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Oskar Wood Hansen

@oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social
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phd from @ICTA_UAB, Barcelona & laCaixa fellow. climate policy and politics; ecological economics. co-founder of rethinking economics denmark diy-anything, bike enthusiast free palestine

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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 16h
Why Carbon Taxes Failed is on the road! See book talk dates below (more to come). Next week is Central European University and Copenhagen Business School! Can't wait to see some dear friends at both places <3
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI is the Gyges' ring of student work: it offers perfect concealment of wrongdoing. If Glaucon is right, then everyone will use it to do injustice (cheat), & will be wise to do so. If Socrates/Plato is right, then doing so also harms the wrong-doer, whose soul will be malformed into misery by it.
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Touching display of solidarity
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Delaying an Al doomsday would benefit investors too
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hannah Arendt: "An antisemite claimed that the Jews had caused the war; the reply was: Yes the Jews and the bicyclists. Why the bicyclists? asks the one. Why the Jews? asks the other.’ " Trump administration has decided that the bicyclists should be dealt with after all, just in case.
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Do D.E.I. Bike Paths Exist? The Trump Administration Says Yes.
The administration has revoked funding for bike paths, and encouraged removing some. A cycling advocate said it is playing on the idea of “that dork on a bike.”
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Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Smh. Reminds me of how UK Health Services is locking itself into an inferior Palantir product, as covered in the LRB recently.
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Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"Drill baby, drill" takes on a new meaning
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How can an individual be “polarized”? An individual can be “radicalized”. Anyway, most “polarization” literature is about right-wing radicalization. Stop using the term “polarization” for radicalization on one pole!
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Emit today & fix it tomorrow. Proposal by Loo/Allen/etc for new N.Sea oil & gas developments to be conditional on fossil-fuel execs promising to neutralise emissions thro' future CCS & “engineered removals”. static1.squarespace.com/static/6356a... My response: climateuncensored.com/response-to-...
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Response to Open Letter to DESNZ about Rosebank & Jackdaw - Climate Uncensored
Response to a letter from Stephanie Loo, Myles Allen & colleagues to the DESNZ Secretary of State about offsetting continued fossil fuel production with
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Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Fantastic FT comment. Completely ideology-free
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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
in order to not be hypocritical in your politics you must rank every thing happening anywhere by how axiologically bad it is and then express disapproval in direct proportion to that badness
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Lucy Powell: "What [Andy Burnhams] saying is that the political & economic model that has governed this country for the last 40 years.. he wants to radically rewrite that political & economic model" 30 seconds later later: "He is going to stick to our manifesto"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.
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Wolfgang Blau @wblau.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Most governments find the loss of entire world regions to uninhabitable climate scenarios and the untold suffering of humans - and animals - easier to imagine, than the transition away from oil and gas. As Amitav Gosh said, the climate crisis is a crisis of our imagination.
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Phil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I could go on. Anyway the Democratic Party’s greatest hits album is mostly cover songs. Reading David Brooks will rot your brain.
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Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Scientists have built electronically controlled, oxygen-suit wearing Madagascar hissing cockroach cyborgs that can stay hours underwater. Apparently they were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should 🧪🪳 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A photo of a large cockroach with its back half enveloped in a semi-transparent shell. Tubes run from the shell to the front of the body. It looks exactly like a science fiction movie design, but it’s real.
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Oskar Wood Hansen @oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Shouldn't the publisher/peer-reviewers have caught the mistakes here? About technology readiness levels etc
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Alt text
A politico headline that reads "
Europe must choose between Al and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU's AI goals."
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Riad Salameh, Lebanon's central banker for 30 years, embezzeled $300 million from Banque de Liban to a shell company whose beneficial owner was Raja Salameh, who then laundered that money through HSBC and back to the Salameh brothers' personal accounts in Lebanon. www.ft.com/content/cb64...
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How HSBC ended up at the centre of a $330mn embezzlement scandal
The lender’s Swiss unit is under formal investigation over whether it helped Lebanese central bank boss’s alleged scheme
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 23/06/2026
... implies a differentiated monetary policy response to fossil fuel price shocks. Consider this: Every single ECB tightening cycle has been in reaction to energy prices (orange) rising much faster than the overall consumer price index (green). 2/
Plot: title = "Energy price inflation and overall inflation, in %", subtitle = "The history of ECB rate hikes is the history of oil price shocks",
x = year, y = "% change, year-on-year"
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Every day I'm grateful that I was born with a personality of my very own.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/06/2026
It is always a nice day to revisit this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social essay frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/rebecca-soln...
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Rebecca Solnit: Why climate despair is a luxury | From Poverty to Power
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 17/06/2026
stopped playing scrabble to look outside, accidentally saw a rothko
I mean, it looks like a Rothko. It's a portrait of a night scene looking out across a river to some houses on the other side. The sky is dark blue, turning into a dark orange gradient about two thirds down where it meets the horizon. Under that, there's a dark river.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 16/06/2026
Regular reminder that re-armament in Germany means enriching the already very rich, sprawling clans who are the quiet shareholders of century-old tank manufacturers whose websites have nothing to say about their Hitler-decorated grandfather's use of forced labor during WWII, or anything else.
