Reposted by Tore EllingsenGeorg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"What could make a much bigger difference is electrification" "Over two thirds of the energy in the fossil system is lost as heat [...] electricity is 23% of final energy, but it delivers almost 40% of useful energy" 👍🏻 1104
Reposted by Tore EllingsenDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Elon Musk, FRS. Royal Society justify not booting him out because, after all, Isaac Newton wasn’t a nice person. And yes, he was doing exactly these things in summer of 2024 when @royalsociety.org first reconsidered his fellowship 05117
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Kremlev is an apt surname. Here is the Wikipedia page of Don Jr’s good friend: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar_Kr...en.wikipedia.orgUmar Kremlev - Wikipedia 011
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026S+C+MP+L+KD. Hur lång tid behöver det ta innan polletten trillar ner? 110
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Eagerly awaiting the critical counterpoints of @lessig.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Tore EllingsenTerence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...mathandai.orgDeclaration — Math and AIRead the declaration and add your name. 432061932
Reposted by Tore Ellingsen🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Prompted by the scandal around Navier-Stokes, Andreas Thom raises the possibility that OpenAI may also have stolen the work on non-sofic groups: 113748
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I hope some top investigative journalist is already on to this; if true, a thoroughly fact-checked story might be Pulizer worthy. 040
Reposted by Tore EllingsenData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Colada[139] Artificial Deadlines Part 2 Evidence of fraud in the 25 year old gradesheet behind the key finding in an influential paper on deadlines and procrastination. datacolada.org/139 816857
Reposted by Tore EllingsenData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 31/08/2026An influential paper by Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002) reported two studies with tampered data. Post 1 of 2. datacolada.org/138datacolada.org[138] Artificial Deadlines (Part 1): Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About ProcrastinationA new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr… 723799
Reposted by Tore EllingsenGabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This is pretty much where I am. Ya'll know that I'm more conservative than most of the folks here. But Trump v. United States changed things. An unaccountable president is a dictator. No fear of criminal prosecution for himself plus the pardon power equals the end of the Constitution. 4485126
Reposted by Tore EllingsenAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/07/2026Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...theatlantic.comHistory Will Judge the ComplicitWhy have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president? 20572142602
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026A compelling interpretation of the man that leading Norwegian politicians chose to eulogize today. (Do they think NATOs future depends on emulating Graham’s sycophancy?) 021
Reposted by Tore EllingsenNitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 12/07/2026harpers.org/archive/2018... 332965950
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Vi må kanskje leve med at våre politikere smisker for drittsekker når de lever og har makt, men er det virkelig nødvendig å fortsette etterpå?vg.noSenator Lindsey Graham er død– Jeg føler dyp sorg etter bortgangen til min venn Lindsey Graham, skriver finansminister Jens Stoltenberg (Ap). 000
Reposted by Tore EllingsenData Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The Cover-Up in Gino v Harvard datacolada.org/136 12412
Reposted by Tore EllingsenGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 06/07/2026He can’t help telling the truth about how much he lies 619335
Reposted by Tore EllingsenScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I was a regular user of Facebook and was kicked off the platform without explanation within hours of my posting excerpts from Sarah Wynn-Williams' Careless People, which revealed embarrassing details from the life of Mark Zuckerberg, particularly his dealings with Chinese president Xi. 915170
Reposted by Tore EllingsenEleonora Alabrese @eleala.bsky.social · 17/06/2026🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/… 6172119
Reposted by Tore EllingsenOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/06/2026As long as the government remains on the fascist enabling X nobody can take anything they say seriously with regards to social media and safety 471303358
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026”What is more surprising is that the European Union is collaborating with Trump’s effort to destroy the legal framework that has governed international trade since the 1940s.” 010
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Last push, for those who missed it. I promise, won’t talk about this again… 070
Reposted by Tore EllingsenGeorg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Ellingsen and Mohlin on how to formalize different kinds of duties - e.g. asking about the tradeoffabilility between a duty and its material cost. 👏🏼 041
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Is unselfish behavior primarily driven by desire or by duty? Erik Mohlin and I don’t settle this question. However, by developing and testing a model of social duties, we allow the question to be addressed: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... (ungated version at my home page) 1/10 195
