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Tim Foreman
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Research Scholar, IIASA
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Affiliated Research Associate, King's College London
Formerly EIEE

Environmental Economics & Biodiversity/Climate Finance
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neillewisjr.bsky.social
In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)"

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
news.cornell.edu
December 9, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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deanbaker13.bsky.social
People can sell their funds in these tax-sheltered accounts and pay zero taxes, as long as they keep it in the account. This means if they shift into a bond fund, a small stock index fund, an international fund, or a money fund, they owe no taxes.
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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catiehausman.bsky.social
Two interesting news items from NYU's Institute for Policy Integrity!

A new DC office, with Martha Roberts and Al McGartland: policyintegrity.org/files/media/...

& their website now hosts a ton of social cost of carbon documents that can now be otherwise hard to find:
costofcarbon.org/resources
policyintegrity.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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karenrlips.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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paulgp.com
Interesting paper highlight that binning can be misspecified in panel settings - this drives misinterpretation of extreme temperature shocks. #linkoftheday

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1ya6z...
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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cpearsall242.bsky.social
Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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dave.bzky.team
Ok apparently this is actually not widely known: Gov. Shapiro withdrew Pennsylvania from RGGI today as part of a deal to pass a now-4month overdue budget.
dave.bzky.team David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 27d
So.....did no one else notice that Pennsylvania just dropped RGGI?
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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rmetcalfe.bsky.social
Second is Hayeon Jeong.
JMP: Does Greater Policy Intensity Improve Policy
effectiveness? Evidence from Seoul, South Korea
Website: sites.google.com/view/hayeonj...
Interests: Environmental Econ, Behavioral Econ
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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rmetcalfe.bsky.social
The first is Hannah Farkas.
JMP: "The Economic Incidence of Schedule Unpredictability in Hourly Work"
Website: hannahfarkas.github.io
Interests: Environmental Econ, Labor Econ
November 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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theonion.com
Sober October Ends As Deer Realizes Apple He Just Ate Fermented https://theonion.com/sober-october-ends-as-deer-realizes-apple-he-just-ate-fermented/
Sober October Ends As Deer Realizes Apple He Just Ate Fermented
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.
3fecta.bsky.social Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · Oct 19
Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.
October 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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saletan.bsky.social
If you’ve been telling yourself that we’re not really living under an authoritarian government, at some point you have to look at what’s going on and admit that this is what’s happening.

I know it’s hard to accept. It sounds like it must be an exaggeration. But it’s true.
Prosecutor Who Rejected Trump’s Pressure to Charge James Is Fired
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
timforeman.bsky.social
If you're wondering how the right is taking the Santos pardon Newsmax had Rod Blagojevich on to say how great of an idea it was
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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kathleenclark.bsky.social
A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.
Dear Madam Secretary, I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters. I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education. As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples: • MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions. • MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%. source: https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact • We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree. These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law. The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education. As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation. Sincerely, Sally Kornbluth
October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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arindube.bsky.social
This action by Lisa Cook is courageous, principled, and deserves broad support.
bencasselman.bsky.social Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Aug 26
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
bencasselman.bsky.social Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · Aug 26
President Trump said he is firing Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, "effective immediately." It's his most direct assault yet on Fed independence -- and a step that it is far from clear he can legally take.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/u... #EconSky
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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dinfontay.com
I know there's a lot going on but I would've thought the federal government trying to unilaterally toss out the collective bargaining agreements it agreed to with ~360,000 nurses would've made a bigger splash yesterday. (I just heard about this myself!)
VA terminates union contracts for most bargaining-unit employees - VA News
Union contracts for most bargaining-unit employees are terminated by VA.
news.va.gov
August 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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chloeneast.bsky.social
Who is Arrested by ICE under Trump 2.0? A 🧵

New from me & @elizabethacox.bsky.social!

Piece: immresearch.org/publications...

1. ICE arrests spike in Jan & May 2025; when arrests increase, percent of those arrested who are convicted of a crime falls

Majority arrested have no criminal conviction
July 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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iiasa.ac.at
The Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (#AAR2), co-led by IIASA & partners, shows 🇦🇹 warming by 3.1°C since 1900 - twice the global rate.
🌡️ More extreme weather
💧 Rising risks to health & economy
✅ Prevention is more cost-effective than inaction
iiasa.ac.at/news/jun-202...
June 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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palumboliu.bsky.social
academeblog.org/2025/05/27/o.... Excellent and urgent statement. Please share.
Open Letter from Concerned Faculty from Columbia University, Barnard College, and Teachers College
BY CONCERNED FACULTY AT COLUMBIA, BARNARD, AND TEACHERS COLLEGE We are publishing this letter at the request of several AAUP members from Columbia, Barnard, and Teachers College. The letter was dra…
academeblog.org
May 27, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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sorrytobekurt.bsky.social
Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the @iies.su.se has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here:
www.su.se/institute-fo...
Work with us - Institute for International Economic Studies
Are you interested in applying for a job at Stockholm University?
www.su.se
May 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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joekatz45.bsky.social
Scripts and language to demand your members of Congress not pretend this is business as usual tomorrow morning while LaMonica McIver is being threatened with imprisonment.
May 20, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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dariia.bsky.social
❗️Our next workshop will be on May 22nd, 6 pm CEST, on Power Bpy: python package for automating and accelerating Power BI dashboard development by
@rshean.bsky.social!
Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine!
Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S
Please share!
#AcademicSky #EconSky #Python
May 9, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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juliaradio.bsky.social
As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead. 🍃🇮🇩

The first in a series (!) of positive climate solution stories, only on @npr.org 📻🎧
This country is slowing climate action. Its capital city is stepping up
As many federal governments slow — or reverse — climate action, Austria's capital, Vienna, wants to show how cities can take the lead.
www.npr.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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lauradbertola.bsky.social
The global human impact on biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The global human impact on biodiversity - Nature
Key measures of biodiversity were quantified and found to be affected by human pressures that shifted community composition and decreased local diversity across terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecos...
www.nature.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
HAPPENING NOW: Bail hearing for Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts PhD student who remains in detention in Louisiana after she was taken from her home in Massachusetts by masked immigration authorities.

The hearing is before a Vermont judge. Ozturk is appearing virtually from Louisiana.
May 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM