European and US companies continued to sell pesticides abroad years after they were banned at home. Our reporter traveled to Kenya to learn how farmers are paying the price for these chemical products with their health — and how they’re fighting back.

Only shifting the terrain by political mobilization can lead to green transformation - a powerful argument.

📣 We're hiring! The ETUI is seeking a senior researcher, ideally with team-leading experience, to conduct research into future-oriented topics of relevance for the world of work, with a particular focus on the #JustTransition Interested? More info here 🔗 etui.org/4fp

So pleased to have this brilliant book physically in my hand today! Many thanks to @etshermer.bsky.social for intellectual and organizational leadership on this, and fellow series editors Kim Phillips-Fein and Andrew Wender Cohen for helping usher this into print.

The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

🔜 One month to go until the next round of #UNTaxConvention negotiations. Before talks resume in August, catch up on what happened in previous sessions & what's ahead. 👉Follow the negotiations with our explainers, analysis and updates: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta... #TaxJustice #GlobalTax

The Irish Labour History Society and the Women’s History Association of Ireland are hosting a conference, 24/25 July, Lissadell, Sligo to mark the centenary of the death of Eva Gore-Booth. Early booking is advised for what will be a gathering of historians & feminists to consider Eva’s legacy. 👇🏼

Just out w/ @jacobhell.bsky.social - "Cloud assets and the “unit of compute”: Market dominance in commercial computing" #assetization #cloudcomputing #datacentres #bigtech || journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I spoke to @newleftreview.bsky.social about the political economy of climate: supply chain geoeconomics, why Biden’s signature climate policy didn’t stick, political weakness of green capitalism, Chinese industrial policies, global South resource nationalism &more newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

The August #UNTaxConvention talks will decide who wins global tax reform: multinationals or people The OECD's "minimum tax" deal was watered down to 15% and the US exempted its multinationals So African nations took the fight to the #UN @jayatighosh.bsky.social at @novaramedia.com w/ Michael Walker

What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!

Our latest #bookreviews come from Hannah Farrimond, Jesse Callahan Bryant, Eirini Ktori and Madhuri Kamtam. @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social, @irenektori.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social Read The Sociological Review magazine. #OpenAccess. buff.ly/HcfvZUa

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Amazing. Ancient Egyptian versus Modern Egyptian Arabic. Video is in Egyptian Arabic but you'll get the gist of it. Some words haven't changed in 5,000 years. Via www.instagram.com/reel/DYKjGpA...

We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds. Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation

For those who missed it: the debate @roapejournal.bsky.social between Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven roape.net/2022/02/08/t... #econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social

How and why do some countries restrict their fossil fuel production? We explore this in @ripejournal.bsky.social, based on fieldwork in 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇬🇧the UK, 🇨🇴Colombia & 🇨🇷Costa Rica. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social, @freddiedaley.bsky.social, and Dani Soto.

📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory! The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty. Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️

Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more. Now all online— phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...

Solar. Very interesting by @janrosenow.bsky.social People in Pakistan "ran ahead on deployment and left the institutions trailing. The result is a boom and a crisis happening at the same time, in the same place."

Out now - The Housing Question, a special themed issue of Rundale that @kathleenstokes.bsky.social and I edited. Featuring 5 really excellent pieces on #housing in Ireland from all across the artist <-> scholar <-> activist spectrum 🌈 www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/t...

The recent history of the Chinese financial system on a single slide? @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social has that, and so much more. Absolutely incredible talk on "Finance and the Chinese state" at #financedemocracy.

My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.

Critically important points raised by @robkitchin.bsky.social regarding the importance of external, independent, curiosity-led and coherent decision-making on the awarding of research grants to early career researchers.

There's a certain kind of teen girl, usually dismissed as "insolent," who knows from jump that the way her world is treating her is more the world's problem than hers. I'll always appreciate Marjane Satrapi for giving that girl a strong voice. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

A highlight of our team’s year so far was being given a walking tour of the IFSC by 5th-year Politics & Society students from Luttrellstown Community College. These amazing students used resource books we published with WorldWise Global Schools to research and deliver the tour!

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

What does Trump 2.0 mean for tax multilateralism? In a new paper in the British Tax Review, I look at why (and how) international tax cooperation has proved surprisingly resilient in an age of multilateral breakdown. Open access: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The five areas of focus in the SI are: 1: Sourcing financial data. 2: Improving ‘follow the money’ methods. 3: Accounting as rationalization machine. 4: Creating alternative accounts. 5: Public/Private financial hybridization. Whole SI can found found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

📢Who decides where value is created? Value creation is central to how multinationals are taxed & remains a contested international tax idea, shaping debates on taxing rights. This panel revisits its origins, evolution & why it is re-emerging in #UNTaxConvention negotiations. 🔗 bit.ly/4dzGeWL

📢 Join us this Friday for the second webinar in our 'Four definitions to change the world' series, exploring how “foreseeable relevance” is being shaped & debated in the #UNTaxConvention How should tax information be shared across borders, & under what rules? 👉 Register: bit.ly/4wEtl6D

Jim Clarken of @oxfamireland.bsky.social sets out a clear case for a wealth tax. It won't solve everything, but it can pull the handbrake on accelerating inequality. We think that's urgently needed in this country. www.thetimes.com/article/2a39...

Truly horrifying study on the personal & social harm done by sycophantic AI. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Brendan Palmer (UCC) presented IFUT’s updated Precarious Employment Survey at #IFUTADC2026. 87.8% said precarity remains pervasive across higher education, while staff reported unpaid work, insecure contracts and long delays before permanency. Delegates backed continued organising and action.

Not good enough, after 8 years of delay, over 2 years of apartheid Israel’s livestreamed genocide in Gaza, of escalating ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank, of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs unanimously recommending the inclusion of services, 🧵1

Functional finance Suppressing finance Taxing the rich Transforming firms The foreign exchange constraint @abenanav.bsky.social’s transition plan has it all. The most intellectually serious and exciting thing you’ll read this month I promise.

End trade with Israel now @ipsc.bsky.social #freepalestine www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Housing. Important, inarguable overview by Lorcan Sirr @tudublin.bsky.social via @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

Link to the book (open-access): taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

I contributed a book chapter on a key EU policy problem: fiscal consolidation pressures and rising defence spending risk crowding out public investment in the green and digital transition. I discuss options for creating more fiscal space under the reformed EU fiscal rules.

This should read: Data centre expansion threatens energy affordability for households and national decarbonisation plans. www.irishexaminer.com/business-col...

💫 New publication by Manuel Aalbers on financialization or rental housing 3.0, exploring how niche housing segments, such as mobile homes, informal housing and subsidized housing, are turned into assets. Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Monday, global edition

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Private equity: taming the beast - a joint podcast episode with the brilliant @bylinetimespod.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social @naomifowler.bsky.social @alexcobham.bsky.social - it's gone under the radar for too long - @hettieobrien.bsky.social discusses her new book

Fascinating and important piece from @alondra.bsky.social as tech companies seek to internalize what should be the public project of finding a new social contract in the age of AI.

The 14th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference takes place in SETU Waterford on 26 May from 10am-5pm. The morning session will have presentations on Earnings, Climate & Resilience. For more details & registration go to - www.nerinstitute.net/events/2026/... #Earnings #climate