Increasingly radicalising Le Figaro, lead french conservative newspaper, blaming French wildfires and ecological catastrophes on..drumrolls, ecologists and political ecology. Me eyes are still bleeding from one of the worst shit i ve read

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

I was just there, on a day trip after the SASE conference in Bordeaux. Where thousands of academics had gathered (in unbearably hot university buildings). Many (most?) had travelled there by plane. Still thinking that if we keep doing conferences at all, we need much stricter air travel rules.

France orders total evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads

‘Intense and highly unpredictable’ blaze forces more than 40,000 people to flee popular holiday spot

theguardian.com

RT @blimpjuice.bsky.social "Here is @triofrancos.bsky.social explaining the failure of the IRA in three paragraphs better than anyone has explained it, and debunking the entire new wave of "don't talk about climate" left punching bullshit in the process" THEA RIOFRANCOS, THE NEW WORLD CLIMATE ORDER

Bowling alone in the peloton; domestics as the grocery tenants

Lauren Leek@laurenleek.eu · last mo.

Wondering why so many cyclists know each other? Well… I did network analysis on all TdF riders this year to find out. open.substack.com/pub/tourdeda...

When you hear/read "populism party/vote bla", you should translate into far-right most of the time

Rahel Freiburghaus@rfrbrghs.bsky.social · last mo.

Almost 1 in 4 voters in Europe now votes for a radical right party (23%), up from 7% in 2006 and 11% in 2016. Almost 1 in 3 votes for a populist party. By contrast, only ≈1% now votes for a radical left party, the lowest level since 1989 Source: The PopuList 4.0, via @caterinafr.bsky.social

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · last mo.

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Être journaliste, c'est aussi s'intéresser à la recherche. Et celle-ci a établi depuis longtemps l'inanité de la thèse du gaucho-lepénisme. Le basculement de certaines terres de gauche au RN est avant tout dû au ralliement des électeurs de droite et au renouvellement générationnel.

NEW! Combining my two obsessions of cycling and political economy data into a new Substack: Tour de Data. Daily posts for every stage of the Tour de France, digging into what the race tells us about money, place, and power. Not just who's in yellow;) 🚴📊 tourdedata.substack.com

Tour de data | Lauren Leek | Substack

Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 18 hours ago...

tourdedata.substack.com

So when people criticize Beijing for propping up the car industry, what they're really complaining about is the fact that Beijing implemented strategic financial and industrial policies, and the West failed to do so. 4/4

All tram service suspended in Leipzig, Germany due to the extreme heat, the bitumen grouts on the rails are melting. Please tell me how heat is a problem that can be fixed with ACs www.yahoo.com/news/weather... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last mo.

This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

In 2026, 11 years after the Paris Agreement, the flurry of net zero pledges peak oil discourses and even in the midst of the IA boom/bubble, the best way to increase your wealth on the markets is still to put your money on fossil fuel compagnies.

In 2022, we warned about the dangers of Housing as an Asset Class in a report for the European Parliament. Lots of wise heads nodded. But here we are again, and we cannot even blame China for this political failure

Clem Fon@clemfon.bsky.social · last mo.

With more social housing funded by rerouting of public money and regulated savings à la Circuit du Trésor? With stricter rules for private equity housing investment? With true public support for thermal isolation? Ahah, no. Blended Finance, baby. @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social

In Europe, we suffocate in thermal ovens. Lack of proper rentals' regulation and private equity gobbling up housing markets organise one of the largest wealth transfers from the poorest to the richest. EU wants to solve this housing crisis. Guess how?👇

Who are the crypto bros? The amazing Izaura Solipa crunched the data. Short answer: Crypto bros share the same privileged traits, educational credentials, and institutional access that characterize elites in 'traditional' Wall Street segments. Just out in SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

That whole thread

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last mo.

how extreme is the heat in Europe? double decker buses in London are *spontaneously combusting* phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

Imagine if hundreds of people died in an extreme hurricane or floods smashing through Europe Heatwaves have already killed that many people. They are an extraordinary silent killer in that they dont generate outrage or fear.

