⚡⚖️ Continuation (and end) of historic #climatelitigation hearing at Paris Judicial Court this afternoon in historic case against TotalEnergies. 👀 🧵 Follow in thread below for blow-by-blow reporting in English. 🧵 🇫🇷 See also here in French via @notreaffaireatous.bsky.social: bsky.app/profile/notr...

Big Friday in courts today

🔥Revised paper🔥 More regressions. More tests of mechanisms. Same story. Tldr: Brexit caused much regulatory uncertainty at a moment when UK state capacity was v weak, and hard-to-regulate companies (aka oil firms) did not think twice and generated a mess in the high seas. Now with full receipts ⬇️

re claude code: that constant sad feeling when you realize you don’t trust human intelligence to know how to regulate its craving for dopamine

🤖NEW POST ON AI🤖 Perhaps you're thinking like Brenda from Bristol, 'not another one!' but... I felt that lots of writing about Claude Code doesn't really show you how it works. So I thought well, why not? And along the way some bad literary allusions. 1/n benansell.substack.com/p/the-appren...

waking up early to write emails because it‘s kids’ school half term and the public education system is not fit for two parents working full time

Men, always men, only men

The contrast between Britain and the US in their response to the Epstein files is striking. Britain: lock up the brother of the King and cast out the prince of darkness, Lord Mandelson. US: circle the wagons round the president and his cabinet.

waking up early to write emails because it‘s kids’ school half term and the public education system is not fit for two parents working full time

This. Climate change is only accelerating. The case for green tech is as strong as ever. The affordability crisis is inextricably connected to both extreme weather and clean energy. People get it and climate will be back on the ballot.* *one way or another it has, in fact, been there all the time

Thread from @fgenovese.bsky.social on the tensions related to "climate realism." See her and @jeffcolgan.bsky.social's essay for more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Reminder that there is zero justification beyond politics (a wink to the US far right) for why Italy should be an “observer” in Trump’s Board of Peace. No geography, no lack of other int’l institutions, and no alignment with other comparable EU countries.

Fantastic to see some of our divisional colleagues involved in the latest Sheldonian Series panel @ox.ac.uk The panel on 'The Power of Activism' was moderated by Dr Julius Grower (@oxfordlawfac.bsky.social) and featured Professor @fgenovese.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social - more ⬇️

Reminder that there is zero justification beyond politics (a wink to the US far right) for why Italy should be an “observer” in Trump’s Board of Peace. No geography, no lack of other int’l institutions, and no alignment with other comparable EU countries.

Gotta say, in some ways it's quite useful to humanity that the anti-science guys, the white supremacists, the fossil fuel boosters and the pedophiles are *the same people*

à propos affordability: take a look at what serious government investments in renewables can do to a country’s electricity prices. Go Spain. ember-energy.org/data/europea...

In this GRIPE seminar, I will argue that trade disputes have more far-reaching political costs than previously thought 🌍 🇺🇸 I show that local communities' exposure to trade retaliation in the US (2002–22) depresses support for the democratic regime––a slow-to-change attitude––when costs are salient👇

this all chatter about italian food at the winter olympics is cute, but the arancina (100% southern food) turned into a ski jumping track cracked me

tldr, it is still a macho speech, a nostalgic speech, and mostly a gift to the far-rights of Europe. And the most on-the-nose part for me was the bit where the speech champions Europe for its rule of law, universities and the scientific revolution. Like, get out of here.

Rubio's speech is a toned-down version of what the US institutions have emanated for 12+ mos. A 15 min evocation of the white history of Euro-US relations, Colombo and colonisers get a cheer, 20th c migration cancelled, 21st c "mass" migration demonized. And ofc climate change being called a cult.

Want more International Political Economy research in your life? Come to the GRIPE webinar session on Feb 18 @ 12:00-1:00 pm ET! @lisadellmuth.bsky.social will be presenting her paper "How Trade Retaliation Affects Regime Support" More about the GRIPE schedule and how to access the webinar here:

Yes but a 2c from this political scientist: 1) in polisci, which is more open to qual methods/soft data than econ, the claude code shock may mean that qual data & original measurements will increase value 2) that "hopefully" is doing *a lot* of work but again women tend to select in qual meth so 🤞

A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

A peer review process like athletic sport, where fans of the paper get to also cheer for it during the revisions and failures

Rubio's speech is a toned-down version of what the US institutions have emanated for 12+ mos. A 15 min evocation of the white history of Euro-US relations, Colombo and colonisers get a cheer, 20th c migration cancelled, 21st c "mass" migration demonized. And ofc climate change being called a cult.

What in reality is being said here is: - Yes, we in the airline industry know of our climate impacts - But we’d rather not impose the mitigation costs on our customers - So we’re lobbying for not being regulated like other major emitters.

Excellent thread: once again requesting that we see abundance folks not as making the case for cheaper electricity for voters alone but as case for oil & gas companies to continue to be competitive because the political backlash from these resource owners is a major funder of far right politics.

The only comment I have on the Rubio speech is that I don’t want to spend too much time on the Rubio speech. Nothing is changing with regards to US policy. We don’t need to do a line-by-line analysis.

This is a blatant and dangerous attack on the foundational basis of climate science. If journalists or litigators need any climate scholars to speak on the topic, reach out to us and we will connect you.

IMO a helpful discussion of climate realism via @fgenovese.bsky.social‬ in a particular context. Is the term climate realism a euphemism for "more people die sooner?" Sigh. The tradeoffs and expense only get more costly with delay.

Some wild statistics (and accompanying visuals/graphics) in this excellent BBC Sport article about the Winter Olympics and climate change. Explores the impact of rising temperatures & lack of snow on elite athletes. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/extra/...

One might start to think there's a relationship between amount of money received from giant petro-state and how many reports you publish on lifting bans on oil licenses

This is a really informative and insightful thread. I learned a lot. Thank you Federica. A MUST READ!

Here's another aspect that so-called "climate realism" is strenuously avoiding acknowledging...

The Tony Blair Institute’s "Energy Strategy Reset" report released today is a perfect illustration of tensions and inconsistencies of the Climate Realism view that emerged in US and Europe since the return of Trump, as @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I have recently argued in @iojournal.bsky.social 🧵 1/

As the US reverses the ‘endangerment finding’ that a range of greenhouse gases are a threat to public health, look at our latest discussion paper from @fgenovese.bsky.social which shows that climate policy will require negotiation with domestic politics www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/60...

Since the beginning of 2026 in Italy: 1) Sicily/Calabria experienced the biggest cyclone in 50 years 2) Venice raised the sea wall (Mose) a record of 18 times in last 2 weeks 3) Sardinia is currently in extreme wind alert (100km/h) with more than 800 calls for help to firefighters in 24 hours

jks aside Claude is already opening the (re)producibility of large analyses to people that have had no money or time to get to it. sure there are many challenges ahead (regs, reqs of interpretation skills, and *ofc* it‘s costing lots of electricity and water) but it‘s undeniably a fascinating tool.

heard somebody softly complaining about coding something and surely my brain must have reached peak obnoxious levels because my immediate thought was “darling back in my day we did all of that without claude”

3 months to the UK local elections and we have already received 3 Reform fliers, and none from the other parties

right, so, some quite insane professional news from me: last month I went to Paris to interview Gisèle Pelicot about what happened to her, and what her life looks like now - out in print on Sunday

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

It's ironic to see a discipline care **so much** about unbiasedness (causal inference!) at the level of a single test but then have a research production system and culture that is basically a ferocious bias generation machine. This is not good.

Honoured that my thoughts on the state of international climate politics - including where we come from and where we are headed - are part of this brilliant set of discussion papers. Kudos to @britishacademy.bsky.social & @carnegieendowment.org for the support and great exchange with the programme!

wild hypothesis but (w/o being malicious) i’d think that its hard to publish nulls because 40 ys ago when modern social sciences were emerging, descriptive work was the only way and so much was out to be found, nulls were coded as negligence/laziness/incapacity. the world is immensely different now.

Honoured that my thoughts on the state of international climate politics - including where we come from and where we are headed - are part of this brilliant set of discussion papers. Kudos to @britishacademy.bsky.social & @carnegieendowment.org for the support and great exchange with the programme!

GB losing in curling: 😭 ITA winning in curling: 🚀

The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one. Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.

AOC’s point here is generalizable: in a democracy ppl can organize if their community is ID’ed as recipient location of isolated migration centers In Italy this has ~never happened bc the targeted hotspots are usually very marginalized to begin w/. That said, ppl hate these things in their backyard