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Winter School #Geography of #Innovation
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Competitiveness thrives on cohesion, not concentration.
My brand new article in @regionalstudies.bsky.social makes the case for unlocking #Europe’s full potential, wherever it can be found, as #cohesion is the foundation of #competitivenes, not its antithesis.
doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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"A boycott is in place until further notice."

Utrecht University becomes first Western academic institution to announce an academic *boycott* of Israel.

This is the result of strategic, ethical work by students & university staff.

Secondly, while average workers’ payroll taxes have fallen, the UK has become increasingly reliant on the payments of the richest taxpayers.

The top 1% now pay 29% of the total tax bill, up from 11% in 1980

6/7

Your DNA sequence reveals a rare mutation. Will you get the disease, i.e. penetrance? A new study using machine learning predicts this across 10 common diseases, 1,600 genomic variants
New @science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Margaret Rossiter named a truth hidden in plain sight: the Matilda Effect—the systematic erasure of women’s achievements in science. Her three-volume Women Scientists in America proved their exclusion wasn’t because of individual failures but of systemic barriers into the structure of science itself

The Israeli government has told so many lies since Oct. 7.

In this video — and in under three minutes — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunks the top 10 Israeli lies about the genocide in Gaza.

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Breaking News: President Trump moved to fire the official in charge of jobs data, claiming, without evidence, that labor numbers were being “manipulated.”

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We invite applications for 2 Editors for @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social . Help shape the future of this leading #openaccess journal in regional studies.
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In 2012 and 2013, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing redirected his $3 million performance bonuses to 10,000 of the company’s employees. The amount received per employee was $314. This gesture was made to recognize their contributions in Lenovo’s success.

#CorporateLeadership #EmployeeRecognition #Lenovo

BBB blokkeert.
Een mengeling van recalcitrantie, incompetentie en een afzichtelijk gebrek aan verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel - kortom alles wat ons land inmiddels hopeloos op achterstand heeft gezet.
Lees en huiver: www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/pow...

This is very worrying. Making offering a "bowl of soup" to someone without legal papers a criminal offense. In times of far-right political experimentation, Dutch politics can ill afford a parliamentary "slip-up". It’s up to the Senate now to demonstrate its purpose of chambre de reflexion.

@royalsociety.org‬ here is your man, Elon Musk.

When you go without food for a while, your body starts a powerful cleaning process that scientists call autophagy. Cells build special containers to trap junk, break it down, and reuse the useful bits for energy. A little hunger gives your body the chance to do its own internal spring cleaning.

OK, then. 😮

@erikbryn.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

Brain scan study of ChatGPT users indicates that ChatCPT reduces brain connectivity. Also: In educational settings ChatGPT users who are forced to write w/o the AI tool perform worse than people who never used AI at all
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.