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There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.

But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.

New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Le gouvernement veut mettre fin aux "exonérations massives" des droits d'inscriptions à l'université pour les étudiants étrangers La majorité des étudiants extracommunautaires seront appelés à s'acquitter de droits d'inscription fixés à 2 895 euros par an en licence, contre 178 euros aujourd'hui, et 3 941 euros en master, contre...

[ #VeilleESR #Démassification ] #BienvenueEnFrance2 s’appellera donc « Choose France For Higher Education », et vise à interdire aux universités d'avoir une politique éducative humaniste... Un bataille idéologique pour accélérer la démassification ?

Un position très intéressante à décrypter 🧵

From Paris to Florence: Sciences Po PhD Students at the 17th European Graduate Network Conference An article by the CERI team.

Last month, a group of PhD students from the CEE and @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social took part in the European Graduate Network Conference hosted by @sns.it in Florence.

They share their experiences in this article. ⤵️

cc @audebertsimon.bsky.social, @jbbonnet.bsky.social, @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

@audebertsimon.bsky.social @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

From Paris to Florence: Sciences Po PhD Students at the 17th European Graduate Network Conference An article by the CERI team.

The CERI and CEE communication team published a great article on Science Po's PhD students who presented last month at the European Graduate Network in Florence !
Check it out to learn more about this great conference and the fantastic work of my colleagues ⬇️
www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr/actu...

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.

So, who stands to win?

Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

«Notre seule liberté, c’est de se sauver» : à Paris, des propriétaires vendent pour échapper aux futures hausses d’impôts ENQUÊTE - Les hausses de taxes et la multiplication des préemptions annoncées par le nouveau maire de Paris mettent tous les propriétaires sous pression. Certains vont vendre, d’autres y réfléchissent...

« Paris est devenu "la Corée du Nord" ».

Pourquoi ?

Car les propriétaires qui laissent leurs logements vides plus d'un an seront... davantage taxés.

Terrible pour Pierre, 81 ans, qui possède cinq appartements. Ou Didier, 70 ans, qui en a quatre.

Contraints au g̶o̶u̶l̶a̶g̶... à vendre grassement (🤡).

[ #VeilleESR #OffensiveObscurantiste ] Le RN expose son programme de #demassification

Il est complètement pété :
- sociologie montre un bon taux d'insertion pro
- l'alternance est déjà saturée et commence à baisser
- une année en SHS coute ~4k€/an

🎓 I am very happy to share that I have successfully defended my PhD dissertation, "Competition Between Equals: Mainstream Party Decline, Far-Right Evolution, and the Transformation of Party Competition in Western Europe", on Monday!

Interview excerpt about PhD exchanges : "Discovering the Erasmus+ mobility programme through CIVICA opened the door to an enriching experience at the Hertie School of Governance, where I sought to conduct extensive research fieldwork. I stayed there five months from January to June 2025. During those five months, I conducted interviews that are crucial to my PhD thesis. Additionally, it allowed me to present my research, receive feedback, and connect with new scholars. For doctoral researchers considering mobility, I wholeheartedly recommend seizing this opportunity, it’s a great occasion to gain a fresh perspective on your field and to grow intellectually. The key issue is to prepare accordingly by identifying the scholars and interviewees you want to get in touch with beforehand and to calibrate the duration of the stay to balance between being productive and having time to enjoy the stay"

My profile on the @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social was edited to promote PhD exchanges through CIVICA and Erasmus+
I had a great experience at the @hertieschool.bsky.social last year and those programs help funding opportunities for intellectual discoveries or fieldwork!
www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-recher...

De quoi l'interview irresponsable et inconséquent de Sergueï Lavrov dans le journal télévisé de France 2 est-il le symptôme ? Comment expliquer la porosité d'une partie du paysage audiovisuel français à la propagande russe ? /1

@ronjasczepanski.bsky.social @audebertsimon.bsky.social

Les représentants de Sciences Po : Edgar Paysant, Jessica de Rongé, Simon Audebert, Ronja Sczepanski, Aizaz Hussain et Jean-Baptiste Bonnet

Just finished a great conference of the European Graduate Network at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence 🇮🇹
The presentations, the discussions, the place and the food, everything was fantastic! I deeply recommend the conference
Off to a week-end of tourism in Florence now 🍝

Le JDD se fout de la loi électorale, et tout le monde laissera faire

Municipales : « L'intérêt pour l'écologie échappe aux radars, mais il est réel » En 2026, un reflux de l'écologie dans les urnes ? Pas forcément, même si les scores du parti vert ont baissé, car de nombreux maires ruraux ont l'environnement « au cœur de leur programme », explique ...

J’ai eu le plaisir de répondre aux questions de @reporterre.net à l’issue du premier tour des municipales. Voici quelques éléments d’analyse qui invitent à regarder la place de l’écologie dans ces élections au-delà des grandes villes largement commentées depuis hier.

reporterre.net/Municipales-...

Cem Özdemir: Das Auto der Zukunft YouTube video by GrueneBW

Another way in which an Özdemir win would matter: in an age of greenlash, Germany's car-making homeland would have voted in a minister-president who champions electric cars while his CDU opponent worships the internal combustion engine.

www.youtube.com/shorts/_BsIt...

Jean-Baptiste BONNET, Master et Doctorat en Science politique Pouvez-vous revenir sur votre parcours académique, depuis votre master en science politique, majeure Politiques publiques, jusqu’à votre entrée en doctorat ?J’ai réalisé presque toutes mes études à Sc...

[Interview] 👨‍🎓De son bachelor à Sciences Po jusqu’à son doctorat, @jbbonnet.bsky.social revient sur son parcours en science politique, son expérience à Berlin et le rôle déterminant de son mémoire dans son choix de faire une thèse.👇
www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-recher...
@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social

Grand moment de dignité journalistique. C’est un journaliste suisse, malheureusement, ce n’est pas en France qu’on verrait ça.

Je viens de m'inscrire, est-ce trop tard ou peut-on venir dans tous les cas ?

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉

Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access)

The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social

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Jens Carstens with his PhD jury

Marcela Alonso Ferreira with her PhD jury

🎓 Congratulations to Dr Jens Carstens (@jenscarstens.bsky.social) and Dr Marcela Alonso Ferreira (@marcelaferreira.bsky.social), who both brilliantly defended their PhD theses in political science yesterday.

All the best for the next stage of their academic journey!

cc @edr-sciencespo.bsky.social

Can the impact of economic crises on political trust be mitigated? @charlotteboucher.fr studies the effect of different measures of social support on trust during the #COVID19 pandemic in Europe. More: buff.ly/htbkwaP

@sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @eurofound.europa.eu @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

BREAKING: The EU chooses complexity over clarity. Clinging to combustion engines won't make European carmakers great again.

Today’s proposal from the European Commission will extend the sales of cars with engines & divert investment from EVs, while China races further ahead of Europe’s carmakers.
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This Day in Labor History: December 15, 1989. The Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers come to an agreement with the German chemical company BASF for the company’s largest plant, in Geismer, Louisiana, after a five year lockout. Let's talk about the alliance with environmentalists that helped win!

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US

This view is wrong

A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Also, the workers in the original art risked their lives to make the lives of others better. These guys risk our lives to make their lives better.

A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision.

A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year.

The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

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Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Durable by Design? Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Durable by Design?

Some sources : www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
www.etui.org/publications...

Certainly, but they were designed to avoid any disruption to the industry, so it was intentional. Emission rules neutralise weight to favour technological improvements over sobriety and "technological neutrality" was a good way to preserve misguided investments in diesel and biofuels.