New publication 🌪️🌪️🌪️ Robert MacNeil and I investigate the range of “focusing events” that have driven public attention to climate change in Australia over the past two decades. 1/5 @gepjournal.bsky.social #climatechange #extremeweather #climateprotests #environment #Australia

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

A hopeful insight into Australian emissions reductions! When the incoming Aus fed govt announced the Battery subsidies, I could not imagine it would have such rapid uptake & impact.... Loved this quote: "It's actually a bottom-up renewable energy revolution being led by punters"

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party. That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours. The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it. #Bettrification #BESS

To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D

1/🤔To be or not to be continued? Our new report with Forum Energii explores this question in the context of the Just Transition Fund and its impact in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Spain. bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person. I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors. And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss. 🧵

@alexpiron.bsky.social and @ccrellin.bsky.social use #LLMs on #EU aid data to construct the EU's Humanitarian Aid #Network to explain aid allocation at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.

Let's prepare for "long lasting" energy shock, without mentionning once "renewables", says the EU commissionner for energy. www.ft.com/content/7d3a...

🔓️ Contrary to common assumptions, introducing pull policies before shifting to stricter push policies may not boost public support for tougher #climateaction, find Thomas Bernauer et al. Rather than policy-sequencing, governments may benefit from contemporaneous bundling of pull and push measures⬇️

🆕 Who Supports the Energy Transition? ⚡🌍 Marcello Natili, Alessandro Pellegata of @ecprpovb.bsky.social & Francesco Visconti look at the 2022 #EnergyCrisis, to find that support for renewables rose when paired with social compensation but deep class and ideological divides remain ⚖️

#disinformation damages "This misinformation presents a threat to action on climate change, but also challenges the health of Australia’s democracy, the committee found. AI was even used to generate fake content in some of the submissions to the inquiry."- theconversation.com/fake-news-on...

Looking forward to participating and engaging in this workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSessions on #LLMs and political #networks!

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

I'm Europe. This is my energy strategy.

New article! Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters, by Katie Nissen. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

👋 New article out in @plosclimate.org @istad.bsky.social & I experimentally demonstrate that communicating alignment between policies and the previously negotiated goals they aim to achieve boosts public support, as exemplified by ambitious decarbonisation goals in doi.org/10.1371/jour...

New article in @climate-policy.bsky.social with Yves Steinebach: "Legal complexity undermines effective climate policy implementation" Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

☀️ Australia: On the other side of the world, summer heatwaves brought 'extreme heat stress' to much of Australia, with feels-like temperatures of 46°C or higher. ⬇️

My latest in the Conversation summarises the findings from our recent paper on organised interests in Australian #climate policy. Thanks to the @aunz.theconversation.com team for some nice interactive figures to explore the data. @cssn.org @anuregnet.bsky.social theconversation.com/these-voices...

What do the key trends in international relations mean for the study on global environmental politics? New overview article in @gepjournal.bsky.social by crack team @yixiansun.bsky.social, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social et al. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?

Which groups mobilise on #climate policy in Australia? 📣 Darren Halpin and I have a new paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social that systematically maps who mobilises on climate policy in Australia, what side of the issue they fall on, and in which arenas they mobilise. Key finding include 🧵

There is much to be done, at all levels. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Wow I am blown away by this new data on Australia's climate views Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!) And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate. What a nightmare set of results pca.st/episode/6577...

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update! 💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. 📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data

Well apparently the US is not the only nation turning its back on science...🤔

The problem with the climate regime in one article: With fewer people attending COP30 "one in every 25 participants at this year’s UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist." It is "the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP" and up 12% from COP29 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It was great to visit @cicero.oslo.no where I presented and discussed my work on coalitions in EU environmental policy processes to the climate policy group! Thank you to Merethe Dotterud Leiren for the invitation! #PhD #EU #environmentpolicy #coalitions

Really enjoyed visiting the lovely @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social today. I had the opportunity to present and discuss some of my on-going PhD research to the climate policy group! #PhD #EnvironmentPolicy #EuropeanUnion

Excited to be a visiting PhD researcher for the next three months at the @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, University of Oslo under the supervision of @elinlb.bsky.social! Plenty planned here already and looking forward to engaging with many researchers and exploring the city and surrounds!

🌱Thrilled to be a part of this book on EU Environmental Governance! 🌱 Thank you to editors Amandine Orsini and Eleni Kavvatha for guiding the process, and my supervisor @tomdelreux.bsky.social for including me as a co-author. www.routledge.com/EU-Environme...

Was fortunate enough to present a chapter of my PhD thesis on the drivers of #coalitions in the #EU #GreenDeal and tune in to some great emerging research at the @uaces.bsky.social conference in Liverpool

Today, at our webinar, @laura-mas.bsky.social presented her work and provided valuable insights on policy research and crisis. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us, Laura! ☺️ And thanks to our audience for joining us and for sparking interesting discussions ✨ See you next time!

Please do repost this message to reach more people, for an ongoing project. I hope to speak to/hear from #climate and #democracy #researchers who are willing to discuss/reflect on how they navigate their research topics in times of climate breakdown and democratic #backsliding. Please reach out!

Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: @laura-mas.bsky.social from University of Bologna will provide insights on the connection between #crises, policy processes and EU policymaking. Join us!! 😊 🗓: Wednesday, September 10, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET ✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Temperature records are going to keep getting broken until morale improves (or until we stop burning fossil fuels).

Motherfucking wind farms…

Send your paper/panel to EPSS 2026! @antvalentim.bsky.social and I are co-chairing the climate politics section and can’t wait to help climate research shine in Belfast!

🔔 Job opportunity – Sydney Environment Institute is #hiring a #Postdoctoral Research Fellow - #Justice and #Electricity Transmission to develop research on climate justice and electricity transmission with @amandatattersall.bsky.social and @dschlosberg.bsky.social. Applications close 11 Aug, 11:59PM

The new ruling by the UN court on climate action is a game changer. The decision speaks to both mitigation and Loss and Damage from the effects of climate change. Full article here: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The International Court of Justice declared that states have legal duties—not just moral ones—to protect the climate. This landmark opinion, writes @panthealee.bsky.social, is part of a years-long campaign that began with university students.

Postdoc Job: Just Transition. Come work with Amanda Tattersall and me at USYD, along with Jonathan Pickering and Madeline Taylor, on a 2-year project examining issues of justice and community benefit in transmission line regs, planning, siting. Info here: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Must-read for all EU climate politics nerds: @ziaweise.bsky.social with an update on the nuances of the unfolding parliamentarian political battle over the new EU 2040 target.

Originally developed for the US, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is now used to analyze EU policy. As EU policymaking differs, this paper by F. von Malmborg examines limits of applying ACF to supranational contexts. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci #AFC

Fantastic insights at the @greendealnet.eu conference. Touched on the role of #democracy and #climate policy, the clean industrial deal, the near future of EU climate policy, and the #social justice aspect of #EU climate policy, ending with an exhibition and participative performance!

I'm happy to have contributed to this new ACF book in a small way. Check out our chapter on antecedents of policy change, led by the fantastic @allegrafullerton.bsky.social!

This is incredibly excellent — everyone, please watch and share widely! And I say that not at all because I consulted on the script with the brilliant showrunners haha 😂😇