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Här är ett kortfattat svar till Fredrik Segerfeldts inlägg på DN debatt i dag. 020
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I sense that the maga base might be identified at 39%. 000
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Nog borde regeringen kunna svara ”ja” på frågan: - Gäller folkrätten lika för alla stater? 0101
Reposted by Tore EllingsenTheoretical Economics @econtheory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Polarization happens www.econometricsociety.org/publications... 023
Reposted by Tore EllingsenRoger Myerson @rbmyerson.bsky.social · 28/03/2026#NoKings in Chicago. 322832
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comRevealed: the world’s worst mega-leaks of methane driving global heatingExclusive: Fixing a leak can be simple and equivalent to closing a coal power station, making lack of action maddening, say analysts 000
Reposted by Tore EllingsenErik Mohlin @karlerikmohlin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026EFN har gjort ett reportage om Tore Ellingsens (@toreellingsen.bsky.social) och min forskning om plikt och plikt-baserad motivation efn.se/play/pliktka... Tack till de alla de inblandade duktiga journalisterna!efn.sePliktkänslan värd hundratals miljarderEFN lanserar nya programmet Spets – som bygger på ekonomisk forskning 232
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Surely, Sanna Marin (former Finnish Prime Minister) must now salvage what is left of her reputation and leave the Tony Blair Institute? 012
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Yes. Ending the excessive legal protections of US Big Tech is obviously the first step in Europe’s retaliation. 3126
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026etidning.dn.se/shared/artic... Viktiga frågor, insiktsfull recension.etidning.dn.seMinistrarna hade aldrig en chans. Sverker Sörlin beskriver hur kultur- politiken blev ett hot mot kulturenParisa Liljestrand är den perfekta kulturpolitikern. Den tanken slår mig när jag läser Sverker Sörlins analys av det moderna kulturbegreppet i den nya boken ”Kulturens värde”: hon är perfekt – och vem... 002
Reposted by Tore EllingsenAnna Ekström @annaekstrom.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Så här blir det när man är arg när man skriver. www.dn.se/kultur/anna-...dn.seAnna Ekström: Hur tänker Parisa Liljestrand att vi ska orka bära upp folkbildningen?Det låter vackert med en kanon – men kulturen tystnar när studieförbund tvingas ställa in och folkhögskolor lägger ner på grund av regeringens politik. 1112039
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Many thanks for the kind words, Scott! I’ll immediately update the book’s companion site, where I post lecture notes and more: sites.google.com/view/tore-el...sites.google.comTore EllingsenPaperback at EUR 19.90, GDP 15.99, USD 22.95, SEK 260. Also available as hardback and ebook. 011
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Is there already a term for overconsumption of negative news about doomscrolling? 000
Reposted by Tore EllingsenErik Angner @erikangner.com · 06/01/2026”Last night in Sweden,” in contrast to what you may have heard, rates of lethal violence were at record lows ⤵️ 0146
Reposted by Tore EllingsenFiona Scott Morton @proffionasm.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I have a new paper w Andrea Prat & Jake Spitz. We show that Republican appointed Supreme Court Justices vote in favor of the richer party by over 70% today, as compared to D’s at 30%. In the 1950s and both were at 50%. This strong trend may contribute to rising inequality. www.nber.org/papers/w34643nber.orgRuling for the Rich: the Supreme Court over TimeFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 4212117
Reposted by Tore EllingsenSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/12/2025The analysis is on point 🎯 and the framing is a chef 💋. "Trump assumed that Canada had no choice but to fold. He believed that trade dependence was a leash he could yank whenever he wanted a concession. He was wrong." #cdnpoli www.newsletter.samuel-warde.com/p/canada-fli...newsletter.samuel-warde.comCanada Flips the Script, Hits Trump Where It Hurts the MostThe Art of the Self-Own 413453
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Om man vill göra kriminalpolitiken enklare att utvärdera, kanske man skulle experimentera med olika åldersgränser i olika regioner? Varför inte? 000
Reposted by Tore EllingsenGabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵 251167602
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025When this @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors-we mean we stab them in it. 030
Reposted by Tore EllingsenRyan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Senator Kelly is correct. Plus a Public Service Announcement: KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1. The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal: "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked." 11091633295
Reposted by Tore EllingsenPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 15/11/2025Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/... 215845
Tore Ellingsen @toreellingsen.bsky.social · 22/10/2025www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comInside the illegal eel trade: is there a way to stop Europe’s biggest wildlife crime before it’s too late?Interviews with experts and key players across four countries reveal why efforts to stop the multibillion-euro trafficking industry have failed – and how to save the endangered fish 020