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Appreciate the endorsement of this article from @jeppjournal.bsky.social. If you would be interested in a novel and long-missing approach of how adopted domestic policy influences the design of other policies, do take a look. Further work will also be presented at the COPPR conference, Bern, in Jan!

Velkommen til Nansens klima- og energiseminar 2025 💥 Energi = makt, rettferdighet og sikkerhet 📅 23. sep 📍Polhøgda, Lysaker 👀Temas: 🔹 EU og Norge 🔹 Rettferdig omstilling 🔹 Energi og geopolitikk 👉https://fni.no/events/nansens-klima-og-energiseminar-2025 @thinderberg.bsky.social @sidsareen.bsky.social

Since National took NZ Govt office with ACT Party and NZ First, my friends and I have all lost work. Prices have gone up. Env't protections have been removed. Politicians have attacked #PayEquity, safer roads, and trans rights. I don't trust that lot an iota. 🔬 #NZpol newsroom.co.nz/2025/08/03/n...

Hvorfor klarer ikke Norge sine klimamål? Det er et viktig tema nå når vi har fått oppdaterte, men like uklare mål for klimaomstilling. Erlend Hermansen og jeg viser at mangelfull politisk styring som en viktig årsak. Se hvordan vi kan velge å gjøre det bedre her. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...?

Interested in social science PhD within electricity regulation? Or know anyone who might be? Have a look at this position: decentralization and security of supply with an eye on policy, regulatory, and organizational aspects of the electricity sector, in Norway. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Send @thinderberg.bsky.social and me your cool book proposals! We're editors for this topically pertinent Palgrave Macmillan series on accountable sustainability transitions, broadly construed, and with special enthusiasm for energy governance and political economy: link.springer.com/series/15884...

Dette er viktig, uavhengig av politisk ståsted. La oss ikke skli helt ned til dette nivået på debattene i dette landet. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Blir det regjeringskrise? Trond Giske mener både Senterpartiet og Ap må gi og ta i den betente konflikten om EUs fjerde energimarkedspakke. www.aftenposten.no/norge/politi...

Really interesting report on European solar developments. Some promises in the crossing of curves! ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Uten billioner i subsidier som politikerne fortsetter å gi bort, ville ikke fossilt brensel konkurrert med fornybare energikilder på global skala, skriver spaltist Siddharth Sareen @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social @uibcet.bsky.social www.altinget.no/artikkel/hus...

8am this morning for New Zealanders - join us if you can!

The walking part of my commute on Friday

Imports continue to be a fairly big part of how Ireland meets its electricity demand. But looking at overall numbers for 2024, it's quite similar to 2023, but domestic generation mix became cleaner, leading to a 8.5% drop in average grid carbon intensity, which is certainly welcome news.

Her har vi (dessverre) en sterk kontrast til Norges såkalte "satsning" på forskning i nåværende periode: Sverige ser ut til å gjøre en reell innsats. Det er vanskelig å forstå hvorfor Norge sakker akterut i denne konkurransen - tilsynelatende en villet politikk.

Horizon Europe's overall budget is 95.5 BILLION euros. The gov't has decided that NZ's access to the portion of those $ that relates to humanities & social sciences isn't worth pursuing. Horizon investment in our researchers would cost the NZ taxpayer next to nothing for huge investment & reward

Denne her er ikke bare underholdende om strømpolitikk, men også treffsikker: www.europower.no/politikk/hoy...

Doing Europe, one coffee shop at a time. (Oh, and workshop on carbon pricing, energy, anchoring policies too, in KU Leuven)

"[...] rollbacks of the use of Māori language in public services, [...] remedy inequities in health, and [...] radically alter the way the treaty is interpreted are undermining Māori rights[...]". The current NZ government is doing well to mess things up. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

When I left X, I left 260000ish followers who cared about the NHS. This is bad because the NHS is in a state of emergency and EveryDoctor has just launched an important petition. If you can see this, please could you follow me and share this? 🤞💙🚨

Some interesting arguments for why we should lie to our children (about Santa) or not - and when to stop. And: Why Nietzsche would apparently agree. theconversation.com/the-case-for...

Please, do not forget. Ever!

This is the key setup for the morning drill: #espresso or more frequently those lovely #flatwhites.

#books #bookmemes #booksky #writerstruggles #writer

Fantastic to follow Siddharth Sareen and his Nils Klim price seminar, with a lot of interesting discussions at the DNVA. Right next to Fridtjof Nansen!

Wondering how some public policies shape design of other policies? This recent publication by Ian Bailey and me discusses the concept of 'anchoring policies', denoting pressures exerted between policies. Journal of European Public Policy (first 50 = free access) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/D4DDY...

Current NZ government policies "increasing racial tensions" - should not be surprising! www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

It is genuinely amazing to be an academic expert in why we have to be very careful with and even wary of all of the tools and systems we've lumped in under the term "AI" and watch all of the place that might publish the fact of my work, ignore its content. Just, literally, amazing.

Yet another tragic move by the current New Zealand populist government. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Nice to see that alternatives to chemical weedkiller are becoming available. Hope they work well! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well, perhaps no surprise in this, but good to see the science. And nice that they seem to link demand reduction forecasts with supply levels. So what do you say, Norway? U.S.? British Conservatives? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

These developments in New Zealand, which I care about greatly, are really concerning. While 'green and clean' perhaps went out the window long ago, recently things have certainly taken a heavy downwards spiral! www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

For og imot marked ettersom det passer den aktuelle spørretimen... Eggonomics for begynnere www.aftenposten.no/meninger/ski...

Depressing and a great challenge for the justice part of the transition needed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Really excited about this publication on political feasibility of long-term energy transition pathways and how integrate in modelling. With Hilde Nykamp (TIK), Ville Olkkonen and Eva Rosenberg (both IFE), and Karianne Taranger. Free to download: www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy.uio.no/science/arti...

Sad news that Johan Galtung, who has had a massive influence on peace, conflict, and violence research, has passed away at the age of 93. www.prio.org/news/3505 polisky conflictsky contentiousky

Wonder how electricity grid capacity charges are developed and if/how (vulnerable) consumer interests are considered? New research article on flexible electricity consumption policies in Norway and Sweden, written with Jenny Palm and Eivind Matthiasen download: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iZQK7tZ6a...

Dette fører sikkert ikke til at oppslutningen om Solberg og Høyre påvirkes. Virker som om alt for mange velgere ikke innser hvor alvorlig slike forhold er.

"conversations with like-minded individuals caused political views to become more extreme; by contrast, conversations with contrary-minded individuals...significantly reduced negative beliefs and attitudes toward ideological out-group members" www.econtribute.de/RePEc/ajk/aj...

IEA commentary: How to maximise the social benefits of clean energy policies for low-income households. 🔌💡

Seven years later: Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting statistics on income inequality and national tax

So sorry to read the continued misery inflicted upon my UK university colleagues, by their very employers and the government. It is a disgrace.

Interesting assessment of the Colorado verdict:

I imported 26 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

Good article on the rise of bsky which, the author states is "driven by the belief that nobody should have that much power over social networking." Hear hear.

The infamous Norwegian wind power "Fosen case" on Sami rights has finally found a solution. Or, rather, a less than half a solution. The most complicated area remains to reach an agreement for, with the indigenous sami group, whose rights have been violated. Good luck to all parties.

This text shows the uselessness of Certificates of Origins. While not necessarily new information, it is undermining national responsibility for physical, on the ground developments, disconnected from and on collision with an economic logic. Of course that leads to double claiming.

Another backward step from the new NZ govt. It must be hard to smoke and cycle at the same time.