⚠️ Financial Stability at Risk This policy note by @wwf.org.uk and IIPP researchers highlights how financial flows contribute to nature loss in five crucial ecosystems and calls for stronger financial interventions to prevent systemic risks. ✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/D85nULd

As climate and resource crises grow, Indigenous & local communities lead on conservation but remain sidelined in global governance. An analysis says BRICS+, with its multipolar, South-South framework, may open space for Indigenous leadership in shaping policy from within. ** Views are author's.

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Arthur Rackham's illustration for the 1915 edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' sees Scrooge visited by the ghost of his former business partner Marley, who wanders the earth shackled by chains and cashboxes after his lifetime of greed.

"A Brief History of AI Psychosis": a short story

New paper out - on why there won't be a return to the golden age of inflation targeting. Empirical material focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia, but the argument applies broadly, I feel. www.ppesydney.net/content/uplo...

New paper! How are emissions scenarios 📉 from the IPCC (and other sources) actually used by decision-makers? We asked them, and the results are out just in time for the holidays 🧑‍🎄🤶🧑‍🎄 (with @idasogn.bsky.social & @climansen.bsky.social)

Curious about the tech billionaires' claims to sovereignty mean for the international order? Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!

"Peakers," power plants "meant to run only in short bursts during periods of spiking electricity demand," are "often decades-old, fossil-fueled facilities" that "emit more pollution when they are running and cost more to produce electricity..." Data center demand is keeping them online.

What a gift to speak with Mikey Muhanna of @afikra.bsky.social about my book On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo on this episode of Afikra www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfHc....

Interesting short piece by Carolyn Sissoko on the institutional role of banks in a credit economy.

Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – @uclpress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access) uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

I riff on @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social’s discussion of institutions and growth to explain why banking may be an important missing link in economists’ understanding of how and why growth takes place. Institutions and growth: How banks used to provide the liquidity that fuels innovation and growth

This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->> www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families filtonactionists.com

Today, Chastity Murphy offers an insider’s account of the failure to regulate stablecoins: a retrospective on what worked, what didn’t, and what’s at stake if we don’t reclaim public control over the future of money.

My chapter with Chris Ebert is finally online! We view the asiento from Salvador da Bahia—the South Atlantic's main commercial hub. Brazil was the largest destination for enslaved Africans, yet it's usually absent from asiento scholarship. We ask: why was Brazil never supplied by foreign slavers?

now reading : the history of a tenth of a second by Jimena Canales “it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound.” press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

I particularly like the concept of "simple, un-CV-able conversations" in this piece. Remember those? Conversations about knowledge that weren't geared towards research output or education metrics? www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

[1/8] Remarquable long format, très bien illustré, s’appuyant sur des travaux scientifiques récents. Des chercheurs comme Andrew Hultgren (Université de l’Illinois) et Kaveh Zahedi (FAO) montrent comment le dérèglement climatique fragilise la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. #geography #foodsecurity

Unearned income built the world. Mother of Capital is OUT NOW! www.plutobooks.com/product/moth...

Thrilled to announce Daniela Gabor's keynote 'The Seville Process: Developmentalism after American Hegemony' @danielagabor.bsky.social @adamtooze.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @anninak.bsky.social @kaikodden.bsky.social @kaikodden.bsky.social

Exxon is happy to help the tech industry meet its greenwashing needs, claiming that 90% of emissions from fossil-powered data centers will be captured. Never mind that CCS has never been successfully deployed at a gas plant and no CCS facility has ever come close to 90%. @emorwee.bsky.social

📘Book launch: The Visual Life of Climate Change. Join us for an evening exploring how images shape the climate story, conversation, insights, and more. #ClimateChange #Eco #Environmentalism ➡️Jan 22 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm: https://ow.ly/nUXL50XLp60

New Guest Comment by @kpatricio.bsky.social, Celine Tan and Stephen Connelly sets the record straight on new proposed UK legislation to provide debt relief to developing countries, calling the IMF recent analysis of the proposal “misplaced” #BWObserver Winter25 🔗 tinyurl.com/DebtReliefUK

Buitres gonna buitre... www.linkedin.com/redir/redire...

Christopher Penfield, Deleuze's Foucault: A Virtual Force Ontology - @edinburghup.bsky.social, April 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-deleuze...

Best story I've seen on the claim against Shell, filed by survivors of the devastating 2021 #Odette “The poor are getting even more poor because we are recovering fr the typhoon & then there is another typhoon all over again, & then recovering again” @roycerk2.bsky.social @drilledmedia.bsky.social

Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.

"We list these “carbon bombs” by name, show in which countries they are located and calculate their potential emissions which combined exceed the global 1.5 °C carbon budget by a factor of two... 40% of carbon bombs have not yet started extraction"

Hear my diagnosis of the drivers of the UK housing crisis on this excellent new BBC Radio 4 program led by @vickyspratt.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

This is a great, important piece by @joelkhalili.bsky.social for @wired.com - on how many Bitcoin miners have pivoted to generative machine learning. Plenty of technical overlap but just the core equation of [more GPU-melting-overconsumption] = [more money] is perhaps the most relevant

🚨A new angle on private equity’s volatility laundering www.ft.com/content/ff83...

Changing asset manager mandates is one of the few downstream options available to pension funds looking to drive sustainability under conditions of asymmetric autonomy. Its decarbonization impact is limited but it may trigger market dynamics. More in our paper w/ @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social