iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture.

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Jane Mayl🍷n 🍇 @janetrad.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"As his post goes on, his language gets older. 100 years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words" Fascinating. So how far back in time can YOU go?

deadlanguagesociety.com

How far back in time can you understand English?

An experiment in language change

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Americans are dying from extreme heat Examination of 100s of autopsy reports reveals tragic stories They show lives cut short in ordinary, preventable ways Exceptional reporting by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social #climatcrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Americans are dying from extreme heat. Autopsy reports don’t show the full story

Official reports are likely to overlook heat’s role in a death. As US temperatures rise, experts say the true toll needs to be counted

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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This article is just bollocks, isn't it? There are lots of good reasons not to eat many Doritos, but the carbon footprint of the corn going into them isn't one of them, because eating almost anything else would be worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

Industrially made foods involve several ingredients and processes to put together, making it difficult to examine their true cost

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Adrián Santonja @adriansantonja.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Eliminating a few percent of the world’s warming is a big deal when the costs are so small. It seems insane to me that such a cheap solution is sitting there, completely untapped." We could reduce the climate impact of aviation by ≈50% in a few years, and nobody seems to be taking this seriously!

sustainabilitybynumbers.com

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap

Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?

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Anna Schulze Tilling @annaschulzetilling.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

In 2022, I partnered with the student canteens of @unibonn.bsky.social to evaluate the effectiveness of carbon labels on their menus. The result: Emission-heavy meat consumption decreased by 5%. Thrilled to see StW Bonn has now permanently installed the labels!

Screenshot of canteen menu showing carbon labels

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Karl Schwartz @karluchipa.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Informative, importand and readable. Worth your time.

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Keith Raymond Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

ChatGPT's values, according to ChatGPT:

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Jakob Wegmann @jakobwegmann.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hello #EconSky! 📢Excited to share my #JMP 📢 It provides a missing piece to understand how people react to income taxation. Tldr: By changing tax pre-payments governments can - with almost no costs - increase perceived work incentives of secondary earners and reduce the gender gap. Thread below👇🧵

To collect income taxes, almost all countries require employers to withhold monthly tax prepayments which are then fully credited against the final income tax liabilities of their employees. Despite being a fundamental component of income taxation systems worldwide, the impact of these withholding taxes on labor supply is poorly understood. We investigate their importance in the context of married couples in Germany where the withholding tax liability can be redistributed between spouses. We exploit a reform that reduced the withholding tax for some married women more than for others, while inducing no differences in income taxes. Using administrative data for the full population of German taxpayers, we estimate an elasticity of labor income with respect to the withholding tax eight years after the reform of 0.14. Additional evidence from a self-conducted survey suggests imperfect understanding of the tax system and limited pooling of resources within the household as the main mechanisms. As the majority of couples shift parts of the withholding tax liability from the husband to the wife, our results suggest that the increased withholding tax liability of married women contributes to their low labor supply. This highlights the need for governments to be aware of the distortion of labor supply incentives when the design of withholding taxes does not match actual income tax incentives.

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Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann @cpz-econ.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

JMP alert 🎉 What drives maternal labor supply - a key factor for labor market inequalities? Gender role attitudes! We use reduced form and structural methods to show that they are of first-order importance, both directly and through the mediation of policies (w/ Tim Mensinger) 🧵👇

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