Stephen Jarvis

Lived there for 3 years. Fantastic city and can confirm your impressions are spot on.

Had to go check to see if this is actually real. What a sorry state of affairs

Applications open for our @cep-lse.bsky.social summer internship programme.

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Come work at LSE doing research on energy markets and environmental economics. Great opportunity to build research skills ahead of applying to PhD programmes

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I’m hiring for a full-time one-year Research Assistant (“pre-doc”) position

Come work at LSE doing research on energy markets and environmental economics. Great opportunity to build research skills ahead of applying to PhD programmes

Deadline March 27th, apply here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

At the risk of boring everyone,a little context.

$100 oil in isolation isn’t that bad. It averaged around that level from 2011-2014 without severe economic ramifications*.

It’s the pace of the rise that has people spooked. And not knowing where it might stop.

This is objectively a very dumb take and kind of sad to see @theguardian.com engaging in this kind of unfounded scaremongering.

A moving stairway leading to an airplane door in Trondheim, Norway. The stairway walls are covered with solar PV panels.

Solar is cheap, exhibit 3,141,592,653.

The AI-Augmented Scientist The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist

As a rare climate scientist working in Silicon Valley, I've been drinking from the AI firehose a lot more than my peers. I thought it would be helpful to lay out my experiences of both the promise and pitfalls of using AI to accelerate scientific research:

For anyone looking for postdocs for their students, over the next few months LSE “fellow” positions will start being listed. Research + teaching but 2-3 year runway.

The new Global School of Sustainability has 5 new ones posted now! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Here here. Great piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on a really terrible set of reforms. The whole “delivery” boilerplate doesn’t hold water here either as basically none of this was in the manifesto. I really do hope the government bin these immigration changes and go back to the drawing board.

Of course, there's a version of this that goes way too far and can end up outsourcing thinking completely. But when it comes to sharpening/reframing existing thinking, or identifying relevant concepts/methods I was circling without necessarily realising, there's some pretty nice use cases.

Have seen a lot of takes about how Claude is great for coding, and this is certainly true. But I think an underrated research application is using it as a sort of endlessly patient co-author to bounce ideas off and test arguments with, especially when working through thorny conceptual issues.

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

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Ha! Excellent headline. No notes.

Please share with potential solid candidates for this postdoc (academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31576). We start reviewing application next week!

A data-savvy economist or data scientist with interest in agriculture and environment would be a good fit.

Kind of wild that in the same year China installed 10x this amount. Puts US and European efforts in perspective. Nevertheless, encouraging to see the US is still adding lots of new clean capacity.

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Had the exact same reaction when I saw this nytimes post go live the other day

BREAKING: UK govt auction secures 4.9GW new solar at £65/MWh and 1.3GW new onshore wind at £72/MWh, 13% and 21% below the price cap respectively.

All due online by 2029.

One of the most important statistical packages made in Econ in the last decade

Don’t forget to submit your paper by this Sunday!

I have now wasted many hours trying to get a revision submitted due to Editorial Manager's absurd latex compilation setup. Garbage service from a publication industry that offloads all the work onto authors and pockets some ridiculous profit margins. Hate that we are trapped in this bad equilibrium.

Can confirm I’ve had the experience of saying I live in London and getting a concerned/worried response, almost certainly due to all the online nonsense out there. Don’t believe the lies!

Editorial Manager is the absolute worst. That is all.

Best workshop, best keynote and best time to visit London! Submit your paper/abstract. Deadline Feb 1.

A reader‘s letter in the times which reads as follows: Old adversaries Sir, Your obituary (Jan 19) of Mr Justice Blofeld rightly referred to his fine sense of humour. When he first sat in Winchester a barrister called Richard Bond stood up to open the first case. Mr Justice Blofeld began to stroke the white ermine on the sleeve of his High Court judge's robes as if stroking a cat. He then said with a smile: "We meet at last, Mr Bond." Sir John Royce Clifton, Bristol

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