A propos of nothing, reminder that no 1 rule from democratic backsliding research is: Playing by the rules of anti-democratic forces often fails. Parties and leaders find more success when they reject the toxic frames and offer a distinct (and bold) vision. This travels to fossil extractivism btw.

Full room today! It was great to talk to the climate pol community abt who are we, what we do, what we think the field has learned and myths we can bust. @antvalentim.bsky.social @patrickbayer.bsky.social @dianebolet.bsky.social & I did a little pre-EPSS survey, reach out if you want to look at it!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Beginning soon - 📒 Agenda-Setting Panel: State of Climate Research and Training virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/... 13:30-15:10 | Meeting Room 2a (ICC), with @patrickbayer.bsky.social , @dianebolet.bsky.social , @fgenovese.bsky.social and @antvalentim.bsky.social

To those in the EPSS2026 Climate Section: You've got mail 📨 You received a survey link from us via @patrickbayer.bsky.social re the state of climate/enviro/energy politics research. Pls give us 10 minutes! Then come to panel CL19 (or ask us later) for the data. To those of who already filled it: 💛

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you coming to the @epssnet.bsky.social conference this year? The programme is live 👏 @antvalentim.bsky.social and I were in charge of constructing the Climate Politics section. Check out the 19 panels crossing fields and subdisciplines! Details here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/75765/...

Venezuela is an important oil producer (~top15 in global ranking), with some of the world's largest proven oil reserves. Supply chocked last year but export to 🇨🇳 was picking up. The current uncertainty will be profitable to other fossil giants (🇷🇺) Unless, just an idea: we take renewables seriously

And remember to highlight in particular the *benefits* that a healthy EV market can have for the economy *at home* (the abroad scenario has less of an effect). @patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · 9mo ago

this xmas, at the fourth hour of the family dinner, do the world a favour and talk to your conservative uncle about the global EV market

From October 2025 - Climate Policy Costs, Regional Politics, and Backlash against International Co-operation - https://cup.org/47BYSeS - @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social #OpenAccess

"It is important to understand whether people in left-behind regions– such as former coal communities – feel that the transition is something done with them rather than to them." @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social on climate cooperation and devolution ukandeu.ac.uk/climate-coop...

Climate cooperation, devolution, and the difficulties for left-behind places around climate policy - UK in a changing Europe

Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese argue that while communities exposed to climate mitigation are afraid of net zero, some might be more interested in international climate cooperation than you think...

ukandeu.ac.uk

A wrote a piece on what the UK budget means for climate change for our @uofgpolicy.bsky.social Check it out!

UofG Centre for Public Policy@uofgpolicy.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW insights: What does the UK Budget mean for Climate Change? 🌍 @glasgow.ac.uk expert @patrickbayer.bsky.social examines the Budget announced last week by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, and to what extent it works towards the UK's climate ambitions. 🔗 www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/... #UKBudget #Policy

"The legitimacy of climate cooperation hinges not only on economic support packages or technological solutions, but also on institutional trust and regional political voice." @patrickbayer.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social on place-based politics and climate policy ukandeu.ac.uk/climate-coop...

Climate cooperation, devolution, and the difficulties for left-behind places around climate policy - UK in a changing Europe

Patrick Bayer and Federica Genovese argue that while communities exposed to climate mitigation are afraid of net zero, some might be more interested in international climate cooperation than you think...

ukandeu.ac.uk

Great to see this paper with @patrickbayer.bsky.social and @fgenovese.bsky.social in First View at @psrm.bsky.social! Re-upping the paper thread for the occasion: bsky.app/profile/fgen...

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 10mo ago

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Energy transition, financial markets and EU interventionism: lessons from the Ukraine crisis - https://cup.org/4p73VKl - @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social & @fgenovese.bsky.social #FirstView

Stock returns of oil majors (and oil price) jumped after Trump's latest sanctions on Russian oil firms. That was predictable: in a new (conditionally accepted) paper at @psrm.bsky.social, @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @fgenovese.bsky.social, and I show exactly that. Paper: tinyurl.com/49t7z5ap 1/3

Oil price jumps and FTSE 100 hits new high after Trump puts sanctions on Russian firms

Assets in US belonging to Rosneft and Lukoil frozen as shares in Shell and BP rise by 3%

theguardian.com

Really looking forward to this talk at @hertiesustain.bsky.social in a few weeks. Thanks for having me!