Les presque 30 °C (29.5 °C) de T° minimale à la station Meteo-France de #Paris Lariboisiere la nuit dernière sont possiblement un record mondial à une latitude aussi nord (48°51') , venant souligner le caractère absolument hors norme et dangereux de la chaleur nocturne dans les rues de Paris...

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · last mo.

ACTUALLY IT REALLY SEEMS TO BE A WORLD RECORD of the Northernmost Minimum of 30.0C (Ok, 29.9C almost there) ever recorded worldwide. Paris🗼 just broke a WORLD RECORD.

Tightening against an energy price shock is a crude response, that only works if it chokes the economy, and green investment with it. It shouldn't be so controversial for the ECB to accept it.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · last mo.

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

Everyone: laughing at this out of touch dude. Central bankers: oh, who would have thought that core inflation metrics were used in forecasting at Fox, just like us!

Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Fox Business contributor: Inflation isn't too bad “when you exclude food and energy”

UvdL 2.0 in a nutshell

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

It's not rocket science: Here's a growing community of socialist-sounding idealists building a European infrastructure for an open social web. And here's a tiny group of entrepreneurs very well-connected in conservative political circles. Which one do you think UvdL is going to hype? Right. 5/

Ahlalala, il etait vraiment temps d'aider les entreprises europeennes à retrouver leur competitivite. Mais, mais ca veut dire quoi competitivite? La capacite a maximiser ses marges de profits en empoisonnant ses clients et le poison sera europeen, pas chinois, voilà ma bonne dame

Contexte Environnement@envi.contexte.com · 2mo ago

Le Parlement et le Conseil de l’UE sont parvenus à un accord sur l’omnibus chimie Il "simplifie" les règles sur l'étiquetage des produits chimiques, mais aussi sur l'octroi de dérogations à l'interdiction d'utiliser des substances cancérogènes dans les cosmétiques www.contexte.com/fr/actualite...

"We chated mining on the moon". Starring Musk as Danny Stevens, in the role of the unreliable priviledged heritier, getting high at work and killing many people out of incompetence ("For all mankind" is not very good but the comparison was just too neat)

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 2mo ago

We are ruled by kidults. www.ft.com/content/a7f4...

Its been more than 24h but I didnt recover yet and I still have the feeling to be lost in a time space vortex spanning from 2013 till today #sas #nbafinals

Visibilising social reproduction in academia is great and important. We will also need at a certain point to include class and family background as part of the EDI guidelines alongside other factors. I never saw one job position doing it.

Thomas Sattler@sattlersthomas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Join us for the @epssnet.bsky.social First Gen Meeting on Saturday 20 June. Here is the poster that @carogarriga.bsky.social and I will talk about (no worries, we'll be quick!), based on a roundtable on First Gens in political science a couple of years ago.

@benbraun.eurosky.social asked me to share my latest rant on chatbot's use in academic writing. Here it is. The main message is: using chatbots to write your paper is bad practice, making us loose much time for nothing and exposes you to reputational risk. Journals must adapt policies accordingly

A donkey never hits the same stone twice, but central bankers do. Less central bankers, more donkeys please 🫏

Clem Fon@clemfon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The ECB just rose its interest rates, against Ormuz's related inflationnary pressures. No alternative was discussed. Inflationnary pressures come from our fossil fuel dependence. Rising IR kills the EU renewable energy industry. Why excempting renewables from rising IR wasn't discussed? Why?

The ECB just rose its interest rates, against Ormuz's related inflationnary pressures. No alternative was discussed. Inflationnary pressures come from our fossil fuel dependence. Rising IR kills the EU renewable energy industry. Why excempting renewables from rising IR wasn't discussed? Why?

In a week (Friday 19th), the Belgium Political Economy Working group organises its 6th bi-annual conference in Brussels. On the menu: a doctoral session, two sessions on green and european political economies and a fantastic keynote speaker: Andrea Binder. Info: politicaleconomy.be/news/2026-06...

As expected, @thunen.bsky.social is absolutely on 🔥 in this interview. There’s no one out there with more receipts on the international political economy of US empire. Every sentence full of insight. phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...