Climate shocks don’t get equal coverage. New research by DPIR's @acalacino.bsky.social, Mats Ahrenshop, @fgenovese.bsky.social & @hayleypring.bsky.social shows fossil fuel–heavy areas mute reporting, while others see clearer climate coverage: https://tinyurl.com/ye2hjdtf
Evidently, the heart should go to Sicilians, including the 5k oil employees in Priolo.
The blame should be on owners and sellers among weak regulators — the story of late-stage fossil capitalism in Sicily is similar to what @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social and I show here 👇
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3. A small number of MPs account for a large share of total heckles (Anthony Albanese heckles a lot!) John Howard is STILL the most heckled.
4. The Julia Gillard era (2010-2013) was brutal for female MPs and climate-speech heckling for women as well
hayleypring.org/heckling-aus...
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I used speech-level data and MP-level IDs for 227,613 speech events between 1998-2025.
4 things:
1. Heckling rates vary a lot by party, and the pattern shifts over time (Bob Katter is a loose unit 😂).
2. Climate has steadily risen to one of the most heckled topics in parliament...
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Who's getting heckled in the Australian Parliament? Is it women or men? Do they get heckled on the economy... or on climate talk?
I've always been jealous of the NYT-style data stories (me and my sad ggplots). So I created an interactive project on who gets heckled in the Australian Parliament.
🔥Revised paper🔥
More regressions. More tests of mechanisms. Same story. Tldr:
Brexit caused much regulatory uncertainty at a moment when UK state capacity was v weak, and hard-to-regulate companies (aka oil firms) did not think twice and generated a mess in the high seas.
Now with full receipts ⬇️
One might start to think there's a relationship between amount of money received from giant petro-state and how many reports you publish on lifting bans on oil licenses
Calacino, Genovese and Pring working paper on oil spills in the North Sea
3) claim that climate policy “is accelerating NS decline beyond what's necessary” is peak Climate Realism. Proposing to relax enviro rules and lift ban on new licenses to attract 💸 is v trickle down capitalism, but also damning as it's precisely what increased oil spills in UK last decade ⬇️
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Come one come all!
@hayleypring.bsky.social and I will show two waves of original UK public opinion data pointing to how and when an energy transition might receive a vote from work-age women (without perhaps losing the male support… 😅😵💫)
Australia news live: home battery subsidy helped add 50% to capacity in four months as Labor hails ‘solar nation’
Flooding has already wiped $42B from the value of 🇦🇺 homes
Climate change isn’t a future cost. It’s here, harming our economy and our safety
We can’t keep ✅ fossil fuel projects at expense of communities & property values, and need to get serious about adaptation
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
team of postdocs in the lab meeting proposing the 15th joint paper when I ask them when we will find time to write it
Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.
Hello Mannheim! I'm presenting tomorrow at the Centre for European Social Research.
Come for all the empirical modelling you know all about, stay for all the stuff about oil in Northern Europe you know less about 🛢️🌊
Abstract of "Offshore Outlaws" paper by Calacino, Genovese and Pring: Globalization has led to various forms of international integration whose effect on environmental behavior has been a long-standing source of debate. Yet, in recent years, there has been a growing backlash against international institutions, in part motivated by the will of taking back control of national borders. Focusing on the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, this paper explores the effects of this type of backlash on firms' environmental standards. Despite being defined as a sovereignist project to enhance state power and national regulatory oversight, we argue that Brexit caused immediate suboptimal environmental outcomes. Specifically, Brexit created policy misalignment, pushing the UK regulators into a capacity vacuum. This led to a transition period of impunity for polluting firms, further catalyzed by accelerating market changes, which led firms with lower environmental compliance to sort into the market. We test our theory with evidence from the oil sector's offshore rigs in the North Sea between 2015 and 2023. A grid-cell analysis of satellite-detected oil spills compares firm behavior in the United Kingdom, European Union, and Norwegian jurisdictions. We first find that, after Brexit, UK waters experienced significantly less environmental protection compared to the EU and Norway. Additionally, we show that the environmental damages following Brexit are not associated to a decrease of UK public salience for environmental protection, but by a new ecosystem of firms that were allowed to reap short-term profits from Brexit.
Looking forward to hopping on a train later today and heading to Paris to present our "how Brexit harmed the environment" paper (cc @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social) tomorrow 🇫🇷
Thanks @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social for the invite!
Daniel Totabo fishes for eel in the Halmahera rainforest
Nickel mines enroach on the rainforest in central Halmahera
New from @the-breakdown.bsky.social ISSUE 2
Photojournalist Garry Lotulung documents the exlosion of nickel mining, largely for batteries, in Halmahera, Indonesia—speaking with workers, locals & members of the island's Indigenous community
Photographed: Daniel Totabo
Psyched for @acalacino.bsky.social and @hayleypring.bsky.social to present our media paper at PECE/APSA!
Come for the giant dataframe of local news, geolocated monthly climate events and coal mines
Stay for the wealth of stories from recent 🇧🇷🇮🇩 fieldwork
Enrage about asset-based climate politics
On my way to Vancouver for APSA and the PECE pre-conference. At PECE, I'll be sharing a look at a project with @fgenovese.bsky.social, @hayleypring.bsky.social & Mats Ahrenshop in which we try to understand when national and local media report on climate change 👇 1/5
Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Today’s podcast listen was the Drilled’s episodes on Carbon Bros. Important stuff.
@hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social and I have work in progress on the intersection between gender and preferences for green jobs, and many things resonate.
Research registration plan: osf.io/qw2xs
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up.
NYT just covered it. 1/n
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Greenpeace HQ in Indonesia.
Skyline of Jakarta, Indonesia
Fieldwork in Indonesia off to a good start (by start I mean finally feeling human after 48 hours of jet lag) @fgenovese.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social
Australian PM Anthony Albanese announces Australia will recognise Palestine in September.
Nice, thanks Jacob!
Clean energy subsidies should be replaced with ‘market-based incentives’ from 2030, Australia’s Productivity Commission says: Interim report on investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation sets out reforms Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Ge...
Great thoughts by @bhbradlow.bsky.social that resonate with our (@acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social & my) work in GS.
But the divide bw 🛢️ & ⚡️ in each of these countries (bar China?) is still not 💯 determined. Each has an internal battle going on, multidirectional switches are possible.
Interesting.
Another story I’ll raise here is smtg @hayleypring.bsky.social @hannahsalamon.bsky.social and I have seen in our working age UK survey (N=1.5k):
men (non-grad&grad) seek higher paid jobs and would rather have high-pay in fossil fuels (dying sector) than midpay in green jobs (growing).
