Antonio Avila-Uribe
@antonioavilauribe.com
Environmental economist, PhD at LSE's G&E.
Looking at climate change impacts in EU, air pollution, clean air policies, and others! All opinions mine.
Looking at climate change impacts in EU, air pollution, clean air policies, and others! All opinions mine.
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Es innumerable el listado de vulneraciones contra los activistas de la Global Sumud Flotila:
- @juanbordera.bsky.social fue agredido con golpes
- Néstor Prieto cuenta como fueron amenazados de muerte, privados de agua, comida, sueño, medicina, asistencia médica y jurídica y un largo etcétera.
- @juanbordera.bsky.social fue agredido con golpes
- Néstor Prieto cuenta como fueron amenazados de muerte, privados de agua, comida, sueño, medicina, asistencia médica y jurídica y un largo etcétera.
October 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Es innumerable el listado de vulneraciones contra los activistas de la Global Sumud Flotila:
- @juanbordera.bsky.social fue agredido con golpes
- Néstor Prieto cuenta como fueron amenazados de muerte, privados de agua, comida, sueño, medicina, asistencia médica y jurídica y un largo etcétera.
- @juanbordera.bsky.social fue agredido con golpes
- Néstor Prieto cuenta como fueron amenazados de muerte, privados de agua, comida, sueño, medicina, asistencia médica y jurídica y un largo etcétera.
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉
This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.
Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders
#RStats
This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.
Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders
#RStats
September 30, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉
This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.
Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders
#RStats
This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system.
Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...
BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders
#RStats
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The @BBCWorld, @AFP, @AP & @reuters have released a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza.
September 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The @BBCWorld, @AFP, @AP & @reuters have released a short film calling on the Israeli authorities to allow international journalists access to Gaza.
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Sean Duffy, Acting Chief of NASA: "All the climate science ... we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration ... That’s why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Sean Duffy, Acting Chief of NASA: "All the climate science ... we’re going to move aside, and all of the science that we do is going to be directed towards exploration ... That’s why we have NASA, to explore, not to do all of these Earth sciences."
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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"we're spending almost as much on office buildings for agents as much as we are on office buildings for humans" is a funny sentence to think on
We're getting extremely close to the day when America spends more money to build data centers than office buildings
Only 5 years ago, office construction spending was 7x data center spending
Only 5 years ago, office construction spending was 7x data center spending
August 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"we're spending almost as much on office buildings for agents as much as we are on office buildings for humans" is a funny sentence to think on
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#climateflation graphic of the day, via @financialtimes.com
July 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
#climateflation graphic of the day, via @financialtimes.com
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July 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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I try to be open minded when people engage with climate issues, but this kind of argument about AC is really very silly. You only need replace “cooling” with “heating” to see that using appliances/energy to protect against temperature extremes should not be viewed as some kind of moral sin.
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
How do I feel about air conditioning? I’m very hot – but it’s destroying the planet | Emma Beddington
Yes, temperatures are rising. But more and more AC means more and more CO2 – and then more and more global heating. Let’s have some long-term thinking instead, writes Guardian columnist Emma Beddington
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I try to be open minded when people engage with climate issues, but this kind of argument about AC is really very silly. You only need replace “cooling” with “heating” to see that using appliances/energy to protect against temperature extremes should not be viewed as some kind of moral sin.
The best of this post is the discussion in the replies
If the ECB were prohibited from buying sovereign debt, Italian and Spanish yields would soar and German yields would go negative. We know this from Lagarde's faux pas in Mar. 2020. ECB activity in bond markets redistributes wealth from fiscally sound sovereigns to unsound ones. That is simply crazy.
July 14, 2025 at 7:06 AM
The best of this post is the discussion in the replies
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I organized an economist amicus brief in V.O.S. Selections Inc. v. Trump, the "Liberation Day" tariffs case in which the government's appeal will soon be considered by the Federal Circuit Appeal Court.
July 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I organized an economist amicus brief in V.O.S. Selections Inc. v. Trump, the "Liberation Day" tariffs case in which the government's appeal will soon be considered by the Federal Circuit Appeal Court.
Vox miente para quitarle los derechos constitucionales a miles de ciudadanos y residentes. Van a por tus vecinos de 30 años, niños que han nacido aquí, los compañeros de la escuela de tus hijos. Familias trabajadoras que han construido España.
Son fascistas y el futuro será oscuro si no se les para.
Son fascistas y el futuro será oscuro si no se les para.
Vox plantea abiertamente un “proceso” de expulsión “masiva” de migrantes www.eldiario.es/politica/vox...
July 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Vox miente para quitarle los derechos constitucionales a miles de ciudadanos y residentes. Van a por tus vecinos de 30 años, niños que han nacido aquí, los compañeros de la escuela de tus hijos. Familias trabajadoras que han construido España.
Son fascistas y el futuro será oscuro si no se les para.
Son fascistas y el futuro será oscuro si no se les para.
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
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The latest version of “Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance” is out, with a new section on firm exit.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance
This paper provides novel firm-level estimates of the economic damages caused by temperature shocks to European firms. I rely on a panel data analysis to show w
papers.ssrn.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The latest version of “Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance” is out, with a new section on firm exit.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
May 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
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This is about all of us. Never forget that.
May 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is about all of us. Never forget that.
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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The main effect of tariff insanity:
Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once.
That scar tissue will linger for a long time.
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Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once.
That scar tissue will linger for a long time.
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April 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The main effect of tariff insanity:
Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once.
That scar tissue will linger for a long time.
1/
Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once.
That scar tissue will linger for a long time.
1/
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Good news: The tariffs are just a bit of short-term pain to get long-term pain.
April 4, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Good news: The tariffs are just a bit of short-term pain to get long-term pain.
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Road pricing that accounts for vehicle weight anyone...
April 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Road pricing that accounts for vehicle weight anyone...
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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
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Let's check in with a leading introductory economics textbook.
March 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Let's check in with a leading introductory economics textbook.
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“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social
By @andykroll.bsky.social
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would…
propub.li
March 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“By firing us, you’re going to cut down on how much revenue the country brings in,” said an axed IRS specialist who’d been brought in to audit complex tax returns filed by large corporations and wealthy individuals. “This was not about saving money.”
By @andykroll.bsky.social
By @andykroll.bsky.social
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Revealing real-time indoor air pollution cuts it by 17 percent overall, 34 percent when occupied. Lower-income households face worse indoor air pollution. A $1 subsidy for monitors has infinite public value, from @rmetcalfe.bsky.social and Sefi Roth https://www.nber.org/papers/w33510
March 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Revealing real-time indoor air pollution cuts it by 17 percent overall, 34 percent when occupied. Lower-income households face worse indoor air pollution. A $1 subsidy for monitors has infinite public value, from @rmetcalfe.bsky.social and Sefi Roth https://www.nber.org/papers/w33510