In seven EU countries, aviation’s climate impact is now higher than that from cars. The growth in aviation emissions threatens to cancel out gains made elsewhere by EV uptake and jeopardise Europe’s successes. Check out T&E’s deep dive into the state of European aviation ➡️ bit.ly/4bNNbD0

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Great addition to a recent blogpost from @nworbmot.bsky.social nworbmot.org/blog/solar-b... Most of humans can go 90% solar in 2030. It's mostly northern Europe that's the edge case that also needs loads of wind. And the last 10% fuel... we'll take care of that before too long.

Emirates Global Aluminium confirms its Al Taweelah facility in Abu Dhabi has been shut down due to Iranian attacks. The Al Taweelah smelter is one of the world's biggest aluminum plants. Its shutdown could tighten global supply, push prices higher, and affect cars, construction & more. #EconSky

It’s been one year since “Liberation Day.” This chart shows how global assets have performed since then.

Rejs med tilbage gennem Carlsbergfondets 150 år lange historie. I vores nye tidslinje kan du gå på opdagelse i historien om fondet og fondets stifter brygger J.C. Jacobsen👉 bit.ly/cf_tidslinje #dkforsk #150aar

📢New 🌟open access🌟 article: To many the future future looks gloomy, but Kai He, Markus Kornprobst, T.V. Paul and I explain how and why ☮️peaceful change may be possible in a world of great power rivalry. doi.org/10.1093/cjip...

New post by me on @mchangama.bsky.social's substack The Bedrock Principle on “The psychology of speech repression”. Thanks Jacob Mchangama! Link below. 👇

🚨 New in Nature Human Behaviour: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Many prior accounts of social media hostility focus on algorithms. With @boralexander.bsky.social, @a-marie-sci.bsky.social & @leapradella.bsky.social, we use data from 30 countries to focus on the role of societal conditions. 🧵1/7

Heavy Truck sales down 25% YoY in March (OUCH)

ICYMI: In a new episode of Energy Shots, Joseph and Kevin explain the hidden math pushing oil toward $175/barrel, why diesel prices could spike next, why the U.S. is protected from gas shocks (for now), and more. Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDfOptRNFvo

Prediction markets like Polymarket are booming – but the ethical implications are concerning. @ianbremmer unpacks why these are corrosive for society and why Eurasia Group employees are banned from betting on these platforms. @gzeromedia.com

Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/

"That trust is frayed by the president spinning economic data before it is even released. Claudia Sahm, said that “it’s a degrading of an institution, it’s a degrading of a norm” that runs the risk of “chipping away at the integrity of the data.”" an important Jobs Day Eve read

🪚🐣Easter DIY project🐣🔧 I've refreshed the interface on my "car sales" webpage. ▸URL arguments ▸Translations ▸Faster operation ▸Easier multi-country selection Check it out! robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/?co...

På den globale scene bokser Europa under sin vægtklasse, mener folk som Pol Morillas, der er direktør for den spanske tænketank Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. Han har formuleret det sådan, at EU ikke er svagt, men »bare nægter at opføre sig stærkt«. 🐣 🎁

Beyond the obvious China story, the EU's catch-up over the past few decades is actually pretty remarkable. Especially considering most top journals are still edited in the U.S. (at least as far as I can tell for the social sciences). www.nber.org/digest/20260...

Around half of climate-vulnerable nations have leapfrogged the US in solar penetration. In 8 out of 10, solar imports are running at least three times higher than official statistics capture.

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NEW: US President Donald Trump announced on April 1 that the United States will strike Iran “extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.” Here's where the combined force stands around one month into the campaign: (1/9)

🇧🇷 | The @PRFBrasil seized approximately 399 kg of mercury in Roraima, the largest amount of mercury ever recorded in the country. Mercury is highly toxic: it contaminates rivers and fish and poses a serious threat to human health. Read more about the mercury trade.

A sweetener is a sweetener, so there's only so much nutrition you can expect to receive from a serving Still, it's safe to say that maple syrup beats the others in offering at least some kind of benefit... #dataviz

Syria is at a turning point. Progress is real – returns are rising, markets reopening, services slowly returning. But 15.6M people still need humanitarian assistance. This is not the moment to step back. It’s the moment to act. Read more ↓

Over the last two decades, 19 Partly Free countries have dropped to Not Free, swelling the ranks of the world’s autocracies, which have become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. More from #FreedomInTheWorld 2026: freedomhouse.org/report/freed...

