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- Higher spending on energy R&D by Chinese companies explains ~ all growth in corporate energy R&D globally over past decade. Now =60% of corporate R&D for the energy supply and infrastructure
- Chinese inventors made 2x the number of applications for international energy patents as US, Japan, EU
Great read from @iea.org on energy + innovation:
- 1 in 10 patents is related to energy – more than chemicals, pharmaceuticals, transport
- Public energy R&D spending globally in 2024 dropped from 2023. 2025 estimate is down a further 2% to $55 bln (partly reflects US federal budget cuts)
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!
- `filter_out()` for dropping rows
- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools
These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!
tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
🌍🇺🇸 Published Today in PNAS Nexus 🌍🇺🇸
How can we foster collective climate action?
- led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social, @smconstantino.bsky.social & @madalina.bsky.social
- 17 behavioral interventions, designed by 50 experts
- tested on >30000 US participants
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🧵 1/11
« France, il était une fois demain », sur France 2 : à l’horizon 2100, tout est imaginable
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🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁
Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever.
🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/
An example area with the dataset, symbolised by BGS Lexicon code and labelled with formation names.
Quaternary UK offshore data digitised for the first time.
The dataset will help users, particularly those in the offshore renewables sector, and can be used for reference when completing site investigations.
Learn more:
www.bgs.ac.uk/news/quatern...
🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉
Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access)
The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social
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📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE
Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p
Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!
Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working.
Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
📣 Please share! 📣
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
We estimate that EU emissions went down 3.8%, US edged down 0.6%, & Chinese emissions edged up 0.2%.
Emissions were up more strongly in India 4.6% & international aviation 13.5%.
The record growth in renewables is helping bend the curve, just not enough to get a peak in global emissions.
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Questionnaires, says one academic, have “changed how we view ourselves”. Not always, many felt, for the better
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A lexis diagram - essentially a heatmap showing rates of death from transport accidents by age and over time from 2001-2024 in Scotland. For men in the 2000s there was a clear peak in deaths at ages 15-35 (plus a smaller one in the oldest age groups). But around 2010 this basically disappeared, and now all age groups have similarly, much lower, rates of transport accident deaths. For women the pattern is similar, albeit at a much lower level, except that in the early 2000s there were more deaths in older, rather than younger adults.
I was looking at some Scottish cause of death data yesterday and the extent to which transport accident deaths in young men have all but disappeared is pretty remarkable.
Nice to find a good news story in this data for a change.
Looking forward for my postdocs and I to host the Oxford-London Environment and Public Policy workshop at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, tomorrow (October 1st).
Thanks to @politicsoxford.bsky.social, @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and @leverhulme.ac.uk for support 💫
So many cool papers!
The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said.
“Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionised science,” the statement read. “She was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.”
Screenshot of title page. "The Long-Run Effects of Colleges on Civic and Political Life" by Michael J. Andrews, William Marble, and Lauren Russell. Abstract: Social theorists and education advocates have long argued for the civic benefits of education. As large, durable institutions, universities are especially likely to affect the civic life of their communities. We investigate how the establishment of a university alters the civic and political trajectory of the surrounding area. For identification, we leverage historical site selection processes in which multiple locations were considered for new colleges. We bring together data on social capital, political preferences, and elections to assess the long-run impacts of college establishment. Communities with colleges exhibit higher levels of civic engagement and greater social trust today, relative to “runner-up” locations without colleges. These counties are also more politically liberal — a gap that has grown substantially since 2000. Our findings suggest understanding universities as place-based policies that shape the long-run civic and political development of their communities. They also shed light on current political battles over higher education policy.
Universities often serve as "anchor institutions" that deeply affect the character of their communities. In a new paper, we estimate how (and when) the establishment of a college influences local political and civic life. 🧵
osf.io/preprints/so...
Renewable energy reached 44% of Poland's electricity production in June
Big milestone in Poland, where renewables overtake coal
www.ft.com/content/ae92...
Our 2025 report on global trends in climate change litigation by Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham is out now!
It features an overview of the latest global developments and insights into recent international cases heard by Supreme Courts.
www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.
My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵
13.06.2025 02:25 — 👍 2453 🔁 1020 💬 41 📌 131Some similar fun with data from Paris' Vélib here: pwyckoff.github.io/posts/2023/0...
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There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
New study finds that 25 million could die in the next 15 years if US cuts off global health spending via @nature.com
Study:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for.
In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Prime Minister Mark Carney shakes the hand of President Macron after speaking at a podium in Paris, France.
Canada is strong. Together with our allies, we are even stronger.
Good to meet with you in France, President Macron. The friendship between our two countries is the envy of the world.
Map showing a highway section in red and social ties in space crossing the highway. Wherever a tie crosses the highway, there is a cross. There are 94 crosses.
🎉 New paper in PNAS: Urban highways are barriers to social ties
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2408937122
Highways are barriers that cut opportunities for social ties. We quantify this effect by overlaying the US highway network with millions of social ties from Twitter.