More discussion of why we need non-linear models and ways forward here benjaminmoll.com/challenge/

.@cheussaff.bsky.social and my Policy Brief: "Upgrading Europe's electricity grid is about more than just money" has just been published. www.bruegel.org/policy-brief...

As @shengwuli.bsky.social always says, when you notice the network theorists getting really excited, you're probably in for a bad time.

Ben Golub@bengolub.bsky.social · 2y ago

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101! They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs. Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships. 1/

The code from my #JMP is now available here: github.com/NoFishLikeIan/carbon-tipping-point #EconSky: if you are interested in stochastic optimal control problems, #JuliaLang or the climate, read further!  🧵

GitHub - NoFishLikeIan/carbon-tipping-point

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Andrea Titton@nofishlikeian.bsky.social · 2y ago

Economics hasn’t fully internalized how difficult climate tipping points are to both predict and reverse. My JMP 🚨 estimates the costs of this unpredictability and irreversibility. A thread! 🧵 (1/14) #econjobmarket #econjmp #econtwitter #climate

A while ago Alex London and I noticed that many of the objections to utilitarianism depend on a utilitarian being in a world of non-utilitarians. There would be no forced organ harvesting in a world of utilitarians. People would line up to volunteer. ...

This inequality says that if y=φ(x) is a continuous, strictly increasing function of x, for x≥0, with φ(0)=0 then (note φ^{-1}(y) is the function inverse) 2/

Discretisation memes! 😊

Since a few more people decided to follow me in the last week (👋 and 🙏), let me re-up my #EconJMP, maybe using the right hashtag this time! #EconSky If you are interested in climate economics and tipping points, check it out: bsky.app/profile/nofi...

Andrea Titton@nofishlikeian.bsky.social · 2y ago

Economics hasn’t fully internalized how difficult climate tipping points are to both predict and reverse. My JMP 🚨 estimates the costs of this unpredictability and irreversibility. A thread! 🧵 (1/14) #econjobmarket #econjmp #econtwitter #climate

Advertising for a PhD position at Oxford working with me and Tad Komacek. Project is on climate modelling using automatic differentiation with Enzyme in SpeedyWeather.jl applied to Earth and exoplanets. Plenty of space for ML/GPU/HPC/data visualisation projects within that PhD position too!

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