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Casfetera 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @casfetera.bsky.social · 6h

"Every day of his life since 2014, Sánchez looks up at the sky and shouts at God, asking Him if this is all He is capable of doing."

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine if the solution for the crisis du jour would be simple technology such as e-bikes and heat pumps. It’s convenient to push a button and get 21°C to this small flat I rented, on a cold morning. Such gear does not require oil and gas import dependency from hostile regimes. #Sufficiency

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a big deal for building decarbonization! AB 2313 has the potential to both speed up appliance replacement and help shift the incentives that keep gas utilities from coming to the table to confront long-term decline. Congratulations to all the advocates!

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 30/09/2026

Well, that’s not the opening paragraph I expected.

1. Introduction

In the 1988 sci -fi roleplaying game Cyberpunk , the European Currency Unit serves as the global currency (colloquially referred to as “euro dollar”, “ed" or “eddie”) . In the story, the dismantling of US
democracy, a sovereign debt crisis and geopolitical mistakes
trigger the collap se of the United States . The European Economic
Community steps in and uses its well -regulated banking system and
single currency to displace the dollar’s hegemonic role.

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Florian G. Kern @floriangkern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨Some professional news: in Dec 2026, I’ll be joining @unibirmingham.bsky.social's School of Government & POLSIS as 125th Anniversary Fellow & Associate Professor in Political Science. Such a wonderful opportunity + exciting to meet new students and colleagues. www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/un...

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University of Birmingham appoints more 125th anniversary academics - University of Birmingham

Introducing 10 new 125th Anniversary Fellows and Chairs - outstanding academics who bring expertise in key areas.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good news on the upward revision of UK growth rate. Now, fellow economists, tell me why biz is investing more? Automation investments? Delayed investments that were not taking place earlier this year because of Hormuz?

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Dean Hochlaf @dhochlaf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Comfortable growth figures for Labour, reversed the trend of declining GDP per capita from the last few years of the Tory government and nullifies the inevitable Badenoch argument that businesses aren't investing because of Labour

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lest we forget, this is politics in action: - the David Cameron-led Conservative govt had de facto halted onshore wind in 2015 (raised planning restrictions, cut subsidies) - in 2024 Labour under Starmer, and really the energy secretary Ed Miliband, removed the hurdles and lifted the ban

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Graham Sinclair @esgarchitect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elections have choices. They impact what investors can invest in. Better is possible.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Trump 2.0, Hormuz effect and the Indonesia-Chinese revamped relations, in one simple chart

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Marcello Graziano 🇺🇦 @marcellograz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From FB: SEAT Marbella Electric. SEAT used to have a partnership with FIAT back in the 70-80s (and one of FIAT men in the Iberian peninsula was...Dino Grandi. Yep, him). Built in 1989 by by the Italian specialist firm Torpedo Auto Elettriche, it had already interesting numbers for a citycar. 1/2

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

@lorenzocrippa.bsky.social, look at financial media revamping the pope’s message, if only somebody would research systematically how and when markets absorb papal comms 🥲

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love everything about this RCT ☀️🔋💚 www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/the-i...

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday 9am: alright, we planned this - I only have the weekend email to check, one quick reference letter to finish, and the almost written up referee report to submit. I will be ready to get to that paper in about 1 hour. Monday 2pm: <opens Overleaf in tears>

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

US social media companies are interfering in the Brazilian elections in favour of the Far Right’s Flávio Bolsonaro. Meta is the latest. It’s just blocked the campaign account of President Lula in the final stretch of the election.

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Meta restringe la cuenta de Lula y su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera

De cara a las elecciones en Brasil, Lula enfrenta a Meta por restringir su cuenta mientras su partido alerta por posible injerencia extranjera.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Electoral cycle-based political incentives strike again ⚡ The losers: fiscal finances, importers, the climate The short-term (but like, very short-term) winners: people with ICE motorvehicles The long-term winners: god knows, it's a political roulette

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

These people make Marie Antoinette look connected to the people and empathetic by comparison. They laugh at what their own voters are going through as they continue to mock them as they enrich themselves and have a great time.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Many elections to follow this fall for generic democratic reasons but also climate policy implications. One to pay attention to is Brazil 🇧🇷: Lula vs F. Bolsonaro. Lula: brake on deforestation; mid ground/ambiguity on agr & oil (Petrobras on show 🟠) Bolsonaro: full privatization, deregulation, yolo

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Showing up to a job interview like a winner

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 25/09/2026

Really great thread, and data.

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Tom Ackers @tomackers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Interesting” re Italy’s RepowerEU funds spent (as of end 2025) 👇

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨 New: Green industrial policy in backdrop of EU recovery funds In 2020, Covid froze Italy's economy. 🇪🇺 agreed on 🇮🇹's Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR): €194.4B, largest share of NextGenEU. The PNRR is now almost over, at last instalment. What did it actually do for climate & energy? 🔋🪡

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

2/ New research from our Johns Hopkins's Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab: The US is pulling back from climate & going all-in on AI. China is stepping in to build green factories overseas. The scale is staggering. Explore the cleantech manufacturing FDI database cmfdi.netzeropolicylab.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TLDR: In 2020 when still on paper, the PNRR was a massive opportunity to push Italy towards a better 21st economy. We might say, a non-FF climate-resilient one. As of today, we can say it *did* push the country towards productive green-coded investments. But far from non-FF climate-resilient ones.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fwiw idk if we should expect to see comune-level patterns here - public tenders are issued by central government ministries, and I suspect the main selection mechanism for applying to them is dominated by city capacity (big urban center vs small rural one). But I would love to see a paper on that!

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026

Man allowed to address UN General Assembly while subject to an arrest warrant of the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges, sure why not

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Important public opinion patterns described here by Steve. The fragmented elite-level consensus on climate change and aggressive anti-net zero campaign on the (far) right is starting to show in UK public polls. Once again evidence that elites matter, leadership is lacking and apathy is a tragedy.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apocalypse normalization: completed

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Have the BBC forgotten how to do proper reporting? The arrest isn't "over video", it's over the dinghy slashing.

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You know who else was obsessed with dancing around on the pinheads of imagined classifications based on where great grandparents were born and what they believed? The Nazis.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today is another excellent day to make a donation of sorts to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am used to terrifying stories of human trauma from the central Med migratory route but very rarely there is such a level of close aggressive contact between locals and migrants. This is despicable and cruel and it should never be tolerated.

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

5. After around 30 hours at sea, the dinghy was intercepted by the RNLI and those on board transferred to two lifeboats. Two lifeboat personnel tried to secure the empty dinghy. Thomas yelled abuse and knifed the dinghy to deflate it - with a rescuer still on board.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

can someone please think of all the academics who need to change the acronym in their papers now

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026

“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

*academic job klaxon* very interesting looking 2-yr postdoc at Toulouse with @ccavaille.bsky.social on the political economy of climate risk and insurance!

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Salvini, Meloni, Vannacci: “we will disenfranchise education, immigrant kids will be segregated, the curriculum will double down on traditional Italian culture (and btw no extra euro to schools)” President Mattarella at Amatrice <taps mic>

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Simon Weschle @simonweschle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"a different doctorate"

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Stefano Sangiovanni @stesangio.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sometimes it's really hard to explain what's going on in our country :D

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