Anger at the USA has made it to the coffee menus on Vancouver Island. New favorite order: "Canadiano" (formerly Americano)

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

Using the German climate and transformation fund to pay EU fines for missed climate goals instead of policies that help Germany meet those climate goals 🤔 cynics like me might think that's a little short-sighted and counterproductive... @larsklingbeil.bsky.social www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/klim...

Freundlicher Hinweis an unseren Bundeskanzler das BVerfG-Urteil nochmal zu lesen - wir geben gerne Lesehilfe! (BVerfG, 157, 30, Rn. 199)

Wie kann Klimapolitik mehr Rückhalt in der Bevölkerung gewinnen? @christinaluiset.bsky.social zeigt auf, dass das Vertrauen in die Regierung für die Akzeptanz von Maßnahmen wie CO₂-Steuern entscheidend ist. #PPRNet #polisky

In a recent (open access) article, I show that firms use their associations to hide their anti-climate lobbying from consumers. Stay tuned for the book version for details on the role of investors, lobbying in the EU and policy outcomes of association lobbying! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in business lobbying and political influence? Join us this July at The Good Lobby Summer Academy in Bilbao: www.thegoodlobby.eu/summer-acade... (I'm chairing a session on association lobbying.) Come for the beaches, stay for the engaging conversations with academics and practitioners...

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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Please share: the APSA STEP Section is accepting nominations for the Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award, given to the best 2024 dissertation on science, technology or environmental politics. Deadline is March 1. For more info on how to nominate see here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

🚨 How are more ambitious climate policies feasible politically? We have published 4 new research briefs on the political viability of climate policies. You can find all the briefs on our website. Here is a 🧵summarizing the briefs. Please share. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

How can we design climate policies that are politically feasible and avoid public backlash? A new set of policy briefs by PPRN provides important answers to that question. Check them out here: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

Great turnout in The Hague today, protesting another right-wing government's plans to weaken higher education. A skill abundant economy like the Netherlands needs educated workers and cutting edge research for its economic growth. #Doehetniet #WOinActie