ZackB @thekazath@qoto.org

Are there any good film or television adaptations of Ursula Le Guin's work? I'm a newcomer but now deep into her oeuvre

... not to mention seeing some great presentations & creativity from our students, e.g. thinking about if/how biotech bioremediation could be an enabler of environmental justice

I sat in on some great seminars this week- Comm. Prof. Jean Goodwin talking about 'false polarization' & science denialism & learned about climate change effects on supply chains from Fed economist Nora Pankratz. Links below.
#EnvEcon #climate #econtwitter #ncstate

https://ncsu.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=52fa9005-87b0-4983-ac4f-aef600ac7476
https://www.treeseminar.com/event-details/nora-pankratz-fed

@VincentMeisner I'm on the QOTO instance & we're still tooting over here. So it just econtwitter admin that decided to grow up?

I was in a cafe this afternoon completely absorbed & befuddled looking at some results in Stata that were exactly the opposite of hypothesis (not null, but opposite). I was entranced with fascination. A neighbor saw me in there evidently & told my wife later that I looked super stressed & said he'd invite me over for a whiskey.

But it's *very* hard to find the spray here- only Costco carried it for awhile then it switched to Sam's Club (no membership required to get the vaccine)

These super-scientific results confirm my suspicion that a very small % opt for the nasal spray. I like the spray b/c of something I read awhile back on NPR about mucosal immunity being cross-protective against other viruses:
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/10/08/917831035/could-the-live-flu-vaccine-help-you-fight-off-covid-19

Just curious: Of those who've gotten their flu vaccine, which type did you get? (I already got mine, so this isn't to inform my own decision.)

This is a fascinating long piece about how improving the cost-effectiveness of randomized controlled clinical trials is essential for realizing the full value (& minimizing risks) from the biotech revolution:
https://www.statnews.com/2022/11/03/why-were-not-prepared-for-next-wave-of-biotech-innovation/

@freemo Thanks for detailed explanation & history. I'm even happier being on QOTO with that info in hand. This seems like a great community.

Been enjoying getting more deeply into global sensitivity analysis for a paper I'm writing with a student. When I was working on a model during my own PhD, I definitely viewed this as perfunctory (& boring) - in our current project, though, it actually provides the main outcomes/results from the work

The eventual success of Masto will depend on when people are mostly tooting about things other than differences b/w this & the bird

Looking for my fav bots from the bird- Happily found @hourlyfoxbot but missing Nic Cage Bot

I'm having trouble (albeit w/o much concerted effort) finding as many env & resource economists on @econtwitter.net as on the bird. Is that b/c they are slower to migrate than other fields or is it me missing something? (I assume the latter.)

Very excited that my roofer this week will be able to replace home skylight destroyed during Ian. Supply chain snarls not as bad as they thought.

Hello, world!