It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

A beautiful obituary for Mona Mona Khalil defied danger to protect her “family” Lebanon’s most dedicated conservationist was killed on June 19th, aged 76 www.economist.com/obituary/202...

It’s crazy that the EU’s electrification rate is no faster than to oil & gas producing countries, especially since 2022. Good on Fatih Birol for drawing attention to it

1/ Each Summer, @katemac.bsky.social & I write a essay with a different focus on political economy of Climate Don't miss our trilogy over last 3 summers Global Boiling: Scorched Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... Uninsurable Earth: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

This is cool - model that tries to simulate likely active firebreak strategies. Wildfire is unusual in that the risk changes in real time in response to active firefighter defense. Zheng NHESS

Find someone who cares for you like banks care for optimising their capital charges. www.ft.com/content/42a3...

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

New piece! Erin Lockwood on the vulnerabilities of the liberal international order, what characterizes America's "Trump first" foreign policy, and the unpredictability of what comes next. Check it out! @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social

Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The next global power struggle is for critical minerals. Resources like cobalt, copper, and lithium are reshaping geopolitics and the struggle to dominate critical minerals is a defining challenge of this political moment.

‘We won’t give up, we’ll keep fighting’: activists in Colombia vow to resist far-right push for fossil fuels | Global development | The Guardian share.google/0I5YRtYpjYMJ...

the terminology of climate finance has been and remains so annoying where "climate risk" mainly refers to the "risk" that the world transitions off fossils (which btw is mostly driven by factors not related to climate change, hello Hormuz) and physical risk and disasters are completely ignored

I have a foolproof way to make sure that your papers contain absolutely no fake references . . . . . read the papers you cite.

Summer reads: Explore five books on money, inequality, taxation, trade and economic power, including works by Princeton Professor @omzidar.bsky.social and graduate student @bhgreeley.bsky.social. Read this summer, then join us this fall for conversations with the authors. https://bit.ly/4b9qN7o

A really unpleasant professional anxiety that I’ve just realized I have is that I don‘t know how to think about collaborations now that I’m so mismatched with peers on acceptable AI use. I expected this problem with students but I’m shocked at how everyone in their 40s/50s is just casually using it

'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3

NEW from me: a whole long-piece journal article on long-term planning in British government during the 1960s... It's Open Acess and it's FREE! All yours, right now: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Staff morale and trust in management already irrevocably damaged imo

Curious people's thoughts on this: "Bank of England to push ahead with plan to limit hedge fund leverage Move to make gilt market more resilient has been criticised for potentially raising funding costs" www.ft.com/content/ea2f...

Is AI an economic equalizer across Europe, or is it widening the regional divide? 🌍 Our new open-access paper in Regional Studies maps the spatial geography of AI across EU NUTS-2 regions using a multi-dimensional framework. Here is what we discovered: 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0034...

People are saying it's a very good book

These 2 quotes summarize better than anything else I have read the economics & impact of data centres. If there were ever a situation in which a review of the environmental impact of pell mell implementation of tech bro technology were needed, this is it. (Then there is also the social impact.)

It is quite strange that this administration has control of the vast and competent US military, which organises on its behalf feats of logistics and destruction. Yet at the same time it can't renovate a pond or organise a festival.

Bring down the Establishment!

Flood Re reforms announced www.floodre.co.uk/10yearannive...

And yet management @northumbriauni.bsky.social press on with plans to cut the pay of hundreds of staff on @teacherspensions.bsky.social. This is vindictive, unnecessary, a permanent stain on the university's reputation, and, with job losses imminent, is destroying morale. For what?

I wrote a diary about being very pregnant and very angry in a catastrophic heatwave that killed thousands. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Kevin Warsh is the dog who caught the car.” 🏆 lede from @robarmstrong.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/86f9...

literally the logic underpinning the entire multi-billion dollar global carbon offsetting industry

It is utterly shameful that the maternal mortality rate is 3 times as high for black women compared to white women. The government must act with urgency and transparency to tackle those racial disparities and support families to receive better, safer care.

When private equity fund managers need to put in a relatively minuscule amount of money alongside their investors, where do they get it from? Increasingly — like everything else they do — they issue debt.