🆕 Ahead-of-print in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: "The Roles of Environmental Groups in Economics" by Laura Grant (Laura Grant) and Christian Langpap (Christian Langpap) Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

When, on 12 June, Elon Musk made Likes on X private (so that only a post author can see who likes their post) this seemed like a small change. But small changes in complex systems like X can have big, unpredictable effects. 1/7

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Here's a mind-blowing open data portal that I think should be far better known than it is: Geoscience Australia's Historical Aerial Photography archive, containing 1.2 million aerial photos from the 1920s on! 🛩 🗺 🤯 Yellow dots = scanned downloadable photos! digital.atlas.gov.au/apps/9a0ecbafe…

Our paper "Digital innovations for monitoring sustainability in food systems" was just published: nature.com/articles/s4301… . A very fruitful and enjoyable collaboration project with Robert Finger , Jan Dirk Wegner , Sanneke Kloppenburg, Laurens Klerkx , and Inbal Becker-Reshef.

Agricultural Economists: What’s you favorite paper example where a correlation had one sign and then the causal estimate had the opposite sign? #EconTwitter AgEconMeet Land Economics @ Uni Bonn Int. Association of Agricultural Economists European Association of Agricultural Economists AAEA

Happy that our paper led by Matthew Gammans on "Double cropping as an adaptation to climate change in the United States" is finally out in American Journal of Agricultural Economics ! Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

August issue: food loss and waste, tree cover and diet quality, high-resolution global yield maps, cost-effective cultivated chicken production, dietary guidelines in Mexico… and more! nature.com/natfood/volume…

Auch im Ausland fällt jetzt auf, wie rasch und erfolgreich Habeck die bürokratischen Hemmnisse beim Ausbau der Erneuerbaren beseitigt hat. „What Germany has done can certainly be a model for other European countries.”

Vizekanzler Robert #Habeck zum furchtbaren Anschlag in #Solingen mit einer persönlichen und politischen Einordnung.

Our new paper: environmental effects of #GMO are positive in some, negative in other cases. They depend on the modified trait, not the GM breeding process. Efficient regulation could facilitate new traits with unambiguously positive environmental effects. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Seven ERC Starting Grants for Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - more than ever before! Congratulations to Sarah Auster, Florian Bernard, Melanie Braun, Markus Hausmann, Tomáš Jagelka, Andrina Nicola and Stefan Partelow! #ERCStG European Research Council (ERC) uni-bonn.de/en/news/seven-…

No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories.... nature.com/articles/d4158…

SUCH A COOL PAPER. Eyal making it tough to choose btwn vultures and bats as most under-loved species.

Review paper out today in ⁦Science Magazine⁩: a big group of us explain how climate change aggravates agriculture’s environmental impacts and what researchers and public/private leaders can/must do in response. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Guyo and Kirara from the Land Economics @ Uni Bonn Group at this year‘s BIOECON Network Conference at Cambridge University, presenting global policy evaluations of public cropland and grassland policies for sustainability. For more information: ilr1.uni-bonn.de/en/research/re…

Just listened to this interesting interview with ⁦⁦Yohan Iddawela⁩. Connects to a lot ti current discussions at ⁦the Land Economics @ Uni Bonn⁩ Group and in Agricultural Economics more widely 👇 podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the…