Oskar Wood Hansen
@oskarwoodhansen.bsky.social
phd student @ICTA_UAB, Barcelona & laCaixa fellow.
climate policy and politics; ecological economics.
co-founder of rethinking economics denmark
diy-anything, bike enthusiast
Free palestine
climate policy and politics; ecological economics.
co-founder of rethinking economics denmark
diy-anything, bike enthusiast
Free palestine
Pinned
Carbon inequality & climate policy: Another starterpack to make sure you follow whats good. Please suggest who should be included!
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"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 AM
"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results."
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections
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Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Gaza after the ceasefire is defined by the ‘yellow line’ — drawn by Israel, and dividing the strip in two.
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
Our evidence suggests that Israel seeks to make the line permanent, as ‘reconstruction’ plans normalise this new stage of Israel’s occupation: frames.forensic-architecture.org/gaza/ceasefire
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
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Academic publishing is a lucrative business for a very small number of private academic publishers. For 🇦🇹, this paper estimates: public spending benefits publishing companies with a large amount - 25% of the annual basic funding universities receive from the Ministry of education
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Academic publishing is a lucrative business for a very small number of private academic publishers. For 🇦🇹, this paper estimates: public spending benefits publishing companies with a large amount - 25% of the annual basic funding universities receive from the Ministry of education
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Big news for grassroots environmental movements against extractive industries:
Massive miner Rio Tinto backs away from its aggressive campaign to convert Serbian farms & natural areas into a lithium strip mine
Years of opposition to protect a fertile valley (& Belgrade's water supply) led to this:
Massive miner Rio Tinto backs away from its aggressive campaign to convert Serbian farms & natural areas into a lithium strip mine
Years of opposition to protect a fertile valley (& Belgrade's water supply) led to this:
Rio Tinto puts Jadar lithium project on backburner
According to the memo seen by Bloomberg, Rio said it was “not in a position to sustain the same level of spend and resource allocation.
www.mining.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Big news for grassroots environmental movements against extractive industries:
Massive miner Rio Tinto backs away from its aggressive campaign to convert Serbian farms & natural areas into a lithium strip mine
Years of opposition to protect a fertile valley (& Belgrade's water supply) led to this:
Massive miner Rio Tinto backs away from its aggressive campaign to convert Serbian farms & natural areas into a lithium strip mine
Years of opposition to protect a fertile valley (& Belgrade's water supply) led to this:
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Imagine looking at Scandinavian models of social democracy from Britain and picking out cruel immigration policies as the big source of inspiration.
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Imagine looking at Scandinavian models of social democracy from Britain and picking out cruel immigration policies as the big source of inspiration.
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
It's *scientific publishing*.
We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
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People will really be like "Oh you believe in Land Acknowledgements? That pales in comparison to my strategy of reaping the benefits of settler colonialism and doing nothing about it"--Though to be fair they never actually do anything about it.
November 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
People will really be like "Oh you believe in Land Acknowledgements? That pales in comparison to my strategy of reaping the benefits of settler colonialism and doing nothing about it"--Though to be fair they never actually do anything about it.
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Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
The Drain of Scientific Publishing
The domination of scientific publishing in the Global North by major commercial publishers is harmful to science. We need the most powerful members of the research community, funders, governments and ...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.
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BOOM!
A huge win for people and planet.
The Danish Energy Board has revoked a permit to resume oil production, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
#ClimateCrisis #MakeOilHistory
A huge win for people and planet.
The Danish Energy Board has revoked a permit to resume oil production, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
#ClimateCrisis #MakeOilHistory
November 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BOOM!
A huge win for people and planet.
The Danish Energy Board has revoked a permit to resume oil production, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
#ClimateCrisis #MakeOilHistory
A huge win for people and planet.
The Danish Energy Board has revoked a permit to resume oil production, upholding a complaint by Greenpeace Nordic.
#ClimateCrisis #MakeOilHistory
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Back on track:
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Back on track:
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
Funders hold all the cards. There's this flawed view that authors are consumers and journals are producers. Wrong.
Funders and institutes are consumers. They contract authors to produce research, and they pay for journals to QC the work.
Funders are the consumers.
8/n
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"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.
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Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes on.ft.com/4nGcKK5
Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes
Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel
on.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes on.ft.com/4nGcKK5
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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From Robert Brenner's "Economics of Global Turbulence".
