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mjamurphy.bsky.social

I'm an applied economist interested in how we get better at interacting with natural systems. Personal account, mostly focused on economic development and global public health. Some chess, football etc.

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Happy MSME day! We highlight some of our @ifpri.org research on MSMEs here: www.ifpri.org/blog/micro-s...

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I don't know whether free buses are a good idea, but I think this example adds zero useful information to the debate. If GDP rises by 50% in 8 years obviously traffic will go up. The relevant question is whether (and how much) more it would have gone up absent the change in transit policy.

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#EconSky

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Extreme heat makes it more important to be able to recognize the symptoms of heat stroke. If you suspect someone has heat stroke, you need to cool the person asap with what you have available (ie. a source of cold water). #climatehealth

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This type of climate risk is not cyclical. It’s heading in one direction,” says economist Ben Keys, a professor of real estate and finance at the UPenn's Wharton School. “So you don’t necessarily need as big a shock, if it’s a permanent shock, to have a serious, long-term effect”

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Extreme heat makes it more important to be able to recognize the symptoms of heat stroke. If you suspect someone has heat stroke, you need to cool the person asap with what you have available (ie. a source of cold water). #climatehealth

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You could write a three chapter econ PhD off this one article

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Can anyone recommend books about the economy & society of the countries of the former "Eastern Block"? 🤔 Especially the periods 1985-1991 & 1991-2010s. I'm curious about Russia/Soviet Union in general but also particular countries like Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova. #EconSky #BookSky #History #NAFO

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When I first started learning about climate change the electric car seemed like a wild pipe-dream. Clearly we have much more to do, but insufficient progress beats no progress.

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Family Movie Night: The Sandlot (1993) [Dir. David Mickey Evans]

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The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed

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Visualizing the heat dome forecast. Data from @ecmwf.int, plotted with @blender.org. #science #scicomm #sciart

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Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

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Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth... Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!

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This is a sizeable deal I'm very interested if #EconSky folk have thoughts on price responses (and current lack thereof)

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CIMMYT is licensing gene editing tools from Pairwise- gaining access to tech normally only available to very large private sector players- to speed development of new varieties of key crops for global food security.

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Stopping NFIP enrollments is good, actually

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#EconSky

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In April 2025, for the first time, solar panels generated more electricity than nuclear reactors worldwide.

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What's common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Shocking findings are generally a result of publication bias and the continued willingness of many well-regarded social science journals to present observed correlations as causal relationships.

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Happy MSME day! We highlight some of our @ifpri.org research on MSMEs here: www.ifpri.org/blog/micro-s...

I don't know whether free buses are a good idea, but I think this example adds zero useful information to the debate. If GDP rises by 50% in 8 years obviously traffic will go up. The relevant question is whether (and how much) more it would have gone up absent the change in transit policy.

#EconSky

Extreme heat makes it more important to be able to recognize the symptoms of heat stroke. If you suspect someone has heat stroke, you need to cool the person asap with what you have available (ie. a source of cold water). #climatehealth

This type of climate risk is not cyclical. It’s heading in one direction,” says economist Ben Keys, a professor of real estate and finance at the UPenn's Wharton School. “So you don’t necessarily need as big a shock, if it’s a permanent shock, to have a serious, long-term effect”

Extreme heat makes it more important to be able to recognize the symptoms of heat stroke. If you suspect someone has heat stroke, you need to cool the person asap with what you have available (ie. a source of cold water). #climatehealth

You could write a three chapter econ PhD off this one article

Can anyone recommend books about the economy & society of the countries of the former "Eastern Block"? 🤔 Especially the periods 1985-1991 & 1991-2010s. I'm curious about Russia/Soviet Union in general but also particular countries like Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova. #EconSky #BookSky #History #NAFO

When I first started learning about climate change the electric car seemed like a wild pipe-dream. Clearly we have much more to do, but insufficient progress beats no progress.

Family Movie Night: The Sandlot (1993) [Dir. David Mickey Evans]

The future is already here, it's just not very evenly distributed

Visualizing the heat dome forecast. Data from @ecmwf.int, plotted with @blender.org. #science #scicomm #sciart

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

Climate change reduces farming efficiency, which leads to more land use to grow enough food, which leads to more emissions, and so on and so forth... Major paper coming out on this feedback loop in a couple of days from the University of Minnesota, @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, and others!

This is a sizeable deal I'm very interested if #EconSky folk have thoughts on price responses (and current lack thereof)

👀

CIMMYT is licensing gene editing tools from Pairwise- gaining access to tech normally only available to very large private sector players- to speed development of new varieties of key crops for global food security.

Stopping NFIP enrollments is good, actually

#EconSky

In April 2025, for the first time, solar panels generated more electricity than nuclear reactors worldwide.

What's common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Shocking findings are generally a result of publication bias and the continued willingness of many well-regarded social science journals to present observed correlations as causal relationships.

Evidence of airborne #H5N1 transmission using a strain taken from a Michigan dairy farm worker

unclear how you'd tell if there was a boycott of the "club world cup"

Alaska posts the state's first ever heat advisory.

Family movie night: Little Women (2019) [Dir. Greta Gerwig]