It has been a while since I've shared a #kayaking pic, so, here's one ... and a rainbow!

WOW! Our survey of scientists who stopped using Twitter and started using Bluesky is now the #1 most-shared on social media article in the history of the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology! Thanks for reading it, everyone! @sicbjournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/icb/... 🧪

If the Nobel Committee truly intended to recognize the formalization of Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction, they might at least have included Sidney Winter, with Dick Nelson (sadly) no longer among us.

Fresh, colorful autumn forest and a Bratwurst (technically a Krakauer). Perfect combination.

Are you interested in exploring #innovation from a spatial perspective? Check this position out and join our amazing team in Stavanger! #geoinno #geosky #geoinnosky www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, held local elections today. Support for AfD up but at 15% well below party's national polling. And lower among the young: 5th place on 11% among under-25s, who also delivered a smaller swing towards the party than did older generations.

academic.oup.com/joeg/advance...: Great work by @tbroekel.bsky.social

Published in JoEG: REGENS: a new index tracking regional economic sentiment in real time, based on millions of geolocated news headlines. Possibly the first up-to-date regional sentiment index linking media stories to regional development and Evolutionary Economic Geography. doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

What an honor to be listed among the top 100 Economic Geographers by #reprec in terms of an aggregate of citations and publication metrics. While the list should not be over-interpreted (lots of missing persons), it is nevertheless something I will celebrate. ideas.repec.org/top/top.geo.... 💡

Leaving for summer (but not yet vacation). I am already looking forward to coming back to my wonderful office at @unistavanger.bsky.social in August!

"The mainstream reports critically on Republicans and Democrats while the right-wing outlets are critical only of Democrats. It’s a huge factor in understanding our broken politics," writes @dankennedy.net

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

Will I ever be able to leave #Porto again? Flight cancelled yesterday, today's replacement stuck due to "bad weather"? Unreal. #RSA2025

Getting ready for the #RSA2025 in #Porto. I was looking for a smoothie, but eventually had to settle for a more traditional dish. @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social

My favorite place to relax and re-energize. #HomeIsWhereYourHarzIs #Harz

🍺 Heute ist #TagdesDeutschenBieres! Denn seit 23. April 1516 gilt das Reinheitsgebot: Wasser, Malz, #Hopfen, Hefe. Mehr braucht’s nicht. Unsere Karte zeigt, wo in Deutschland der Hopfen 🌱 wächst – und für alle Weinliebhaber: Die Weinanbaugebiete 🍷 gibt’s als Bonus obendrauf. #Bier

With Torben Klarl, I’ve published the study "The long-term evolution of technological complexity and its relationship with economic growth" tracing the long-run evolution of technological #complexity in the #US over 170 years of #patent data. The article is here: doi.org/10.1016/j.te... #GeoInnoSky

The EU forest sink is getting much weaker, with some major revisions based on updated data, particularly from Germany. LULUCF in 2020 was -270MtCO2, but is now -220MtCO2 (approx the same in 2010). The EU has a target of -300MtCO2! See details of the German revision: bsky.app/profile/robb... 2/2

Evidence of US brain drain? US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad Jan-Mar 2025 than during same period in 2024. US-based users browsing jobs abroad increased by 35%. Data from Nature Careers global science jobs platform. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One for all the #geographers out there! Projection!!!

My survey class on the history of science is essentially about the social conditions required for science. The final lecture is always about how the US became the dominant nation for research in the 2nd half of the 20th century, and how it in retrospect it may be seen as an anomalous "Golden Age."

Unrelated diversification in real life. #GeoInnoSky

Can't believe how common smoking is (again) in #Germany. I thought that we have left that one behind? It is the first thing that hits you when you leave any mall, station, or shop in inner cities. #dislike

Bad Kreuznach - well worth a visit.

Good morning! Fortunately, stock prices are not everything.

While boxing was never my thing, I’m grateful to George Foreman for providing me with my longest-lasting kitchen appliance. RIP, George.

