Mar Rubio-Varas
@marrv.bsky.social
Energy.History.Economics & Business.
Cornucopian.
Del Atleti y osasunista.
Cornucopian.
Del Atleti y osasunista.
Announcement (it is online and free!) The water-energy-food nexus symposium 2025 is here:
www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...
www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...
October 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Announcement (it is online and free!) The water-energy-food nexus symposium 2025 is here:
www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...
www.waterfootprint.org/event/water-...
🇬🇷 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/
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
September 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
🇬🇷 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/
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/
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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".
@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".
September 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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".
@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".
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
Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.
#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService
September 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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
Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.
#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService
13 articles and one book of mine, shall I be proud or worried?
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.
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
September 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
13 articles and one book of mine, shall I be proud or worried?
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Interesting opening paragraph from a 1982 report.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...
September 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Interesting opening paragraph from a 1982 report.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2...
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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%🔋📈
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%🔋📈
September 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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%🔋📈
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%🔋📈
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...
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
September 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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...
Feel free to share with anyone who might find them useful!
drive.google.com/file/d/16QF6...
@.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?...
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
August 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
@.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?...
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?...
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...
ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u...
August 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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...
ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u...
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...
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
August 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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...
The bit about the adoption of electric lighting got missing from the video! (read Roger Fouquet instead!)
www.youtube.com/live/GMu7y4s...
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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
July 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
More than 100 humanitarian groups warn of mass starvation in Gaza - BBC News
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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). 😳
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
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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). 😳
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). 😳
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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...
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
May 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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...
reneweconomy.com.au/how-electric...
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"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
May 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Everywhere I looked this week, I cringed for my country."
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...
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
May 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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...
www.laverdad.es/agro/falso-m...
Like the ones in the 1960s made in Spain???
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
May 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Like the ones in the 1960s made in Spain???
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...
Here the (lack of) clouds on 28th April over the Iberian Peninsula🤦♀️
view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...
May 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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...
Here the (lack of) clouds on 28th April over the Iberian Peninsula🤦♀️
view.eumetsat.int/productviewe...
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...
www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/a...
May 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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...
www.edf.fr/groupe-edf/a...
Quién me iba a decir a mi que iba a poder intervenir junto a tres sabios! debió ser cosa de brujas (o de apagones!)
Qué maravilla hoy el Ciencia en el Bar, gracias @marrubio.bsky.social @joaquinsevilla.bsky.social @javierarmentia.bsky.social @microbioblog.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Quién me iba a decir a mi que iba a poder intervenir junto a tres sabios! debió ser cosa de brujas (o de apagones!)
En el capítulo de las cosas importantes que se hacen en mi departamento de la UPNA está esto que publica hoy El País
May 1, 2025 at 9:25 AM
En el capítulo de las cosas importantes que se hacen en mi departamento de la UPNA está esto que publica hoy El País
El mito del control del gobierno a las elétricas (ni entonces, ni ahora)
www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.publ...
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
May 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
El mito del control del gobierno a las elétricas (ni entonces, ni ahora)
www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.publ...
www-publico-es.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.publ...
Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis
theconversation.com/spain-and-po...
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
April 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Spain and Portugal power cut: how public and official responses have prevented this energy emergency from becoming a crisis
theconversation.com/spain-and-po...
theconversation.com/spain-and-po...
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LA VIÑETA | El apagón
✍️Por Manel Fontdevila
✍️Por Manel Fontdevila
El apagón
El apagón
www.eldiario.es
April 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
LA VIÑETA | El apagón
✍️Por Manel Fontdevila
✍️Por Manel Fontdevila