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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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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 11h
The (at least partial) death of the "Canadian model"?

"Many funds built sizable internal buyout teams during a period defined by cheap leverage, soaring valuations and easier exits — conditions that no longer exist"
Canada Pensions Overseeing $1.2 Trillion Revamp Private Equity Model
For the likes of Blackstone Inc. and KKR & Co., a multibillion-dollar opportunity beckons from Canada.
www.bloomberg.com

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 12h
Here’s the Global Playbook Being Used to Crack Down on Climate Protest

A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk. goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
Here’s the Global Playbook Being Used to Crack Down on Climate Protest
A new study finds that repression of environmental protest is rising worldwide and Indigenous land defenders face the greatest risk.
goodmenproject.com

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14h
A good review of what to expect in our warming world as climate shocks are more frequent and severe. 2025 was only the beginning.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025
National Trust says these are ‘alarm signals we cannot ignore’ as climate breakdown puts pressure on wildlife
www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d
Marvellous, moving and wise column by @martinsandbu.ft.com:
Why your AI companion is not your friend
First, tech companies usurped the meaning of ‘friends’ and ‘connection’ — now they are coming for ‘companionship’
www.ft.com

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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 1d
"Frontier names a duality where the place is important but the people are unimportant"
Two brilliant scholars @triofrancos.bsky.social@lalehkhalili.bsky.social in conversation, highly recommended!
proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...
Extractive Frontiers: An Interview With Thea Riofrancos • Protean Magazine
In this extensive, wide ranging interview, Laleh Khalili speaks with Thea Riofrancos about her new book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, the political economy of lithium mining, the poss...
proteanmag.com

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 2d
⚠️ Financial Stability at Risk

This policy note by @wwf.org.uk and IIPP researchers highlights how financial flows contribute to nature loss in five crucial ecosystems and calls for stronger financial interventions to prevent systemic risks.

✍️ Read it here: buff.ly/D85nULd

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 3d
As climate and resource crises grow, Indigenous & local communities lead on conservation but remain sidelined in global governance.

An analysis says BRICS+, with its multipolar, South-South framework, may open space for Indigenous leadership in shaping policy from within.

** Views are author's.
BRICS+ offers Indigenous & local communities ways to advance environmental and social goals (analysis)
As the world grapples with climate change, biodiversity loss and resource scarcity, Indigenous and local communities (IPLCs) remain at the forefront of conservation, yet are often sidelined in global…
news.mongabay.com

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 5d
Arthur Rackham's illustration for the 1915 edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol,' sees Scrooge visited by the ghost of his former business partner Marley, who wanders the earth shackled by chains and cashboxes after his lifetime of greed.

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Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5d
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 5d
"A Brief History of AI Psychosis": a short story
A Brief History of AI Psychosis - Boston Review
A short story.
www.bostonreview.net

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 6d
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
Palestinian Repairs - Samir Harb et al. - The Exhausted
What constitutes the metric of exhaustion? Where might we locate its ground zero?
www.e-flux.com

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, John Hogan

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 6d
Curious about the tech billionaires' claims to sovereignty mean for the international order?

Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social forum on this topic, organized by the brilliant @maharafiatal.bsky.social!
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order
www.cambridge.org

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Bård Lahn @bard.lahn.no · 6d
New paper! How are emissions scenarios 📉 from the IPCC (and other sources) actually used by decision-makers? We asked them, and the results are out just in time for the holidays 🧑‍🎄🤶🧑‍🎄 (with @idasogn.bsky.social & @climansen.bsky.social)
Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice
www.nature.com

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Julia Elyachar @jeelyachar.bsky.social · 6d
What a gift to speak with Mikey Muhanna of @afikra.bsky.social about my book On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo on this episode of Afikra www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfHc....
Julia Elyachar | On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance & Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo
YouTube video by afikra - عفكرة
www.youtube.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d
"Peakers," power plants "meant to run only in short bursts during periods of spiking electricity demand," are "often decades-old, fossil-fueled facilities" that "emit more pollution when they are running and cost more to produce electricity..." Data center demand is keeping them online.
AI data centers are forcing dirty ‘peaker’ power plants back into service
In Chicago’s working-class Pilsen neighborhood, a 60s-era oil-fired power plant rises up from an industrial lot behind Dvorak Park, which in warmer weather is packed with children climbing on its colo...
www.reuters.com