And from the FT earlier this month:
"10 AI startups — not a dollar in profit among them — have gained nearly $1 trillion in market value over the past 12 months."
And from the FT earlier this month:
"10 AI startups — not a dollar in profit among them — have gained nearly $1 trillion in market value over the past 12 months."
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
From Robert Brenner's "Economics of Global Turbulence".
And from the FT earlier this month:
"10 AI startups — not a dollar in profit among them — have gained nearly $1 trillion in market value over the past 12 months."
And from the FT earlier this month:
"10 AI startups — not a dollar in profit among them — have gained nearly $1 trillion in market value over the past 12 months."
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2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...
October 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
2nd edition of our The AI Shift newsletter is out. The question today: could AI be making us LESS productive? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2480... At the individual level, it's clear we're not reliable witnesses on this Q. At an organisational level, it gets even more interesting...
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...
Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners
Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.
drilled.media
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 PM
when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...
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Labelling heavy industry like steel as “hard-to-abate” allows them to argue against reducing emissions now, or to justify using CCS or offsets to meet climate goals.
But existing tech and demand reduction can cut emissions in these sectors, writes @billhare.bsky.social on
@climatechangenews.com
But existing tech and demand reduction can cut emissions in these sectors, writes @billhare.bsky.social on
@climatechangenews.com
Is "hard-to-abate" really that hard - or is it a justification for delay?
Labelling heavy industry like steel as "hard-to-abate" has shaped policy and business action in ways that risk undermining global efforts to cut emissions
www.climatechangenews.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Labelling heavy industry like steel as “hard-to-abate” allows them to argue against reducing emissions now, or to justify using CCS or offsets to meet climate goals.
But existing tech and demand reduction can cut emissions in these sectors, writes @billhare.bsky.social on
@climatechangenews.com
But existing tech and demand reduction can cut emissions in these sectors, writes @billhare.bsky.social on
@climatechangenews.com
My 3-month old child is slowly learning object permanence. I guess not everyone were as lucky as him.
Trump claimed wind farms kill whales—and then quietly axed research into the issue
Trump claimed wind farms kill whales—and then quietly axed research into the issue
Programs that tracked the beloved marine mammals near offshore wind sites are now like "a body without a pulse."
www.motherjones.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My 3-month old child is slowly learning object permanence. I guess not everyone were as lucky as him.
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Really important paper led by my @iiasa.ac.at colleague Alex Nauels www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
Multi-century global and regional sea-level rise commitments from cumulative greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades - Nature Climate Change
It is important to understand how much long-term sea-level rise is already committed due to historical and near-term emissions. Here the authors use a modelling framework to show how decisions on glob...
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Really important paper led by my @iiasa.ac.at colleague Alex Nauels www.nature.com/articles/s41...
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
“The difference between decisive climate action today and continued high emissions is not just measured in degrees of warming but also in meters of sea-level rise” 👏👏👏
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Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!). prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...
The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave - The American Prospect
Millionaire tax flight would devastate a future Mamdani administration. If the rich leave, how could anything be financed? But research shows that wealthy individuals move at lower rates than others, ...
prospect.org
October 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!). prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...
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PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at @uompols.bsky.social and @justcentre.bsky.social. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested! www.findaphd.com/phds/project....
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Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
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This is as good an opportunity as any to test the true strength of the “farming vote”.
(for the record, 140,000 full and part-time farmers, in total, comprise less than 3% of our population, yet they have the politicians running scared)
www.independent.ie/farming/news...
(for the record, 140,000 full and part-time farmers, in total, comprise less than 3% of our population, yet they have the politicians running scared)
www.independent.ie/farming/news...
Nine former presidents of IFA issue letter calling on farmers to vote for Heather Humphreys
With time running out and polls against her, Heather Humphreys has moved to lock down Fine Gael’s rural heartland in the final days of the presidential race by turning to some of the sectors most reco...
www.independent.ie
October 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is as good an opportunity as any to test the true strength of the “farming vote”.
(for the record, 140,000 full and part-time farmers, in total, comprise less than 3% of our population, yet they have the politicians running scared)
www.independent.ie/farming/news...
(for the record, 140,000 full and part-time farmers, in total, comprise less than 3% of our population, yet they have the politicians running scared)
www.independent.ie/farming/news...