* New Publication*: Across Western democracies, higher education is under pressure, from budget cuts to restrictions on immigrant students. Our new study dives into a critical but overlooked question: When do people think immigrant students deserve financial aid?

This picture of Kharkiv firefighters evacuating children after russian strike on kindergarten must be on every front page!

”Jag har varit med att ta hem svenskar från hela världen – även dömda kriminella. Utrikesdepartementet ska ge hjälp och behandla alla lika. Om det skett någon diskriminering i det här fallet är det oerhört allvarligt.” www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/ny...

Äntligen dras truckarna in i striden om Tesla. Nu är det över för Tesla arbetet.se/2025/10/14/t...

Läsvärt om några stora drag i politikens avcivilisering i dag: patrimonialismens återkomst, nyliberalismens vändning till identitetspolitisk auktoritarism och den växande efterfrågan på erkännande och beskydd från andra aktörer än staten.

Each Tuesday, we will signpost you to new texts available in the JVET journal. This week we share ‘To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system' by Anna Wilson & Scherwin M. Bajka (2025). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #NewTextTuesdays #JVET

Man ska jobba när man är sjuk, svära trohet till nationen, vara villig att dö för Sverige, bli utförsäkrad och förbjudas att yttra sitt missnöje. I utbyte mot allt detta får man äran att bli ignorerad av Sverige om man kidnappas och torteras av en folkmordsregim.

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This week’s Sunday spotlight shines on the theme introduced during this week’s New Text Tuesday. This week we ask how do recruiter biases and firm-level priorities shape access to apprenticeship opportunities for underrepresented groups? #SpotlightSundays #JVET

www.flamman.se/valfardsstat... It was great to talk to @flamman.se about the link between weak welfare state protection and the expansion of online platform work in Europe. @pettertornberg.com

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training 2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💥 New article out @reggovjournal.bsky.social Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden & Britain @ndurazzi.bsky.social @federicofiletti.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social David Hope, Hanna Kleider onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Now open access 🥳

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Gig labor is often understood as the expression of digital disruption. But our new study suggests a deeper story: 👉 The rise of platform labor is inseparable from the retreat of the welfare state. 🧵 w/ @pettertornberg.com journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

”När bristen på mat är så stor som den varit så länge i Gaza, då går det fort.” www.dn.se/varlden/over...

“Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it.”

We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.social

Please share and amplify #FreedomFlotilla #ShipToGaza

Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉 📄 Read the full article here: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Can't believe it has to be said, but babies die if they don't get food and water www.bbc.com/news/live/cq... Every civilized nation should protest engineered famines, no matter where they occur.

Over 650 political scientists who have dedicated our lives to the study of democracy & government, have signed this letter enumerating our deep concerns about this administration’s actions that undermine the Constitution and the rule of law. Please share. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

"The task of criticism is always to ask why something riddled with errors becomes so widespread." Tosaka Jun, The Japanese Ideology: A Marxist Critique of Liberalism and Fascism