"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. Subscribe to Zeteo to support our journalism. Tap the link in bio.

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

📢 Call for Editors We invite applications for 2 Editors for @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social . Help shape the future of this leading #openaccess journal in regional studies. Full call at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsrs-ed... 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025

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.

"The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

How much code now comes from AI? With @simonedaniotti.bsky.social, @xfeng.bsky.social & Frank Neffke we estimate that by end-2024 30% of Python functions pushed by US devs on GitHub are AI-generated. Adoption is rapid but diffusion lags globally. How did we do it? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945

Nederland heeft nu drie migratieministers, maar vrijdag is er geen één aanwezig bij een vergadering van EU-migratieministers…

Public R&D expenditures in the US is dominated by spendings on defense

Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States is weakening the system of innovation that it has spent decades and trillions of dollars to build—and China is poised to reap the benefits, writes David Victor.

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

Een routinier vd Rekenkamer schreef zijn memoires. Ze werden niet gepubliceerd. Hij deed 35 jaar terug zijn eerste - onthullende - stikstofonderzoek op Landbouw, en zijn boek legt grote gelijkenis bloot tussen de omgang met stikstof toen en nu www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Unbelievable, speechless ....

The majority of people in the British Isles descend from the Spanish. Oxford University discovered that the Celts, Britain's indigenous people, are descended from Iberian men who migrated about 6,000 years ago. They have an almost identical genetic "fingerprint" to the inhabitants of coastal Spain.

Why The UK Needs More Gary Linekers by @hasanpatel.com eaworldview.com/2025/05/uk-n...

Andere kop: regering Trump zet weer stap in richting dictatuur. nos.nl/l/2568341

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

The tyranny of the top-5 journals in economics: "Pursuit of top-5 publications has become the obsession of the next generation of economists... Reliance on the T5 to screen talent incentivizes careerism over creativity... incentivizes professional incest and clientele effects"

This is a really good piece on the haves and have-nots of public higher education, using Western Illinois University as a case study. I'm worried about the future of rural higher education and rural America.

Learn more here: brilliantmaps.com/gdp-europe-1...

Alfred Wegener noticed how the coastlines of Africa and South America fit together. Then came fossil evidence—identical species were found on both continents. To him, the answer was clear. But back then, science wasn’t ready. After his death, his theory helped form the basis of plate tectonics.

Trump is finishing aid for independent media in Eastern Europa and Russia. In joint appeal @platformraam.nl & @dekoder.org urge EU to take over/to support these threatened media. It’s in interest of reliable information in East and West. Please share in your network👇 platformraam.nl/raam/appeal-...

Vincent van Gogh had sold almost nothing during his lifetime. Critics had dismissed him. But Jo van Gogh, wife of Vincent's brother Theo saw Vincent’s soul in every brushstroke. In 1905, Jo curated the first Van Gogh retrospective in Amsterdam. It changed everything.

Opinion from the Financial Time's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

1/ The US government has ordered the Swedish city of Stockholm to end its diversity, inclusivity and equality (DEI) programmes within 10 days. The city authorities say the demand is "bizarre" and they won't be complying. ⬇️

In this new paper, we examine how regions transform their economic structures over time by analyzing complexity and relatedness metrics. We investigate these changes using sequence analysis techniques. @seqanalysisassn.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s001...

This is serious ...