Stephen Jarvis
@stephenjarvis.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Environmental Economics at LSE. Posting mostly about energy/enviro research. https://stephenjarvis.github.io/
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@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
January 15, 2026 at 11:20 PM
@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years
The deadline is 11 March
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
When choosing a company to manage vast quantities of sensitive UK healthcare data for the NHS I’m not sure “software that dominates” is the vibe I’d go for.
January 15, 2026 at 1:45 PM
When choosing a company to manage vast quantities of sensitive UK healthcare data for the NHS I’m not sure “software that dominates” is the vibe I’d go for.
BBC More or Less doing what it does best. Junk stats beware!
Did you see the claim from the Government in the House of Lords that "10.8 million families use X as their main news source"?
Well, the government has admitted it was wrong.
I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55.
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Well, the government has admitted it was wrong.
I investigated for Radio 4's More or Less - you can hear it here, starting at 14:55.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
More or Less - Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT? - BBC Sounds
Tim Harford investigates closing schools, X users, Covid deaths and churchgoers
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
BBC More or Less doing what it does best. Junk stats beware!
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I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!
January 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!
Some interesting commentary on the results of the latest UK offshore wind auction 🔌💡
The Government's latest offshore wind auction results are published today - a colossal 8.4GW of projects at a headline price of £91.20/MWh(2024). Is this a good deal? /1
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 7: results
Outcome of Contracts for Difference (CfD) Allocation Round 7 which commenced on 24 July 2025.
www.gov.uk
January 14, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Some interesting commentary on the results of the latest UK offshore wind auction 🔌💡
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Good news for the offshore windustry!
Record breaking new offshore wind results arrived this morning, in the latest UK CfD auction. Eight new projects supported, two new floating sites, 8.4 GW altogether!
Record breaking new offshore wind results arrived this morning, in the latest UK CfD auction. Eight new projects supported, two new floating sites, 8.4 GW altogether!
January 14, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Good news for the offshore windustry!
Record breaking new offshore wind results arrived this morning, in the latest UK CfD auction. Eight new projects supported, two new floating sites, 8.4 GW altogether!
Record breaking new offshore wind results arrived this morning, in the latest UK CfD auction. Eight new projects supported, two new floating sites, 8.4 GW altogether!
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Chart of how offshore wind CfD prices have changed over time, now updated for the AR7 results released today
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January 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Chart of how offshore wind CfD prices have changed over time, now updated for the AR7 results released today
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Interesting piece on the brave new world that is now upon us.
I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts.
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The Age of Academic Slop is Upon Us
what happens when AI automates "normal science"?
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Interesting piece on the brave new world that is now upon us.
Good. The last government abandoning the northern leg was an act of economic vandalism in a long line of terrible decisionmaking that has beset this project. I travel on the west coast mainline regularly and it has been in dire need of new capacity for what feels like most of my life.
FT Exclusive: Ministers are set to promise a new version of HS2’s cancelled leg between Birmingham and Manchester as part of an overhaul of rail infrastructure in the north. ft.trib.al/dqyQS4j
January 13, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Good. The last government abandoning the northern leg was an act of economic vandalism in a long line of terrible decisionmaking that has beset this project. I travel on the west coast mainline regularly and it has been in dire need of new capacity for what feels like most of my life.
Love this! Need more office swag that synchronises with the grid
I've moved the mini wind turbine into my office so it can sit in the background during calls…
Turns out it's quite the distraction. "What's that?!" 😅
It's currently showing the live output at Gwynt y Mor wind farm just off the North Wales coast.
Turns out it's quite the distraction. "What's that?!" 😅
It's currently showing the live output at Gwynt y Mor wind farm just off the North Wales coast.
January 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Love this! Need more office swag that synchronises with the grid
Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year.
One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵
One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵
January 11, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year.
One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵
One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵
For those interested in energy and environmental econ, here’s a good place to start if you’re looking for people to follow
January 10, 2026 at 1:04 PM
For those interested in energy and environmental econ, here’s a good place to start if you’re looking for people to follow
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Very excited to join one of the best environmental economics workshops out there.
📢 Call for Papers! The 9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Econ. will be held in London June 8-9
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics
Information about the LSE Department of Geography and Environment's Environmental Economics Workshop.
www.lse.ac.uk
January 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Very excited to join one of the best environmental economics workshops out there.
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📢 Call for Papers! The 9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Econ. will be held in London June 8-9
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics
Information about the LSE Department of Geography and Environment's Environmental Economics Workshop.
www.lse.ac.uk
January 8, 2026 at 1:58 PM
📢 Call for Papers! The 9th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Econ. will be held in London June 8-9
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. @rmetcalfe.bsky.social
🔗 more details here: www.lse.ac.uk/geography-an...
Spontaneous ride along the Kent coast to scope out taking a bunch of students on a trip to a wind farm. Obligatory end of trip fish n chips on the beach was top tier.
December 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Spontaneous ride along the Kent coast to scope out taking a bunch of students on a trip to a wind farm. Obligatory end of trip fish n chips on the beach was top tier.
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In this week's Energy Institute blog, Max Auffhammer's highly entertaining and also very serious take on redesigning electricity bills so customers can actually understand them. An important step in enabling demand flexibility. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/a...
A Small Beautiful Bill
It would be nice if I could understand my energy bill. This is the time of the year where we are gathered around tables – mostly with loving family and tasty food- and then someone says…
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December 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In this week's Energy Institute blog, Max Auffhammer's highly entertaining and also very serious take on redesigning electricity bills so customers can actually understand them. An important step in enabling demand flexibility. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/a...
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We are looking for expressions of interest for The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme.
We welcome proposals from exceptional scholars in economics and the social sciences working on topics aligned with our research themes in climate change, environment, and sustainable development.
We welcome proposals from exceptional scholars in economics and the social sciences working on topics aligned with our research themes in climate change, environment, and sustainable development.
Work with us - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
Current job vacancies at The Grantham Research Institute. For LSE jobs, please see the main website.
www.lse.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We are looking for expressions of interest for The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme.
We welcome proposals from exceptional scholars in economics and the social sciences working on topics aligned with our research themes in climate change, environment, and sustainable development.
We welcome proposals from exceptional scholars in economics and the social sciences working on topics aligned with our research themes in climate change, environment, and sustainable development.
Kind of depressing how divorced a lot of this from the actual research process. Like producing a simulacrum of a paper is the same as "doing research".
Your thoughts/views on this type of service (highlight is mine)?
December 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Kind of depressing how divorced a lot of this from the actual research process. Like producing a simulacrum of a paper is the same as "doing research".
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"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this."
(Me, stating the obvious)
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(Me, stating the obvious)
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Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"If growth was actually your priority, you would not be doing this."
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
(Me, stating the obvious)
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
It's grid connection reform queue day in the UK! 🔌💡
NESO (the grid operator) has published the results of their efforts to unclog the process for connecting new power supply to the grid.
Over 700GW of proposed projects have been slimmed down to prioritise 130GW by 2030 and a further 150GW by 2035.
NESO (the grid operator) has published the results of their efforts to unclog the process for connecting new power supply to the grid.
Over 700GW of proposed projects have been slimmed down to prioritise 130GW by 2030 and a further 150GW by 2035.
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's grid connection reform queue day in the UK! 🔌💡
NESO (the grid operator) has published the results of their efforts to unclog the process for connecting new power supply to the grid.
Over 700GW of proposed projects have been slimmed down to prioritise 130GW by 2030 and a further 150GW by 2035.
NESO (the grid operator) has published the results of their efforts to unclog the process for connecting new power supply to the grid.
Over 700GW of proposed projects have been slimmed down to prioritise 130GW by 2030 and a further 150GW by 2035.
Surprising precisely nobody, more CCS plans delayed/abandoned. This is a technology that is just forever overpromising and underdelivering.
#Graphicoftheweek: The UK has sharply downgraded near-term expectations for engineered carbon removals📉
Our chart shows the scale of this shift, highlighting the need to focus on delivering proven climate solutions like renewables and electrification⚡
https://ember-energy.org/
Our chart shows the scale of this shift, highlighting the need to focus on delivering proven climate solutions like renewables and electrification⚡
https://ember-energy.org/
December 2, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Surprising precisely nobody, more CCS plans delayed/abandoned. This is a technology that is just forever overpromising and underdelivering.
AI-enabled NIMBYism has come to clean energy deployment. Virtually all the examples mentioned in this piece are wind, solar and transmission projects. 💡🔌
How Scottish campaigners are using AI to battle rural planning applications
Tool allows individuals to send unique, complex objections of about 4,000 words within a couple of minutes
www.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
AI-enabled NIMBYism has come to clean energy deployment. Virtually all the examples mentioned in this piece are wind, solar and transmission projects. 💡🔌
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To be clear, this is a tariff on our own exports.
Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.
Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To be clear, this is a tariff on our own exports.
Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.
Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.
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What If Utilities Just Made Less Money? A question that's right up there with "why do we regulate utilities like it's still 1920?"
What If Utilities Just Made Less Money?
California energy companies are asking for permission to take in more revenue. Consumer advocates are having none of it.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What If Utilities Just Made Less Money? A question that's right up there with "why do we regulate utilities like it's still 1920?"
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#Nuclear energy's capacity to help Britain meet its net-zero targets makes it attractive.
But do the high cost and complicated logistics of building new plants and the emergence of renewable alternatives, make it unviable?
Shefali Khanna and @stephenjarvis.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social #COP30
But do the high cost and complicated logistics of building new plants and the emergence of renewable alternatives, make it unviable?
Shefali Khanna and @stephenjarvis.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social #COP30
The promise, peril and pragmatism of Britain’s nuclear “renaissance” - LSE Business Review
Nuclear ’s capacity to help Britain meet its net-zero targets makes it a potentially attractive part of the energy mix. But are the government’s plans viable?
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
#Nuclear energy's capacity to help Britain meet its net-zero targets makes it attractive.
But do the high cost and complicated logistics of building new plants and the emergence of renewable alternatives, make it unviable?
Shefali Khanna and @stephenjarvis.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social #COP30
But do the high cost and complicated logistics of building new plants and the emergence of renewable alternatives, make it unviable?
Shefali Khanna and @stephenjarvis.bsky.social for @lsebr.bsky.social #COP30