Seth Morgan
@sethmorgan.bsky.social
Environmental economist at The Nature Conservancy. Interests: impact evaluation, ecosystem services, conservation effectiveness, environment for development. Opinions my own.
Looking for some spooky reads? The Enthusiast has some recs (no paywall). My choice was White Tears by @harikunzru.bsky.social , a furious, haunting read I haven’t stopped thinking about since I read it. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Captain's Choice: Frightening Books
Intriguing nightmares
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October 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Looking for some spooky reads? The Enthusiast has some recs (no paywall). My choice was White Tears by @harikunzru.bsky.social , a furious, haunting read I haven’t stopped thinking about since I read it. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Right now I’m reading The Fraud by @zadiesmith.bsky.social and Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices, and I’m pretty sure Smith read Shklar! Eliza in the Fraud says “Cruelty stands apart. In any degree cruelty is a crime. It is the very worst that we can do“ echoing Shklar’s “putting cruelty first.”
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Right now I’m reading The Fraud by @zadiesmith.bsky.social and Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices, and I’m pretty sure Smith read Shklar! Eliza in the Fraud says “Cruelty stands apart. In any degree cruelty is a crime. It is the very worst that we can do“ echoing Shklar’s “putting cruelty first.”
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Urban trees can lower temps by up to 12°C, but it’s not just about quantity. Species, layout and local climate all play a role in how effective they are. Strategic planting leads to cooler streets, cleaner air and healthier communities, especially in neighborhoods vulnerable to rising temperatures.
Trees are natural ACs for cities, if you plant the right ones
Urban trees are on the rise but researchers are only starting to uncover the best way to cool cities with them
dialogue.earth
October 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Urban trees can lower temps by up to 12°C, but it’s not just about quantity. Species, layout and local climate all play a role in how effective they are. Strategic planting leads to cooler streets, cleaner air and healthier communities, especially in neighborhoods vulnerable to rising temperatures.
Great piece from Steven Kennedy on the late great Robert Redford’s ability to act while talking on the phone: open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
On the Phone with Robert Redford
Pick it up and listen
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September 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Great piece from Steven Kennedy on the late great Robert Redford’s ability to act while talking on the phone: open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Really enjoying @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's series on pre-modern peasants -- the majority of people who have ever lived. So knowledgeable and fascinating. acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part I: Households
This is the first post in a series discussing the basic contours of life – birth, marriage, labor, subsistence, death – of pre-modern peasants and their families. Prior to the industria…
acoup.blog
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Really enjoying @bretdevereaux.bsky.social's series on pre-modern peasants -- the majority of people who have ever lived. So knowledgeable and fascinating. acoup.blog/2025/07/11/c...
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The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.
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August 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.
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Got an essay out about the poetry power-couple Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall. Also loss, grief, and mortality. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Open Tombs: Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon
the pain-deadening walk forward after loss
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August 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Got an essay out about the poetry power-couple Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall. Also loss, grief, and mortality. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Really loving @liberalcurrents.com these days. Always challenges my brain and adds to my reading list. Good stuff by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com , @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com , @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and others.
August 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Really loving @liberalcurrents.com these days. Always challenges my brain and adds to my reading list. Good stuff by @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com , @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com , @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com and others.
With my latest project I switched from stargazer to modelsummary for generating tables. Really great R package! Thanks to @vincentab.bsky.social. modelsummary.com
modelsummary: Data and Model Summaries in R
modelsummary.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
With my latest project I switched from stargazer to modelsummary for generating tables. Really great R package! Thanks to @vincentab.bsky.social. modelsummary.com
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Is there a field biologist in the Portland, Oregon, area who wouldn't mind being in a bear suit for an hour in the woods on August 4. For science. DM me.
July 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Is there a field biologist in the Portland, Oregon, area who wouldn't mind being in a bear suit for an hour in the woods on August 4. For science. DM me.
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My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
My practical tips for designing and analyzing powerful experiments
blogs.worldbank.org
July 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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🦐 Shrimp farms in Indonesia yield more when surrounded by mangroves.
Restoring mangroves = better shrimp + stronger climate resilience. Let’s farm smarter, not harder.
Learn more about this work here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Restoring mangroves = better shrimp + stronger climate resilience. Let’s farm smarter, not harder.
Learn more about this work here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
🦐 Shrimp farms in Indonesia yield more when surrounded by mangroves.
Restoring mangroves = better shrimp + stronger climate resilience. Let’s farm smarter, not harder.
Learn more about this work here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Restoring mangroves = better shrimp + stronger climate resilience. Let’s farm smarter, not harder.
Learn more about this work here link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Looking for economists to follow on BlueSky, in particular in your field or geographic area? IDEAS has various lists to help you. See there as well to get listed (hint: just add your BlueSky handle in your author profile)
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#RePEc #EconSky
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#RePEc #EconSky
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July 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Looking for economists to follow on BlueSky, in particular in your field or geographic area? IDEAS has various lists to help you. See there as well to get listed (hint: just add your BlueSky handle in your author profile)
ideas.repec.org/i/ebluesky.h...
