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Alistair Munro
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Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2h
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: does proximity to a local air quality monitoring station matter for regulartory strictness, pollution and production? Xi Liu & Yinhe Liang show that it does for firms in China. #EAERE #Econsky
Information, Distance and Firms’ Responses: Evidence from Polluting Monitoring in China - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - This paper explores the unintended consequences of an automated air quality monitoring program aimed at enhancing air quality information disclosure in China....
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7h
Don’t want to be the complete cynic about the reliability of AI detection services, but I note that many of these AI “detectors” are very quick to offer a humanisation service after they “spot” AI-written text.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8h
B does not follow from A.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 14h
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

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I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: both adaptation and mitigation are important part of global responses to climate change. Michèle Breton & Lucia Sbragia explore how the Paris agreement alters the strategic incentives for countries. #EAERE #Econsky
Adaptation in Target-Based International Environmental Agreements - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - In this paper, we examine the impact of adaptive investments on international environmental agreements that, like the current Paris Agreement, have a...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
183 died, most of them forced labourers from Korea. But you have to question whether it is worth further deaths in order to recover the bodies.
japantimes.co.jp The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 1d
A male diver died after falling ill during a survey to search for the remains of victims of the 1942 underwater coal mine disaster off Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Diver dies in underwater coal mine survey in Japan
The diver was sent to the hospital but was confirmed dead, according to prefectural police.
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 1d
A male diver died after falling ill during a survey to search for the remains of victims of the 1942 underwater coal mine disaster off Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Diver dies in underwater coal mine survey in Japan
The diver was sent to the hospital but was confirmed dead, according to prefectural police.
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
Snow brings out some unusual creatures in Ibaraki

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
Pavement Tetris

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: Claire Doll examines how tree-planting preferences in Western Australia depend on information provision. #EAERE #Econsky
What We Know Shapes What We Grow: Environmental Information Treatment Effects on Urban Tree Choices - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - The growing number of urban greening programs, and in particular street tree policies, reflects the need to adapt to changing environmental conditions in...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
Reminds of when I wandered into this place and asked for a French polish.
Crab restaurant in Shinjuku

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: how should CBA be done for pilot projects that generate spillovers? With the French glassware industry as a case study,
Maryam Sadighi Jean-Pierre Ponssard, Maria Eugenia Sanin, Murès Zarea & Elodie Le Cadre Loret provide answers.
Sectoral Cost-Benefit Analysis for Clean Technology Demonstrators: Insights for Decarbonizing Hard-to-Abate Industries - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - Adopting disruptive technologies to decarbonize hard-to-abate industrial sectors requires experimentation through demonstration (pilot) projects. However,...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
In February's Environmental and Resource Economics: Bui Bich Xuan, Quach Thi Khanh Ngoc, Claire W. Armstrong, Godwin K. Vondolia & Pham Khanh Nam investigate the roles of social norms in sustaining illegal fishing activities in Vietnam. #Econsky #EAERE

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Understanding Non-Compliance with Rights-Based Fisheries Management In Vietnam - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - Understanding the determinants of non-compliance is crucial for the effective management and conservation of small-scale fisheries. This study empirically...
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 3d
Louvre releases photos of crown damaged in heist - but insists it will be restored
Louvre releases photos of crown damaged in heist - but insists it will be restored
The crown of French Empress Eugenie recovered after last year's Louvre heist was left damaged - but remains largely intact and will be restored, the museum has said. 
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
A balanced panel?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
😀I mean, did they ever start to get suspicious or was it only after seeing the camera recording that they checked back?

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John Mashey @johnmashey.bsky.social · 3d
Not only that, but denialist-bench-weakness=> including Canadian economist with experience of *falsification* & being brought to US to impede science-based climate policy, via CEI+George Marshall Institute=> Jim Inhofe, Joe Barton=>Wegman Report , all in early 2000s.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
Kind of impressed that Aeon mall is not just covering white day and the Uniqlo sale in their house magazine but is now digging deep into philosophy. Is there some tie in with Cainz for this piece?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
I’d be more impressed if it was only the clockwise side

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
Inubousaki is a day trip from Tokyo and has a small museum, much of it about Brunton

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Daniel Warriner @danielwarriner.com · 4d
(1/7) Keisuke Kinoshita’s 1957 film 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘑𝘰𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸 (喜びも悲しみも幾歳月), also known as 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦, was shot at ten lighthouses across Japan. Kannonzaki Lighthouse, Kanagawa below on right, and more screenshots from the film in thread…

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 4d
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
Lovely study, but "High" is perhaps overstating it. The y axis shows percentage change. With a baseline of 0.68%, average conviction rate rises by about 1/1000 of a conviction per year per person.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 5d
Only 10 cases of Guinea worm disease were recorded *globally* last year.

It may become the second human disease we eradicate, after smallpox.
Semafor: Guinea worm neared global eradication, with just 10 cases reported worldwide in 2025, all of them in Chad, Ethiopia, or South Sudan. When former US President Jimmy Carter founded an eradication program in the mid-1980s, there were millions of infections in developing countries and the only human disease that had ever previously been permanently defeated was smallpox. The parasitic infection, transmitted via contaminated water, leads to three-foot worms emerging from painful leg ulcers, and causes long-term incapacitation and disability. While Carter did not, as he hoped, outlive the last Guinea worm (he died in 2024), he may have come close; the 10 cases mark a 33% decrease year-on-year.

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James D.J. Brown @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social · 5d
Honda remains popular in Russia despite the firm no longer having official representation there. Registration of new Hondas was up 18% in 2025. Imports of used Hondas were up 12%.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
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Correspondence with Noam Chomsky
This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.
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James D.J. Brown @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social · 5d
Japan’s exports to Russia of agricultural products & seafood jumped 439% in 2025. The total value of these exports was $246m.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 5d
Are you a #Stata user? Maybe you work with one?

Have you ever found yourself copy-pasting from the results window?

It's annoying as hell! And terrible practice. So I wrote a blog post on using #rstats to extract results from Stata log files

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Using R to extract results from Stata log files – Ben Harrap
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
The entrumpification of Japanese politics has arrived