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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be." #cdnpoli

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

EU member-states are debating its emissions trading system, the EU's *main* tool for solving climate change. Italy and nine countries in eastern Europe want weaker rules (and a hotter planet). DK, ES, FI, LU, NL, PT, and SE advocate continued ambition. Others are in between, mixed, or undeclared.

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The five blocs dominating Europe's carbon pricing fight | Euractiv

Political fault lines emerge as the European Commission finalises a proposal to overhaul the Emissions Trading System (ETS)

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Canadian media reporting on wildfire smoke in Toronto that's so bad people are recommended not to be outside... and they don't even mention climate change. There was never smoke like this when I was a kid. Come on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social , do better.

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Toronto air quality among world's worst as wildfire smoke blankets city | CBC News

Environment Canada's poor air quality warning in Toronto due to wildfire smoke could stick around until the end of the week, said a meteorologist.

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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This flouf is one of 15 healthy California condor chicks to hatch at our conservation center this season. A new record! #Condorable #KeepCalmAndCarrion

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

The UN General Assembly voted 141–8 supporting an ICJ opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address ‌climate change. The eight voting against: USA, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Israel, Iran, Yemen, Liberia, and Belarus.

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UN countries agree on legal obligation to address climate change | CBC News

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted 141–8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address ‌climate change, with the world's big...

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

No kidding. Disgusting. And the law goes into effect on National Day. 🤮

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Not only did the Swedish parliament just make it harder to become a citizen, they applied the new rules retrospectively. So people who submitted an application, meet the existing requirements, and are just waiting for a decision... may be denied only because it wasn't processed in time. So gross.

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Beslut: Skärpta krav för svenskt medborgarskap (Beslut 29 april 2026)

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

”It’s stupid.” Indeed, though it’s also about the weirdness of consumers’ preferences. Why, in 2026 let alone 2035, would anyone still even think about buying a new internal combustion car?

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‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance

Iran war should be wake-up call about costs of not going full throttle towards EVs as Chinese have done, experts say

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Sweden, any chance of getting off your butt and also allowing this?

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 06/03/2026

Today, Europe’s energy system is cleaner, much more diverse - and much more stable than a few years ago. Yet the developments in the Middle East remind us once again of the risks of relying still too much on fossil fuels.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

It's almost... like the world should have invested more in sources of energy other than fossil fuels? 🤔

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Ok, their goalie stood on his head and they won the big game. But we still have democracy.

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Transnational Institute @tninstitute.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The Transnational Institute mourns the sad news of the passing of Susan George. No one has done more to shape, energize and inspire TNI over the decades – she has been our inspiration, our honorary leader, our intellectual soul, and our beloved friend. www.tni.org/en/article/s...

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

”We should not [allow ourselves to be] blackmailed by him," Austrian State Secretary for Energy Elisabeth Zehetner said. … ”I can’t understand the argument of the U.S. … Maybe it’s an ideological thing.” Just maybe, yeah.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Today, Navalny's message to the world may resonate with many Americans differently than it did over two years ago. Alexei Navalny died on this day in 2024, poisoned using that the deadly frog toxin as reported by the governments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Sort of wondering when foreign leaders who understand the basic facts of climate change will tell Trump that he's making hugely costly decisions for the whole world, and it's not OK. The reality is that greenhouse gas emissions are harmful. Trump not believing that doesn't change the reality.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What. Were. They. Thinking. 😂🤓😳🫣 Ow Canada!

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Sánchez is about the world’s best leader right now. What a message. I hope others take note.

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Opinion | I’m the Prime Minister of Spain. This Is Why the West Needs Migrants.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Can we please take this seriously now? www.hindustantimes.com/ht-img/img/2...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Out now: *A Research Agenda for Political Trust* This excellent collection of papers points out future directions for political trust research: the unanswered questions, problems, promising theoretical pathways, and methodological innovations. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r... And: it's open access!

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A Research Agenda for Political Trust

‘Low trust in government provides the fuel for democratic backsliding. There is no more important topic for scholars to confront. This volume is invaluable because it provides important insights on tr...

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Possibly the best part of this: "The analysis in this report excludes those Member States with low heating demand or no fossil fuel consumption in domestic heating. Therefore this analysis excludes Cyprus, Finland, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Sweden." EVEN COLD COUNTRIES DON'T NEED FFs!

