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Jeff Colgan
@jeffcolgan.bsky.social
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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
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. 🌎🔌💡🛢️
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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · Aug 6
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
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 19h
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/...
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.
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 19h
Terrible on its own terms, and also poisoning the waters in congress for any kind of bipartisan deal on transmission/permitting issues.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 19h
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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Climate Solutions Lab @climatesollab.bsky.social · 1d
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...
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 8d
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...
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 2d
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We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 2d
USA shooting itself in the foot.
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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 3d
Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law
A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 2d
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 2d
The reliably great Henry Farrell nails it again.

You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 4d
Academics! Take comfort. However badly your academic year is going, it's still probably going better than Bill Belichick's.
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Bruce Feldman @brucefeldmancfb.bsky.social · 4d
Bill Belichick's move to college football has gone spectacularly wrong. UNC is last in the ACC in offense; last in sacks; last in 3rd down offense; and been outscored by P4 opponents (all of them unranked teams) 120-33. Why has it go so wrong? Start with this: www.nytimes.com/athletic/668...
Where did Bill Belichick’s UNC roster go wrong? What we’re hearing entering Week 6
At North Carolina, six-time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick appears to have simply assembled a poor roster.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
International student arrivals to the US dropped 19% this year, the biggest drop on record aside from the 2020 pandemic low.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 4d
The decline is occurring as the Trump administration has delayed visa processing, instituted travel bans or restrictions for 19 countries, threatened to deport international students for pro-Palestinian speech, and heightened the vetting of student visa applicants.

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Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d
China has exported $120 billion in green technology for the year-to-date. The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, has only sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad.
China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance
China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.
Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End. "THEY SHALL NOT PASS""
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 6d
Sure, they can break. Like all electrical equipment, they can short in spectacular ways. But explode like a refinery? C'mon.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 7d
You know what wind turbines never do? Explode.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: Explosion Causes Large Fire at Chevron Refinery
An explosion at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, Calif., produced a giant fireball that lit up the sky on Thursday night. Nearby residents were urged to stay inside as crews battled multiple blazes a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d
These so-called "DEMOCRAT AGENCIES"...

-Ensure our food is safe to eat
-Keep our air and water clean
-Alert us to natural disasters
-Protect us from financial fraud and scammers

Remember what Trump is actually attacking.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8d
“What provides India greater freedom of choice and sovereignty? Locking into hydrocarbon coalitions or doubling down on…a green electro-state track? How India chooses to address this question will shape the destiny of its 1.4 billion citizens—& the world"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 8d
1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations.
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Check it out --India in the new global order
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 8d
Don't sleep on this politically-targeted abuse of power. 🌎🔌💡

Energy Dept. Cancels Hundreds of Clean-Energy Projects, Mostly in Blue States www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/c...
Energy Dept. Cancels Hundreds of Clean-Energy Projects, Mostly in Blue States
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 8d
'You must not give up. You must do your bit.'

The conservationist, who died yesterday, led a 65-year fight to raise eco awareness.

In one of her final interviews she explained why her mission never faltered: on.ft.com/4gScCW4
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 9d
In 2016 Hinton predicted that AI would replace all radiologists in five years. Ten years later, why hasn't it happened? This post is a great explainer.

www.understandingai.org/p/ai-isnt-re...
AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high.
www.understandingai.org
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 9d
The great @kschake.bsky.social does not mince words about what Trump and Hegseth did yesterday in that packed auditorium.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d
Kori Schake: “Yesterday morning, Trump and Hegseth behaved reprehensibly. Their speeches…were tantamount to incitement—a genuinely dangerous effort to suborn the military’s oath and condition them for using violence against their fellow Americans.” foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...
Trump’s Speech to Generals Was Incitement to Violence Against Americans
Military leaders’ quiet professionalism offers hope amid a maelstrom.
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 15d
Don't you remember the COW CINC index having a bathroom vanities component, right next to Iron and Steel Production? 🤔
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 15d
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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 15d
How do you call a political system in which a president encourages the justice system to prosecute the Open Society Foundations based on charges of support for terrorism?

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