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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 12h

It’s time to stop subsidising fossil fuels. Promoting continued fossil fuel reliance is reinforcing energy injustice and worsening climate injustice - this is the opposite of what is urgently needed.

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our new article on his decades of corporate capture made US universities vulnerable to current attacks.

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ICARUS Maynooth @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

ICARUS's Professor Jennie Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social spoke on RTÉ Radio 1 about El Niño and our increasingly turbulent, volatile climate. Climate destruction is accelerating fast, getting more dangerous - yet we're not collectively preparing or mitigating. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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Super El Nino: What is it going to mean for you?

Sadhbh O’Neill, Climate and environmental researcher and Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Justice at the ICARUS Climate Research Centre at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

"We can no longer afford to subsidise research for environmentally destructive, socially exploitative or military-linked industries in the name of increasing European competitiveness." - @jenniecstephens.bsky.social

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Universities must be supported to lead on climate action

One critical public investment we can make to reduce devastating future societal costs is to dramatically increase third-level funding

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Criticising big tech in Ireland is like criticising the Catholic Church 50 years ago. Despite widespread concern about the harms, especially to women & children, big tech’s positive narratives are imposed on us by powerful, controlling patriarchal organisations www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Do women have an AI problem?

While big tech has been strategically investing to promote a positive narrative around AI, many rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities are resisting AI tools, writes Jennie C Step...

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Climate justice broadens the #climate agenda beyond narrow, technology-focused carbon emission reductions. A vision of alternative economic systems prioritising human rights & quality housing, food, healthcare, education for all. www.irishtimes.com/environment/... @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social

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ICARUS Maynooth @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Who Owns the Transition? Join @jlmacarthur.bsky.social, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social, Dr Emanuela Ferrari & Laurie Reilly for a discussion on energy democracy and the power of community and cooperative renewables. 📅 22 June | 2–4pm 📍 Hybrid event Register www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 30/04/2026

University policies are failing to protect against fossil fuel influence on academic research, harkening back to the days of Big Tobacco’s disinformation on campus. CSSN scholars and colleagues, C. Ceccon, @truzaar.bsky.social, and @jenniecstephens.bsky.social's study is in Climatic Change today!

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

What would you do with over $1 billion dollars? That’s how much Big Carbon spent on universities since 2010 to shape climate research and “reinforce denialist narratives.” Yet out of 39 University funding policies, only 3 mention fossil fuel companies directly, a new study shows.

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Climate Action Against Disinformation | A Billion Little Lies: Dirty Energy Spent Over $1,000,000,000 Influencing Universities Since 2010

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ICARUS Maynooth @icarus-maynooth.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

ICARUS Professor Jennie Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social highlights the need for “exnovation” – the deliberate shift away from harmful processes or products that no longer serve society well – in her latest piece for The Irish Times. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Time has come for exnovation away from fossil fuels

The fuel shortages caused by the US-Israel war on Iran highlight the need to move towards more peaceful renewable-based futures

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Our new research reveals how the world’s largest fossil fuel companies undermine renewables in their corporate communication. Powerful corporations reinforce negative misleading narratives to reinforce fossil fuel dependence and slow down shift to renewables. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Renewable energy discourses of fossil fuel companies: obstruction and delay of climate action - Energy, Sustainability and Society

Background For decades, multinational fossil fuel companies have strategically promoted discourses to obstruct climate action. Initially, the fossil fuel industry publicized communications that denied...

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

“Petro-masculinity will continue to destroy both people and the planet. Can we stop it?” Making the case for feminist climate justice in the Irish Times Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petro-masculinity www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Feminist climate justice offers antidote to petro-masculinity

Jennie Stephens: Feminist climate justice principles are courageously demonstrated by Mary Robinson

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

My column in the Irish Times on the dangers of corporate capture. Corporate interests dominate public policy while community needs go unmet. Greta Thunberg & BohsFC show us how to reclaim the public good @thunberggreta.bsky.social @bfcdublin.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Time to challenge corporate power in Ireland

Greta Thunberg and Bohemian Football Club together stress need to put communities before companies

