Insecure jobs linked to higher fertility intentions among some migrant groups, according to a new study in demography by Mimmi Lounela, PhD student at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social www.su.se/english/divi... @mimmilou.bsky.social

As the EU Chemicals Agency winds up its second public consultation on the proposed 🇪🇺 PFAS ban, the fluoropolymer industry is once again mobilising to criticise alternatives to their products. See our new blog post which updates on PFAS industry's lobby campaign: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/p...

I'm trying to think of a technology that was so roundly hated and yet pushed so hard by the government-corporate complex

Americans are facing the highest jump in healthcare costs in 15 years, as millions struggle to cover increased costs. Meanwhile, the top six health insurers just reported $15.4 billion in first quarter earnings. Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?

The EU talks partnership. It negotiates extraction. That contradiction is no longer sustainable.

"The health and care workforce crisis and gender inequalities are interconnected, threatening healthcare and equity. We turn this ‘unhealthy’ connection upside down, aiming to explore how health policy can create co-benefits for gender equality and how governance can support policy implementation."

This is a really terrific piece by @alondra.bsky.social that should be taught in all classes on the political economy of the US right now. Think Polanyi on The Birth of the Liberal Creed, but for the AI era.

I am shocked that McKinsey got its sums wrong - underestimating by a factor of 136. Shocked! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

New Survey: More than two-thirds of the public believe at least one false or unproven health claim — such as the idea that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism #Trust #Science #Misinformation @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Billionaire tax cuts are a policy choice. Cutting healthcare for millions is a policy choice. Cutting food assistance for children is a policy choice. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is a policy choice. It does not have to be like this.

OMFG

🚨 Tomorrow: #EarlyCareers lounge on Political Communication @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social 🗣️ @kgraneng.bsky.social explores how umbrella narratives function as sources of legitimacy in composite polities like the #EU 🎤 @adalgisamartinelli.bsky.social 🪑 @olgaeisele.bsky.social 💻14 Apr @11:00 BST

Happy to share a new chapter on #stateaid and #healthcare! Drawing on #competition and #constitutionalism lenses to examine responses to COVID-19, and recent cases about Slovakian health insurance (Dôvera) and Italian public hospitals (Casa Regina). link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

The government has agreed the legal text of the U.K.-U.S. pharmaceutical deal, locking in a commitment to increase the amount Britain’s National Health Service spends on new medicines in exchange for zero tariffs.

Germany is considering common sense health taxes www.euractiv.com/news/berlin-...

“ Secretary Roadkill couldn’t have caused more wreckage if he’d simply carpet-bombed the CDC campus in Atlanta.” www.esquire.com/news-politic...

Polio virus detected in London days before ministers cut global eradication funding

Anger as EU gets a ‘better trade deal’ with Australia than Brexit Britain

Via Euractiv (gated): www.euractiv.com/news/eu-shou...

Things are not okay.

The EU’s key water law is under pressure amid intensified lobbying by the mining industry. DeSmog analysis shows sector meetings with EU officials tripled in the year before the European Commission pledged to “review and revise” the Water Framework Directive.

Assistant Professor of International Relations #ECPRMemberJobs 🎓 PhD degree in International Relations 🏫 @radboudpol.bsky.social ⌛ Fri 27 March buff.ly/Zncytlm #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

Now online an excellent interview to my colleague Lynda Gilby on the weaponization of reproductive rights and health by transnational conservative and far-right movements @transnationalflows.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3PmB...

“Neutrality“ is an interesting term for an institution where the US administration choses its President and which has weighted voting rights.

🇪🇺 Behind the #chemical industry #lobbying blitz to undermine #EU safety ‘it is increasingly clear that the planned — and much-needed — robust revision of EU chemicals rules is being derailed by corporate interests’ @vickycann.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org euobserver.com/202912/behin...

Why rightwing inquiry into Europe’s NGOs was never about transparency

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Corporate lobbyists push for deregulation while workers pay the price

Hey look, yet another dangerous and blatantly un-scientific policy move from this administration! There's an outrageous amount of evidence supporting human-driven #ClimateChange, and it's very real risks to #PublicHealth. 🧪 apnews.com/article/trum...

Via People's Dispatch: peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/27/r...

UN risks 'imminent financial collapse', secretary general warns. It comes after the UN's largest contributor, the US, refused to contribute to its regular and peacekeeping budgets, and withdrew from several agencies it called a "waste of taxpayer dollars". Several other mem... TAT: [Foreign Policy]

The European Commission has warned that Donald Trump’s latest restrictions on foreign aid are dangerous and threaten global health — while saying the EU can’t fill the funding gap alone.

🚨 Global health organisations warn the US has expanded the Global Gag Rule to all non-military foreign aid—threatening reproductive, humanitarian & LGBTQI+ health services worldwide. 🌍⚕️ ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @ipas.org @reprorights.org ights.org @msf.ca @kff.org 📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

I wouldn't wish an hour-long podcast featuring Russ Douthat and Jay Bhattacharya on my worst enemy but let's simply say that Podcast Jay still appears more concerned about perceived slights for his COVID crackpottery than with protecting US biomedical science from a full-on Trump-and-RFK onslaught.

I find it *extremely* disturbing that Jay Bhattacharya—who campaigned for RFK Jr during RFK’s Presidential run—is repositioning the NIH to be the research arm of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine, anti-science MAHA movement😨

WHO removing Us Flag

The Art of the Deal.

Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls" www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

I still can't get over the most respected and serious source of financial news in the English-speaking world just saying "Elon Musk's social media platform is nothing but an unconsensual porn site run by servile, amoral clowns. And we're gonna express that graphically." www.ft.com/content/ad94...

The industry connections of an advisory panel for the new dietary guidelines are notable, especially in light of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s criticism of corporate influence. www.statnews.com/2026/01/07/n...

Estonia has set in motion plans to link whole genome data to patient records. But at a time when Russia is launching cyberattacks on EU members, critics warn this new digital health system brings with it huge security risks. 🔗 politi.co/4aBAegB

Don’t let fossil fuel giants like Shell ruin the holidays (and everything we love). Sign the petition today 👉🏾 act.gp/4lXraVH Artist: Seppo Leinonen

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers 🌐 A World in Crisis: Conflict and the Future of Global Justice 🪑 @cordschmelzle.bsky.social & @jamespattison.bsky.social ⌛ New deadline: 9 Jan buff.ly/sVPDpp9 #Polisky #NormativeTheory

As of 2026, Japanese entities will be eligible to apply to #HorizonEU calls in Pillar 2, including #health research. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

The argument is that Europe underperforms in tech and biotech because it is “too expensive” to fire people.That may sound intuitively appealing but it is profoundly misleading.

Check out this new @thelancet.com Viewpoint on Corporate Accountability, and the fallacies of badly-designed corporate scorecard and other selective, voluntary self-regulating approaches to curb health-harming behaviours of transnational corporations. lnkd.in/eqTJ5C4q (open access till 4 Feb 2025)

A new report from @politico.eu on "Europe's Omnibus Fever" is damning in its criticism: "What the Commission frames as simplification is, in practice, a downward drift in regulatory reach that erodes the informational foundations of effective governance." #deregulation #omnibus #RuleToProtect

"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already." -Donald Trump, 4/2/25