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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · 21d

🇬🇷 Exciting week in Kozani (Greece) for our 5th TEAMIT+ consortium meeting!

Key highlights:
• M1 in Pamplona - 2/12/2025 (Understand)
• M2 in Bidart, France - 4/12/2025 (Innovate)
• M3 Bootcamp 1 Greece 3/2026, fo Bootcamp France - 5/2026 (create)

Recruiting open now: teamit.plus/register/

Register – TEAMIT+

teamit.plus

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Cristián (Tambo) Ducoing @tamboduc.bsky.social · 26d

Economics Seminar at
@upna.bsky.social !
📅 Date and time: Monday, September 14, 12:00 PM.
📍 Location: Meeting Room, Department of Economics (Los Madroños Building, 2nd floor, ECON-2026).
👤 Speaker: Iker Arregui-Alegria (@lusemlu.bsky.social)
📜 Title: "Basque".

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉

Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.

#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · Sep 6

13 articles and one book of mine, shall I be proud or worried?

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · Sep 6

Interesting opening paragraph from a 1982 report.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...

Screenshot with text: "Throughout most of its history, the United States has been
confident of an endless supply of energy. The first government
involvement in energy management developed after World War II.
Forecasts of a future energy crisis led President Harry Truman to
establish the Materials Policy Commission. The Commission was
mandated to investigate potential shortages of vital resources. In
1952 the commission recommended that the United States set up a
federal energy agency and begin solar energy development. Discovery
of large oil deposits and faith in the future of cheap nuclear energy
led the federal government to disregard the commission's
recommendations."

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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · Sep 6

Petrol and diesel vehicles continue to lose market share to 🔋EVs in the UK 🇬🇧

In the 12 months to August, petrol vehicles made up less than half (47.9%) of vehicles registered in the UK.

Diesel registrations fell to just 5.8%

Battery EVs rose to 22.5%🔋📈

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · Sep 3

Many colleagues have been asking for the slides from my keynote at the WEHC. You can find them on the Knowledge Transfer tab of my webpage, or use the direct link below.

Feel free to share with anyone who might find them useful!

drive.google.com/file/d/16QF6...

Keynote Mar 2.1.pdf

drive.google.com

Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · Aug 1

@.hannahritchie.bsky.social
I think you may like to see how I used some of your beautiful energy visuals in my keynote energy past (and present and future!) at the World Economic History Congress

youtu.be/oQ0Wc06MQV4?...

WEHC Keynote 3. 30th of July 2025. 6pm. AF Borgen Lund.

YouTube video by Lund University

youtu.be

Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · Aug 1

Some meat for thought about the Spanish blackout. I keep saying it is more about social sciences (markets,incentives, regulation) than about technology! -as most of our current pressing problems!

ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u...

Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · Aug 1

Here you have my keynote at the #WEHC2025 where I did explain lots of things about energy history (and present, and future).

The bit about the adoption of electric lighting got missing from the video! (read Roger Fouquet instead!)

www.youtube.com/live/GMu7y4s...

WEHC Keynote 3. 30th of July 2025. 6pm. AF Borgen Lund.

YouTube video by Lund University

www.youtube.com

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · Jul 23

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza - BBC News

More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza

A joint statement says aid workers are "now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families".

buff.ly

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Jul 23

The scale of this is hard to comprehend.

If this dam is built and generates at the advertised output (300 TWh), it would generate more electricity annually than every natural gas plant, nuclear plant, coal plant, wind farm and solar farm in Canada, combined (261 TWh in 2023). 😳

China starts building world’s biggest hydropower dam

1.2tn yuan project has broken ground in Tibet, premier says, despite fears of downstream nations India and Bangladesh

www.theguardian.com

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Just Kevin @kevinleecaster.bsky.social · May 23

Without the ability to know what the total energy use of their customers with PV installed, utilities won't be able to efficiently, in terms of cost, pollution, and meeting demand, make plans related to securing adequate generation capacity. #EnergySky #HeatPump
reneweconomy.com.au/how-electric...

How electricity meters distort the role of rooftop solar generation

On-site consumption of PV output is invisible to the meter, and shows up as a reduction in electricity consumption. Does this matter? Yes, it does.

reneweconomy.com.au

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Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social · May 23

"Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country."

Opinion | This is just embarrassing

Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country.

wapo.st

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 6

El periódico La Verdad de Murcia se hace eco de nuestra investigación sobre para quién es el agua embalsada:

www.laverdad.es/agro/falso-m...

El falso mito del agua para riego de los embalses | La Verdad

El uso fundamentalmente agrario de los grandes pantanos con el que la propaganda franquista promocionó estas infraestructuras no era tal, según un estudio de tres investi

www.laverdad.es

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 5

Are you thinking about Spain and Portugal??

Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 5

Like the ones in the 1960s made in Spain???

TheSouthAfrican.com @thesouthafrican.com · May 5

US President Donald Trump has ordered new tariffs on all films made outside the United States. Here’s more …

Donald Trump orders '100% tariff' on all MOVIES produced outside US

US President Donald Trump has ordered new tariffs on all films made outside the United States. Here's more ...

www.thesouthafrican.com

Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 4

Apparently in Sweden (Affärsvärlden by Christian Sandström) claim it was the clouds.
Here the (lack of) clouds on 28th April over the Iberian Peninsula🤦‍♀️

view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 4

Que la mañana del lunes 28 estuvo rara está claro. EDF v.2 sobre #Golfech1 (parada antes de la desconexión y el apagón)

www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/a...

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 2

www.noticiasdenavarra.com/economia/202...

"Necesitamos más interconexiones eléctricas con Francia y una de ellas pasaría por Navarra"

Mar Rubio Varas, catedrática de la UPNA y experta en economía y energía, está segura de que se tardará tiempo en saber la causa del apagón y que no será una sola. "Aprenderemos de ello y será más difí...

www.noticiasdenavarra.com

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 1

Quién me iba a decir a mi que iba a poder intervenir junto a tres sabios! debió ser cosa de brujas (o de apagones!)

Rob Ocáriz @robocariz.bsky.social · Apr 30

Qué maravilla hoy el Ciencia en el Bar, gracias @marrubio.bsky.social @joaquinsevilla.bsky.social @javierarmentia.bsky.social @microbioblog.bsky.social

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 1

En el capítulo de las cosas importantes que se hacen en mi departamento de la UPNA está esto que publica hoy El País

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · May 1

El mito del control del gobierno a las elétricas (ni entonces, ni ahora)
www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.publ...

La evolución del sector eléctrico, del mito del control franquista a la selva de intereses privados

España, Portugal y algunas zonas del sur de Francia se han quedado este lunes sin suministro eléctrico.

www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org

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Mar Rubio-Varas @marrv.bsky.social · Apr 29

Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis
theconversation.com/spain-and-po...

Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis

Robust systems, decisive moves by the authorities and responsible reactions from the public were all responsible for averting catastrophe.

theconversation.com

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · Apr 29

LA VIÑETA | El apagón

✍️Por Manel Fontdevila

El apagón

www.eldiario.es

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