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The fossil fuel industry’s “energy security” argument is dangerous, misleading and fundamentally flawed. Ireland should not be building new fossil fuel infrastructure. My piece in today’s Irish Times. #climate #climateobstruction #climatejustice #fossilfuels www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

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Ireland is falling for the American fossil fuel industry’s ‘energy security’ con

One of the reasons this argument has been so effective is because, like all good propaganda, there is an element of truth to it

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Teachers College Record @tcrecord.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

In her book, @jenniecstephens.bsky.social "insists that higher education reckon with its complicity in addressing the intersecting crises of systemic abandonment and ecological collapse." Read Dr. @mariavamvalis.bsky.social 's full review here: bit.ly/48ioTQS @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Honoured to meet President Catherine Connolly at a climate event today at An Taisce in Dublin & present on transformative climate justice. Inspired that she referred to my recent article on #climatejustice in the Irish Examiner. lnkd.in/eTnmvg5m @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social

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Elaine McGoff @elainemcgoff.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social 'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Resisting GenAI and big tech in higher education. Join the conversation 25 November REGISTER HERE: bit.ly/4qE27dB co-sponsored by the @climatejusticeuni.bsky.social and the Campus Climate Network

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

New open-access resource on climate obstruction detailing all the ways industry has been strategically sabotaging climate action. Great collaborating with many colleagues at @cssn.org. I’m a lead author on last chapter on resisting climate obstruction. Check it out!

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Join us Tuesday 21 Oct for panel discussion on Climate Justice Research for Transformative Action. www.maynoothuniversity.ie/geography/ev... Register to join us in person or online: forms.office.com/e/G9ktW4J9iF

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Check out our new research w/ @martinsokol.bsky.social on redistributing higher ed to meet urgent community needs - moving away from financialized universities reinforcing profit-seeking competitiveness toward transformative accessible collective community-based orgs more like public libraries

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Universities, polycrisis and regional redistribution - Review of Regional Research

As humanity faces a worsening polycrisis, the need for systemic change in society is becoming more widely recognized. This time of increasing disruptions of all kinds comes with new opportunities for ...

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Join us virtually to discuss universities, transformative climate justice & roles of academics in resisting dehumanization, fossil fueled authoritarianism, & militarism. With Laura Horn, Vera Trappmann Aaron Thierry & others. Wed July 2nd 9am EST, 2pm Ireland Virtual link here lnkd.in/evjcRj_j

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Our new publication on why gender equity & care are essential for transformative climate justice. Integrating care, care work & feminist principles into climate policy is necessary for transformative change. Part of "Changing the Conversation About Climate Change" special issue lnkd.in/gWu-zrNS

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Advancing climate justice requires resisting technocratic false solutions like solar geoengineering. Join me by endorsing the international non-use agreement on solar geoengineering

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

We raise concerns about the risks of corporate funding of Irish universities in @thejournal.ie. Entangling profit-driven agendas with the public good mission of universities Is dangerous. With Conchur O Maonaigh www.thejournal.ie/readme/fundi...

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Opinion: Normalising the corporate funding of higher education in Ireland is a dangerous game

Professor Jennie C Stephens and Conchúr Ó Maonaigh of Maynooth University investigate how much corporate money is being used to fund education in Ireland.

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Our research highlighting multiple risks of industry funding of universities featured in the Irish Times. Corporate investments strategically distract from industry harms, erode support for non-commercial areas, & promote industry friendly policies & perspectives www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

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Irish universities take millions of euro from big business. Are they too close for comfort?

Many higher education institutions now rely on industry-sponsored professorships, research centres and scholarships to plug State funding gaps

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Excited to be speaking at the Oxfam Ireland Ground Up: Climate Justice Forum this Friday! I’ll be discussing feminist climate justice collective action on a panel Friday morning. Register now www.oxfamireland.org/ground-up-cl... 📍Where? University College Cork, Devere Hall #groundup25

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Looking forward to the Maynooth Festival of Palestinian Culture April 7-10 at the National University of Ireland @maynoothuniversity.ie Great to see such broad support across the university @mu-ssi.bsky.social @muahi.bsky.social @maynoothenglish.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/maynoot...

