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Kristoffer Sundström
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🎓 PhD Candidate in Economics at Luleå University of Technology.
🌿 Environmental Economist.
⚖️ Environmental Permitting Processes.
🎮 Gamer and tech nerd.
🧗🏼‍♂️ Climber.

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Website: https://kristoffer-sundstroem.github.io/
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Kristoffer Sundström @k-sundstroem.bsky.social · Dec 12
Are you an environmental economist or maybe just interested in environmental economics?🌿📊

Then my simple Environmental Economics feed might be for you! The feed is quite simple and might be refined in the future, but it's a good starting place.

#EconSky #AcademicSky
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A 3-day trip to the Swedish mountains was exactly what I needed to gather the last bit of energy to finish my thesis. 🗻
September 1, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Not more than a week ago I let my mind wander back to my climbing trip to Kalymnos in May, mainly due to the relatively bad summer. Now the heatwave have hit northern Sweden and I long for the early summer weather of Kalymnos which felt just perfect. Can't wait to go back.

#Climbing
July 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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📢 New paper alert! We challenge the idea that markets > standards for cutting industrial pollution. In the race to zero-carbon, performance standards may be the real game-changer.

🧠 Rethink policy tools:
doi.org/10.1080/0021...

#EconSky
#PhDSky
June 9, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Reposted by Kristoffer Sundström
brenttoderian.bsky.social
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
Iconic cartoon with people looking at a long list of public benefits connected with climate action, asking “What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
March 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Reposted by Kristoffer Sundström
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This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.

Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
Illegal dumping grounds off the New Jersey turnpike across from Manhattan in the 1970s Smog rolling on over Manhattan in the 1970s
March 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Kristoffer Sundström
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The calls for authoritarianism from the world's richest man grow more fervent
February 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
k-sundstroem.bsky.social
It feels like I lose technological knowledge as I age...

#AcademicSky #PhDSky
February 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Feels like stress is catching up to me. In the past three months, I've been sick more often than during my entire PhD journey.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky
February 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Sick, once again! I really do not have time for this and there is a risk that I will miss our advisory board meeting in which I was hoping to get some valuable feedback on my third paper for the thesis. I guess I just hunker down with vitamins, tea/coffee and cough drops.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
January 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Exploring SF is amazing and I am really looking forward to a couple more days here.
A vibrant street scene with a mural of a musician playing a guitar on the side of a red building. Below the mural is a colorful storefront with fresh produce displayed outside, including oranges, grapefruits, and squash. A tree partially obscures the storefront, and people are seated at a bench in the foreground.
January 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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After all, I managed to meet the deadlines. Now, onwards to San Francisco and #ASSA2025!

#PhDSky #EconSky #AcademicSky
January 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Kristoffer Sundström
eriknordman.bsky.social
Great post on the relationship between whaling and fossil fuels. Kerosene did not displace whale oil and save the whales. Rather, whale oil augmented petroleum based lubricants. Whaling peaked in the 1960, not 1860s.
Chart showing annual sperm whale catches from 1835 to 1975. A line marks when kerosene was introduced in the 1860s. Whale catches were low but surged in 1930s, peaked around 1965. They declined quickly after that.
December 30, 2024 at 5:18 PM
k-sundstroem.bsky.social
My weakness has for a long time been academic writing. I find it hard to start the writing process, but as soon as I take some time with it I find it quite fun.

So how do you practice writing other than the obvious, writing articles?

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
December 29, 2024 at 12:28 PM
k-sundstroem.bsky.social
I'm looking to connect with economists that share my interest in environmental policy during the ASSA meeting in San Francisco.

Would anyone be up for a lunch?

#EconSky #AcademicSky
December 26, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Oh this is amazing, can't wait!
catsuka.bsky.social Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · Dec 16
First trailer of "Asterix & Obelix : The Big Fight" french animated series.
Directed by Alain Chabat & Fabrice Joubert at TAT studio.
Coming in 2025 on Netflix.
Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJnD...
December 16, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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I was starting to worry about the lack of snow up here in the north these last couple of weeks, but last night's snowfall finally delivered. We will have a white Christmas after all.
The image shows a snowy outdoor scene with footprints leading up to a partially opened white door of a gray wooden building. The snow on the ground appears undisturbed except for the fresh footprints. The lighting suggests nighttime or late evening, with a light source illuminating the area near the door.
December 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Do you remember your first video game? 🕹️ My first memory of a video game is playing "Combat"on an old Atari 2600. The step from the Atari 2600 to the SNES was huge!

#Gaming
A screenshot from a retro, pixelated video game shows two small tanks on a red background, one green tank on the left and one blue tank on the right. The tanks are surrounded by yellow blocks, resembling a maze or arena layout, with yellow barriers and openings. The tanks appear to be firing small projectiles toward each other in a competitive duel. The graphics are minimalistic and blocky, typical of early video games from the Atari era.
December 15, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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Deadlines on the 31st of December and the 2nd of January are not healthy for a procrastinator like me.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
December 15, 2024 at 7:02 PM
k-sundstroem.bsky.social
Are you an environmental economist or maybe just interested in environmental economics?🌿📊

Then my simple Environmental Economics feed might be for you! The feed is quite simple and might be refined in the future, but it's a good starting place.

#EconSky #AcademicSky
December 12, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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The home office are slowly coming together. Just in time for the last 7 months of my PhD journey.

#PhDSky #AcademicSky
A minimalistic computer setup in a dimly lit room. The desk features a wooden surface with a computer monitor, keyboard, mouse, and headphones. A black gaming chair is positioned on the left, and a DSLR camera is placed on the right side of the desk. A yellow desk lamp illuminates the setup, and white curtains cover the window in the background.
December 10, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Honestly I am feeling lost, can someone working in R give me a hint of where I might have gone wrong in importing the data in Day 2 of Advent of Code? #AdventofCode
December 9, 2024 at 9:07 PM
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As I took on #AdventofCode this year I realized how spoiled I have been with well structured datasets. Solving the problems in R feels challenging and sometimes hopeless!
December 8, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Do you include your GitHub profile in your email signatures?

#AcademicSky #PhDSky
December 6, 2024 at 8:49 AM
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How do you deal with submitted papers that gets stuck as "under review" for extended amounts of time (8 months and counting)? I have, without any luck, tried to reach the EOs in order to get an update as to why its stuck under review.
#EconSky #AcademicSky #PhDLife
December 5, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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As I recently joined Bluesky I thought that I would share a news article from 7 months ago about some of the results from the research my supervisor Patrik Söderholm and I conducted on Swedish environmental permitting and review processes. 🌿📄
#EconSky
NEW RESEARCH: How to get a smoother environmental review - advice for companies in transition - Esbri
The green transition in northern Sweden risks stalling unless environmental permitting processes are streamlined. This, according to researchers at Norrlandsnavet, who give entrepreneurs advice along ...
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December 3, 2024 at 9:22 AM