How electricity networks are decentralising, how renewables can be integrated, and why it matters to socialists. A response to @matthuber.bsky.social peopleandnature.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/c...

Great way to start the new year with a new publication in Ecological Economics! "Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints" >>> doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

What happened to the watchdogs of power? Seems more like lapdogs.

On twitter, Macron is pretending that a popular uprising finally removed Maduro, what shameful gaslighting, and a joke of European strategic autonomy

Humanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever

to be direct: my more "technical" publications get this treatment far more often than my humanities publications—the whitepapers I co-authored on historical OCR & machine learning for libraries get *so many* citations compared to anything humanistic I’ve published—but they’re mostly *very* cursory

A carbon tax on wealth? It'd shift the onus from consumption to ownership. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social:

What drives the green transition in the EU - and is it delivering on the promised “win-win” outcomes? Here’s a snapshot of the main findings from my doctoral dissertation, by @helsinki.fi:

1/7 There's a lot of recent talk about a strengthening of the RMB in 2026, and while I expect that there will be some strengthening, its impact will mostly be to reverse part of the real RMB weakening of recent years. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

nice read from @cornelban.bsky.social 'price stability and planetary stability can no longer be separated. Every rate hike now carries climate consequences. Liquidity provision has become a form of environmental policy—whether central bankers admit it or not' geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

For the first time since 2019, EU gas imports in 2025 structurally increased compared to the previous year - and this increase is essentially covered by US LNG.

The idea that AI can “detoxify” people reframes emotional overwhelm as a software problem, and it treats loneliness and strain as things to route into a machine rather than conditions that require support, care, and structural repair. 1/*

Excellent thread, with parallels everywhere upsides are claimed. For example, we are told that climate change will be disastrous if "AI" doesn't find a magical third way in which no existing power structures are challenged. Those power structures are the problem and this is their preferred framing.

Following up on the two recent #FutureHistories episodes with Aaron Benanav (@abenanav.bsky.social), here you'll find the full versions of his new papers #BeyondCapitalism 1 & 2 -> buff.ly/k23voql Must read! Find the two episodes here: Ep1 -> buff.ly/MkPKGXT Ep2 -> buff.ly/dqWZ5Q3

Hydrogen does not directly warm the climate, but interacts with OH to extend the life of CH4. "More hydrogen means fewer detergents [OH] in the atmosphere, causing methane to persist longer &, therefore, warm the climate longer" phys.org/news/2025-12... Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What drives the green transition in the EU - and is it delivering on the promised “win-win” outcomes? Here’s a snapshot of the main findings from my doctoral dissertation, by @helsinki.fi:

Who won? Spoiler alert: the trio in the front.

So we have the first Eurobond issuance built on unanimity (as it always requires) but then not with all member-states paying. Wild? Yes also novel - Lucas has got you. Also this is the first time I see enhanced cooperation and multi speed Europe on a key file. Hugely important precedent.

Has the EU’s green transition been overtaken by militarisation? 🧵 on the shift from REPowerEU to ReArm Europe:

"The economics of data centre deals can be compelling for the utilities," so compelling that they are reviving the fossil fuel everyone left for dead: coal. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳 It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...

Impressive news: thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...

Yes, that'll help fight the rampant competition from China The European Union is weighing a five-year delay to its effective ban on the combustion engine after heavy pressure from some of the region’s biggest automotive countries.

My book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world. Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding... Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...

En el contexto actual de transición energética, esta reflexión es necesaria. ✍️ Pere Roura (@univgirona.bsky.social)

The University of Amsterdam showing the way. www.uva.nl/en/content/n...

Almost half of the 59 MEPs disclosing secondary jobs work on files that appear directly related to their side jobs. "The vast majority of them decided there was no need to declare a conflict of interest" www.ft.com/content/0466...

BREAKING: Colombia expels Israeli diplomats following Israel’s abduction of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Colombian President Gustavo Petro also announces concrete steps in response to Israel's attack on Global Sumud Flotilla vessels. Other countries must follow suit. Enough is enough.

30 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla remain steadfast, just 46 nautical miles from Gaza, despite relentless hostility from the Israeli navy. The Israeli navy has intercepted 13 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla so far.

Is this Black Mirror or Monty Python material? The jury is still out on this one.

🙏A fashionably (and unduly) late thanks!

Great piece A “return of the state” in energy transitions? The making of a hydrogen economy in the European Union www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

It is criminal what the US has done to its children through car culture. They go from supervised activity to car to supervised activity to car ... no wayfinding, no autonomy, no agency, no risk, no sense of adventure or surprise. We're raising helpless, emotionally fragile computer kids.

A much larger problem than Australia

Que los maten pero en otro sitio a ser posible

a simple reminder that Bret Stephens once wrote a column describing hatred of Israel as a “disease of the Arab mind” and got hired by the Times AFTER that

A massive victory for climate litigation - and a setback for fossil fuel companies and the silencing of criticisms through defamation suits. For an English recap of what this was about: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This meme but a book:

Another free idea for a research project: studying the rise of the spreadsheet and the corporate and project finance model as a tool for presenting stylized aesthetic world views of an asset.

Tim and I have been reading & talking about BRICS over the last few weeks. What is this group of countries really about? Not so much an anti-western or an anti-dollar bloc; these days it’s more a “remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty, in a new era of globalization.”

“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

It's increasingly hard to get good news, especially when you have a worldview that is not limited to the Global North. So, in hopes of supporting good sources, I tracked where I get my news for a few weeks and wrote it up in a post timhirschelburns.substack.com/p/where-i-ge...

NEW REPORT from IPES-Food just out! 🛢️Industrial food systems are hooked on #fossilfuels – but left out of the climate conversation. 🔥Using 15% of fossil fuels & 40% of petrochemicals #FuelToFork lays out the risks – and a path to #FossilFreeFood. 👉https://ipes-food.org/report/fuel-to-fork

Delighted to share the latest @ipes-food.org report Fuel to Fork that unpacks the myriad ways fossil fuels are embedded in #foodsystems The report also lays out a clear blueprint to build fossil-free, resilient food systems. Link below!! ⤵️ ipes-food.org/report/fuel-...

On Tuesday, we at the University of Helsinki group "Researchers for Palestine" emailed the Rector, Board and Chancellor with the signed petition. A physical copy was also delivered to and registered with Kirjaamoo. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

And yet, 10 years since Paris, coal consumption shows no sign of peaking - it's nearly doubled since 2000. Why so?

Lo and behond, the US Senate is abandoning any pretext that DAC/CCS should do anything else than help boost oil production.