Umich folks, for us this is the Maize & Blue Cupboard mbc.studentlife.umich.edu

This storm looks so bad. My heart goes out to friends and colleagues in Jamaica right now.

🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇

Our new review paper, "A Guide to Climate Damages," is an attempt at unifying three kinds of papers:

“hot weather lowers corn and soy yields”

with “farmers can alter their crop choice”

and with “there’s a lot of trade in agricultural products”

1/4

www.nber.org/papers/w34348

In his Moving On post, Ari Shapiro talks about keeping the ATC mission posted near his desk.

Here's what I keep posted near my desk.

Thanks, @ari-shapiro.bsky.social, for metaphorically holding my hand every time my research hits a roadblock!

arishapiro.substack.com/p/moving-on

Got into a friendly argument with a family member over whether California or the Midwest will be relatively worse for smoky days in the coming years.

Want to go on a journey with us? 1/n

Saw this interesting puddle at Lake Superior yesterday that also happens to be roughly the shape of Lake Superior.

Hey fellow profs, if you don't already, you might consider sending out congratulatory emails to the students who really nailed it. Definitely my favorite part of the end of the semester. The students who were curious, insightful, hardworking - we see you!

In middle school math league, I was asked to calculate the angles of a 7-pointed star.

I calculated the angles for a 7/3 heptagram, but the answer key was for a 7/2 heptagram, and I received no credit.

still bitter

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptagram

Hopefully this is a useful tool: findlostdata.org

Heads up, the Biden-Harris White House websites are now archived! If you have an old link that gives an error, you can delete the www . whitehouse in the link (be sure to remove the www) and replace with bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ [rest of your link]
bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/news-up...

This is awesome

Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:

[vince_guaraldi_trio_christmas_time.mp3]

There is a great new special issue of @jaereaere.bsky.social on "Distributional Consequences of New Energy Technologies and Policies", edited by @catiehausman.bsky.social, @ariklevinson.bsky.social and Shanjun Li. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jaere/20...