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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Something like that. Perhaps why it's proving difficult to arrive at the end of the book. I'm still deliriously dancing...

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks Tim. In my - delayed but now nearly completed - book on Big Oil in the energy transition I DO mention the late 19th C. Pennsylvania oil fields where oil workers danced the “American Petroleum Polka” and the “Oil Fever Gallop”, and sang songs like “Famous Oil Firms” and “Oil on the Brain”!

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes maybe not, but if I am correct the Guardian rankings seem to weigh those kinds of things most heavily, and they always seem to be the "outlier" rankings to me. (Of course, they only rank domestically as well.)

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

As a parent, probably reputation of institution, research standing, and employment outcomes. Counterintuitively perhaps (much) less weighting on NSS and similar input as I imagine it’s very hard to compare across institutions.

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...

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Declaration — Math and AI

Read the declaration and add your name.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

What next, an American NOC? "President Trump’s #Venezuela deal caps months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven #oil reserves" www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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Exclusive | Inside Trump’s Plan to Give the Pentagon a Stake in Venezuela’s Oil Riches

The deal capped months of secretive negotiations to give the U.S. rights to the some of the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race." -- US Chief Justice John Roberts, 2007. I'm wondering whether this is now considered a "far right" viewpoint.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Hard to think of anything remotely representative: David Bowie Michael Jackson The Ramones Bob Dylan The Cure Black Sabbath R.E.M. The Rolling Stones The Wailers Dio

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"For as long as I can remember, I’ve wished innovation could happen faster. With #AI, my feelings are more complicated." -- Bill Gates www.gatesnotes.com/work/make-ai...

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's back to a core focus on #oil and gas for #Shell, but it is the #chemicals assets as well as the #renewables assets that are underperforming. "Shell draws Exxon interest in $8bn US chemical assets sale" www.ft.com/content/d6f1...

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Shell draws Exxon interest in $8bn US chemical assets sale

US supermajor and LyondellBasell among suitors as UK group looks to shed underperforming plants and refocus on oil and gas

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In the US, much wider social and demographic criteria including sporting and other extracurricular achievements - and, uniquely, "legacy admissions" - matter much more. This is especially so across the top tiers of universities when comparing the US and UK. 10/10

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

And given that the push for socially engineering the demographics of university student bodies is much stronger in the US, students in the UK are admitted on a much more narrow set of metrics (i.e., academic achievement) than in the US. 9/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Their initial offers are based on predicted grades submitted by their schools, usually along strict criteria, as well as additional admissions tests and/or interviews for the more competitive universities. 8/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

These are not results based on grades given in their respective schools - which may vary and be highly inflated, which is very much the case in the US - but on nationwide standardised tests in each subject, meaning that you compare like for like in terms of achievement across the country. 7/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Moreover, every acceptance onto a UK university course is conditional, meaning that students need to achieve their required results (their "offer) in their final (A Level) examinations in June of their final year of school, just a few months before they're beginning their university studies. 6/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This means that the need to realistically match your applications to degrees and universities where you have a real chance of getting admitted to is much more important in the UK system than it is in the US where you can take a much more "freewheeling" approach to applying. 5/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is because in the US you can apply to as many universities as you want to. In the UK, the nationwide UCAS system (through which all students apply for university courses) allows you to apply to no more than five university degree courses - so a maximum of five universities. 4/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Their general pitch is based largely on acceptance rates at top US universities being, at first glance, substantially lower than at their top UK counterparts. But the comparison is misguided, in fact it is rather meaningless. 3/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Their pitch to US high school students in particular generally being along the lines, "hey, it's really hard getting into top US universities so have a look at the UK", etc. 2/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I often come across international outfits coaching students for places at the world's most competitive universities and find that they use what seems to me very dubious metrics and comparisons. 1/

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Arday debacle is as good an illustration of the "soft bigotry of low expectations" as we'll ever get.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Another president will be sworn in come January 2029 just as one was in January 2021.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The 2025 US - EU $750 billion #energy deal would be a tall order to fulfill, both for American producers and European purchasers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

So the #WorldCup has come and gone, and Ranch dressing is still awful.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On critical theory and the Frankfurt School as bourgeois “high-end primal-scream therapy”. Jürgen #Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

250 years of US #energy consumption. From the EIA. Coal is no longer King.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Wishing all our family and friends in the USA a happy 4th of July!

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Rules the roost among publicly held international oil companies indeed. But they only produce 15% or so of the world’s oil. The real behemoths in terms of production are the state-owned companies from the Gulf States, etc.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Indeed. The maximalists position ought to be rejected in regards to birthright and to guns, and also to church and state.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Summer by the sea☀️ Our beautiful North Down coast at Donaghadee.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

We will sadly see more of this. Whereas for much of the post-WWII era antisemitism was considered beyond the pale and those espousing it generally being shunned, it is now, often in the guide of “anti-Zionism”, being flaunted as a badge of honour. Ancient blood libel as socially accepted premise.

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Back to reading Ivan Vladislavić again. It really makes me miss #Johannesburg. #literature

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I've seen the US - #Iran "deal" referred to in #Israel as "peace for our time"... Appropriate enough?

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

#SpaceX joins world's 10 largest companies by market cap. 8 of 10 are US companies. #investing $SPCX

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

With Ben, Jerry, Larry, Adam and Spike, the #Knicks are surely sporting the strongest bench in NBA history! 🏀

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Stefan Andreasson @bstefan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Perhaps, assuming mutually reinforcing #defence, clean #energy and #AI spending. But while there's certainly profitability in defence, #renewables have poor track record and AI is unproven. #investing "Are we at the start of a new investment super-cycle?" www.ft.com/content/d91c...

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Are we at the start of a new investment super-cycle?

AI, clean energy and defence spending are reinforcing each other, amplifying potential spend

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