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Sebastian Wehrle
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Economics, Energy, Environment
„be original or die“
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danielhuppmann.bsky.social
This is a thought-provoking article on reverse-centaurs, why the AI show must go on (but won’t), and how strengthening sectoral bargaining (aka labour rights) is a better antidote to the malaise of creators instead of expanded copyright…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow
AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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laurentfranckx.bsky.social
When you make a job out of your hobby
January 14, 2026 at 6:09 AM
sebwehrle.bsky.social
be original or die
seva.bsky.social Seva @seva.bsky.social · 10d
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...
The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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alexbaumhardt.bsky.social
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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paulgp.com
Really outstanding post for both CS and social science folks #linkoftheday
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December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
sebwehrle.bsky.social
legisvibing

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
PV-Strom vom Dach bleibt gebührenfrei, Sozialtarif für Arbeitslose: Neues Stromgesetz steht
Grüne machen Weg frei für Reform des Energiemarktes mit den Koalitionsparteien, durch einen Kniff werden Einspeisegebühren gesetzlich fixiert und nicht von der E-Control festgelegt
www.derstandard.at
December 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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oenb.at
The 2023 Austrian HFCS confirms key structural features: wealth remains concentrated and driven by owner-occupied housing, debt is mainly mortgage-based, and while relative inequality is stable, absolute wealth gaps have widened.

📄 Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4rCUSTy
The image shows a clipboard with documents related to the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey 2023, along with a pen and a logo for the Austrian National Bank.
December 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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jakemgrumbach.bsky.social
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts

www.nber.org/papers/w34524

via @florianederer.bsky.social
"Captain Gains" on Capitol Hill Shang-Jin Wei & Yifan Zhou WORKING PAPER 34524 DOI 10.3386/w34524 ISSUE DATE November 2025 Using transaction-level data on US congressional stock trades, we find that lawmakers who later ascend to leadership positions perform similarly to matched peers beforehand but outperform them by 47 percentage points annually after ascension. Leaders' superior performance arises through two mechanisms. The political influence channel is reflected in higher returns when their party controls the chamber, sales of stocks preceding regulatory actions, and purchase of stocks whose firms receiving more government contracts and favorable party support on bills. The corporate access channel is reflected in stock trades that predict subsequent corporate news and greater returns on donor-owned or home-state firms. 令 1 1 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Year Figure 2: Estimated dynamic quasi-difference-in-differences coefficient, di, of equation(3), with vertical dashed lines representing 90 percent confidence intervals. The point estimate of the year in which the lawmaker became a congressional leader (Year 0) is normalized to zero. BHAR over the 250 days following each trade is the dependent variable and calculated using the Fama-French five-factor plus momentum as the benchmark model.
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...
Fraud and cover-up
Fraud and cover-up
richardtol.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
sebwehrle.bsky.social
In meinem Team @wienenergie.bsky.social gibt’s einen einmaligen Job:
Dissertiere an der @bokuvienna.bsky.social bei @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social zur räumlichen Auflösung von Energiesystemmodellen - mit real world impact & Langfrist-Perspektive

Bitte teilen!

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Mitarbeiter*in Erneuerbare Energiesysteme - Dissertant*in
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July 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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ccca.ac.at
Heute wurde der Klimabericht #AAR2 - der Zweite Österreichische Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel - veröffentlicht!
In Kooperation & mit Begleitung des CCCA wurde der Bericht von rund 200 Wissenschaftler:innen erarbeitet.
Die Vollversion & die Zusammenfassungen findet ihr hier:
aar2.ccca.ac.at
Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2
Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.
aar2.ccca.ac.at
June 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social
How much hydrogen should Europe produce by 2040? Our analysis suggests that targeting around 25 Mt of hydrogen in 2040 enables a 90% emissions reduction—across a wide range of plausible future scenarios. 1/n
June 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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birdlife.at
Wir haben eine ornithologische Sensibilitätskarte für Windkraftplanungen erstellt. Sie zeigt räumlich, wo #Windkraft-Ausbau mit dem Schutz gefährdeter Vogelarten in Konflikt gerät – um Konflikte bereits in der Planung bestmöglich zu vermeiden.

Mehr Infos: www.birdlife.at/artikel/erne...
May 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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danielhuppmann.bsky.social
Schon wieder ein Klimabericht - echt jetzt?

Wird der Martin Puntigam die Margreth Keiler und mich fragen, als Live-Aufnahme für den #ScienceBusters Podcast...

#AAR2 #APCC #WissenSchafftKlimaschutz

🗓️ 18. Juni 2025 | 19 Uhr
📍 VHS Urania, Wien
🎟️ 7 €
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Ankündigung Science Busters Podcast Live-Aufnahme "Schon wieder ein Klimabericht - echt jetzt?", am 18.6.2025 19:00 in der Urania, mit Martin Puntigam, Margreth Keiler und Daniel Huppmann, zum Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel (AAR2), APCC 2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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gabrielzucman.bsky.social
A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich
May 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Der zunehmend verzweifelte Versuch des stellvertretenden Regierungssprechers Sebastian Hille, in der BPK den Frauenmangel in Merz‘ innerem Team zu erklären, ist schon fast mitleiderregend. (Video: Deutsche Welle)
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
This story requires a great deal more attention. The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get Russian gas back into Europe. This is Washington and Moscow now in full strategic alignment via a shared vision of a fossil fuel future.
Exclusive: US, Russia explore ways to restore Russian gas flows to Europe, sources say
With a frost covering Europe's energy relations with Russia, officials from Washington and Moscow have held discussions about the U.S. helping to revive Russian gas sales to the continent, eight sources familiar with the talks have told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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"When people put in rooftop solar, it transfers costs onto people who don't have rooftop solar. And, by and large, the people who don't have rooftop solar are poorer..." @severinborenstein.bsky.social @cbsnews.com #rooftopsolar #energygrid #electricityprices #solarincentives tinyurl.com/3p7527t2
April 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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danielhuppmann.bsky.social
In zwei Monaten veröffentlichen wir den Zweiten Österreichischen Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel #AAR2 - eine Übersicht der wissenschaftlichen Literatur zum Klimawandel in Österreich 🇦🇹 und den Folgen sowie Vermeidungspotentiale, Anpassungsmöglichkeiten und Transformationspfaden.
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Zweiter Österreichischer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel | AAR2
Der AAR2 ist ein umfassender, interdisziplinärer Sachstandsbericht zum Klimawandel in Österreich.
aar2.ccca.ac.at
April 8, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social
"More Wind, Falling Efficiency: The Driving Factors of German Onshore Wind Power Generation". (doi.org/10.1002/we.7...). We find that wind generation in Germany in the last 2 decades has primarily grown due to larger rotors, and due to more turbines. 1/n
More Wind, Falling Efficiency: The Driving Factors of German Onshore Wind Power Generation
Wind power has become the most important source of electricity generation in Germany, providing more than a quarter of its electricity consumption in 2022. The growth in wind power generation has bee...
doi.org
March 18, 2025 at 10:45 AM
sebwehrle.bsky.social
Nach Jahren der Forschung zu den Vor- und Nachteilen der Windkraft in 🇦🇹 hätte ich einige Gedanken zu den Beiträgen der letzten Zeit.
Doch in Zeiten wie diesen verschwinden die großen Linien zu oft hinter Kleinigkeiten.

How Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
sebwehrle.bsky.social
Happy new year!
Fireworks and a weeping birch tree covered in hoarfrost
January 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM