See what a morning, gloriously bright With the dawning of hope in Jerusalem … Christ is risen from the dead!

Meanwhile in America. #ArtemisII

My Oxford #PSA26 conference haul, for me and for the kiddo. From, respectively, @princetonupress.bsky.social at the conference and from Blackwell’s.

Trump has arrived at the Supreme Court to sit in on birthright citizenship arguments, the first such appearance by a president. Follow live updates.

If I was flying Business Class I’d be demanding *no* WiFi for a more pleasant experience. That and a quiet rule. #aviation #travel

Always difficult to walk the streets of Oxford and not see this hallowed seat of learning through the eyes of Inspector Morse. A peek into The Randolph, and a look up the Carfax Tower to see whether any dead bodies have been found atop it or flung down its walls today. Nice to be back for #PSA26.

A fascinating study of a "Big Oil Company" and geopolitical risk, especially as the company on which the case study is based is anonymized! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is going to be tough in an age of bitterness, but I'm going to try and switch to positive messaging on social media.

I remember learning about the #Holocaust in school. It seemed entirely remote and evil beyond comprehension. I never thought that a mere few decades later #antisemitism would (yet again) become the primary source of moral rot in the West.

I have a new article in ERSS. A claim to novelty is that the concept of a distinct American “petroculture” constitutes a useful analytical lens for understanding divergence among IOCs in terms of how they position themselves in the #energy transition. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the close and increasingly complicated ties between American universities (public and private) and the federal government www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Decades later, Mugabe took a leaf out of the East German land redistribution playbook. With predictable results. (From Katja Hoyer’s Beyond the Wall.)

This NY Times piece by @dgelles.bsky.social argues that the world was making progress on #climate change mitigation, but "[t]hen, Donald #Trump returned to the Oval Office". No recognition of the fact that nearly all demand growth is in the Global South incl. China. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/c...

Ah yes, because prior to this #Iran was no one knew that the #Gulf region is a key supplier of #oilandgas worldwide.

It's been a long time coming. #ExxonMobil plans to move its legal home to #Texas from New Jersey, joining other companies that have relocated to the Lone Star state in search of a more business-friendly environment #oilandgas www.wsj.com/business/ene...

It is now apparently "raining oil" in Tehran. The city drowning in oil is a poignant illustration of the vagaries of the petrostate. #petrocultures

"If they are your ally and they are an indispensable cornerstone for your security, you had better show up." - Tony #Blair on #specialrelationship #Starmer #Trump #Iran

They "find no effects of shareholder pressure on deep reforms to climate strategies". #oilandgas #climate Limited impacts of shareholder pressure on climate strategy of fossil firms | Business and Politics | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/47tAv2x

When commenting on domestic US economic effects of #Iran war and potential impact on #midterms2026 please recall that electorates' views on economy in spring are weakly correlated with voting choice, whereas those views in autumn are strongly correlated with voter choice. #elections

“This is not Winston #Churchill that we’re dealing with.” — #Trump on #Starmer #specialrelationship

US #LNG will play an even more important role in global #energy markets in the months and years ahead. #shale #fracking

Manchester, 28th February 2026. #Iran #Israel #USA

Still alive.

"[W]e do live in systems that reward conformity, discourage awkward questions and quietly reshape categories so that certain answers no longer appear..." Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, President of City St George's, University of London, on ideological conformity in academia.

Great piece by Charles Duhigg on how #Democrats are good at mobilizing but get caught up in ideological litmus tests, whereas #Republicans organize and convert organization into votes. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Today is the annual #Holocaust Memorial Day. Never Again.

Starting to teach my spring course on Global Political Economy of #Energy tomorrow and with unfailing sense of timing the current issue of @newyorker.com arrived in the post. #oil #Trump

The US has 8 US$1 trillion+ companies (one is US$3 trilllion+). Europe have none. While the US companies are all high-tech, Europe's most valuable company is French luxury brand LVMH (US$350 billion). Two entirely divergent economies. #TradeWar

Sign of the times. #arms #defence #investing

I always read some books from the FT's Business Book of the Year list. The 2025 winner, Stephen Witt's biography of Jensen Huang and #Nvidia is one of the best books in years. (The 2012 winner, Steve Coll's book on #Exxon drew me into energy research full-time.) #AI www.penguin.co.uk/books/462527...

”HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” #Trump #Iran

"The doughnut is stale." #degrowth papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I guess the #Aggies will make do with what Whitehead referred to as the "footnotes"... #Plato #philosophy

Thornberry warns of "international anarchy". I guess she never studied International Relations and Waltz. #Venezuela

My favourite spot on the last day of the year. Deus Nobiscum ✠

Santa delivered! Very excited about tickets to take my boys to the 2026 #UnionJackClassic at Wembley: #ASU v #KU. My real college football allegiance may be with the purple and gold, but I attended one and received a PhD from the other of these two 😀

#Energy are the ties that bind together. " #Israel Approves $37 Billion Deal to Deliver Gas to #Egypt" #Leviathan #Chevron #oilandgas www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

Continental Resources' Harold Hamm is just the kind of oilman who makes the study of #oilandgas so fascinating. #Oklahoma www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/b...

Not quite the "Drill, baby, drill" boom for US #oil as you might have expected during a second #Trump administration. #oilandgas www.rystadenergy.com/insights/rev...

An astute review by Gideon Lewis-Kraus of Sven Beckert’s #Capitalism ‘What Does “Capitalism” Really Mean, Anyway?’ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

After years of “activists” screaming their anti-Israeli and thinly veiled anti-Jewish hate in universities, on the streets, outside synagogues and Jewish shops, officials are shocked by the mass shooting on #BondiBeach during #Hanukkah celebrations. Precisely what “globalising the intifada” entails

The seeds of truths in #Trump ‘s #NationalSecurityStrategy2025 about our serious structural problems in #Europe should be a greater concern to us than the hyperbole with which it is delivered and irrespective of the intent behind the message. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

New paper with Joachim Peter Tilsted & Oliver Bugge Hunt in Energy Research & Social Science ‘Trasformismo: Advancing understandings of the relationship between stability & change in transitions’ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @sussexsrp.bsky.social @suspol.bsky.social

Grok produced an interesting list of the Top 10 most important cities in #oilandgas: Houston, London, Singapore, Dubai, Geneva, Riyadh, Beijing, Moscow, Calgary, Stavanger. Geneva is perhaps surpsiring as it's easy to forget its major role in oil trading (Vitol, Trafigura, etc.).

“We estimate the ‘supply’ gap by 2035 – the volume of new liquids the upstream industry needs to bring onstream – is just over 20 million b/d... Achieving that will require sustained development investment of at least US$520 billion a year.” #oilandgas www.woodmac.com/blogs/the-ed...

The political desire to willingly forego #oilandgas investments and tax receipts while that choice does nothing to alter global demand or supply is a strange one... " #NorthSea oil and gas groups given go-ahead for new drilling" www.ft.com/content/ce02...

On "Climate Realism". Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump | International Organization | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/47Xuz2F

Instead of the repeated warnings about a world in which there is no rapid transition away from #fossilfuels perhaps it’s time to start preparing for that world. #COP30 “Oil Producers, but Maybe Not the Planet, Get a Win as Climate Talks End” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/c...

If #AI data centres are even more sensitive to down time caused by intermittent renewable sources of #energy than are other energy intensive industries, then the unprecedented boom in energy demand generated by AI is even better news for #fossilfuels and their demand that previously anticipated.

Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳 "Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂 doi.org/10.1017/S002...