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 6d
Interesting short piece by Carolyn Sissoko on the institutional role of banks in a credit economy.
csissoko.bsky.social Carolyn Sissoko @csissoko.bsky.social · 7d
I riff on @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social’s discussion of institutions and growth to explain why banking may be an important missing link in economists’ understanding of how and why growth takes place.

Institutions and growth: How banks used to provide the liquidity that fuels innovation and growth

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 6d
Katie Donington, Abdul Mohamud, Robin Whitburn and Nicholas
Draper, Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past – @uclpress.bsky.social, November 2025 (print and open access)
uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
uclpress.co.uk

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Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 6d
New paper out - on why there won't be a return to the golden age of inflation targeting. Empirical material focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia, but the argument applies broadly, I feel.

www.ppesydney.net/content/uplo...

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Carolyn Sissoko @csissoko.bsky.social · 7d
I riff on @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social’s discussion of institutions and growth to explain why banking may be an important missing link in economists’ understanding of how and why growth takes place.

Institutions and growth: How banks used to provide the liquidity that fuels innovation and growth

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 7d
Thank you! V.generous.

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 7d
Today, Chastity Murphy offers an insider’s account of the failure to regulate stablecoins: a retrospective on what worked, what didn’t, and what’s at stake if we don’t reclaim public control over the future of money.
Inside the Failure to Regulate Stablecoins
From legislative paralysis to regulatory fragmentation to strategic incoherence, Democrats have spent the past five years squandering opportunities to assert control over the future of digital…
lpeproject.org

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 7d
This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families

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The six

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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 7d
My chapter with Chris Ebert is finally online! We view the asiento from Salvador da Bahia—the South Atlantic's main commercial hub. Brazil was the largest destination for enslaved Africans, yet it's usually absent from asiento scholarship. We ask: why was Brazil never supplied by foreign slavers?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 7d
This is an excellent piece on the ecological catastrophe associated with El Salvador's obsession with Bitcoin -->>

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘They turned our home into a cemetery’: the high price of El Salvador’s Bitcoin City dream
Mangroves are being destroyed and residents displaced to make way for an airport to serve president Nayib Bukele’s vision of a tax-free economic hub
www.theguardian.com

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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 8d
I particularly like the concept of "simple, un-CV-able conversations" in this piece. Remember those? Conversations about knowledge that weren't geared towards research output or education metrics?

www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org

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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 8d
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
AI chatbots share climate disinformation to susceptible users
AI chatbots' personalised answers risk inflaming conspiracy and misinformation, as investigation shows climate disinformation shared to sceptic user personas
globalwitness.org

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Patrick Marques @pmarques35.bsky.social · 8d
[1/8] Remarquable long format, très bien illustré, s’appuyant sur des travaux scientifiques récents. Des chercheurs comme Andrew Hultgren (Université de l’Illinois) et Kaveh Zahedi (FAO) montrent comment le dérèglement climatique fragilise la sécurité alimentaire mondiale. #geography #foodsecurity
How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril – in maps and charts
From floods to droughts, erratic weather patterns are affecting food security, with crop yields projected to fall if changes are not made
www.theguardian.com

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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 9d
Unearned income built the world.

Mother of Capital is OUT NOW!

www.plutobooks.com/product/moth...
A book endorsement for Mother of Capital: How Rent Gave Birth to Modernity: 'Costa takes us back into the womb of history to show that it was rent that gave birth to capital, and that the two never parted ways since then' Xavier Lafrance, Université du Québec à Montréal

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 9d
now reading : the history of a tenth of a second by Jimena Canales

“it wasn’t until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was profound.”

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
cover of linked book - frames of a photo of a horse running