There's a simple piece of technology that can prevent cyclists and pedestrians from being run over and killed by truck drivers. But few trucks operating on New York City's streets are required to have it — and many of those trucks get an exemption from the city itself. youtube.com/shorts/EWQWy...

This simple tech could save your life. Why don't all trucks have it? #nyc #truck #safety

YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC

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Looking for more speakers for Workshops for Ukraine (sites.google.com/view/dariia-...), so if you want to contribute to a series by teaching a workshop on #Rstats, #Python, data analysis, while helping raise money for Ukrainian charities, drop me a message or email dmykhailyshyna@kse.org.ua #Econsky

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Breaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.

absolute solidarity with ricardo, this is an outrage

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

FT exclusive: The IMF dropped the lead candidate to become its new chief economist at the eleventh hour after he was found to have made critical remarks about the Trump administration’s economic policies, according to people briefed on the process ft.trib.al/8I7TNVM

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The world is closing in on trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness. 7 more countries have eliminated it in the past year taking the total to 32. The number of people needing antibiotics and hygiene programmes has halved in a decade. buff.ly/mC4krAQ #ShareGoodNewsToo

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)

The Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) serves as an essential instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information.

who.int

some days I hate it here (earth)

Everything is not about material outcomes. In fact, that framing obscures what’s really behind it (emotion + identity) and leads people down the false road that “good policy” will solve the problems. It’s the rationalization that refuses to die.

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

insidehighered.com

Out today a bit of a sampler of the argument from the book as applied to public responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Introduces some of the theorizing. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Drew Engelhardt@amengel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Getting more real even if publication date is still well off. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We are all going to have so many kinds of diarrhea

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump is reportedly expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services

FWIW, I think AI does have use and can add value (disagree with some folks here on that), but in a more mundane fashion than advertised. But too many investment decisions have been made based on the premise it will revolutionize human civilization, so it's very hard to walk away from it.

New data: Since March 2025, U.S. wine exports to Canada have been approaching zero. Canada was once by far the largest export market for U.S. wine. In 2024, 35% of U.S. wine exports—worth US$446.4 million—went to Canada.

Absolute privilege to give a keynote at the "Foundational Issues in #BiodiversityFinance" workshop. Can you put a price on #wetland, #pollinator, or #ecosystem, without either overselling nature's financial "value" or reducing it to a spreadsheet item? philevents.org/event/show/1...

📢 Final Call 📢 Only one day left to submit your paper for our Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility & Labor Markets at 𝐖𝑼 Vienna in November! 🔗 Details & submission: wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

INEQ - Research Institute Economics of Inequality @ WU Vienna@ineq-wu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Economic Mobility & Labor Markets 📍 𝐖𝑼 Vienna | 🗓 19–20 Nov 2026 🗓 Submission deadline: June 30 🔗 Details & submission: wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26 #INEQ #CfP

Why #rewilding matters. Why #buffalo are valued guests in Asparn an der Zaya in #austria

The European Parliament is ditching Google as its default search engine in favor of French service Qwant. (That’s the one I use too!)

European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns

The switch lands as EU officials prepare a broader push to wean off US tech.

politico.eu

The desiccation of the Great Salt Lake carries annual health costs of $1.1-2.3 billion

Dust in the Wind: The Health Costs of Great Salt Lake Desiccation

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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“…today the White House unveiled major changes to how federal funding is allocated & distributed. For the 1st time, they’re sharing plans to permanently & systematically move American science from a system that values evidence-based evaluations to a political patronage system.”— @chanda.blacksky.app

It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

news.chanda.science

„Anpassungsmaßnahmen in Land- und Forstwirtschaft kosten zwar im ersten Moment Geld, helfen aber langfristig, Schäden wie Ernteausfälle zu minimieren und Kosten für den Wiederaufbau zu reduzieren“, erklärt Umweltökonomin Eva Preinfalk in der @krone.at.web.brid.gy 👇

Klimaforscherin: „Investieren hilft beim Sparen“

Eine Grazer Studie zeigt: Investitionen in die Klimawandelanpassung helfen langfristig beim Sparen. Mutige Politik müsse heute Geld in die Hand ...

krone.at

Here is a graph with dollar amounts of funding committed. The curves look very similar to those based on the number of awards.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Is there a version of the chart follow the dollar-value of the grants? Is it fewer-bigger grants or simply - as I would guess - straight up less money going out the door?

It seems that tech giants eyeing rural zones for data center development have underestimated how attached American farmers have grown to their lands in the decades they’ve been nurturing them.

Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise

Even in a fragile farm economy, million-dollar offers can't sway dedicated farmers.

arstechnica.com

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Nearly 1 in 12 U.S. schools is located within a quarter mile of an environmental hazard site. Sohil Malik, @matthewakraft.com & Grace Falken finds stark racial and socioeconomic inequities in schools’ exposure to pollution risks. #SustainableED 📄https://bit.ly/49YdXsA

🆕📢Ahead-of-print in #REEP📢 "Causal Inference for Biodiversity Conservation" by Kathy Baylis, Alberto Garcia, and Robert Heilmayr ( @econservation.bsky.social ). 🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/b2a199a 📈📉 #Econsky

In my updated paper, I introduce an R package, ididvar, that provides tools to easily identify the identifying variation in a regression: vincentbagilet.github.io/ididvar/

 More information can be found on the package and project websites: vincentbagilet.github.io/causal_exaggeration/ididvar.html

actually quite cathartic to call one’s reps every morning and leave a message giving your perspective and demanding action. here you try: 5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

5calls.org

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Glyphosate Use, Water Contamination, and Neonatal Health in the United States" by Tzu-Hui J. Chen. Read it here: buff.ly/PhCSHrH 📈📉 #Econsky

Call your reps + please read the thread. Do it now, please. Script.

Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

All. Please be aware - the US has attacked Venezuela.

Government service should be attracting people with ambition and talent not making it an insane slog to get in the door and then be terrorized by insane conspiracists every 4 years for lower compensation than the private market.

Smell Gibson@smellgibson.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This dual coalition was well described by this image which circulated on here a while back: