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Federica Genovese
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Political scientist at University of Oxford • Leverhulme Trust awardee • cross-national policy, political economy, politics of climate and crises • mom of 2 • she/her

https://www.federica-genovese.com/

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 8h
All I want for Christmas is less fascism around the world

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Pascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 9h
This is madness

Washington is increasingly brazen in its offensive against our right to make our own laws and hold our own values
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
can’t wait to see how Nolan’s aesthetics fit with this landscape (view from Lipari, august 2025)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
**so** excited about this, not least because various scenes were shot last year in Favignana and the Aeloian islands of Sicily, which is historically associated with several key episodes of the epic 💙🌊🌬️
letterboxd.social Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 2d
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is here 👀

In theaters July 17, 2026

Reposted by Andrew Scott, Federica Genovese, Wieland Schwanebeck

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 2d
The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is here 👀

In theaters July 17, 2026

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
Maue did not respond to requests for comment from E&E News. But he wrote on X that he was enlisting artificial intelligence to help with the latest National Climate Assessment. He cited the Gemini 3 Pro program as well as Grok, an Al chatbot developed by xAl, the artificial intelligence company led by tech tycoon Elon Musk. https://www.eenews.net/articles/its-the-gold-standard-of-us-climate-research-contrarians-could-write-the-next-one/

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
Sounds like they wanted an attribution paper (or did they?)

Either way, the IPCC dig is intense

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
🥶🥶🥶

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
I appreciate the need to keep diplomacy going and the toxicity of pointing fingers when things are particularly tense and polarized around the world, but it would also be unfair to point to an imaginary median party/politician to blame the 2025 backsliding of climate ambition.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
This is not semantics: we need to hold accountable those the broke the consensus and are deviating from climate economics and science. Not condoning the technocratic parties and the moderate left voices that are reconsidering climate action, but by far the more structural change comes from the right

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 3d
Excellent thoughts and notes, but recall that in 2025 there is not really such a thing as a “center” in EU politics — here we are really talking about the political right rowing back on climate ambition due to fear of being eaten by the far rights.
ph-jaeg.bsky.social Philipp Jäger @ph-jaeg.bsky.social · 5d
End of year reflections on EU climate policy: it’s really not looking good for the Green Deal.
@jannikjansen.bsky.social and I wrote a short piece on why we're far from "staying the course" - and why that's a strategic mistake for Europe (1/12)
tinyurl.com/jdc-green-deal
Europe is hollowing out its Green Deal, leaving a vacuum of political
www.delorscentre.eu

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
Ofc we know from history that economic instability/stagnation is bad for political stability, and good to show the patterns of inevitable polarization consequences.

But stop w/ pro immigration, green and pro housing Mamdani or Polanski being extreme “anti system flanks”. The center is not immovable
Welcome to the age of zero-sum politics
A stalled economic conveyor belt is behind the rise of anti-system, anti-growth parties on both the right and left
www.ft.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
Anyway, just to say that that Yglesias oped from this week was really wrong and that you should probably spend your time reading this instead:

newrepublic.com/article/2044...
Here’s the Climate Message That Can Help Democrats Win Big in 2026
Rising home insurance costs are making life unaffordable for both homeowners and renters. Robust climate policy and public disaster insurance could save many households’ finances.
newrepublic.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
So yes things are complex.

The 2019-20 “green” wave was powered by a “social justice and climate action can go hand in hand” idea.

2024-25 showed that projecting inequality-based perceptions onto climate can kill the project.

Both positive & negative economic association frames *can* work.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
Many people say that the farms’ protests in 2025 were epitome of the climate backlash.

No doubt that they were weaponized that way by the conservative agenda, but it is too simplistic to say farmers reject climate action. They are prob. more concerned about trade exposure (see Mercosur protests…)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
When somebody says “politicians should abandon the climate agenda, ppl are fatigued, it‘s a vote killer”, question it for a moment.

Sure voters are myopic, retrospective, pull many tantrums, but ultimately most people want leaders to bring prosperity. it’s up to leaders to let people envision that

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d
People say 2025 was the year of greenlash.

Ofc it was at the political *elite* level.

However, far less obvious if it was among the public, which gets climate only to a certain extent and is malleable to frames.

Among the public climate volatility is still scary and energy transition appealing. 🧵

Reposted by Steve Peers, Seán Hanley, Federica Genovese

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Philipp Jäger @ph-jaeg.bsky.social · 5d
End of year reflections on EU climate policy: it’s really not looking good for the Green Deal.
@jannikjansen.bsky.social and I wrote a short piece on why we're far from "staying the course" - and why that's a strategic mistake for Europe (1/12)
tinyurl.com/jdc-green-deal
Europe is hollowing out its Green Deal, leaving a vacuum of political
www.delorscentre.eu

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 5d
Happy and frankly privileged to do it, but:
my job is just reference letters

Reposted by Tim Bale, Federica Genovese

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 5d
Right, Kemi, because the best way of defying a murderous petrostate like Russia is to keep Britain hooked on fossil fuels.
Tories pledge to raid National Wealth Fund and clean tech R&D budget to boost defence spending
Conservatives warn UK is facing growing security threat from authoritarian states, but critics argue undermining investment in the net zero transition will only exacerbate security threats
www.businessgreen.com

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Florence Faucher @ffaucher.bsky.social · 5d
Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions.
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026
Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in Political Science / Politics and Policy in/of Europe and the European Union
www.sciencespo.fr

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 5d
how can I like this twice

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d
Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been.

In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d
Set aside the myopia of this position (and the dubious ethics): if this thesis is offered for the purpose of Ds winning the next election, then somebody explain to this opiner how well it usually goes for the center-left when they embrace other parties’ core policy.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d
I don’t think I have ever actively read anything by Matthew Yglesias, and surely I won’t start from an oped on how, to beat Trump, centrist Democrats (not the lefty part, ew!) should continue supporting fossil fuels like… they already mostly do

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d
Congrats!

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d
Matthew Goodwin objects to prosecuting this: ‘I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter. Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.’

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d
definitely a discussion not to be had in the absence of booze

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d
And remember to highlight in particular the *benefits* that a healthy EV market can have for the economy *at home* (the abroad scenario has less of an effect).

@patrickbayer.bsky.social and I have the evidence for that:

direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
Bayer and Genovese 2020 GEP article

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 6d
this xmas, at the fourth hour of the family dinner, do the world a favour and talk to your conservative uncle about the global EV market
ember-energy.org Ember @ember-energy.org · 6d
ASEAN is emerging as a leader in transport electrification, with rapidly rising EV shares now outpacing legacy auto markets.

🇻🇳 Viet Nam: 38% of new car sales in 2025, double of 2024’s
🇸🇬 Singapore: 45%
🇹🇭 Thailand: 21%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 15%

https://loom.ly/pMmY5Y8