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Karine Nyborg

@karinenyborg.bsky.social

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Economics Professor, U of Oslo (behavioral & environmental econ, social & moral norms). Fiction writer.

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · 14d

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

www.science.org

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Aug 27

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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Morten N. Støstad @mortenstostad.bsky.social · Dec 28

I've been posting both here and on Twitter lately. The engagement on both:

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...where is everyone? Any hints welcome!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Feb 16

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

clarksvillenow.com

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Elin Lerum Boasson @elinlb.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is unbelievable, people denied entry to the US because of political opinions? What is next?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 19

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry.
If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

"I learned with concern that a French researcher" on assignment for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) "who was traveling to a conference near Houston was denied entry to the United States before being expelled ," said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). "This measure was apparently taken by the American authorities because the researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy ," he added

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Jul 6

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”

www.gsb.stanford.edu

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BirckenBachF 🌎🎶🇪🇺🌱🐦 @birckenbachf.bsky.social · Jul 5

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

www.youtube.com

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Halvor Dannevig @halvordannevig.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

www.adressa.no

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Jun 24

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.

www.nettavisen.no

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jun 11

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations.

Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance.

Nobody fucking wants any of this.

poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Quinnipiac poll:

PRESIDENT TRUMP
Thirty-eight percent of voters approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president, while 54 percent disapprove. In Quinnipiac University's April 9 poll, 41 percent approved, while 53 percent disapproved.

Voters were asked about Trump's handling of seven issues...

immigration issues: 43 percent approve, 54 percent disapprove, with 3 percent not offering an opinion;
deportations: 40 percent approve, 56 percent disapprove, with 4 percent not offering an opinion;
the economy: 40 percent approve, 56 percent disapprove, with 4 percent not offering an opinion;
trade: 38 percent approve, 57 percent disapprove, with 6 percent not offering an opinion;
universities: 37 percent approve, 54 percent disapprove, with 9 percent not offering an opinion;
the Israel - Hamas conflict: 35 percent approve, 52 percent disapprove, with 13 percent not offering an opinion;
the Russia - Ukraine war: 34 percent approve, 57 percent disapprove, with 10 percent not offering an opinion.

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · May 30

Hands are good. Our brains need more stimuli than just words & math. Otherwise: boring.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 14

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · May 13

“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 🧪

NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency

Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step

www.science.org

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · May 12

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?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 30

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.

A picture shows 32 men arranging themselves into an SOS on the ground of a prison yard. The ground is bare earth. All the men are wearing red or orange prison jumpsuits.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Apr 22

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. 🧪🧵⬇️

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 21

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.

Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · Apr 21

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...

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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Apr 18

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.

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · Apr 18

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

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Apr 18

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: Trump team freezes new NSF awards — and could soon axe hundreds of grants

The National Science Foundation is the latest US agency to be disrupted by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

www.nature.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ja. Holmlia i Oslo er fabelaktig sånn. Da jeg bodde der var det nesten alltid raskest å gå.

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Alex Imas @aleximas.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

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VG @vg.no · Apr 15

Harvard-kravene: – Et klassisk autoritært trekk

Det ville vært en tragedie om Harvard lot seg diktere av president Donald Trump, mener norsk professor.

www.vg.no

Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Apr 15

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.

Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

www.science.org

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Jan-Erik Støstad @janerikstostad.bsky.social · Apr 14

Canada, pollofpolls. What a chart.

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