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John Hogan Morris
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Economic geographer 🗺 💰 Central banking, risk management & climate finance. Co-author (Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 7h
What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices episode of 2026, I talk to the indomitable @annastavrianakis.bsky.social to explore this question and much more…

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What is...the Arms Trade?
What is the arms trade, and how does it shape our world? In our first episode of 2026, we explore why scholars of international relations should pay closer attention to the arms trade, and what its dy...
voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 1d
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A Shameful Anniversary: The CFA Franc at 80 – IDEAs
On December 25 and 26, 1945, the French provisional government declared the CFA franc, the franc of the French colonies in Africa, to the newly formed Internati
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 1d
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Mapping the scale and scope of just transition finance in private credit and equity funds - Just Transition Finance
The report examines how 23 specialist private equity and credit funds embed just transition principles into their energy infrastructure investments
justtransitionfinance.org

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d
Business interruption lawsuits linked to climate perils — not including hurricanes — have more than doubled over the past decade. ft.trib.al/k5vJY2n

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Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social · 2d
Management @northumbriauni.bsky.social want to freeze/steal staff pay to fund their strategy. If you don't think that's right or fair, please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.  These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
'A recent report by the University of Bristol found that schools had become the biggest provider of foodbanks across England, with 4,000 across the country.'
Leeds charity helps schools to tackle pupil hunger
Rethink Food is helping to fund initiatives to cut hunger in schools across Leeds.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 2d
My piece in a review forum on @julietjfall.bsky.social remarkable Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL) is now online first in @dialogueshg.bsky.social

Stuart Elden, "Visuality and Vocabulary in Political Geography".
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
First page of the article - link in post

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David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social · 2d
My entry on central banking and social conflict for the recently published second edition of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Central Banking www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Central banking and social conflict
PDF | On Dec 16, 2025, David M. Fields published Central banking and social conflict | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
www.researchgate.net

Reposted by Stacy D. VanDeveer, John Hogan

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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 2d
⚖️ Climate transitions only work when they are equitable.

Our research highlights 5 global lessons from Colombia to Indonesia on how inclusive approaches deliver emissions cuts, jobs and resilience 👉 bit.ly/4mZALLT

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 3d
OffCom communication on X.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 3d
FT doing excellent work here! 👏
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com

Reposted by Keith Lilley, John Hogan, Claire Connolly

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d
Keen to know more about 'Thermal horizons: energy and infrastructures of British global power, c. 1830–1900'? Join us to discuss Alex Bremmer's paper on Tuesday 13 January either in person at the Institute of Historical Research, London or on Zoom, 5:30 GMT. Free and open to the public.
Thermal horizons: energy and infrastructures of British global power, c.1830-1900
www.history.ac.uk

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Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 3d
New open-access paper out (with Valérie Boisvert) in @econsocjournal.bsky.social , as part of this great special issue!
Read it here: shorturl.at/L2Ui8

Core question: If conventional accounting is a growth infrastructure, then what exactly are the different forms of green accounting?
A short 🧵 1/7

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ACCR @accr.bsky.social · 3d
“The fiduciary duty of a pension fund should extend to system level climate risk because investments in new unabated high-emission projects have portfolio-wide impacts across the fund”, Dolmans, speaking in his individual capacity, told Net Zero Investor. www.netzeroinvestor.net/news-and-vie...
Climate fiduciaries: part I – the climate prisoner’s dilemma
Do pension funds have a fiduciary duty to make climate-aware investment decisions? Some members are prepared to take the question to court. In this three-part series, NZI investigates the pieces of th...
www.netzeroinvestor.net

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 3d
"As commercial publishing interests converge with new technologies, a system emerges where scholars increasingly bear the costs of low-esteem publishing that limits genuine scholarly contributions."