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The reclusive heirs in line for billions when Europe’s top tankmaker lists
Unlikely cast of characters who own half of KNDS set for a windfall as Berlin prepares to buy in at an up to €20bn valuation
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Nerds: [Invent a stupid robot that does dumb stuff and ruins everything] All Businessmen: The stupid robot is our future. He is the smartest guy I've ever heard of.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 08/06/2026
The Israeli army shot and killed seven-month-old Sam Abou Haikal and injured his parents while they were driving between Bethlehem and Hebron. Sam’s father, Fahd Abou Haikal, spoke with +972 Magazine and Local Call about the attack. @mekomit.bsky.social
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A Roadmap for U.S. Housing Policy publiccomment.blog/p/a-roadmap-...
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A Roadmap for U.S. Housing Policy
My new report with Becky Chao and Mike Konczal for the Economic Security Project
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Feels like a lot of STEM guys believed coding was the hardest thing a human could do, and assumed that once somebody invented an AI that can code, it would follow naturally that the AI can do all of the lesser non-coding things that other dumber people were doing
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Karl Schamotta @karl-schamotta.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Markets enjoying the 103rd day of "imminent" US-Iran peace deals:
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
If local anti-offshore wind groups wonder who they have gotten into bed with, here he is. In our research, he's at the center of anti-wind network Plus, "SPN’s approach to energy policy contradicts its claim to promote policies based on free market principles" energyandpolicy.org/man-who-kill...
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‘Man who killed offshore wind’ now pushing fossil fuels and nuclear for Koch-funded Mackinac Center in Michigan
David Stevenson, who led a national campaign against offshore wind power for the Delaware-based Caesar Rodney Institute, is now fighting land-based solar and wind farms and promoting fossil fuels and ...
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 12/06/2026
This is outrageous. When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"If you want to get your hands around urban inequality, and deep housing cost burdens and homelessness in particular, you need to do more than build housing. You also need to stabilize the incomes of the people the market alone can’t reach..." Really important!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
The planned gas-fired capacity **JUST FOR DATA CENTRE ON-SITE USE** in the US is the same as *all* planned gas capacity in India, Africa, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea and China *combined*.
A chart showing planned gas capacity by countr y
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10/06/2026
BYD to spend €2bn to develop 5-minute flash chargers in Europe ft.trib.al/CEjg0j2
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BYD to spend €2bn to develop 5-minute flash chargers in Europe
Chinese EV maker banks on ultrarapid battery technology to take market share from legacy rivals
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
While scholars around the world debated Israel's destruction of Gaza, Germany's political science establishment largely refused to engage. Latest on my Substack, by @anavelasco.bsky.social & @roykaradag.bsky.social hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/why-german...
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Gaza Changed the World. German Academia Stayed Silent.
While scholars around the world debated Israel's destruction of Gaza, Germany's political science establishment largely refused to engage. Ana Velasco and Roy Karadag examine why
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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · 08/06/2026
I have resigned from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol's Independent Standards Board. The Protocol is openly violating its own rules and has effectively delegated forest carbon accounting standards to a secret, industry-led working group. ghgpolicy.org/s/2026-06-08...
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Robert Rotifer @robertrotifer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I know it’s clickbait, but why do centrists hate their kids so much?
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Grace 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026
are you just going to do this for every generation
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
That the KIDS THESE DAYS are SOCIALISTS & that is the worst threat to DEMOCRACY & CAPITALISM like THE SOVIET UNION & COMMUNIST CHINA is the most boring, predictable center-right business/finance/media/CEO/rich/age 50+ position in politics. It is a Narrative™️ that cannot fail. It can only be failed.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/06/2026
‘The “populist wave” has become the go-to image or metaphor when one tries to understand what’s been going on. And I think it’s empirically profoundly misleading, and it’s also politically pernicious.’ @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on myths of populism, on the podcast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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On Politics: Myths of Populism
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 3 June · 1hr 12min
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ICCT Europe 🇪🇺 @iccteu.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
🚨NEW REPORT: Plug-in hybrids in Europe emit 5x more CO2 than officially reported. The gap between real-world and official CO2 emissions of cars is widening. And for plug-in hybrids, the gap is remarkably high: - 2021 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 265% - 2023 plug-in hybrid vehicles: 400%.
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𝙰𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙰𝚋𝚒𝚣𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚑 @abizadeh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
In a brazen attack on academic freedom, The New School has fired multiple tenured faculty, including the prominent economist Sanjay Reddy in what smells like retribution for his criticisms of the admin’s financial mismanagement.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Well, well, well fortune.com/2026/06/01/i...
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The Iran conflict has disrupted oil supply. Gulf states are now looking to multi-billion-dollar investments in renewables  | Fortune
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has triggered the largest oil supply disruption in history, accelerating Gulf diversification efforts and promoting major new investments.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
this is going to go on all summer, isn't it
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Looking like Netanyahu got what he wanted if this collapses negotiations.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The first ever trillionaire will become a trillionaire by using political power to bend the rules of financial markets to force everybody’s retirement accounts to invest in his company
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