Publication alert! 🔔
My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ...
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El 21 de abril @institutomeridiano.org organiza unas jornadas en el @cbamadrid.es sobre los desafíos energéticos y geoestratéticos de Europa.
Será un placer coincidir con @fsaraceno.bsky.social Susana M. Belmonte, @sofia-martinez.bsky.social @jorgetamames.bsky.social y @juliamirallesdi.bsky.social
we cannot live this way.
Captain it's Wednesday
Captain it's Wednesday
The United States has directed every American embassy and consulate across the world to launch coordinated campaigns against foreign propaganda and endorses Elon Musk's X as an "innovative" tool to help do it.
X is now literally a propaganda unit of the US government. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Line chart showing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1958 to 2024. A light blue sawtooth line shows raw monthly values, reflecting the seasonal cycle of plant growth. A dark blue smooth line shows the seasonally adjusted record, rising from 315 ppm in 1958 to over 426 ppm in 2024. A dashed red curve shows the super-exponential fit, with the instantaneous growth rate rising from 0.27%/yr in 1960 to 0.64%/yr in 2024, more than doubling over the period of the record.
1/ Why is atmospheric CO₂ accelerating faster than fossil fuel emissions are growing?
The answer is buried in the data, and it's more worrying than most people realise.
A thread. 🧵👇
Tesla received billions in government loans, tax credits and subsidies, making Elon Musk the world's richest person. The public? No equity stake, no profit-sharing, no guarantee of affordable access.
Incredible
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
Pleased to finally publish this paper with Mareike Beck on the epistemic origins of the 2022 gilt market crisis in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
How can we explain the limited regulatory response to the increasing systemic risk of LDI strategies in UK pensions?
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doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Quite concerning results about the use of LLMs for text annotation: almost all models produce outcomes that reproduce racial stereotypes.
Reminder to avoid the Thiel distraction. A point we’ve been hitting on tour is the temptation to apply intellectual history methods to a regime of accumulation (digital capitalism) is misguided. You won’t understand the Tech Right by reading books (they don’t read). Look at how they run their firms.
La gran pregunta de este 8M ha sido si los jóvenes son menos feministas.
La realidad es que los jóvenes son menos machistas, pero más antifeministas. ¿Por qué?
1.- Sí, ha aumentado el voto a la extrema derecha europea tanto entre hombres COMO MUJERES jóvenes.
Interested in how international inequalities are institutionalized? In the history of IOs? Please check our new paper in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social! 👇
Once again, the “sovereigntists” suffer from being strapped to the foreign policy of not one but two other powers.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
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🧵
Yes! Yes! Got both despicable Reform and gutter Labour.
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
The Starmer/McSweeney strategy followed the illusion of needing to win back the nativist-authoritarian worker and in the process alienated those who form their actual electoral coalition. This has been the story of social democratic parties across Europe. This won’t be easily reversible.
If he’d actually seriously taken on the recession, there wouldn’t have been a Trump. One day, we may finally be able to have that conversation. But almost no one is ready for that & probably won’t be for a generation:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
*Marx making a shocked face.jpg“
— @rheinze.myatproto.social
On the hellish detention and deportation system built by EU countries. With quotes from the current and the former German chancellors expressing their commitment to the inhumane cruelty of this apparatus, described here in forensic detail.
Research thrives on innovation and the diversity of ideas, yet our funding system often penalizes both. In our new study published in PNAS, we explore the hidden costs of competition in allocating scarce research funds. (1/10) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Amazing, the Starmerites who have squandered a majority in Parliament with such exquisite incompetence think a left Labour government would be the real disaster
Every accusation is a confession.
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Very proud to share this piece with
@bolandeira.bsky.social for @jacobinmag.bsky.social, where we discuss the complicated relationship between the radical left and the nation, based on our article in JCES (doi.org/10.1080/1478...).
Updated EU Security & Defence Partnership tracker, to include yesterday's India deal
PDF: bit.ly/UshGraphic142
Synoptic datasheet: bit.ly/EUSDPs
@ukandeu.bsky.social @nvondarza.bsky.social @stevepeers.bsky.social
I'm honestly less mad at the President, who is clearly not well, that I am at his outriders and enablers.
They see messages like this and then, with straight faces, go on television or write op-eds retroactively constructing grand strategy justifications.
Pathetic.