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The junkification of research - Carl Rhodes, Martina K Linnenluecke, 2025
This essay considers the emergent phenomenon of ‘junkification’ in academic research publishing. The term junkification was originally coined to describe the in...
journals.sagepub.com

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 3d
Ooh I’ve got a book coming out that’s super helpful on this topic www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

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Susan Crawford @scrawford.bsky.social · 3d
Want functioning insurance markets and real climate forecasts? Then you want NCAR intact. Post today - for insurance sector forwarding. Banks, too - susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/trump-targ...
Trump Targets America's Weather Nerve Center
But the National Center for Atmospheric Research underpins insurance markets as well as disaster planning and climate forecasts.
susanpcrawford.substack.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 4d
Hedge funds profit as Venezuela’s bonds surge ft.trib.al/YyrK5MQ
Hedge funds profit as Venezuela’s bonds surge
Broad Reach, Winterbrook and Allianz among those making gains as debt jumps in price by one-quarter
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d
Asset-stripping

Asda and Morrisons’ private equity owners raise £6.5bn by selling supermarkets, petrol forecourts, distribution centres.

Companies deliberately loaded with debt.

Sale and leaseback of supermarkets increases offshore controllers' profits, reduces UK tax liability.
archive.ph/6McJ4
Asda and Morrisons’ private equity owners raise £6.5bn in property deals
Proceeds from supermarket, warehouse and petrol station sales have been used to cut debt accrued in leveraged buyouts
www.ft.com

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 5d
Why data centers are being built in places that are far hotter than ideal:
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-center-heat-map/
We mapped the world’s hottest data centers
In 21 countries, all data centers are located in climates that are too hot.
restofworld.org

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5d
New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 5d
Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity
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Fernand Braudel and the Writing and Teaching of History in Captivity
In a previous pieces in this series I’ve discussed Étienne Wolff’s work on the biology of monsters, some of which was written during his time in Oflag XVII-A during the Second World War. (An Oflag …
progressivegeographies.com

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 5d
“It’s a horrible, horrible waste,” said Sharon Wilson, director of campaign @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social, pointing to Grok-generated images of Nazi Mickey Mouse as an example of what fossil gas was being burned to produce. “What useful purpose does this serve?”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried
www.theguardian.com

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 6d
2026 is the year we level up The Pulaski Institution in our mission to promote democracy in the heartlands.

I’m so proud of what we’ve done so far on an almost non-existent budget, and I know we have a unique vision that is more relevant than ever.

Won’t you join us?

www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
PULASKI'S PROJECT 26/250 HELP US RAISE $250,000.00 BY JULY 4, 2026 WHAT YOU'LL BE HELPING US DO CONFERENCES RESEARCH CIVIC EVENTS MEDIA & OUTREACH If you believe in our work, please donate whatever you feel is appropriate. You can make individual or recurring gifts. pulaskiinstitution.org

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7d
Racial and religious hate crime on UK public transport is growing, data shows.

Nurtured by Reform, Tories and Starmer's "Island of Strangers" speech. Scapegoating minorities for economic/political failures.

Without immigration, UK economy can't function.
Racial and religious hate crime on UK public transport is growing, data shows
Anti-racism groups warn some people are avoiding public transport or limiting their use of it for fear of abuse
www.theguardian.com

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 8d
This is going to be brilliant 👇

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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 8d
I did not plan it this way, but I have a book on the dollar coming out on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the whole theme of the book is that the dollar is not in fact 250 years old www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...
The Almighty Dollar by Brendan Greeley: 9780593138885 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money—and the people and nations...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Isabella Kaminski @isabellakaminski.bsky.social · 8d
Start 2026 on a positive note by reading about 13 climate litigation wins from the last 12 months - what could be achieved in the next 12? #climatejustice
Greenwashing, illegality and false claims: 13 climate litigation wins in 2025
Legal action has brought important decisions, from the scrapping of fossil fuel plants to revised climate plans
www.theguardian.com

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 8d
It also habituated us to focus on, in the language of reinforcement learning, exploitation over exploration... Which is destructive to liberal democracy. I talked about this in the @brisunipress.bsky.social Transforming Society blog. (4/?)

www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/09/12/b...
Becoming an algorithmic problem: Resistance in the age of predictive technology - Transforming Society
José Marichal, author of 'You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem', examines how algorithmic personalisation lulls us into predictable, familiar choices that erode exploration and, over time, threaten ...
www.transformingsociety.co.uk

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 9d
The folks at The Guardian are really getting climate coverage right (while so many other outlets are flailing).

A great final read about our warming world and its effects in the US on the last day of 2025:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the climate crisis showed up in Americans’ lives this year: ‘The shift has been swift and stark’
Guardian US readers share how global heating and biodiversity loss affected their lives in ways that don’t always make the headlines
www.theguardian.com