Venezuela won’t scare China — it will harden resolve. Oil geopolitics just push China to go harder and faster on EVs, renewables, grids and storage. When oil becomes a risk, it gets engineered out. Scale crushes costs. Old power plays accelerate their own irrelevance. ⚡📉 #EVs #BESS #EnergyTransition

Integrated Inequality Database. User Guide and Data Sources: https://osf.io/zbfc8

What if instead of killing people for oil we just put up some solar panels and some wind turbines. You know, the cheapest form of energy

Young people's moves contribute to inequality by sorting people with high earning potential to areas with high pay premiums. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Great new work by @xiaoweixu.bsky.social based on English admin data. @theifs.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social

If I was the King of Denmark, I would be strengthening my security details just now

Nobody could have predicted this.

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Watching an old fashioned TV with no cable. Finally resorted to GB News. At last they are *supposed* to be the Reform channel so less hypocritical.

When people argue that renewable energy sources are too expensive, remember that we don’t invade countries to seize wind farms and there are no solar cartels. Fossil fuels have enormous geopolitical, public health, and climate externalities.

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RELEASED: Bahnhof des Jahres - Oberstdorf Station mods.paradoxplaza.com/mods/130410/... Oberstdorf, the first of five stations released in collaboration with Allianz pro Schiene and Deutsche Bahn, is perfect for small towns and rural landscapes. @citiesskylines.paradoxinteractive.com

Can you imagine the size of the peace dividend when renewables have replaced fossil fuels so that USA no longer produces endless conflicts in oil- rich nations?

So it becomes yet another way of funnelling taxpayers £ into private companies

. Covering all rooftops with solar could provide 2/3 of global electricity needs! 🌍☀️ massive potential of rooftop solar in the clean energy transition. Let's tap into this power! 🔋⚡️ electrek.co/2025/03/14/cove... #ClimateAction 🌎🌍🌏

Fascinating blogs. But I missed the bit where it is pointed out that the great majority of rich people inherited their money to begin with.

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There is a concerted campaign, spearheaded by the millionaire and billionaire media barons, to bring down this Labour government. Never has that been more clear than over recent months.

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In China, a data center operator might choose coal, if it wasn’t for the government mandating for new datacenters, that they must get 80% of their energy from renewables. This has created a virtuous cycle wherein new tech industries naturally invests in clean energy.

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Some good news at least for the New Year (not in UK of course)

I find this fascinating. Tried to add China, Sweden & Japan but couldnt make it copy ourworldindata.org/explorers/co...

Nowadays I just accept that @BBC news programmes are Party Political Broadcasts for the Reform party. Anything else comes as a pleasant surprise (unless it's a PPB for Netanyahu)

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Contaminated blood scandal, Grenfell Tower disaster, Sub postmaster scandal, Subprime scandal et al. How many people have gone to jail, how many victims have been compensated? It's all fucking rigged to protect the parasites who feed on us.

"You shouldn't be getting a medal for being robbed by your own government." Betty Brown 92, the oldest surviving victim of the Post Office Scam was outraged about being in the New Year Honours List. We want compensation and prison sentences not worthless medals.

One reason so many Americans need Ozempic etc is that the steroids in their meat encourage weight gain. We are already in bad enough shape in UK without this.

VicHealth Is a Health Promotion Exemplar: Evidence Demands Bolstering Investment (Not Eroding It) James Smith, Rob Moodie, Carmel Williams, Glen Ramos, Katherine Trebeck, Caterina Giorgi, Melinda Edmunds, Gemma Crawford onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Brilliant. The economist I will study this year. Letter: The economist’s blind spot ft.com/content/d4f8a4… via @ft

This is because, important though they are to alleviate the worst suffering, medical care & technology are not the main factors in population health.

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One way in which massive income & wealth inequality makes demoracy & rule of law impossible.

Our analysis with @lshtm.bsky.social​, published in May, highlighted how the UK’s health compares increasingly poorly with other high-income countries. Our findings showed improvement is both possible and urgently needed ⬇️

Analysis of BBC Question Time concludes “The findings reflect growing concerns about the role of sources on televised panels for broadcasters globally and a media agenda led by the radical right that is shaping the nature of political debate”

Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods: what the latest evidence tells us": behaviour change. 24% said they walk more, 18% said they visit local shops more frequently, and 17% said they had made more use of public transport. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65f400...

Since the first International Workshop on Analytical Sociology in 2008, INAS is returning to Oxford. The 18th Annual INAS Conference will take place from 1 to 3 July 2026 at the University of Oxford, hosted by Nuffield College and the Department of Sociology. Submission deadline: 1 Feb 2026

Gosh, we dont seem to have a Reform party lolitical broadcast on BBC or Sky this morning. How nice.

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My step -grandmother (a refugee from Hitler), being told that a computer could calculate in 1 second what would take a human 1000 years: "But then how do you know it is right?"

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For people wondering if there is any difference between Tories & Labour in NHS spending

I had been wondering about this. Is there a lot if money in procuring children for rich men to rape?

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Very sensible comment

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Differences like these, in how people answer the same question when using different modes of measurement, are called "mode effects". Look out for a new introduction to mode effects - with DAGs - coming soon, led by @georgiatomova.bsky.social