Female CEOs are more likely to be targeted by activist campaigns than male CEOs. www.ft.com/content/58d2...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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/...

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/...

“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...

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...

@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? www.youtube.com/watch?v=d07f...

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 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/...

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...

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...

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