🇪🇺 Do heatwaves at home make MEPs talk climate? @buzogany.bsky.social, @mihailchiru.bsky.social & @vladsurdea.bsky.social match 2 decades of district weather to 130,000+ EP questions. More hazards go with more climate questions, but the link mostly runs between countries. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

New publication 🌪️🌪️🌪️ Robert MacNeil and I investigate the range of “focusing events” that have driven public attention to climate change in Australia over the past two decades. 1/5 @gepjournal.bsky.social #climatechange #extremeweather #climateprotests #environment #Australia

“Focusing Events” and Public Attention to Climate Change in Australia

Abstract. This research note investigates the range of “focusing events” that have driven public attention to climate change in Australia over the past two decades. While scholars have widely recogniz...

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We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow  (303060), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Thursday, September 10, 2026

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A hopeful insight into Australian emissions reductions! When the incoming Aus fed govt announced the Battery subsidies, I could not imagine it would have such rapid uptake & impact.... Loved this quote: "It's actually a bottom-up renewable energy revolution being led by punters"

Emissions drop again, fuelling hopes Australia's hit a tipping point

Emissions are at their lowest point since the COVID pandemic shut down the economy, dropping 2.1 per cent over the year to December 2025.

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Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party. That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours. The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it. #Bettrification #BESS

To keep track of the rapidly growing field of attribution research, Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has influenced extreme weather. Explore the interactive map here ⬇️ interactive.carbonbrief.org/attribution-...

Clean energy pushes fossil-fuel power into reverse for ‘first time ever’ | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org @ember-energy.org Read here: buff.ly/XtaYP1D

1/🤔To be or not to be continued? Our new report with Forum Energii explores this question in the context of the Just Transition Fund and its impact in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Spain. bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...

When it comes to the energy transition I'm a glass half full person. I know: plenty of people would say that's terribly naive. They point to the scale of the challenge. They point to vested interests. They point to hard-to-abate sectors. And they're not wrong. But here's what they miss. 🧵

@alexpiron.bsky.social and @ccrellin.bsky.social use #LLMs on #EU aid data to construct the EU's Humanitarian Aid #Network to explain aid allocation at our @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSession workshop.

Let's prepare for "long lasting" energy shock, without mentionning once "renewables", says the EU commissionner for energy. www.ft.com/content/7d3a...

Europe must prepare for ‘long-lasting’ energy shock, EU warns

Energy commissioner says bloc is assessing fuel rationing and releasing more oil from strategic reserves

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🔓️ Contrary to common assumptions, introducing pull policies before shifting to stricter push policies may not boost public support for tougher #climateaction, find Thomas Bernauer et al. Rather than policy-sequencing, governments may benefit from contemporaneous bundling of pull and push measures⬇️

Could policy sequencing increase public support for ambitious climate policies? Experimental insights from efforts to enhance battery electric vehicle adoption in Norway and Switzerland

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🆕 Who Supports the Energy Transition? ⚡🌍 Marcello Natili, Alessandro Pellegata of @ecprpovb.bsky.social & Francesco Visconti look at the 2022 #EnergyCrisis, to find that support for renewables rose when paired with social compensation but deep class and ideological divides remain ⚖️

What kind of energy transition? Public opinion trade-offs between economic growth, ecological sustainability, and equity | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

What kind of energy transition? Public opinion trade-offs between economic growth, ecological sustainability, and equity

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#disinformation damages "This misinformation presents a threat to action on climate change, but also challenges the health of Australia’s democracy, the committee found. AI was even used to generate fake content in some of the submissions to the inquiry."- theconversation.com/fake-news-on...

Fake news on everything from whales to wind farms: Australia is flooded with climate misinformation

Disinformation is everywhere: AI-based material was even used to generate some of false claims in submissions to the inquiry into misinformation.

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Looking forward to participating and engaging in this workshop at the @ecpr.bsky.social #JointSessions on #LLMs and political #networks!

@expertsurvey.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢Exciting news: The program for our workshop at the @ECPR #JointSessions in Austria on how to use Large Language Models (LLM) to gather and analyse political elite networks is complete! 📢Check out our website: www.autpol.net/workshop

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

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New article! Policymaker environmental communication in the wake of natural disasters, by Katie Nissen. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

👋 New article out in @plosclimate.org @istad.bsky.social & I experimentally demonstrate that communicating alignment between policies and the previously negotiated goals they aim to achieve boosts public support, as exemplified by ambitious decarbonisation goals in doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Policy goal communication increases support for ambitious renewable energy policies

In democracies, public support for policies is crucial to their legitimacy, and the absence can impede necessary reforms, which are needed to keep most disastrous effects of climate change at bay. Thi...

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New article in @climate-policy.bsky.social with Yves Steinebach: "Legal complexity undermines effective climate policy implementation" Available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

☀️ Australia: On the other side of the world, summer heatwaves brought 'extreme heat stress' to much of Australia, with feels-like temperatures of 46°C or higher. ⬇️

My latest in the Conversation summarises the findings from our recent paper on organised interests in Australian #climate policy. Thanks to the @aunz.theconversation.com team for some nice interactive figures to explore the data. @cssn.org @anuregnet.bsky.social theconversation.com/these-voices...

Christian Downie@christiandownie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Which groups mobilise on #climate policy in Australia? 📣 Darren Halpin and I have a new paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social that systematically maps who mobilises on climate policy in Australia, what side of the issue they fall on, and in which arenas they mobilise. Key finding include 🧵

What do the key trends in international relations mean for the study on global environmental politics? New overview article in @gepjournal.bsky.social by crack team @yixiansun.bsky.social, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social, @matpaterson.bsky.social et al. direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Global Environmental Politics amid Geopolitical Turbulence

Abstract. Over the past decade, three overlapping trends have fundamentally reshaped and now characterize the global geopolitical order: the rise of emerging powers, increasing military conflicts, and...

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Interested in an academic career in political science? Do you want to work in a vibrant department with friendly colleagues? Interested in climate governance or EU studies? Do to live close to nature, but also enjoy a vibrant cultural scene? Appreciate a good work-life balance?

Which groups mobilise on #climate policy in Australia? 📣 Darren Halpin and I have a new paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social that systematically maps who mobilises on climate policy in Australia, what side of the issue they fall on, and in which arenas they mobilise. Key finding include 🧵

There is much to be done, at all levels. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How scientists can contribute to the social movements essential to protecting climate and nature - npj Climate Action

Scientists have much to contribute to the growing social movements pushing for urgent and transformative change to address the climate and biodiversity crises. Depending on their skills, interests and...

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Wow I am blown away by this new data on Australia's climate views Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!) And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate. What a nightmare set of results pca.st/episode/6577...

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update! 💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. 📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data

Well apparently the US is not the only nation turning its back on science...🤔

Tom Quinn@tomquinn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is obscene. The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds. While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.