Jeff Colgan
@jeffcolgan.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations and Political Science. Interests: international order, energy, climate change, historical IR
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Jeff Colgan
@jeffcolgan.bsky.social
· Aug 7
We are excited to share a new resource for teaching climate politics! @jeffcolgan.bsky.social and @maxbradley.bsky.social introduce the framework here www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI20.... Visit the Syllabus Bank for more details climate.watson.brown.edu/syllabus-bank - we'd love your feedback!
Teaching Climate Politics | Jeff Colgan & Max Bradley | CSL
YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs
www.youtube.com
Very excited to share this new tool for teaching the politics of climate change. What are the different *theories of change* that underlie decarbonization efforts and policies? Help your students learn about them. Please share widely. 🌎🔌💡🛢️
I talked with my colleague Chris Rea @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social about the state of the green transition in the year 2025. Led to a great conversation, give it a listen.
cc: @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
player.captivate.fm/episode/dc10...
cc: @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
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The future of the green transition and the climate movement
Quickly and easily listen to Trending Globally: Politics and Policy for free!
player.captivate.fm
November 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I talked with my colleague Chris Rea @climatesollab.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social about the state of the green transition in the year 2025. Led to a great conversation, give it a listen.
cc: @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
player.captivate.fm/episode/dc10...
cc: @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
player.captivate.fm/episode/dc10...
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Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it
🎉 Peter Hubbard just scored a home run with his win for Georgia PSC! ⚡️Time to knock affordable energy and good jobs investment out of the park! 🌟
November 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Public Utilities Commissioners are climate policymakers and we finally started acting like it
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In case Ezra Douthglesias is looking for things that voters support far more than the six pet issues with yellow check marks around which to organize the Abundance of Popularism Agenda:
By a 2 to 1 margin, Americans say Trump has gone too far in trying to expand the power of the presidency and lay off government workers. And by large margins, they say he has gone too far in sending troops into cities, attacking universities and ending DEI programs.
3 in 5 Americans disapprove of Trump's job performance, the highest level since after the Jan. 6 attack. Americans disapprove even of his handling of issues historically favorable to him like immigration, crime and the economy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
In case Ezra Douthglesias is looking for things that voters support far more than the six pet issues with yellow check marks around which to organize the Abundance of Popularism Agenda:
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Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Blue Jays
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
Cody Houle ~ Anishinaabe
2025
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Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Solutions, Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs 2026-2028 apply.interfolio.com/176144
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October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
We're hiring! Postdoctoral Research Associate in Climate Solutions, Thomas J. Watson Jr. School of International and Public Affairs 2026-2028 apply.interfolio.com/176144
Apply - Interfolio
{{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio
apply.interfolio.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Come work with me and the great climate community at Brown University, incl @jenniferhadden.bsky.social @timmonsroberts.bsky.social
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
Please share widely! Deadline Jan 9, 2026.
What a day for Bill Gates to announce climate change is no big deal. 🌎 🤷♂️
Perhaps the most ominous satellite presentation we've seen. Cat 5 Melissa within 2 hours of landfall in Jamaica. Winds at 185 mph (tied for 2nd highest on record). Pressure at 892 mb (tied for 3rd lowest). Will be one of strongest Atlantic storms to make landfall ever recorded.
October 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
What a day for Bill Gates to announce climate change is no big deal. 🌎 🤷♂️
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Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
October 24, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Insurance now makes up 20% of today's mortgage payment -- up from 8% in the 2000s.
Climate change is worsening the insurance crisis. Some states have solutions
As the homeowners insurance crisis gets worse, some state-led efforts are tackling the problem.
www.usatoday.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Insurance now makes up 20% of today's mortgage payment -- up from 8% in the 2000s.
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No TAs. Down the line, fewer professors. We are going to do less, with less, & the things we will still do will inevitably decline in quality. 400 person lectures with only multiple choice questions on exams & no discussion sections. We will get what we (don't) pay for:
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I'm not quite sure how Harvard or Chicago's undergraduate programs function without half or more of their graduate teaching assistants?
Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
No TAs. Down the line, fewer professors. We are going to do less, with less, & the things we will still do will inevitably decline in quality. 400 person lectures with only multiple choice questions on exams & no discussion sections. We will get what we (don't) pay for:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I submitted an abstract for @epssnet.bsky.social 2026. I wasn't a regular at EPSA but I admire what @stefwalter.bsky.social and others are doing to build EPSS into a great new org for political science. Let's support them. See you in Belfast!
