CA regulators are struggling to balance agriculture’s water needs with minimum river flows to maintain populations of fish. As it is, water shortages in the Sacramento River this year are expected to kill up to 88% of juvenile winter-run Chinook salmon. sacbee.com/news/californi…

Goodbye, for now, Resources for the Future. Thanks to everyone who made these 3 of the best years of my life

Can an investment in produced capital can result in an increase in the shadow price of natural capital? Read more in this Just Accepted article from JAERE, the JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMISTS: ow.ly/HcF050Fjc56

Sometimes we may wish to check all relevant assumptions for a regression model in one go. 🔍 The {check_model} function from {performance} 📦 does exactly this and also provides elegant visualizations with helpful pointers ✅📊 easystats.github.io/performance/re… #rstats #DataScience

Great Resources Magazine podcast out this week unpacks the role the public can play in detecting invasive #species. Resources for the Future’s own Rebecca Epanchin-Niell talks about her new research and its broader impacts: resources.org/resources-radi…

Many of the West’s fiercest resource fights occur on federal lands. Federal laws favor extractive uses by blocking conservation bidding, breeding conflict. My new Science Magazine article—with Shawn Regan and an A+team of co-authors—proposes new approach. science.sciencemag.org/content/373/65…

Been an amazing ride becoming a Metallica fan by only listening to modern artists cover their songs

How do interest groups influence regulatory activity through litigation? Learn about the role of citizen lawsuits in the enforcement of the Endangered Species Act in JAERE, the JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS: ow.ly/TjIA50G52up

New paper: "Private land conservation decision-making: An integrative social science model" in Journal of Environmental Management. Have you ever wondered what we could learn if psychologists, sociologists, & economists put their heads together? 1/ sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Research as the emotional roller coaster it really is

Scientists Joshua Abbott and Bryan Leonard with ASU Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory and ASU School of Sustainability recently published a paper that provides insight on sustainable practices for the management of fisheries across the globe. Read more: news.asu.edu/20220131-study… #Sustainability #ASUResearch

A bit delayed in tweeting about this, but want to highlight this paper recently accepted in JAERE. We use 23 years of data on ESA spending to estimate how climate change will affect listing and conservation spending in the US

On May 3, Brookings is hosting a workshop to help grad learn about datasets generated by the Environmental Protection Agency and to hear from EPA staff and other researchers who have used EPA data. brookings.edu/events/data-dr…

This 🧵 gives my first heuristic understanding of PCA building this heuristic takes some patience it is not a quick scroll, but it is all pictures!

#Rstats "sits" package is now on CRAN. Open source alternative to Google Earth Engine for land classification. Uses machine learning to classify big time series of images in Amazon Web Services, @microsoft Planetary Computer, Digital Earth Africa and BrazilDataCube. Fully operational at TRL 8. (1/4)

Well, im back on twitter after surviving the first semester of micro. Here is a list of every-day words that ill never hear the same for the rest of my life: ⁃Preference ⁃Proof ⁃Compact ⁃Continuous ⁃“quasi” anything ⁃Lottery ⁃Expectation #EconTwitter

Omg I just started using chat GPT, this is the Wikipedia of writing code

We are pleased to announce PERC Graduate Fellow Brenna Jungers as the recipient of our 2023 William S. Broadbent Family Graduate Fellow Award. perc.org/2023/02/10/202…

What if the way we think about economic success is all wrong? nyti.ms/3TRirYd

the papers i read are slowly being selected down to only PNAS because of how conveniently short they are