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MaynoothPalFest25

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Thrilled that my new book - Climate Justice and the University - is now available open access. This radical exploration of higher ed reimagines how universities could engage with transformative change for a better future for all. Download whole book or individual chapters muse.jhu.edu/book/123270

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Project MUSE - Climate Justice and the University

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

New paper highlighting risks of corporate funding in higher ed in Ireland. Need for more transparent data and more inclusive decision-making if universities are to retain their independence and integrity publicpolicy.ie/education/in...

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Not only is market-based climate governance inadequate, non-transformative and unjust, it also dangerously results in companies selling “cooling credits” trying to profit from solar geoengineering. Check out our new research www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Profit-seeking solar geoengineering exemplifies broader risks of market-based climate governance

Despite uncertainties about its feasibility and desirability, start-up companies seeking to profit from solar geoengineering have begun to emerge. One…

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Join us at Maynooth University 7th of March as we build collective power for feminist climate justice! Register here! www.climatejusticeuniversitiesunion.org/events-1

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

In 2025, a narrow focus on limited, gradual emissions reductions is not enough. My thoughts on the lack of ambition in the new Irish government’s climate plans www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Why is climate justice missing from new Government programme?

Ireland is uniquely positioned to lead on transformative climate justice, but the incoming Government is proceeding with business as usual

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Looking forward to speaking at the Design Skillnet #DesignLeadersConf on Courage, Creativity & Transformative #ClimateJustice. The conference takes place in Dublin on January 30th. Find out more and get tickets at designleadersconference.com @designskillnet.bsky.social

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Homepage - Design Leaders Conference

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Check out our new research on how the fossil energy, plastic & agrichemical industries are interconnected in their climate obstruction narratives and coordinated in efforts to deny & delay the transformative climate action needed for a stable & healthy future. journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

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Networks of climate obstruction: Discourses of denial and delay in US fossil energy, plastic, and agrichemical industries

The use of fossil-derived hydrocarbons in fossil energy, plastic production, and agriculture makes these three sectors mutually reinforcing and reliant on sustained fossil fuel extraction. In this pap...

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“Higher ed is critical social infrastructure…. to encourage & support transformative thinking, research & learning toward climate justice.” My latest in @timeshighered.bsky.social on the new book Climate Justice & the University @hopkinspress.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/clima...

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On climate change, are universities part of the problem or part of the solution?

As the effects of climate change become increasingly more extreme, fossil fuel interests are preventing transformative change. Where do universities stand?

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thank you @kirbypeadar.bsky.social for your enthusiastic response to my new book Climate Justice and the University @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Thanks to @insidehighered.com for covering my new book - Climate Justice and the University. With climate injustices getting worse, the public good mission of our universities can be reclaimed for transformative change and better futures for all. www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

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New book envisions colleges dedicated to Earth's well-being

Drawing on 30 years of experience researching climate, Jennie C. Stephens argues that modern universities are systematically unequipped to fight climate change.

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Our research is mentioned (and I’m quoted) in this excellent coverage on the growing trend of corporate capture of universities - when publicly funded higher-ed institutions are used to advance profit-seeking private sector interests. amp.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: how a US public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts | Fossil fuels | The Guardian

McNeese State University in Louisiana building a liquefied natural gas center, prompting fears of ‘corporate capture’

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Mary Mulvey @ecoireland.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

@jenniecstephens.bsky.social Congratulations nice to be at Hybrid Launch # lessons of Hurricane Katherina 1995.Climate Crisis & Polycrisis @maynoothuni.bsky.social Love looking at mission statement _ rare find good tourism one

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Jennie C Stephens @jenniecstephens.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Inspiring week of events on my new book Climate Justice and the University. First in Dublin RIA then, then Leeds U, University College Cork, & Atlantic Technological University Recording of Dublin event here lnkd.in/gsnvZh4C Books can be ordered at all booksellers www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Anna Pringle @annapr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Really enjoyed this episode about climate justice in universities, with @profjohnbarry.bsky.social and @jenniecstephens.bsky.social Loved John's point about finding hope and joy in climate action, very different from optimism without agency. Hope requires urgency and action #SpeirGorm #Climate

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