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John Whitehead @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social · 24d

You should read this for sure.

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 25d

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

richardtol.substack.com

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Aug 1

This convo happened 3 years ago… and I still think about it to this day.

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jul 29

I guess his face will have to suffice

Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jul 25

“Elected officials and federal leadership
must safeguard US resilience by protecting the independence of
the NCA, ensuring its timely release, and fully funding its coordinate and communicate efforts”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Reinstate the National Climate Assessment

In April, the Trump administration dismissed all authors working on the sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA) and canceled funding for the US Global Change Research Program (1)—the federal agency ch...

www.science.org

Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jul 12

Don’t worry we have one of the guys at the bottom in charge of getting to the bottom of the case.

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jul 5

Sure is an Interesting time…

The Onion @theonion.com · Jul 4

‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Week

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is the game I like to call “Guess who is Peter Thiel talking about?” I very much lost this game as a heads up.

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jun 14

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again Botticelli chin- just wrong time period but at one time it was all the rage

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jun 6

After thoroughly investigating this event, I would have to agree with this conclusion 😂

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Jun 5

The path to #aere2025 ended up being 4k miles from Oregon to New Mexico and back again. Got to see the Great Basin NP which has been on my list for years since a radiolab did a show on Prometheus the bristlecone pine

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 31

University of Hawaii was well represented at #aere2025 this year

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 30

Trip to #aere2025 was super fun. And really enjoyed the conference. Next stop Oregon!

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 28

Getting to @aereorg.bsky.social summer conference in style

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 18

Love to see the names of the AERE community on this list!

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 18

I love that over a hundred climate activists - oh no excuse me, Environmental and Natural Resource Economists! - are objecting to the "quiet cancellation of this important leadership initiative & critical public resource," calling it "as shortsighted as it is unlawful."

Read more: support-nca.org

A screen shot of the declaration, called "defending the national climate assessment" with 130 signatures.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 18

I love that over a hundred climate activists - oh no excuse me, Environmental and Natural Resource Economists! - are objecting to the "quiet cancellation of this important leadership initiative & critical public resource," calling it "as shortsighted as it is unlawful."

Read more: support-nca.org

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 18

Totally! I was soo excited to sign and see the support from my field. Some amazing researchers in that list!

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 11

Glad you were able to decipher it

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 11

Just finished Hate the Game by @hatethegamebook.com The book weaved economic thinking into major decisions many of us will face in our lives! Definitely recommend

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · May 4

I’m not surprised by the executive order grossly misnamed “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media” but I am very saddened by it. One of the most amazing seeds ever planted in my mind was that “a book could be your passport”…
Consider showing ❤️https://protectmypublicmedia.org/

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Matt Gaetz Forehead @mattgaetz4head.bsky.social · Apr 25

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Apr 23

A wonderful piece to read. I definitely needed a dash of inspiration during this time of extreme efforts to rollback environmental regulation.

Phil Levin @phillevin.bsky.social · Apr 22

This Earth Day, no photo could hold what I wanted to say. So I wrote about the National Nature Assessment: a project canceled, a team revived, a future still being written. Because we are—still—united by nature.
🍃 weareunitedbynature.org

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Apr 23

How else will they know where to send the yellow stars?

"Trump administration texted college professors' personal phones to ask if they're Jewish."
theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...

Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish

“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.

theintercept.com

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Apr 19

half of me loved reading this take down of Cruz identification strategy… the other half remembered that even with this well cited findings these grants are still being frozen and cut.

democrats-science.house.gov/imo/media/do...

democrats-science.house.gov

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · Apr 17

This proposed rule would fly in the face of Supreme Court ruling, and drive many treasured species to extinction.

The glory of nature is our heritage, and when species are gone you can’t bring them back.

(No, those direwolves aren’t the real thing)

Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · Apr 16

UPDATE: The Trump administration issued a proposed rule today that would rescind nearly all habitat protections for endangered species nationwide.

You can't protect animals and plants from extinction without protecting the places they live.

More info: biodiv.us/42EnuQH

A black colored gray wolf pup howling while resting on a fallen log, with text stating "The Trump Administration is working to weaken the Endangered Species Act."

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Ashley Lowe Mackenzie @alowemackenzie.bsky.social · Apr 16

It was one thing when they cancelled the national nature assessment but the national climate assessment… There’s really no coming back from this, and it means we are all less informed about climate

https://www.pressenza.com/2025/04/trump-administration-ends-funding-for-leading-u-s-climate-program/

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