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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 · 11d
English version can be found here: www.karinenyborg.com/english/
English – Karine Nyborg
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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · 11d
Even in dark times there are glimpses of fun. My fiction story "Adam in the Perfectly Competitive Market" has been translated to Spanish and is now published in the Revista Economia Institucional! Big thanks to the Editors! revistas.uexternado.edu.co/index.php/ec...
Vista de Adam en el mercado perfectamente competitivo
revistas.uexternado.edu.co

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Marian Rui Slettebakken @marianrs.bsky.social · Nov 22
Bekymret for hva COP30 faktisk lander på, nå ser det mørkt ut. Men dette gir håp for at noen land kan gå foran og ta ansvar. For det finnes ingen vei ut av klimakrisa utenom å fase ut fossil energi. Her må Norge delta.
fossilfueltreaty.org/first-intern...
Colombia and The Netherlands Announce First International Conference for Fossil Fuel Phase Out — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
fossilfueltreaty.org

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Nov 13
We're hiring! Postdoc positions in environmental econ, political econ, microeconomic theory, U of Oslo: econjobmarket.org/positions/12.... Brilliant & friendly colleagues, lovely city, beautiful nature, family friendly norms, Oslo's best views from our lunch room!
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org

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Karine Nyborg @karinenyborg.bsky.social · Sep 25
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
rdcu.be

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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:

(Likes on BSky / Likes on Twitter)
0 - 16
4 - 589
0 - 5
2 - 190

...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?
donmoyn.bsky.social 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.

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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. 🧵
kakape.bsky.social 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.
cingraham.bsky.social 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...