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Canada Research Chair in Energy Transitions University of Waterloo. https://morenocruz.org
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Man, now I want one. Life was better when people didn't know I was faking it.

This is a good game! www.nytimes.com/ca/games/pips

I already posted that I’m reading this book. I’m finished—it was amazing. It’s about why change in higher education is so unbelievably difficult. The cover claims it’s “often funny”, which I didn’t quite believe. A funny book about universities? Really? But yes—I laughed. Out loud. More than once.

I can’t vote. Fergus can’t vote. But my wife can, so we are living the Canadian election vicariously through her!

Most debates are inconsequential 👀, yet this change after the English language debate is nice to see!

🇨🇦 🗳️ 🇨🇦 🗳️ 🇨🇦 🗳️ Canadians! Early voting starts today, go do your duty! www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

What a hunk! www.science.org/content/arti...

This is as good a time as any to post a paper I've been working on with @LindseyGailmard: The Persistence and Fragility of Bureaucratic Capacity. We ask: what makes bureaucratic capacity persist, and what makes *threats* to bureaucratic capacity hard to reverse?

Who would’ve thought?!? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/u...

You know you are in Canada when the party leaders' debate is rescheduled to accommodate the hockey game of the Montreal Canadiens series.

Dean took this opportunity to make the leap! Welcome to Bluesky @deankarlan.bsky.social

My younger kid is turning 13 today! But no matter how old, they get a special cake from mom. This year she requested a bubba tea shaped cake!

This looks like a Hail Mary. Which should tell us a lot about the stage of the game.

Looking for a colleague! #EconSky Interested in becoming a Professor of Business Psychology (with a focus on Quantitative Methods) in Germany? No German skills required! Please share with your network —more details from me below. stellen.reutlingen-university.de/jobposting/3...

It’s fine. It’s not like they can take over our brains or whatever.

I wrote about this: bsky.app/profile/jmor...

Americans need to know that once they start monitoring, they won't stop at immigrants. Keep going down this path, and you will find dissidents in Salvadorian jails.

I beg people to stop piling on people who are not far left. It’s gross and counter productive if the goal is building a large coalition across the ideological spectrum that opposes Trumpism.

As it turns out, it is surprisingly easy to be uninformed and insane.

The lesson here is clear. There isn’t such a thing as compromising a little bit on your core values. It’s an all or nothing kind of thing. All universities need to take note and organize a response that’s not giving in to the authoritarian impulses of the administration.

This is really bad. All alarms should be blaring!

You see, is not that easy. This involves having nuts.

thewalrus.ca/poilievre-br...

I feel bad for the guy. He is trying to be loved by his people, just like any other tyrant.

This great video also reminded me of an interesting facet of motonormativity: people can lose 100 hours a year in traffic and never notice; but they have one late train and it's all "Never again - you can't rely on them"

In Argentina during the Proceso, the families of the Disappeared would file habeas petitions, and the Buenos Aires Herald would run short announcements reporting that they had been filed. It helped track people the government kidnapped.

I guess we want people to care about the inhuman treatment of immigrants, we need to find a way to link mass deportations to the S&P index.

Pretty. much. It.

If you'd like to teach about the new economics of supply networks and their fragility this spring (see thread below for an application), here's a short list of broadly accessible resources you might find useful.

The main effect of tariff insanity: Uncertainty poisoning supply networks, degrading a lot of relationships at once. That scar tissue will linger for a long time. 1/

Can’t tax what you can’t have

This is a gift link! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/a...

No you didn’t!