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Fridtjof Nansen Institute @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Siddharth Sareen! Research Professor at the FNI, @sidsareen.bsky.social has been awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Young Researchers 2026 in humanities and social sciences! The prize is one of Norway’s most prestigious distinctions for early-career researchers.

The prize is awarded by the Nansen Fund and announced by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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PLOS Climate @plosclimate.org · 26/03/2026

New Essay by @sidsareen.bsky.social and colleagues: "From petro transition ethics to pragmatic energy efficient transition ethics in Norway" 🔗https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000880

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

In a world of selfish authoritarians, be a plugged-in politician like Mamdani in NYC. Work for everyone, not to grab for yourself.

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Geo: Geography and Environment @geoopenaccess.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🔋New dialogue in Geo!🔋 'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' by @sidsareen.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky #geo

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Geo: Geography and Environment by Siddharth Sareen, Marianne Ryghaug, Dominic Boyer & Cymene Howe entitled: 'Impact in the energy social sciences and humanities: How we matter matters' with an orange banner at the top.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"Ensconcement offers an epistemological and developmental tool to study and understand past injustices in order to co-create ways to address them — upholding the vital principles of democracy, transparency and accountability to a high standard." Our latest work: india.mongabay.com/2025/08/gove...

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Governing land, landscapes and infrastructure for a just energy transition [Commentary]

India’s renewable energy transition is accelerating, marked by a drop in fossil fuel power generation and a push for green investment.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

In the world of 2025, bet like China on an electro-state future, not like the US on being a petro-state. Wish Norway would embrace the first right proper instead of desperately clinging to the latter as it fades. Today, build like it's for tomorrow, not as you recall from yesterday.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Spain responding rightly to an astute and evidenced understanding of the outage by improving technical systems support to continue exponential expansion of renewable energy. The fossil fuel lobby cannot win over facts in a competitive market with informed governance and management of energy systems.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

A useful overview of electrification and deep decarbonisation, pointing out the need for a lot more electricity production to move towards net zero targets.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Looking forward to hosting @jonworth.eu tomorrow @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social - he'll address European railway politics, a theme there's widespread interest in and a cause there's momentum for! Join us at 11 if interested :) (venue: Spisestuen, Fridtjof Nansens vei 17A, 1366 Lysaker)

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Beautiful peaceful protest against the man who would be king, a song for a free country.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Beautiful stuff. In a world with so much going wrong, nice to see a few things going right.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Such a treat to witness the mesmerising @buggewesseltoft.bsky.social (twice!), the awesome @harukimurakami.bsky.social with sage reflections, and the one and only Mari Boina who evocatively recited a Palestinian poem and called for an end to the Israeli genocide. Packed house and a standing ovation.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Lovely to be in beautiful Bergen for the kickoff of the ECOBUDGETS project about sustainability budgeting related to municipal work on climate and land use planning. Useful reflections shared to inform my role as an advisor on this @uibcet.bsky.social collaboration with a range of societal partners.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Death of a glacier, climate murder, indifferent = complicit.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Bearing witness: apocalypse now. For this glacier anyway.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This train is gonna gather speed.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Good things come in twos! Here's a nifty summary takeaway and links to two latest pieces by @jeremywallace.bsky.social

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SustainableCZ @sustainablecz.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🖊️ Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present #Transformations: a short report from our colleagues on the topic, proceedings and planned outputs of the Oslo workshop helmed by @sidsareen.bsky.social and Sirkku Juhola under www.cost-transformers.eu. sustainablecz.org/2025/05/13/r...

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Reflections on the Prefigurative Politics of Present Transformations Workshop in Oslo

The recent collaborative workshop held in Oslo on 15–16 April brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of 32 scholars and practitioners from across 18 countries, including David S…

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Double whammy and the power of cascading effects to amplify system risks.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Common wealth, not "walling in and walling out", argues Carmen Mapis in the Frostian tradition of 'Mending wall' in this op-ed against luxury privatisation of Norwegian nature: www.nrk.no/ytring/hygge.... 'Hyggeplyndring' is a cheeky coinage riffing off of 'hytteplyndring' to drive home a key point!

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Hyggeplyndring

Hyttekosen stenger fjellet for fellesskapet.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Terrifyingly fascinating, reminding us that energy access is among the most fundamental aspects of our societies. Useful thread, a real-time info service.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Days of our lives, in increasing frequency going swiftly forward.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Going into the weekend tomorrow morning after closing out the final hours of this epic PhD course with @empoweredfutures.bsky.social - a terrific group of participants who've stayed fully engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience this has been, across glorious, generative surroundings!

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Moving towards accountable advertising. Energy future battles are being fought in the cultural domain over the attention economy in this era of information overload shaping perceptions and politics.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It was a truly wonderful start to our PhD course across Oslo and Rjukan this week, and the cherry tree at @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social was in full bloom for the group photo after a fjord swim :) a treat to engage with this perceptive group of participants!

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Highly recommended springtime reading as we pull out the weeds and nurture the saplings to birth the futures we desire.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Crony capitalism without a functional separation of powers means a state is not run along democratic lines and a despot can help himself to the spoils while his cheerleaders applaud.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Cold at home in Norway: a third of tenants (about 20% are tenants), a sixth of the remaining 80% who are homeowners. Energy poverty is one of the most unrecognised problems in our energy-rich country. Right up there with energy elitism and fossil fuel favouritism in energy policy and energy finance.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A clear case being made for changed priorities in the Norwegian energy system, with much more attention to heating. The same applies for a priority to solar that politicians haven't understood, as they're content to subsidise tariffs as a populist measure that disrupts timely future energy finance.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Great to see a city take a timely initiative to gather momentum on low-carbon energy transitions! @oslokommune.bsky.social welcomes a large mixed audience to its third annual energy conference, with a focus on a zero emission city and future energy systems. Congrats, @heidisorensenoslo.bsky.social!

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

So, @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social calls it "Machiavellian neo-Mercantilist capitalism", @jksteinberger.bsky.social "cataclysm capitalism", I'm going with "nihilistic resource grab on steroids". This evil makes nobody happy over time, perpetrators included. "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Ah, birdsong, as spring softly glides over @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social, its every touch a blessing old as time.

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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Tre innlegg fra Nils Klim-symposiet: •"Reflektere og handle", av Siddharth Sareen, Nils-Klim-prisvinner 2024. •"Styringskapasitet for urbane lavkarbonfremtider", av Harald Rohracher. •"Mot en bærekraftig fremtid for alle", av Mariel Cristina Aguilar-Støen. •"Energi i endring", av Andy Stirling.

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The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I seneste nummer av Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift publiseres hele fire oversatte tekster fra Holberguken 2024 (betalingsmur): • Holbergforelesningen "Det jordiske fellesskap", av Achille Mbembe, mottager av Holbergprisen 2024. 1/

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Last June, I gave a lecture at the Nils Klim Prize seminar in the University of Bergen Aula 'Reflect and Act: Energy Social Science and Impact' (thanks, @holbergprize.bsky.social!). That has now been translated to Norwegian and published in Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift today: www.scup.com/eprint/DZW5Z...

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Å engasjere seg utenfor sin egen komfortsone er en essensiell del av tverrfaglig samarbeid og faglig fornyelse. Å drive samfunnsvitenskapelig energiforskning i det 21. århundre er både en enorm utford...

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A masterclass by @booker.senate.gov on how to take the floor and stand up for what's right by speaking truth to power. Warm applause when he yielded the floor after over 25 hours.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

We're being treated to a masterclass in island community energy and transition dynamics here at Stromness on Orkney. The views are quite alright, too! Thanks to our Research Council of Norway funded @empoweredfutures.bsky.social

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A memorable start to our field excursion on the Orkney islands with the @empoweredfutures.bsky.social research school. Days for intense exploration of archipelago energy landscapes.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A very memorable afternoon spent with visiting colleagues from Durham who gave terrific talks at @fridtjofnanseninst.bsky.social and especially lovely to catch up with Gavin Bridge at leisure. Academia is made fun and warm by the care and attention that we accord each other and to our common effort.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The most renowned experts on fascism in the US no longer see living in the US as feasible and are moving to better posts in CA.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It's not a competition anymore, to anyone not wearing oil tinted sunglasses to block the ascent of solar (and wind) from sight - it's clear as daylight. Those peddling other prospects are terrified by the future pinch on their slick fossil fuel wallets and the current pinch to their puny conscience.

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sidsareen @sidsareen.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

When a superpower whose main claims to fame were cultural export and military might loses its cultural credibility to authoritarianism and acts sloppy with its bully power including turning on its own, then it stops being a superpower, leaving the floor to the manufacturing powerhouse of the world.

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