“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

This is heartbreaking and enraging in equal measure. Most important piece I've read in the Guardian in a good while.

when I see someone wearing meta ray bans

Lots of great things about it, but Mamdani’s victory is also an encouraging win over the evil AI hate slop that Cuomo was tossing at the virtual wall at the end there. Deepfakes are dangerous but they are also a sign of despotic desperation.

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'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍 What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world? A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟 Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

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He is proposing five municipal grocery stores

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

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👇👇 And the “just get a number” logic has of course led to.. drumroll .. :

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

Do you have a student that would be a great candidate for a MA in European Studies at Georgetown? Nominate them for a Flynn Scholarship to come and study with us at the BMW Center for German and European Studies. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I got to read an early draft of this excellent book by my friend @mattcole.bsky.social! Absolute must read for anyone wondering how wage theft became so normalized across our economies & how things could be otherwise 💸🤑💰🪙💳👷🏼‍♂️👩🏿‍💼👨🏻‍🏭🧑🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🏭🧑🏼‍🔧👩🏿‍🏫👩🏻‍🌾❤️‍🔥🚩🌹🍞

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026! This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system. UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.” The description of AI slop I didn’t know we needed. Thank you Zelda Williams www.bbc.com/news/article...

do YOU have an FT premium subscription? if so can you please send me a gift link to this? few things upset me in the way that not being able to access everything on the FT despite paying an exorbitant subscription every month does 🥲 www.ft.com/content/557a...

At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡 open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...

I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of this.

The department of Economic History at LSE is hiring! Assistant Prof. (all fields and period). Deadline for application 4 November 2025! @lseechist.bsky.social For more info ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.

Some good AI news: people still do not wanna read books written by AI & feel unfulfilled if they find out they are My bet is that this won’t change. Like Zoom parties vs irl socializing & the failure of the metaverse, there are just some (nice, human) things Silicon Valley wont be able to get right

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

New book hitting the shelves today "Climate & Class: How to Keep the Climate Fight from Becoming a Culture War", with @chellersgaard.bsky.social and Andreas Mulvad.

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

OpenAI's VP for education recently said the company wanted to become "core infrastructure" for schools and universities. Any infrastructure, though, always depends on habituating users to its technical affordances - so I've been trying to track how it's doing that 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

Pollutting now and cleaning up later is not a viable strategy: Direct Air Capture (DAC) is hitting a hard reality check. Costs are falling much slower than anticipated, casting doubts on the nascent technique’s role in tackling climate change.

Some ideas for those speaking Italian here: fondazionefeltrinelli.it/pubblico/big...

Newsweek #Climate

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

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'"The PM says people will not be able to work in the UK without a digital ID and the plans will make the country's borders "more secure"' @ceciliarikap.bsky.social's thinking about the coercive face of 'Digital Public Infrastructure' seems particularly pertinent today www.bbc.com/news/live/cw...

In Geneva for an excellent few days on all things economic planning where I’ll be presenting on a panel with the one and only @ceciliarikap.bsky.social 🤩 Thanks to @cedricdurand.bsky.social Hannah Bensussan & Francois-Xavier Hutteau for organizing (& for the v cool conference merch)

they’ve narrowed it down to a Mikkelsen brother

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

it’s time to put every left wing person in britain in a Conclave

haven't got any work done for an hour because I can't stop chuckling at my own intro: "Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a lot of expensive models"

derisked developmentalism 2.0. at the IFC on.ft.com/3KaUGd6 World Bank seeks to boost firepower by offloading loan risk to investors

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

1 year exactly since the release of my debut book w/ @versobooks.bsky.social. In February '24 I wrote down in my journal my goals for the release - audiences reached, countries travelled, connections made etc. This 1st year wildly exceeded all my expectations, I am so so grateful. What's next? 1/4

@mkblyth.bsky.social on why he writes for public audiences 💯 couldn’t agree more as a much more junior researcher I also find I often get my better analytical thoughts & ideas when I’m not tethered to the academic article format (& its potential, often scarier readers, no offense)

I am reading late 90s editions of WIRED (for a fun project*) and the ads are particularly fascinating. It's wild to imagine that once upon a time the prospect of meeting strangers on the internet was envisaged as a fundamentally Good Thing. rip the chat room imaginary, I guess

"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september, UNIGE Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA @dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

8/9 The real risk to Europe lies not in overinvesting in clean energy, but in locking itself into new forms of fossil dependence—exposing economies to the very vulnerabilities they have worked to escape.

7/ To call this “ideology” is to invert the facts. The ideology is the pretense that fossil fuels remain the cheaper, safer choice when the opposite is increasingly true.

Either way, I fear this has huge implication on research of parliamentary speech forward. Could we still infer speeches is reflective of what ever qualities of MPs we are interested in if they are/might be AI generated?