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...
White Lotus, surely
November 28, 2025 at 6:36 AM
White Lotus, surely
I'm still incredibly proud of this book. The idea to do an edited collection came when I was still a baby PhD student and I pushed a group of six colleagues to join me at a (now sadly defunct) ECPR Research Sessions in Essex in 2014. The final book was published 4 years later.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm still incredibly proud of this book. The idea to do an edited collection came when I was still a baby PhD student and I pushed a group of six colleagues to join me at a (now sadly defunct) ECPR Research Sessions in Essex in 2014. The final book was published 4 years later.
I expected the lurch to the right and the rising authoritarianism long before they came to power. I did not expect, to anwhere near the same degree, the blatent dishonesty of this Labour government.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I expected the lurch to the right and the rising authoritarianism long before they came to power. I did not expect, to anwhere near the same degree, the blatent dishonesty of this Labour government.
Labour stripping away rights in the name of efficiency.
David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan for England and Wales, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Labour stripping away rights in the name of efficiency.
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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I am beyond excited to announce that the applications are now open for the third Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change!
Come visit a beautiful city, hear from world-renowned experts, and work with passionate individuals on challenges related to climate change.
More info: acscc.nl
Come visit a beautiful city, hear from world-renowned experts, and work with passionate individuals on challenges related to climate change.
More info: acscc.nl
November 17, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I am beyond excited to announce that the applications are now open for the third Amsterdam Complexity School on Climate Change!
Come visit a beautiful city, hear from world-renowned experts, and work with passionate individuals on challenges related to climate change.
More info: acscc.nl
Come visit a beautiful city, hear from world-renowned experts, and work with passionate individuals on challenges related to climate change.
More info: acscc.nl
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Well played to the UCD Observatory of Masculinities. Top graphic design.
November 21, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Well played to the UCD Observatory of Masculinities. Top graphic design.
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Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.
*taps the sign*
November 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
*taps the sign*
Lazy Sunday with books
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Lazy Sunday with books
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Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this discussion, lithium—all of which must be mined from the earth. This is
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this discussion, lithium—all of which must be mined from the earth. This is
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this discussion, lithium—all of which must be mined from the earth. This is a wide-ranging discussion stretching from Chile to Nevada, and from the dawn of colonialism to the geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and a lot more. In New York City? See Thea discuss Extraction with David Wallace-Wells. Friday, November 14 at McNally Jackson Seaport. Say hi to Dan if you attend! Tickets here: mcnallyjackson.com/event/thea-riofrancos-david-wallace-wells Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Buy Black History is for Everyone at Haymarketbooks.org Get your first month free at OVID.tv using promo code DIG25
thedig.blubrry.net
November 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this discussion, lithium—all of which must be mined from the earth. This is
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this discussion, lithium—all of which must be mined from the earth. This is
A hill I will die on is that most Portuguese men don't actually like football, it's basically a soap opera for them.
Portuguese clubs launch insults but referees find their voice in protest
Match officials are speaking out against alleged intimidation as teams highlight controversial decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A hill I will die on is that most Portuguese men don't actually like football, it's basically a soap opera for them.
Why would anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to American politics over the past 15-20 years assume that this would end the Trump presidency?
I'm genuinely curious as to what people imagine that process would look like in concrete terms.
I'm genuinely curious as to what people imagine that process would look like in concrete terms.
At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Trump has done enormous harm to the country.
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.
It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Why would anyone who has paid the slightest bit of attention to American politics over the past 15-20 years assume that this would end the Trump presidency?
I'm genuinely curious as to what people imagine that process would look like in concrete terms.
I'm genuinely curious as to what people imagine that process would look like in concrete terms.
Trump is a felon, perhaps the most corrupt president in 150 years, he's been caught on video saying the most disgusting things about women.
None of this is a secret.
It's almost cute that many otherwise serious people think a couple of emails are going to 'bring him down'.
None of this is a secret.
It's almost cute that many otherwise serious people think a couple of emails are going to 'bring him down'.
November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Trump is a felon, perhaps the most corrupt president in 150 years, he's been caught on video saying the most disgusting things about women.
None of this is a secret.
It's almost cute that many otherwise serious people think a couple of emails are going to 'bring him down'.
None of this is a secret.
It's almost cute that many otherwise serious people think a couple of emails are going to 'bring him down'.
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
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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.