Adam Standring
@adamstandring.bsky.social
Environmental sociologist with added politics and policy.
currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.
currently ISEG, formerly DMU, ÖRU and FCSH.
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Adam Standring
@adamstandring.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC - Climatic Change
This article discusses “academic housekeeping” undertaken within IPCC, understood as the work that is rarely made visible or rewarded, but is nevertheless essential to the success of the organization....
link.springer.com
I'm happy to share my newest publication with Rolf Lidskog, our article "Invaluable invisibility: academic housekeeping within the IPCC" is now out open access in Climatic Change.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Labour is a deeply racist party. We've known this for years. The Forde report made this clear. It was convenient for political media/analysts to ignore this for a short while.
Labour has done more to normalize the racist discourse in the UK than most.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour has done more to normalize the racist discourse in the UK than most.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Racism returning to UK politics – and people are very scared, says Starmer
PM attacks ‘toxic division of Reform’ and gives strongest signal yet that two-child benefit cap will be lifted
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Labour is a deeply racist party. We've known this for years. The Forde report made this clear. It was convenient for political media/analysts to ignore this for a short while.
Labour has done more to normalize the racist discourse in the UK than most.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour has done more to normalize the racist discourse in the UK than most.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“Across the world, strong and stable majorities continue to back ambitious climate policies…The problem isn’t a collapse in public support – it is the growing disconnect between people and politics, ..
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
COP 30 could be the ‘People’s COP’
This year’s conference is an opportunity to be remembered not just for new pledges or targets but for rebooting the relationship between citizens and the climate regime.
www.politico.eu
November 11, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“Across the world, strong and stable majorities continue to back ambitious climate policies…The problem isn’t a collapse in public support – it is the growing disconnect between people and politics, ..
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
www.politico.eu/article/cop3...
Climate action has public support.
🧵/ How far does the public support net zero?
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
Support: 60%
Oppose: 25%
Net support by party
Green: +81
Lib Dem: +67
Lab: +64
Con: +11
Reform: -44
yougov.co.uk/politics/art...
November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Climate action has public support.
The UK has a Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport who is quite happy to distort the truth when it comes to presenting the reason why fascist football hooligans were banned from a match.
The idea that bias or ideology in reporting is a new issue or limited to the BBC is fanciful.
The idea that bias or ideology in reporting is a new issue or limited to the BBC is fanciful.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
The UK has a Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport who is quite happy to distort the truth when it comes to presenting the reason why fascist football hooligans were banned from a match.
The idea that bias or ideology in reporting is a new issue or limited to the BBC is fanciful.
The idea that bias or ideology in reporting is a new issue or limited to the BBC is fanciful.
Tonight I'm giving my favourite class of the year, in the Masters in Innovation and Research for Sustainability. We all sit around and play the board game Daybreak.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Tonight I'm giving my favourite class of the year, in the Masters in Innovation and Research for Sustainability. We all sit around and play the board game Daybreak.
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On this 🌍 World Science Day for Peace and Development, let’s remember that science is instrumental to #TransformativeChange.
Science is capable of redirecting development towards regenerative practices aligned with nature-positive goals. 🏡🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
Science is capable of redirecting development towards regenerative practices aligned with nature-positive goals. 🏡🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
On this 🌍 World Science Day for Peace and Development, let’s remember that science is instrumental to #TransformativeChange.
Science is capable of redirecting development towards regenerative practices aligned with nature-positive goals. 🏡🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
Science is capable of redirecting development towards regenerative practices aligned with nature-positive goals. 🏡🧪
📚 https://www.ipbes.net/transformative-change-assessment
Good piece
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Good piece
Reposted by Adam Standring
Remember: universities are not run by scholars. They are run by real estate speculators who always wanted a pretext to do these things.
November 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Remember: universities are not run by scholars. They are run by real estate speculators who always wanted a pretext to do these things.
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Just in time for #COP30: my analysis is of what's wrong with global climate policy and what to do about it.
Global Climate Policy Is Broken
Fixating on emissions won’t decarbonize the world’s economy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just in time for #COP30: my analysis is of what's wrong with global climate policy and what to do about it.
There is an excellent multi-part series on Thiel on the Behind the Bastards podcast. Well worth a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There is an excellent multi-part series on Thiel on the Behind the Bastards podcast. Well worth a listen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
It's not just about the messenger.
You've got to have the right message.
You've got to have the right message.
November 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
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AI kills joy
seems like one of the main use cases for genAI is to eliminate the joy that other people take in thinking and actually doing things www.thecut.com/article/woul...
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
AI kills joy
This is not a dunk, and the whole exchange about the sandwich is genuinely pretty funny but I think many of the responses to this fundamentally misunderstand humour on the right.
They *know* it's ridiculous but that ridiculousness obscures a chilling exercise of power.
They *know* it's ridiculous but that ridiculousness obscures a chilling exercise of power.
November 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This is not a dunk, and the whole exchange about the sandwich is genuinely pretty funny but I think many of the responses to this fundamentally misunderstand humour on the right.
