Ideological investments in #NetZero projects are tanking Swedish #pension funds. #energy www.telegraph.co.uk/money/net-ze...

Haven't come across this concept before, but I like the notion of the "neutrality-industrial-complex" deployed here by Rikard Westerberg of the Stockholm School of Economics. #ColdWar #Sweden

Very excited about giving this lecture @bowdoincollege.bsky.social next week, and grateful to @rudalev.bsky.social for inviting me. #ExxonMobil #oilandgas #Trump bowdoin.campusgroups.com/government/r...

NVIDIA, $NVDA, marketcap equals 16% of the US GDP. It has a larger market cap than all the banks in US and Canada combined.

$NVDA #Nvidia #AI

A welcome intervention from #BillGates on #climate ahead of #COP30. Adaptation is key. www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-pa...

#ExxonMobil v #California #oilandgas "Exxon Mobil Sues California Over Looming Climate Disclosure Rules" www.wsj.com/articles/exx...

Our MCB 1XV ✠ #rugby

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

US sanctions Russia’s #Rosneft and #Lukoil #oilandgas www.ft.com/content/7bcc...

Norway will continue to cash in their #NorthSea #oilandgas resources, will the UK do the same? #Rosebank www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Growth is shifting away from #Permian #shale to the Gulf. “Improved drilling to boost Gulf of Mexico #offshore oil output as US onshore growth slows”​ www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Who knows what comes next, but an unequivocal message today. #Hostages #Trump

#Milei is dependent on #shale #oil from #VacaMuerta for his economic reforms to work just like Thatcher was dependent on #NorthSea oil. But the Vaca Muerta may not deliver in the way that did the North Sea... #Argentina www.reuters.com/business/ene...

#October7 #Israel

This is a fun and insightful read on the road from #physics to #finance, and possibly a timely nudge for my youngest who hopes to begin study physics at university next year. #quants @emanuelderman.bsky.social

Best thing with being an academic? Sufficient flexibility in terms of work-life-balance and the intellectual inducement to read a lot of books. #literature

On the disparate effects of #Shutdown2025 on the federal workforce across departments and agencies: the Environmental Protection Agency will furlough nearly 90% of employees, Homeland Security a mere 5%.

Latter-day #petroculture. #NorthSea #oilandgas #Aberdeen on.ft.com/3IjlA1S How Europe’s ‘oil capital’ glory days were ended

Nice to see the SEC taking the lead. #Vanderbilt #football

Looking forward to speaking about #ExxonMobil ’s strategy in the #energytransition on Wednesday at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Polarized attitudes and anti-democratic orientation in the US - Ariel Malka, Christopher M Federico, Thomas H Costello & Adam R Panish examine paradoxical partisan asymmetries in current democratic attitudes. More: buff.ly/GOuVKF1 @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

Why #oilandgas producers cannot slow down on the great energy treadmill www.thenationalnews.com/business/202...

#California Wants to Halt Oil Industry Exodus After Years of Climate Focus #oilandgas www.wsj.com/business/ene...

This isn’t a new take, but what’s really dumbed the world down to a nearly unfathomable degree is social media. In the past the purveyors of loony bin conspiracies had to be able to pen a pamphlet, article or even self-published book. Now they just need to blather into a webcam.

Squad ✠ #rugby

It's never too late post of the day... Woody Allen has published his first novel at age 89. There's hope for us all yet! #literature

Autumn vibes, School of Music @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

The Special Relationship www.youtube.com/live/gsqyr6A...

Underinvestment in #oilandgas provides renewed impetus to explore and even oil majors like #BP are squarely back in the game. #energytransition www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

For minding mental wellbeing in these times, I’ve more or less permanently switched the dial from BBC Radio 4 to Radio 3 🎧

“[A] golden age of nuclear”. #energytransition UK and US unveil #nuclear #energy deal ahead of Trump visit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yet another dimension of the transatlantic #energy divide. #energytransition #LNG #climate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/c...

#oilandgas #IEA #energytransition www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

#Petroculture in action. #Kodak “The Fatal Blemish”: Purity, Consistency, and Chemical Engineers at the Origin of a New Visual Order, 1890–1930 | Enterprise & Society | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4phcgfc

A new transatlantic #energy politics incoming. #oilandgas “US demands EU stops buying Russian gas if it wants new sanctions on Putin” on.ft.com/3I5X9Vo

From @nytimes.com reporting, large numbers of new recruits to #ICE reflect a multicultural America: "And the applicants who showed up included a large number of working-class African American and Hispanic men, reflecting Trump’s winning coalition in the 2024 election." 1/2

Won’t be the last boom and bust in #oilandgas. The #energytransition is in very early stages yet. “Big Oil slashes jobs and investments as low crude prices bite” on.ft.com/4maCAFj

"Drill, Baby, Drill" is a mixed blessing... Big #Oil has a tough balancing act: Help further President Trump’s “ #energy dominance” agenda and stick to its climate goals at the same time www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Fascinating by Gabe Eckhouse & @ewangibbs.bsky.social on "Two Late Imperial Oil Booms" (UK & US). To my mind though a crucial distinction is the massive domestic resource base and origins of the US #oilandgas industry & the imperial origins of the UK's. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“Postliberal democracy… embraces the values of liberalism but tries to insulate itself from the will of the people.” Mass #Migration and Liberalism’s Fall www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

Slightly dated, but yet more evidence of European oil majors having to return to a focus on their core business given the resilience of demand for #oilandgas and the difficulty of getting the economics of becoming “integrated energy companies” right. #BP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tories pledge to get all oil and gas out of North Sea #energytransition www.bbc.com/news/article...

And in a very timely fashion given my recent talk on #ExxonMobil at the #ecprgc2025, the ExxonMobil Global Outlook: Our View to 2050 is out! Let's see what I'll need to revisit in my working paper... corporate.exxonmobil.com/sustainabili...

More empirical evidence on the steady move of the #DemocraticParty's move away from the median voter. www-cambridge-org.qub.idm.oclc.org/core/journal...

The middle class used to be the mass market. Now it’s the very wealthy who are. Tectonic shifts in American class and spending power. “Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

Once we leave the EU we will be able to control our #borders... (This graph is also an indictment of just how bad the opportunities for #migrants must be in the EU as compared to in the UK.)

Very important set of points on setting targets by Johan Lilliestam on setting targets at #ecprgc25. And a masterclass by @acherp.bsky.social in being Discussant: just a few key points on the blackboard, then facilitating an actual discussion (incl. some disagreement about curves)! @ecpr.bsky.social

Canadian Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said his government is taking steps toward exporting natural gas to Europe, and criticized former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for not making the same effort. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Great talking about ExxonMobil and its innovation and leadership in oil and gas at the #ecprgc25 @ecpr.bsky.social And the weather is nice in Thessaloniki 😎