📢 Share your perspective on cultural heritage reuse and management! Do you manage or reuse cultural heritage collections in your work? Take the #InfinityEccch survey to share your experiences and insights, and contribute to the future of the digital creative economy in Europe! ➡️ bit.ly/4t3C2EQ

"... impacts could materialize in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly for some farmers in major agricultural producing countries like 🇺🇸, 🇨🇦, Europe, 🇷🇺, 🇺🇦, 🇨🇳, and 🇮🇳. Sustained high fertilizer prices could similarly affect ... during Southern Hemisphere countries’ planting season in late 2026"

In the digital age, when news spreads far and fast, Nicholas Kuipers explains, how the politics and policies of one locale may inflame citizens’ attitudes thousands of miles away, magnifying political differences and division. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

Can health campaigns drive up your rent? 🍎🏙️ New NYC research shows "health sorting" spikes demand for homes near parks, raising rents by ~2% and displacing the low-income residents these policies aim to help. tinyurl.com/mpk98vnb

1-year Anniversary of Liberation Day: -US foreign direct investment is lower -US factories employ 89,000 fewer people -US goods trade deficit is UP 2% -Treasury collected billions but must return it -Inflation elevated. -Every court + SCOTUS found them unconstitutional www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

“For os handler det om, at fodbold samler folk fra hele verden. Vi vil gerne slutte os til disse fællesskaber af fans og hylde fodbold som en kilde til leg, kreativitet og sammenhold”, skrev Lego-koncernen i januar om samarbejdet med FIFA til Danwatch.

Behold ! @afuahirsch.bsky.social and I have done a two part episode on the history & importance of oil in Iran & the Gulf 1/5

Hungarians head to the polls on April 12 for an election of national and European consequence. Three different outcomes are on the cards, each with their own implications for the EU, says Zsuzsanna Szelényi. carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

Meget læseværdig gennemgang af konsekvenserne af den fossile eller sorte energikrise - som er en reel energikrise i de lande som stadig er meget afhængige af fossil energi. Der er derudover stor forskel på hvordan landene er stillet ift. at håndtere situationen. Her illustrerer med 🇩🇰 som reference

a very nice story with lovely data viz on the absolute shitshow in energy supplies across the world as.ft.com/r/657153fb-8...

Great article by @donnalferguson.bsky.social in today's @theguardian.com about Darwin & Henslow's plant specimens & illustrations and the fab new @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social Certificate in Botany: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Links for this course & many others here: bsbi.org/learn/traini...

We’ve just made the move over from X and are glad to be here. We’re the Autistic Experience of Breast Cancer (AEBC) research project, exploring the experiences of autistic individuals diagnosed with breast cancer, with a focus on improving understanding, care, and support.

Good call yesterday with Keir Starmer. We discussed the situation in the Middle East and the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s actions are putting global economic stability at risk. We will work with our partners to ensure freedom of navigation can resume as soon as possible.

You can see pretty clearly when the President decided to reassure a worried nation.

A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around? | Aditya Chakrabortty www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trend #inflation is whatever you want it to be. The 3 models of trend inflation give strikingly different estimates. So perhaps a better question would be: What is the purpose of a specific trend model for the policy process? chart richmondfed.bsky.social www.richmondfed.org/publications...

I've just returned home to Copenhagen from a few days in London. For all that I've read about changes there, and acknowledging I was not everywhere in a very large city, I saw zero meaningful cycling infrastructure or cycling. That said, Copenhagen also needs to renew its cycling investment.

Media capture, gerrymandering, rule bending “Orbán’s Hungary demonstrates how autocrats can rig elections legally, using their parliamentary majorities to modify the law to neutralize whatever strategy the opposition adopts to try to beat them” www.politico.eu/article/hung...

It's official, Finland had just its warmest March on record. www.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/tiedote/2huP... The new record was set with 1.2 °C margin (compared to 2007), which is the largest margin in any of the 21st-century monthly records. March 2026 is the first March with mean temperature > 0.0 °C.

Out now: You sure about that? The effects of textual and image-based skepticism on belief in dubious social-media claims doi.org/10.1186/s412... We tested if comments containing merely a skeptical 🤨 image reduce belief in dubious claims (they do). Led by the excellent @emilyspearing.bsky.social

🧵 3 papers by me & my team Ullrich Ecker Fabio Carrella Emily Spearing Almog Simchon ask an urgent question: if you tell people they're being manipulated by AI — deepfakes, AI-written articles, microtargeted ads — is the manipulation defanged? Thread 👇 1/10

Nature meta-research project puts claims in social-science paper to the test. Refs in last post I'm interested in Econ and Psych so I focused on that: Econ had about the same rate of "not reproducible" analyses as Psych and a worse rate then Political Science.

Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵

Tomorrow marks one year since this administration’s tariff frenzy began. What started with declaring trade “emergencies” culminated in the Supreme Court striking down the tariffs as unconstitutional. All the while, families paid the price and manufacturers got no real path to reshoring jobs ⬇️

Farmland abandonment during the Syrian conflict led to groundwater recovery and measurable land uplift, highlighting the significant impact of human activity on regional water resources and landscape dynamics. doi.org/hbvmzb

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked