📢 Call: Tenure Track Position
The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience.
Please share widely!
🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026
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Bedrijven kunnen niet zonder biodiversiteit. Mooi artikel over het #businessandbiodiversity assessment van #IPBES.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...
Met inbreng van o.a. @wietekewillemen.bsky.social @kprodani.bsky.social en anderen
New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#geosky #ipesky
The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.
But we will not be silenced.
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.”
It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years!
“Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question.
www.ft.com/content/7bf5...
Jan Fichtner
Rosie Collington
Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)
Stefan Ouma
A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
Researchers increasingly invoke the concept of ‘state capacity’ to analyze how and when states pursue decarbonization and renewable energy policies. Drawing on a review of recent climate governance...
