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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Et quel plaisir de passer quelques jours à Lyon pour clôturer la saison de conférences de 2026!

Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Merci @theodoretallent.bsky.social + @malojan.bsky.social pour l’organisation d’un super panel sur le backlash écologique à @asso-afsp.bsky.social. De nouvelles idées sur une typologie du backlash, et des cas variés présentés — des inondations aux éoliennes.

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Big thanks to the organisers — already looking forward to next year.

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

- Hannah Werner finding that climate rollbacks are generally unpopular in the US, though not among GOP - Ella Henninger breaking down policy fairness into fairness-to-me vs. fairness-to-others; survey results suggest that other-regarding-fairness leaves more space for redistribution

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

- @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social showing that the places that are more exposed to economic insecurity are more likely to turn to the far-right, but young men even more so - nick vivyan finds middling prioritization of climate risk by Brits; more than grafiti, less than rising prices

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

- state-of-the-research session by @fgenovese.bsky.social @antvalentim.bsky.social @patrickbayer.bsky.social @dianebolet.bsky.social. Broad agreement that post-2021 insights from literature lie with distributional politics. Discussions about boosting engagement with policy-makers, other disciplines

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Belfast put on quite the (sunny) display for the end of the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference. A few more panel nuggets:

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

- whether we should think about different types of climate adaptation as a public or private good @fpvantaggiato.bsky.social - how municipalities in Switzerland may boost up spending before they merge @micastre.bsky.social

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

- specificity in NDCs can help drive alignment in climate ODA @ruthdcarlitz.bsky.social - that partisanship affects what environment-related municipal bonds are issued in the US, but whether they carry a "green label" depends more on market access (Maurice Hirt)

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

A great first day @epssnet.bsky.social, some points: - the post-peak Environmental Kuznets Curve comes down more for democracies than other regimes @svanhildur.bsky.social - income boosts from Swiss labour market access led to higher Green support in FR, DE, IT @markkayser.bsky.social

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The vast majority of voters (85%) voted online, but turnout remained very low at 14%.

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Roughly a quarter of contested races came down to margins smaller than 5 percentage points. The tightest were Poland (a literal tie with two parties getting 209 votes, seemingly broken by who was the older candidate), Oran (0.17 pts), and Sweden (0.59 pts).

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

But the biggest single bloc was a party with no metropolitan equivalent: ASFE ran in 99 of 130 constituencies and won 16% of all seats. The Greens took 67 seats (~15%); the far right won only 12 in 10 constituencies, making it the most geographically concentrated family by far.

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Update: all 130 constituencies have now declared. Among parties with a metropolitan equivalent, expat voters break sharply left: 148 broad-left seats vs 72 for centre + right + far right combined. Full analysis: pwyckoff.github.io/elections-consulaires-2026/

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Élections consulaires 2026

Carte et graphiques des résultats par circonscription consulaire — FR / EN.

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

61 of ~130 constituencies reported results so far. Interactive map and vote-share breakdown by political family (in FR and EN): pwyckoff.github.io/elections-consulaires-2026/

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Élections consulaires 2026

Carte et graphiques des résultats par circonscription consulaire — FR / EN.

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

These elections also offer an early read on how French overseas voters are leaning ahead of 2027 and beyond. These voters directly elect 11 of the National Assembly's 577 deputies and made up ~1.4% of voters in the 2022 presidential election (gap to make it into the run-off was 1.2%).

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

France held consular elections in May -- a peculiar, worldwide exercise that no other country has decided to do. The conseillers des Français de l'étranger represent overseas citizens on education, culture, consular services, and sit in the college that elects France's Senators.

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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Would passing PR through the current UK parliament be an affront to democracy? Absolutely not! If the next general election is held under PR, a majority of voters can choose immediately to return to FTPT simply by voting for parties that support that, thanks to the Westminster system. 1/2

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 21/05/2026

YouGov's study of the 2026 local elections shows that just 46% of 2024 Labour voters who went to the polls remained loyal, with more backing the Greens (22%) than Reform (6%) two weeks ago The Conservatives retained 55% of their 2024 voters, with 33% switching to Reform yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Agathe Demarais @agathedemarais.com · 15/04/2026

Many middle powers are fast diversifying trade ties away from the US • In May-Dec 2025 trade among UK, Canada, EU, Japan, South Korea and Switzerland rose by 12% • EU leads the way, as recent burst of free-trade deals with Mercosur, India and Australia illustrates www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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designgeekatl.bsky.social @designgeekatl.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Emma Haworth (British b. 1975), Under the Trees, 2016, Oil on canvas

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Some good environmental pledges from Magyar. He wants to end dependency on Russian energy by 2035, & double renewables by 2040. Plans to improve energy efficiency in 25% of homes within 10-15 years. Introduce strict enviro sanctions, increase recycling & stop supporting polluting foreign investors

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The Bourne Identity (2002) / The Hidalgo Legacy (2026)

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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 13/03/2026

Thanks to Ember for some unpublished data, I made this chart showing the massive shift away from gas-linked power prices in Spain, relative to the increasingly gas-reliant market in Italy No wonder Italy wants to tackle high power prices! 7/8

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

- Higher spending on energy R&D by Chinese companies explains ~ all growth in corporate energy R&D globally over past decade. Now =60% of corporate R&D for the energy supply and infrastructure - Chinese inventors made 2x the number of applications for international energy patents as US, Japan, EU

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Peter Wyckoff @peterwyckoff.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Great read from @iea.org on energy + innovation: - 1 in 10 patents is related to energy – more than chemicals, pharmaceuticals, transport - Public energy R&D spending globally in 2024 dropped from 2023. 2025 estimate is down a further 2% to $55 bln (partly reflects US federal budget cuts)

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

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dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

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Joris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🌍🇺🇸 Published Today in PNAS Nexus 🌍🇺🇸 How can we foster collective climate action? - led by @dgoldwert.bsky.social, @smconstantino.bsky.social & @madalina.bsky.social - 17 behavioral interventions, designed by 50 experts - tested on >30000 US participants academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... 🧵 1/11

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🥁 India Is Electrifying Faster Than China 🥁 Read our story on @ember-energy.org's analysis. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Ember @ember-energy.org · 22/01/2026

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. ember-energy.org/latest-insights/eu…

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British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 21/01/2026

Quaternary UK offshore data digitised for the first time. The dataset will help users, particularly those in the offshore renewables sector, and can be used for reference when completing site investigations. Learn more: www.bgs.ac.uk/news/quatern...

An example area with the dataset, symbolised by BGS Lexicon code and labelled with formation names.

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Theodore Tallent @theodoretallent.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)

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Charlotte Kuberka @charlottekuberka.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

📣 Call for Papers: 🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Grid bottlenecks aren’t a failure of the energy transition — they’re proof it’s working. Renewables got cheap fast, and now the grid has to catch up. Time to build the wires for the clean energy system we already have.

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

We estimate that EU emissions went down 3.8%, US edged down 0.6%, & Chinese emissions edged up 0.2%. Emissions were up more strongly in India 4.6% & international aviation 13.5%. The record growth in renewables is helping bend the curve, just not enough to get a peak in global emissions. 2/

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The Economist @economist.com · 22/10/2025

Questionnaires, says one academic, have “changed how we view ourselves”. Not always, many felt, for the better

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Question 1: why are questionnaires in trouble?

A literary genre that changed the world is struggling

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Colin Angus @victimofmaths.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I was looking at some Scottish cause of death data yesterday and the extent to which transport accident deaths in young men have all but disappeared is pretty remarkable. Nice to find a good news story in this data for a change.

A lexis diagram - essentially a heatmap showing rates of death from transport accidents by age and over time from 2001-2024 in Scotland. For men in the 2000s there was a clear peak in deaths at ages 15-35 (plus a smaller one in the oldest age groups). But around 2010 this basically disappeared, and now all age groups have similarly, much lower, rates of transport accident deaths. For women the pattern is similar, albeit at a much lower level, except that in the early 2000s there were more deaths in older, rather than younger adults.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Looking forward for my postdocs and I to host the Oxford-London Environment and Public Policy workshop at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, tomorrow (October 1st). Thanks to @politicsoxford.bsky.social, @lsegovernment.bsky.social, and @leverhulme.ac.uk for support 💫 So many cool papers!

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 01/10/2025

The world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall has died at the age of 91, her institute has said. “Dr Goodall’s discoveries as an ethologist revolutionised science,” the statement read. “She was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world.”

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Will Marble @wpmarble.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Universities often serve as "anchor institutions" that deeply affect the character of their communities. In a new paper, we estimate how (and when) the establishment of a college influences local political and civic life. 🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

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"The Long-Run Effects of Colleges on Civic and Political Life" by Michael J. Andrews, William Marble, and Lauren Russell.

Abstract: Social theorists and education advocates have long argued for the civic benefits of education. As large, durable institutions, universities are especially likely to affect the civic life of their communities. We investigate how the establishment of a university alters the civic and political trajectory of the surrounding area. For identification, we leverage historical site selection processes in which multiple locations were considered for new colleges. We bring together data on social capital, political preferences, and elections to assess the long-run impacts of college establishment. Communities with colleges exhibit higher levels of civic engagement and greater social trust today, relative to “runner-up” locations without colleges. These counties are also more politically liberal — a gap that has grown substantially since 2000. Our findings suggest understanding universities as place-based policies that shape the long-run civic and political development of their communities. They also shed light on current political battles over higher education policy.

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Nick Cunningham @nickcunningham.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Big milestone in Poland, where renewables overtake coal www.ft.com/content/ae92...

Renewable energy reached 44% of Poland's electricity production in June

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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Our 2025 report on global trends in climate change litigation by Joana Setzer and Catherine Higham is out now! It features an overview of the latest global developments and insights into recent international cases heard by Supreme Courts. www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

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How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government

For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New study finds that 25 million could die in the next 15 years if US cuts off global health spending via @nature.com Study: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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