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Sociology Department Uppsala University @uusociologydep.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New research in environmental sociology by @mfair.bsky.social and colleagues. The study shows that public support for national climate policies increases when people perceive stronger climate action by other countries (“They Reduce, We Reduce”) journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

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They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries’ climate effort predicts support for climate policies

As public support influences policy choices, it is crucial to understand how people view climate policies. Based on the premise that individuals tend to be conditional cooperators, we derived the “The...

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 11/12/2025

New research by Kim-Pong Tam, Susumu Ohnuma, @mfair.bsky.social and Hoi-Wing Chan published in PLOS Climate: "They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries’ climate effort predicts support for climate policies" 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

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They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries’ climate effort predicts support for climate policies

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Actual footage of Canadian policymakers as they grapple with the challenge of global climate change. Here in Europe, where I live, there's a serious effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In Canada, they're rushing to build new pipelines. What an embarrassment. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 19/11/2025

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New publication! Marcus Aronsson and I build on an earlier theoretical argument by Rachael Shwom. How can we reconcile claims that capitalism is unavoidably unsustainable ("Treadmill of Production") with evidence of some environmental successes ("Ecological Modernization")? (1/3)

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Conditions for environmental success: dioxin pollution, the swedish pulp and paper industry, and a middle-range theory

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Conditions for environmental success: dioxin pollution, the swedish pulp and paper industry, and a middle-range theory

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Alarming news/perspective for many social scientists here.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

In Canada, Carney's gov passed its budget, and avoided a parliamentary vote of no-confidence, by just a couple votes. One thing that helped: Promising the one Green MP to meet Canada's Paris commitment to reduce emissions 40% by 2030. But Canada is way off track for that. So what's Carney's plan?

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Academics: How do you relate to MDPI journals? I know they (at least some) publish real research. People I know have papers in them. But given the aggressive e-mails they regularly send me, pressuring me to edit special issues, I consider them semi-predatory. So I act like they don't exist. Fair?

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Take: One part chronic Canadian mismanagement of the global treasure that is its old growth forests. One part bizarro British incentives (weirdly justified as "green") to make electricity out of wood. Mix and expect... what exactly?

theguardian.com

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

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Sociology Department Uppsala University @uusociologydep.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Happy to share the call for Abstracts for the 17th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference (NESS2026) 🗓 9–11 June 2026, Uppsala, Sweden 🔗 Abstract submission open until 8 December 2025 Read workshop descriptions and submit via the online system: www.ness2026.se

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Vile. The thing for all the countries supporting this (which is most) to do is: Go ahead and impose the fees. And charge non-signatories’ vessels a higher fee, if they want access to signatories’ ports.

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Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 07/11/2025

I would install each and all of them #AcademicChatter

A PhDcomics cartoon showing a phone screen displaying parody academic apps: Faculty Finder, Seminar Yelp, Postdoc Tinder, and Undergrad Translator.

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The cynicism and immorality of the fossil fuel industry's (above all Exxon's) efforts to prevent the world from addressing climate change can still take my breath away. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal

Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

OTD - October 21, 1985 - A rogue US scientist illegally obtains a quantity of plutonium through a Libyan-backed terrorist organization on the promise of assisting in manufacturing a nuclear device. Dr. Emmett Brown however intended to use the plutonium as part of a scientific experiment involving

Mall Parking lot at night, "twin pines mall" sign in foreground with a person walking next to it, back to the cemera. There is a White delivery van parked in the lot

an explosion in a mall parking lot at night...trail of fire leads from left to right to the explosion.

A JC Penny store is in the background.

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with @mfair.bsky.social and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Extraordinary evidence of what doctoral study does to people. "Psychiatric medication use ... increases substantially ... and by the fifth year medication use has increased by 40 percent." I'm grateful I entered this world. But few find it easy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study

Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

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Malcolm Fairbrother @mfair.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Not only is the Trump Admin paying to increase emissions from the US. They’re bullying other countries for efforts to reduce emissions. Let’s hope votes can still be found at the IMO for the very sensible policy of making ship operators pay for their pollution. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Trump threatens vulnerable countries before key shipping emissions vote

American officials have threatened supporters of measure to reduce emissions with tariffs and other retaliatory action

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