October 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM
I submitted an abstract for @epssnet.bsky.social 2026. I wasn't a regular at EPSA but I admire what @stefwalter.bsky.social and others are doing to build EPSS into a great new org for political science. Let's support them. See you in Belfast!
How bout them Blue Jays?? 🇨🇦
October 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
How bout them Blue Jays?? 🇨🇦
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34. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning, it'll all come from the sun anyway by 2030. Solar generation times and seasons match airconditioning demand pretty well, which is good news for really hot countries as well.
October 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
34. Europeans shouldn't feel guilty about using electricity for airconditioning, it'll all come from the sun anyway by 2030. Solar generation times and seasons match airconditioning demand pretty well, which is good news for really hot countries as well.
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Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
October 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside
Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23
They constantly let America down
Not good, Canadians.
As of September 30th, “85% of the country was classified as Abnormally Dry (D0) or Moderate to Extreme Drought (D1 to D3), including 76% of the country's agricultural landscape.”
October 18, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Not good, Canadians.
Glad that Brown and others rejected this proposal and hope that more universities will do the same, like Dartmouth, Arizona, Kansas, and WUSTL.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is reaching out to more universities about its funding-advantage proposal after several early invitees rejected it.
Exclusive | Trump Administration Meets With More Colleges About ‘Compact’ After Rejections
The meeting was to gather input from the schools about the proposal, a White House official said
on.wsj.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Glad that Brown and others rejected this proposal and hope that more universities will do the same, like Dartmouth, Arizona, Kansas, and WUSTL.
New open-access book out on energy transitions in the Global South!
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
climate.watson.brown.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New open-access book out on energy transitions in the Global South!
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
We are proud of its author, CSL affiliate and former postdoc
@kathrynchelminski.bsky.social
climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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1/ New rare earth restrictions mark escalation in China’s weaponization of interdependence — adopting US extraterritorial permission structures. This is not just an export ban but regulated how global firms use Chinese equipment and material.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
China expands rare earth restrictions, targets defence, semiconductor users
China tightened its rare earth export controls on Thursday, saying it planned to limit exports to overseas defence firms and semiconductor users and adding five rare earth elements to its list.
www.reuters.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
1/ New rare earth restrictions mark escalation in China’s weaponization of interdependence — adopting US extraterritorial permission structures. This is not just an export ban but regulated how global firms use Chinese equipment and material.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.
In my book Partial Hegemony, I wrote about the Oil-For-Security deals that the USA has extended to petrostates in the Persian Gulf for decades. Any state threatening those petrostates, even Israel, risks American ire.
October 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In my book Partial Hegemony, I wrote about the Oil-For-Security deals that the USA has extended to petrostates in the Persian Gulf for decades. Any state threatening those petrostates, even Israel, risks American ire.
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Delighted and proud to share CSL affiliate @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social has a new book out! Available on open access climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
Governing Energy Transitions: A Study of Regime Complex Effectiveness on Geothermal Development in Indonesia and the Philippines
Kathryn Chelminski's recently published book examines how the clean energy regime complex – the fragmented, complex sphere of governance in the clean energy issue area characterized by proliferating a...
climate.watson.brown.edu
October 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Delighted and proud to share CSL affiliate @kathrynchelminski.bsky.social has a new book out! Available on open access climate.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-10...
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Hey #Toronto climate peeps! Come learn about the future of global #climate politics at my book launch at @utoronto.ca. Featuring fierce all female panel with @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir (MacKenzie Investments), moderated by Jill English (CBC). #COP30 #GreenSky. Free event! Tasty treats!
Book Launch: Existential Politics by Jessica F. Green
Join University of Toronto’s Lawson Climate Institute as we celebrate the launch of Existential Politics by Professor Jessica F. Green with a panel discussion, networking reception, and meet-and-greet...
lci.utoronto.ca
October 2, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Hey #Toronto climate peeps! Come learn about the future of global #climate politics at my book launch at @utoronto.ca. Featuring fierce all female panel with @cat-abreu.bsky.social, Fate Saghir (MacKenzie Investments), moderated by Jill English (CBC). #COP30 #GreenSky. Free event! Tasty treats!
Great new piece on China's climate ambitions, or lack thereof, by @jeremywallace.bsky.social
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China Can’t Decide if It Wants to Be the World’s First “Electrostate”
The country’s underwhelming new climate pledge is more than just bad news for the world — it reveals a serious governing mistake.
heatmap.news
October 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Great new piece on China's climate ambitions, or lack thereof, by @jeremywallace.bsky.social
heatmap.news/ideas/china-...
heatmap.news/ideas/china-...