They *know* it's ridiculous but that ridiculousness obscures a chilling exercise of power.
They *know* it's ridiculous but that ridiculousness obscures a chilling exercise of power.
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IPCC-envy is a great term for a trend that inspired our 2017 piece, where IPXX is seen as a desirable template for knowledge production (at that time, in antimicrobial resistance)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 AM
IPCC-envy is a great term for a trend that inspired our 2017 piece, where IPXX is seen as a desirable template for knowledge production (at that time, in antimicrobial resistance)
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What expertise would be needed (and valued) by an "IPCC of inequality"? There is already criticism of the IPCC that economic expertise dominates the social scientific expertise contributing to climate change assessments.
Global economics inequality is reaching a tipping point and the world needs an "IPCC of inquality" to help track and understand the problem.
Thats the main point of todays report of the G20 Expert Group on Global Inequality - led by Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh
ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
Thats the main point of todays report of the G20 Expert Group on Global Inequality - led by Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh
ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
November 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
What expertise would be needed (and valued) by an "IPCC of inequality"? There is already criticism of the IPCC that economic expertise dominates the social scientific expertise contributing to climate change assessments.
Reposted by Adam Standring
Global economics inequality is reaching a tipping point and the world needs an "IPCC of inquality" to help track and understand the problem.
Thats the main point of todays report of the G20 Expert Group on Global Inequality - led by Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh
ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
Thats the main point of todays report of the G20 Expert Group on Global Inequality - led by Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh
ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Global economics inequality is reaching a tipping point and the world needs an "IPCC of inquality" to help track and understand the problem.
Thats the main point of todays report of the G20 Expert Group on Global Inequality - led by Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh
ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
Thats the main point of todays report of the G20 Expert Group on Global Inequality - led by Joseph Stiglitz, Jayati Ghosh
ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...
It's clear that these people don't ever expect to be held accountable for this. What does this say for American democracy?
This is some disturbing ICE Gestapo footage. They point guns at citizens and threaten to shoot them. They punch a guy in the back of the head repeatedly when he’s down and already subdued, then later slam his head into the side of their vehicle.
This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.
This took place on 10/31/2025 in Evanston, IL.
November 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It's clear that these people don't ever expect to be held accountable for this. What does this say for American democracy?
Just a reminder that it's now at least 7 years since many of us started warning people about Goodwin.
At the time, a lot of his colleagues rolled their eyes, rallied around him and continued to collaborate with him.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
At the time, a lot of his colleagues rolled their eyes, rallied around him and continued to collaborate with him.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
Framing ethnic diversity as a 'threat' will normalise far-right hate, say academics
An open letter from academics opposed to the mainstreaming of far right ideas as open debate, such as the forthcoming debate with Claire Fox, David Aaronovitch, Trevor Phillips and academics Matthew G...
www.opendemocracy.net
November 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Just a reminder that it's now at least 7 years since many of us started warning people about Goodwin.
At the time, a lot of his colleagues rolled their eyes, rallied around him and continued to collaborate with him.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
At the time, a lot of his colleagues rolled their eyes, rallied around him and continued to collaborate with him.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemoc...
Anyone checked in on how paternalistic condescension as a political strategy is working out for the political centre?
November 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Anyone checked in on how paternalistic condescension as a political strategy is working out for the political centre?
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The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
October 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The narrative seems to be(come) that the Dutch election shows a “comeback of the political center”. We have seen this frame before, implying “the center” has an ideological substance and is stable. But “the center” keeps moving right on mostly nativist, but also often authoritarian, issues.
Now I'm no military expert...
Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile
Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Now I'm no military expert...
This doesn't strike me as in any way conducive to a functional national economy or body politic.
Always fascinating watching people underestimate the size of London vs other UK ciries.
On an average weekday, more journeys are made on JUST the Elizabeth line than the ENTIRE population of Liverpool.
If the Tube was a city, its average daily passengers would make it the 2nd largest in the UK.
On an average weekday, more journeys are made on JUST the Elizabeth line than the ENTIRE population of Liverpool.
If the Tube was a city, its average daily passengers would make it the 2nd largest in the UK.
October 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
This doesn't strike me as in any way conducive to a functional national economy or body politic.
Absolutely cracking response here. The only thing I would've added would've been to point out that for the past five years the Labour party have done everything in its power to marginalise, belittle and dismiss the left. Left-wingers have left in their droves and this has been celebrated by Labour!
The interviewer asks @zackpolanski.bsky.social if he's worried about splitting the left vote & whether the best way to beat the right is to vote Labour.
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
Zack: "The idea that the Labour party are on the left is completely incoherent"
October 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Absolutely cracking response here. The only thing I would've added would've been to point out that for the past five years the Labour party have done everything in its power to marginalise, belittle and dismiss the left. Left-wingers have left in their droves and this has been celebrated by Labour!
Feels indicative of a trend in the sector that a national questionnaire on the use of AI in Portuguese Higher Education is so flawed:
October 22, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Feels indicative of a trend in the sector that a national questionnaire on the use of AI in Portuguese Higher Education is so flawed: