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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

New publication alert! 🚨 In this open access article published in Energy Research & Social Science, I use a survey experiment to test how Brazilians respond to climate policy focused foreign aid and shame. Link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Screenshot of research article at Energy Research & Social Science

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

@acalacino.bsky.social myself and others have crunched the numbers (work in progress, see sources and deets here: osf.io/preprints/so...) and have some hard evidence of that: decline of climate change in news reporting since 2023 is esp. dramatic in the Global North ⬇️

Patterns of climate reporting in Global North vs Global South HQ news matched to GDELT climate tag articles. For notes see "When the Tail Wags the Dog: Climate Exposureand News Media Behavior in the Global South", Anthony Calacino, Mats Ahrenshop, Federica Genovese, Hayley Pring (work in progress)

See Calacino, Ahrenshop, Genovese and Pring. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/37juf_v1

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

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Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Interested in global climate politics? We have the pre-print for you: @fgenovese.bsky.social does a great job detailing its theoretical contribution and empirical results here 👇 We question climate politicization in the GS, and instead find carbon apathy can mute climate mobilization.

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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

However, fires in the Cerrado burned 8.7 million hectares in 2025: 69% of all burned area across Brazil's biomes. Many are linked to agricultural expansion.🔥 Consumer countries must enforce rules to keep commodities linked to deforestation & human rights abuses out of supply chains.

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Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline of area burned in 2025

The amount of land burned in the world's largest rainforest was the smallest since MapBiomas records began in 1985.

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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

🌳‼️Good news from Brazil: the Amazon recorded its lowest burned area since records began in 1985. In 2025, 3.1 million hectares burned, down from a record-breaking 15.8 million hectares affected in 2024. 📉 🔗 brasil.mapbiomas.org/2026/07/21/a...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Very sad news. We have lost a great scholar, mentor and figure in the field.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🙌 stay tuned for something good in the pipeline!

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Extremely dire water situation in the #coriver this year (and most likely going forward). Indicative that among all the costs identified in this article, shortages to ag (alfalfa=cattle feed=carbon emissions) not covered apnews.com/article/colo...

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Water to surge into drought-depleted Lake Powell but at costs elsewhere

Desert canyons in eastern Utah will be churning this spring with huge volumes of water in a desperate attempt to keep a reservoir on the Colorado River generating electricity.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health.

When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.”

Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

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Open Secret Alien @opensecretalien.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

No matter how stupid and evil you think the MAGA chuds running the government are, I promise you: the truth is so much more stupid and evil.

“One thing I thought of while you were talking,” he added, gesticulating wildly with his hands to conjure the image in his mind. “If you can make one of those maps like they have in Outbreak, where it shows the red growing over time as the disease spreads? You know, like the zombie apocalypse? That would be great, very effective.”

The thought that Adam might have the most health expertise of anyone in the agency’s leadership made me shudder.

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Nina Obermeier @ninaobermeier.com · 02/04/2026

@kcl-spe.bsky.social is hosting a Junior International Political Economy Researchers Workshop on 28 April and we have a great line-up of papers by early-career researchers. @adreher.bsky.social will also share expertise on publishing in the field. Register here: forms.office.com/e/q7rUFAVg21

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

This has been the worst recorded year of snowfall in Colorado - see that black line? It means the snow is also melting weeks ahead of schedule. We are in unprecedented territory.

SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT IN STATE OF COLORADO map from USDA. The. map shows this year (2025) as much lower than all previous recorded years and melting faster.

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 24/03/2026

Hmmmmmmmmm. www.ft.com/content/1171...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I sincerely hope this is the last "energy crisis". How many times do we need to see that dirty fossil fuels - beside wrecking the climate - are, in fact, an economic and national security liability that can be 100% avoided.

theguardian.com

Stopping gas dictating UK energy price could cut bills by £200, thinktank says

Iran war has increased gas price, with effects on UK energy bills that could be avoided, Common Wealth says

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 11/03/2026

Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by (much) more than North Sea drilling The latest debate over new licenses has been lacking one key ingredient: Perspective Here's our take in chart form – and I'm happy to debate the numbers www.carbonbrief.org/...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

There are no words other than every single military member involved in this crime should be investigated: 150 children were killed by the US due to 'outdated' targeting data. My god.

nytimes.com

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Evidently, the heart should go to Sicilians, including the 5k oil employees in Priolo. The blame should be on owners and sellers among weak regulators — the story of late-stage fossil capitalism in Sicily is similar to what @acalacino.bsky.social @hayleypring.bsky.social and I show here 👇

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

A world without energy shocks is possible. The UK really could help lead the way too.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

This is what ecocide looks like.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

This reflects other findings (www.nature.com/articles/s43...) suggesting Western cultures are now post-peak on climate change coverage/discussion. Concerning to see, but also, newspaper coverage is in particular elite driven. Level of attention is decided.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🔥Revised paper🔥 More regressions. More tests of mechanisms. Same story. Tldr: Brexit caused much regulatory uncertainty at a moment when UK state capacity was v weak, and hard-to-regulate companies (aka oil firms) did not think twice and generated a mess in the high seas. Now with full receipts ⬇️

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Luke Sanford @lcsanford.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Announcing the 2026 Political Economy of Climate and Environment (PECE) Conference! When: 9/2/2026 Where: Harvard CFP: www.pece-conference.org/cambridge-20... Submit your papers or apply to attend: forms.gle/6y7YUoxJ6HTsz4cy8 Sponsored by @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social and the Sala Institute

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 19/02/2026

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation continues to decline into early 2026, with August–January clearing at its lowest for the period since 2014. Annual detected loss also fell to a 2014 low, with the Cerrado seeing declines too. Officials credit stronger enforcement, but long-term risks remain.

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Amazon deforestation on pace to be the lowest on record, says Brazil

Brazil’s latest satellite alerts indicate that deforestation in the Amazon has continued to fall into early 2026, extending a downward trend that began after a sharp rise earlier in the decade. Data…

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Don't skip the pretrends lecture folks.

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 16/02/2026

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

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Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?

How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The Tony Blair Institute’s "Energy Strategy Reset" report released today is a perfect illustration of tensions and inconsistencies of the Climate Realism view that emerged in US and Europe since the return of Trump, as @jeffcolgan.bsky.social & I have recently argued in @iojournal.bsky.social 🧵 1/

Tony Blair Institute Energy Strategy Reset Report

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 11/02/2026

It's ironic to see a discipline care **so much** about unbiasedness (causal inference!) at the level of a single test but then have a research production system and culture that is basically a ferocious bias generation machine. This is not good.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Only two months later, Lula's call for an "energy transition roadmap" has gone up in smoke (much like the Amazon in recent years...).

"Brazil's Lula requests national roadmap for fossil fuel transition"

Climate plan doesn't mention the phasing out of fossil fuels and instead placates to agro

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NFL Daily News @insidenflnews.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My suggestion is that the NY Times profile politicians who are not just thinking about kids detained by ICE, but actually doing something about it, rather than enabling it.

GOP Senator who can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained and cannot stop voting for Trump policies

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Amazing opportunity put on by some amazing people! Do check this out if it applies to you

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New article! What makes Guatemalan citizens green? by Moises Arce, Ludovico Feoli, Tofigh Maboudi, Todd A. Eisenstadt & Felipe Girón. doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2025.2605805

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Charlotte Kuberka @charlottekuberka.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

It's a poly-crisis world and we're all living in it.

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Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina @repalconference.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

⌛ Reminder: Applications for the REPAL 2026 Graduate Student Workshop are due tomorrow! 🗓️ Deadline: January 15, 2026 🔗 Submit your application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📌 For more information visit: redeconomiapoliticaamlat.com/annual-meeti...

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Proposal Form: REPAL 2026 Graduate Student Workshop

Please fill out this form to apply for the REPAL 2026 pre-conference Graduate Student Workshop, to be held at the Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública del Tecnológico de Monterrey, Ciudad de M...

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Wait - corporations don't tell the absolute truth with regards to their emissions "reductions" claims? My world is shaken (and boiling, obvs). "Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Published: 26 November 2025
Widespread revisions of self-reported emissions by major US corporations
Lauren Cohen, Ethan Rouen & Kunal Sachdeva
Nature Climate Change volume 16, pages33–36 (2026)Cite this article

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Corporations are important contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, and stakeholders ask firms to transparently reveal the potential climate impact. However, there are concerns over the consistency and reliability of self-reported emission data. Here we examine the corporate social responsibility reports of major US companies in the last decade. We find that 58% of public firms’ self-reported emissions were later revised, a rate that has remained consistent for a decade. Firms are more likely to understate than overstate, and the amount of understated emissions is more than twice the value of overstated emissions. Factors such as assurance and changes to measurement methodology do not explain the likelihood of revisions, and data providers do not appear to uniformly correct these revisions.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

With the world's eyes on US oil interests, let's not forget who benefits: The richest of the rich. Our research shows: 50% of the record fossil fuel profits in 2022 went to the wealthiest 1% of US Americans, the bottom 50% only received 1%. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Toppling Maduro is not regime change - the number of US news media lazily reporting on what Trump says about running Venezuela is really odd given how little info there is coming in about the regime's other leaders: www.caracaschronicles.com/2026/01/03/w...

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What’s Happening in Venezuela? Start Here | Caracas Chronicles

US forces struck multiple military and civilian targets in Caracas and nearby cities, and captured Maduro. Here’s what we know at this point

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Agreed. Setting aside common in’tl law breaches: whatever happens to immediate global fossil fuel price (probably not much anyway), this whole war is based on the premise of (re)conquering oil assets and doubling down on the fossil age. This is in itself a win for Putin. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Felipe @ftraposo.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

📢 UK-based early career researchers — looking for a strong way to kick off 2026? The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now! 🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025 👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...

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LSE - Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop

We invite submissions for the LSE Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop. This workshop is designed to support the development of early-career scholars’ research, including PhD,...

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'm revising a paper that was rejected a while ago, and I forgot about this cursed comment from the one reviewer who sank my piece (the other 2 reviews recommended R&R btw). This reviewer had other reasons to reject, but frankly, I'm still shocked the editors took this person seriously.

The opening line of the paper asserts that climate change is increasing natural disasters and extreme weather events. This is a bold claim for which no citations are provided. Even the IPCC reports (which themselves are often accused of cherry-picking studies and drawing overly alarmist conclusions) assign low confidence to claims about climate change and natural disasters. This paper has little to do with climate change anyway, so I would encourage the authors remove claims along these lines.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/12/2025

Excellent analytical work from @restofworld.org @hazelgandhi.bsky.social @rinachandran.bsky.social here - on the construction of data centres in extremely hot parts of the world restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

A growing demand for AI and the desire to store data within a country’s borders means that 600 data centers around the world are located in places that are considered too hot. In 21 countries, all the data centers are located in zones that experience average temperatures above 27 C.

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Anthony Calacino @acalacino.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Recently, Brazil's Congress pretty much took a chainsaw to the country's environmental regulations. I think this news hasn't received enough attention - so I wrote a blog post that explores this important development, what it means, and how it came to be: anthonycalacino.com/posts/2025-1...

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How to Destroy the Amazon (and the rest of Brazil) Brazil’s Congress Takes Chainsaw to Critical Environmental Laws

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