Centre for Sustainability - Hertie School@hertiesustain.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The politics of national ties in international organisation reports 🔗🌍📓 At the next #SustainabilityColloquium, @patrickbayer.bsky.social presents his research on how national ties shape the production of influential international organisation reports. 👇 www.hertie-school.org/en/sustainab...

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

Good news for European political science! Thanks for everyone involved who made this happen. Became an EPSS member today, and so can you! Very competitive fees that will go a long way to fund next year's conference and not just a reception ticket (some may say).

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · last yr.

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

🚨Global public action (climate!) is most effective when countries do it together yet we're in a period of IO backlash rooted in left-behind places Does it mean all left-behind regions hate IOs the same? @patrickbayer.bsky.social & I have a paper accepted @bjpols.bsky.social abt this🧵 osf.io/rtymv

Getting a paper accepted is always nice, getting it accepted after almost two years in peer review feels super special! 🎉🎉🎉

🚨Climate politics job alert🚨 Interested in the opportunity to focus on your own climate politics research project for 1 year in a stimulating and supportive environment at a leading university in Berlin? Open to postdocs & graduates. hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Postdoctoral Researcher / Research Associate - Climate Politics (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com

Looking forward to an exciting trip with colleagues to our long-standing partner, Nankai University, for a joint workshop on "New Trends of International Political Economy in Turbulent Times." @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social

"A new voting system and sausage sizzles" - excellent advice from @ariadnevromen.bsky.social in @scotsman.com on what the UK and Scotland can learn from Australia's recent election - and how to turn around the low voting turn outs that have benefitted Reform UK. www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...

Four big lessons for Scotland and UK from Australian Labor party's surprise landslide

With Reform UK benefiting from low election turnouts, more needs to be done to make it easier for people to vote – like elections on Saturdays, a new voting system and sausage sizzles

scotsman.com

I hate academic FOMO! Enough said...

May I present the social science "double helix" of country engagement across topics... Not all plots are useful...🙃

Happy St Patrick's Day, I guess.

‼️The US-based @ipcc.bsky.social technical support unit (TSU) for Working Group 3 Co-Chairs has been terminated, and the US won’t be attending next week’s IPCC meeting where the AR7 chapter outlines will be approved. More by @afreedma.bsky.social here:

Scoop: U.S. delegation pulled from key U.N. climate science meeting

The IPCC meeting in China is slated to determine the content in the group's next series of reports.

axios.com

Good conversation tonight with the President of the Bundesbank, Dr Nagel, about transition finance @uofgasbs.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Please nominate for awards for the Int'l Collaboration section of APSA! Best article, dissertation, book, and mentor awards! Deadline is March 3, 2025. Submissions should be sent by email to daniela.donno@ou.edu. You can find the award criteria and info here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Serving on this year's "Best Dissertation Award" committee for @apsa.bsky.social @intlcollaboration.bsky.social Section. Send your students' best dissertation work to our section chair @danieladonno.bsky.social by 3 March! Self-nominations welcome! Details here: apsanet.org/membership/o...

Proud to have pulled a basically accepted paper (with full consent of co-authors) from peer review today in response to questionable editorial practice to "force" us to add citations to five substantively unrelated papers that the editor was a co-author of. 🤯 #researchintegrity

More evidence that everyone who believes we still have time is a fool. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...

Rise in carbon dioxide off track for limiting global warming to 1.5°C

The increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) is now incompatible with IPCC pathways which remain below 1.5°C, a Met Office study finds.

metoffice.gov.uk

At the IPCC scoping meeting—to draft the outline for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), w/200 other scientists and social scientists from around the world. To understand 30 years of inadequate climate action, & to do better, we need to understand intentional obstruction @climatessn.bsky.social

My earlier post in pictures. So true! 👌

Chess.com@chess.com · 2y ago

Loving this duo 🎙️