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Overheard on Northeast Regional Acela: “I wish I could ride Amtrak every day… I ride it in my dreams” I think I found your #1 fan @amtrak.com !

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Glad to see Cambridge end single-family zoning www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/11/b...

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Colorado wants to force insurance companies to help homeowners understand, mitigate wildfire risk

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To anyone else hitting this snag, IPUMS NHGIS has TIGER/Line shapefiles you can download manually. And it’s always best practice to download your data! (@ past me)

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Time it took for the new administration to directly impact my work: 15 days (Grateful at this point to not have NSF funding up in the air… hang in there, everyone)

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The best building code in the world won't help you if you don't use it to build any houses. Wildfire resilience is also very different from something like hurricane. Put on a good metal roof, doesn't much matter what your neighbor does, your risk goes down. Not so with wildfire:

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California has a very strong anti-wildfire “home hardening” law on the books, but it’s never been enforced because insurance models can’t account for it — and because people hate what it tells them to do. Fascinating @emilypont.bsky.social story: heatmap.news/climate/los-...

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This seems like a big deal for insurance in California. I wonder what the experts on here think of the new rules? @kellyhereid.bsky.social @michaelwara.bsky.social @stevebowen.bsky.social @jacobgellman.com www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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What a shortage of IV bags tells us about the impact of #climaterisk on supply chains, by @scrawford.bsky.social A plant producing most of the US's IV bags was wiped out by Hurricane Helene. It's another warning of financial risk... open.substack.com/pub/susanpcr...

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Agree very much with this from @davekarpf.bsky.social davekarpf.substack.com/p/what-the-f...

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My group at the Illinois Gies College of Business--which includes @tderyugina.bsky.social, David Molitor, Riley League, Mackenzie Alston, and Nolan Miller--is seeking a public/environmental economist! Here's our job posting: #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

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Column | As buyers and sellers wake up to risks on a hotter planet, Cape Coral might be a preview of what millions of homeowners throughout the country could face: a slow and almost imperceptible re-pricing of many people’s biggest asset.

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📢Please retweet📢 Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs). Rolling review: sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf

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BU Questrom is hiring-- 2 slots! Open to various fields, including macroeconomics, applied micro, industrial economics, innovation economics, labor economics, organizational economics, law and economics... academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28774

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"Hurricanes are hundreds of times deadlier than anyone has realized." @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social on the new study that could radically shift how we think about hurricane deaths:

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Wow. California's insurer of last resort now has $393 billion in total risk exposure—up 38% from last year. Insurers are pulling out of the state en masse.

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Love that the official term for this restoration process is “re-wiggling”. Very British, very cutesy

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Politico E&E on the challenges of implementing resilience through insurance premiums for wildfire (along with some success stories for wind)

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When I’m biking towards an intersection and a car turning right stops to let me go through and all 3 cars behind him immediately lay on their horns

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Biodiversity is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg0344), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

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When it’s your first semester teaching and your lecture materials for the semester look like this (For one lecture at the end the sum total of the content so far is “machine learning????”)

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A few weeks ago, I spoke on a panel about publishing at the CSWEP’s CeMENT workshop. I wanted to briefly share some of that advice here.

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"Manufacturers even let elevator and escalator mechanics take some components apart and put them back together on site to preserve work for union members, since it’s easier than making separate, less-assembled versions just for the U.S." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/o...

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I have a few questions about methodology ($200 per person in pre hurricane spending produces $15k risk reduction?) But this paper is a nice one for met friends. It argues that cost saved from forecast improvements since 2007 "exceeds the annual budget for all federal weather forecasting"

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Nightmare fuel. And I'm a climate scientist who works on disasters in insurance, so it takes a lot.

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New rule: no one gets to write a "climate change and the Florida hurricane market" story without reading and understanding Carolyn Kousky's new primer on the history and structure of public/private market in the state: www.edf.org//floridainsu... Correlated runs to debt markets anyone?

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Took my boots in to get the soles replaced before the heels started getting destroyed and the guy told me I came just in time and was the perfect customer. Normal to want and possible to achieve

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Swiss Re Institute published a report that calculates “that natural disasters resulted in insured losses of $108B in 2023, marking the 4th consecutive year of losses exceeding $100B.” Event frequency (142 insured-loss catastrophes out of 218 events) was the major driver of losses. #climate

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I believe everyone has a superpower. Unfortunately today I realized mine is procrastinating on writing for exactly as long as needed to get into a rhythm 30 minutes before I have to stop

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