#RePEc #EconSky
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#RePEc #EconSky
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The first commit for the #rstats {tigris} package was 10 (!) years ago, and the package is still going strong.
tigris gets geographic data from the US Census Bureau into R for you -- often in a single line of code.
As tigris turns 10, let's review what it can do:
tigris gets geographic data from the US Census Bureau into R for you -- often in a single line of code.
As tigris turns 10, let's review what it can do:
July 18, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The first commit for the #rstats {tigris} package was 10 (!) years ago, and the package is still going strong.
tigris gets geographic data from the US Census Bureau into R for you -- often in a single line of code.
As tigris turns 10, let's review what it can do:
tigris gets geographic data from the US Census Bureau into R for you -- often in a single line of code.
As tigris turns 10, let's review what it can do:
Nice resource on measuring wealth in surveys: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
How should we measure household wealth in our surveys?
blogs.worldbank.org
July 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Nice resource on measuring wealth in surveys: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
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I am pleased to share the most significant study that I have so far contributed to. We find overwhelming evidence that mechanical thinning and prescribed fire reduce subsequent wildfire severity across seasonally dry forests in the western USA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I am pleased to share the most significant study that I have so far contributed to. We find overwhelming evidence that mechanical thinning and prescribed fire reduce subsequent wildfire severity across seasonally dry forests in the western USA. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I wrote a love letter to my favorite webcomics. Thanks @badmachinery.com , @meredithgran.com and @katebeaton.bsky.social for being there for me in my adulting years! open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Bildungscomics: An Internet Coming of Age
Clicking "Random" again
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July 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wrote a love letter to my favorite webcomics. Thanks @badmachinery.com , @meredithgran.com and @katebeaton.bsky.social for being there for me in my adulting years! open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Just saw today that Ngugi wa Thiong'o passed away last week. Farewell to a great writer! If you haven't read Wizard of the Crow, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's a wild and furious ride. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
‘In his company you could not be lazy’: remembering my friend Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
A giant of African literature whose best works existed between the political and the personal, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was warm, funny and friendly – and liked to bet on my pool games
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Just saw today that Ngugi wa Thiong'o passed away last week. Farewell to a great writer! If you haven't read Wizard of the Crow, do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's a wild and furious ride. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Some economic sociology for #econsky to ponder from @rollingdownhill.com "How much mobility is there?" - More than you'd think but less than you'd hope. And Michael does a good job at pulling texture and detail out of the data: www.rollingdownhill.com/p/how-much-m...
How much mobility is there?
Mobility Rates Out of Low-Wage Work in the U.S.
www.rollingdownhill.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Some economic sociology for #econsky to ponder from @rollingdownhill.com "How much mobility is there?" - More than you'd think but less than you'd hope. And Michael does a good job at pulling texture and detail out of the data: www.rollingdownhill.com/p/how-much-m...
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What happens when 1,000+ scientists come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest nature and climate challenges in over 80 countries around the world? Innovation, impact, and hope--that's what!
If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️
If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️
Annual Report for Science
Come learn about what the science team at TNC was up to in 2024.
www.nature.org
May 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
What happens when 1,000+ scientists come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest nature and climate challenges in over 80 countries around the world? Innovation, impact, and hope--that's what!
If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️
If you're looking for encouraging news, check out our 2024 @nature_org Science Impact Report ⬇️
I wrote about Wendell Berry and Wiesław Myśliwski‘s wonderful novel Stone Upon Stone. Also a goat. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
Try Saying "Earth"
Masala greeted me by pissing into his own mouth
open.substack.com
May 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I wrote about Wendell Berry and Wiesław Myśliwski‘s wonderful novel Stone Upon Stone. Also a goat. open.substack.com/pub/theenthu...
April 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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It’s been great seeing people publish their Surf feeds to Bluesky today. Thanks for giving it a whirl. 🌊
Here are some cool feeds to check out this weekend. 🧵...
Here are some cool feeds to check out this weekend. 🧵...
April 25, 2025 at 11:34 PM
It’s been great seeing people publish their Surf feeds to Bluesky today. Thanks for giving it a whirl. 🌊
Here are some cool feeds to check out this weekend. 🧵...
Here are some cool feeds to check out this weekend. 🧵...
I made a feed using @surf.social consisting of folks I heard about via the podcasts “Know Your Enemy” and “You’re Wrong About” — among others. I think of them as…
The “Do the Reading” Left
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The “Do the Reading” Left
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April 25, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I made a feed using @surf.social consisting of folks I heard about via the podcasts “Know Your Enemy” and “You’re Wrong About” — among others. I think of them as…
The “Do the Reading” Left
bsky.app/profile/did:...
The “Do the Reading” Left
bsky.app/profile/did:...