If we wouldn't see this happening right now, we wouldn't believe this. A massive blow to the #innovation studies community. #GeoInnoSky

Unser Beitrag in der @faznet.bsky.social : In den 🇺🇸 werden Wissenschaftlern die Mittel gekürzt. Das ist der richtige Moment, um US-Spitzenforscher nach 🇩🇪 zu holen! @arieldora.bsky.social & @martin-watzinger.com & ich in FAZ Wirtschaft/Der Volkswirt: „Deutschlands Chance“

Time to reduce our dependency from American products. Fortunately, the original German "burger" is way better than its American copy anyway.

What the #Zelensky incident also showed is how many politicians are still active on #X. Why is that?

📢 Am Sonntag wird die AfD wohl viele Wahlkreise im Osten direkt gewinnen. Doch hinter dieser blauen Dominanz auf der Wahlkarte stecken oft keine echten absoluten Mehrheiten, sondern nur relative Mehrheiten. @pluggedchris.bsky.social und ich zeigen, warum. Thread 🧵👇 shorturl.at/t6kAP

Droht ein Kollaps der Atlantikströmung? Wollt ihr heute Abend die neuesten Erkenntnisse dazu hören, und mir eure Fragen stellen? Das könnt ihr um 20 Uhr beim arktischen Abend der Polar-Journalistin und Expeditionsleiterin Birgit Lutz. Tickets: polarshopbirgitlutz.de

JOB: Full Professorship in “Forest History and Sustainable Development” at Freiburg University, Germany. Application deadline is 6. April 2025. #envhist uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

It's been a super relaxing #Sunday. Getting ready for another intensive week! Enjoy your evening as well.

Joooooooooob for PhD applicants. #EconSky #GeoSky #GeoInno

I've just realized that while a PhD student "costs" about 1.3 million NOK per year in a grant application, the student will only get about 1/3 of this as net income. The rest disappears as overhead, social contributions, and taxes. Which figure will enter official funding & R&D statistics?

More of our #GeoInno community have joined BlueSky including @mariatsouri.bsky.social and @ronboschma.bsky.social. A warm welcome to both! Let's continue growing and check out this starter pack if you are new to the platform ! go.bsky.app/SeJAZa6

A sad day for Evolutionary Economics and Evolutionary Economic Geography. A giant of the field passed away. RIP Dick Nelson!

Ok.... so $600 billion is a lot of money. That's roughly what Saudi Arabia announced as investment in the US a few days ago. Or more than the entire UK Government's Major Project Portfolio budget - which is huge - all energy projects, all transport, all decarbonisation, all military, the lot! 1

Sunday evening tasks - proofreading the next landmark paper! #GeoInnoSky

Cardiovascular disease death rates have fallen rapidly in many countries

This is a turning point. We Europeans have the power to push X into irrelevance across our continent. Freeze or delete your accounts now. Media, it’s time to stop citing X. Dozens of universities are leading the way. Let’s limit Elon Musk’s influence in 🇪🇺. #eXit #SciXit #Democracy

The good news is that there is still a trust base on which scientists can build. Bad news: do we really want to ask for even more social engagement of scientists? I am very skeptical of the benefits as it increases the danger of even more normative and politicized research.

Beyond levelling up: where next to revive lagging regions? With the fab Felicia Fai & Phil Tomlinson, intro to a blockbuster special issue ‘Beyond Levelling up’ of Contemporary Social Science www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With some limitations (missing pretzels), the perfect (late) Sunday breakfast.

Langer Abschied, jetzt ganz schnell Seit einem Jahr bröckelte die deutsche "X"-Wissenschaftscommunity vor sich hin. Doch jetzt geht es Schlag auf Schlag: Unzählige Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitute verlassen die Plattform. #WissXit Im Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/01/14/l...

The German Research Foundation has left X and joined Bluesky. Good to see how Bluesky is increasingly becoming the new standard for science communication.

Alice Weidel nennt Universitäten "queer-woke Kaderschmieden" und sagt: "Wir schließen alle Gender Studies und schmeißen alle diese Professoren raus". Die Naturwissenschafts-Community muss sich hier klar auf die Seite der Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaft stellen. Das ist ein Angriff auf alle. (Thread)

Wann deutsche Medien?