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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 6d

If you sometimes feel uncertain about what #statistics do or do not tell us, this #podcast from early September is well worth listening to. (And while you are at it, most other episodes of the #InGoodCompany series are also well worth your time.) shows.acast.com/622618c7057f...

Sir David Spiegelhalter: Statistics, Communicating in Crises, and Living with Uncertainty | In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 7d

Faced with a weakening dollar U.S. multinationals fare better than domestically oriented U.S. companies. This will be driven by the tech giants but this is textbook international business stuff. www.ft.com/content/a8a7...

Multinationals race ahead as dollar slump divides US stock market

Domestically focused companies lag behind as currency suffers worst year since early 2000s

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 8d

You know there’s trouble down the road when tech billionaires are saying “this time it’s different, this is a good kind of bubble”. www.ft.com/content/8d80...

Jeff Bezos hails AI boom as ‘good’ kind of bubble

Amazon founder’s comments follow warning by Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon that ‘it’s not different this time’

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 11d

AI has not yet caused major disruptions to the US jobs market. Effects are similar to those after introduction of the personal computer (1984) and internet (1996). Does AI represent another case of overestimating change in short run, underestimating change in the long run? www.ft.com/content/c9f9...

AI is not killing jobs, finds new US study

Research shows little evidence the cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 13d

People are more likely to cheat when they delegate tasks to an AI. Is this serious? Yes. Under certain conditions, a study showed that dishonest behavior surged to 88 percent! www.scientificamerican.com/article/peop...

People Are More Likely to Cheat When They Use AI

Participants in a new study were more likely to cheat when delegating to AI—especially if they could encourage machines to break rules without explicitly asking for it

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 20d

A more important question than ever: Do your national elites create value, or siphon it off? Blog by my colleague Tomas Casas i Klett: www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

UNU-WIDER : Blog : Do your national elites create value, or siphon it off? A novel index supplies insight

A new release of the Elite Quality Index (EQx) offers a global comparative benchmark indicator for how well national elites support—or hinder—economic and human development. In this blog, co-author of...

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 21d

In a recent paper, four researchers “challenge the assumption that political bias heavily influences academic publishing, suggesting instead that the focus rightly remains on research quality.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Gatekeepers of Academia: Investigating Bias in Journal Publication Across Topics, Author Backgrounds, and Institutions

Building on evidence of the “gatekeeper” effect in a publish or perish culture whereby faculty authors have a more difficult time publishing some studies compared to others, the present study investi....

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · 23d

“Drunk Germans usually pronounce Dutch better than sober Germans.” People’s inhibitions go down after drinking alcohol. Now we know how to be multilingual... nltimes.nl/2025/09/19/i...

Ig Nobel prize for study showing that drunk Germans speak Dutch better than sober ones

Dutch Courage can help you speak a foreign language, according to a study by Dutch, English, and German researchers that was awarded an Ig Nobel prize on Thursday. They showed that alcohol consumption...

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · Jul 9

Nederland is een #Nobelprijswinnaar kwijt. Hem is de Nederlandse nationaliteit ontnomen! Groot internationaal nieuws. De Nederlandse #politiek en #media zijn zich niet bewust van de hoge kosten als gevolg van de rigide en stupide regels omtrent #nationaliteit: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/w...

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship

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Melody Fair @sky-west.bsky.social · May 1

@howdythere.bsky.social - what do you think of the University of St. Gallen as the location for I'll Kiss Your Memory?? As you know, Barry appeared in a TV show called "Rendezvous in St. Gallen" just as the single was released. Could this be that?

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · Apr 28

In our most recent paper Wei Lin, PhD, Xiaoxu Renee Zhang and I investigate if we can find evidence of #deglobalisation at the largest #UK #firms. The short answer is a resounding NO. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The S-Shaped Internationalisation Pattern of UK Multinational Enterprises: An Empirical Investigation 2001–2022

.The International Business literature has been flooded with “deglobalisation” claims. This literature has been inspired by work on overall economic and political developments and internat...

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · Apr 6

“The cuts to research support across higher education institutions are provoking scientists in the US to seek opportunities in other countries with stronger public support for science…” US colleagues are telling me how lucky I am to work at a European university... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Don’t quit the long game

Living cells that produce biofuel; robots that assist factory workers; intelligent machines that guide drug discovery—these technologies are “deep” in that they achieve something extraordinary—often t...

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · Mar 8

Trump’s America is a stark outlier from western Europe and the rest of the Anglosphere. In many cases, the Maga mindset is much closer to that of Vladimir Putin’s Russia or Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. www.ft.com/content/3046...

Why the Maga mindset is different

US decisions can no longer be analysed using assumptions shared across the democratic west

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · Mar 6

The Financial Times does not mince its words. “It is already worse than everyone thought, and he is just six weeks in.” In Europe, Americanophiles (like me) cannot believe what's happening. www.ft.com/content/4779...

Trump has undermined US economic exceptionalism

The president’s chaotic policies are squandering a decent inheritance

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Winfried Ruigrok @winfriedruigrok.bsky.social · Feb 1

Welcome to my bluesky account. The banner photo is by Julieta Schildknecht julietaschildknecht.ch/about/

About – Julieta Schildknecht

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