The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Goed Nieuws! Wij zijn gisterochtend met de crowdfunding voor The Firewall begonnen en inmiddels hebben zich meer dan 2.000 medestanders gemeld en beschikken we over meer dan 90 bondgenoten! #StaOpTegenBigTech en word ook medestander van @thefirewall.eurosky.social ! www.thefirewall.eu/doe-mee

#StaOpTegenBigTech Word ook medestander van TheFirewall www.thefirewall.eu/doe-mee

BIAS Conference - Mitigating Diversity Biases of AI in the Labour Market - Leiden, Sep 02–03, 2026. Send your abstract before 1 April biasconference.zohobackstage.eu/MitigatingDi...

Open Access paper by Gabriël van Rosmalen: 'Balancing Competition and Worker Protection: The EU’s Platform Work Package in a Social Market Economy', in: Utrecht Law Review. Looks at how competition law can be utilised more proactively to protect platform workers utrechtlawreview.org/articles/10....

Open Access paper in Technology & Regulation by @buissink.bsky.social: 'Constitutive Regulation as a Compromise for Disruptive Innovation', on how the French regulatory state uses constitutive regulation for #platformeconomy, creating new identities for social partners. techreg.org/article/view...

𝐖𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧? Samen met onderzoekers van de Universiteit Maastricht / ROA deed ik onderzoek naar dit vraagstuk. Via het YoungOnes platform vulden 1.790 freelancers onze survey in. De eerste inzichten: www.zipconomy.nl/2025/10/waar...

💸 UK’s multibillion AI push may rest on “phantom investments”, warns IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social in a new @theguardian.com investigation. #BigTech can inflate data centre jobs and economic impact to please governments eager to show growth. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/gfyQHBO

By threatening to deny the license of any broadcast news company that does not tow the Trump line, Carr is publicly announcing that the goal of the Trump Administration is to rip up the Constitution to install an authoritarian government.

Nu de Eurosky er is, heb ik de stap gemaakt om hier een account aan te maken. Ik ga hier vooral over Big Tech en de democratische rechtsstaat berichten. En natuurlijk over Big Tech-waakhond The Firewall thefirewall.eu

Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits) Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON) Length: 18 months Deadline: 31 March 2026 Start date: 1 July 2026

On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

This is a great thread on the bias in metascience itself. There is a big bias towards "its all terrible!!!!" and loads of very unrealistic assumptions. As a community we are also dismal at seeing the very dubious politics behind a lot of metascience throughout its history.

True cohesion is less about shifting resources between places and more about expanding what individuals can actually do within them. Artelaris & Mavrommatis argue in European Planning Studies for a "people-centric" turn in territorial #Cohesion Policy. doi.org/10.1080/0965...

Congratulations to the editors. Chapter 35 in Section Six is on the ‘Unionisation of Digital Labour’

🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett. us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...

"Uber Eats doet volgens de Inspectie te weinig om maaltijdkoeriers zonder werkvergunning te weren bij de bezorging. Bij controles bleken koeriers niet over de benodigde documenten te beschikken." nos.nl/artikel/2595...

Ik wil graag dit NRC-artikel met je delen: "Arbeidsinspectie is klaar met Uber Eats en wil het bezorgplatform een maand sluiten in de regio Amsterdam": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

"Pas op voor innovatiesimplisme": Eefje Cuppen e.a. van het #Rathenau Instituut over drie blinde vlekken in het #rapportWennink: maatschappelijke opgaven, maatschappelijke inbedding, en kans- en risicoregulering www.rathenau.nl/nl/kennis-en... @albertmeijer.bsky.social @marleenstikker.bsky.social

Al meer dan 500 ondertekenaars: openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...

Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...

Er komt een nieuw kabinet. Maar de onderwijsbezuinigingen van 606 miljoen op het hoger onderwijs staan nog. We blijven druk zetten op de politiek en komen we 9/12 weer in actie! Zorg dat je erbij bent✊ Stop de sloop van het hoger onderwijs‼️ 📍De Dam, Amsterdam 📅Di 9/12 🕛12:00 uur lnkd.in/eAh3bTwZ

Publication Alert: @evertmeijers.bsky.social and I examined the spatial orientation of MPs in NL. We studied whether MPs' region of origin matters and the parties' electoral consequences. We show a paradox: peripheral places don't reward parties that pay attention to them doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

New SPECIAL ISSUE on "Geographies of Innovation and #Wellbeing" in RRR with papers on theoretical foundations, on regional inequalities (due to autonomation and energy transition), the Corona pandemic and #qualityoflife, and the social innovation of citizens' juries link.springer.com/journal/1003...

New paper "Geographies of Innovation and Well-being" with Fulvio Castellacci + @emilevenhuis.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eJJpO. We outline the pathways through which innovation can contribute to #wellbeing and how political considerations regarding well-being provide #directionality in innovation (policy).

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Event: "Ghostwork, de onzichtbare arbeid achter AI Hoe beschermen we de 150 miljoen datawerkers achter onze AI?" Kom op 15 oktober naar de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en neem deel aan een discussie over hoe we datawerk een plek kunnen geven in discussies over Responsible AI. www.hva.nl/evenementen/...

Kom op zondag 5 oktober naar het Utrecht Science Park! Kan een rivier naar de rechter? Bouw met lego je eigen droomtuin! En hoe maak je olifantentandpasta? Ontdek dit en nog veel meer tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap, voor families met kinderen tussen de 8-12 jaar. www.uu.nl/agenda/neem-...

Wat betekent het voor ons als tech-miljardairs en cryptobedrijven de heerschappij van de banken zullen doorbreken? In zijn nieuwe boek ‘Geld genoeg, maar niet voor jou’ neemt Thomas Bollen je mee naar goudkluizen, banktorens en cryptofeestjes. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ho...

Onderzoeksjournalistiek is superbelangrijk. Gelukkig is het niveau in Nederland hoog. Maar het kost meer tijd en geld dan het formuleren van een mening... Word dus snel vriend van @investico.bsky.social en steun onderzoeksjournalistiek. Kan al vanaf 1 euro per maand. Je helpt ze er ontzettend mee.

If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a new global policy tracker to provide a comprehensive overview of legislative initiatives concerning digital labour ('#gigeconomy') platforms. Great resource for all stakeholders. See: www.ilo.org/resource/new...

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do. Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

Just out our paper on realities, politics & economics of so-called digital twins, and how the imaginary of "digital twins" is stifling dissemination & implementation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage

Roel Dobbe (TU Delft) in NRC: "De vloek van AI" (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... @haroonsheikh.bsky.social @marleenstikker.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @mtschaefer.bsky.social @algosoc.org @silvertje.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social

Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.

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David Autor and Gordon Hanson on US #innovationpolicy: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

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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.

This piece by @alondra.bsky.social is too important. It’s a must read for anyone concerned about the state of scientific research.

I wrote a blog for LSE-EUROPP on the mismatch between the 5% #NATO spending target and EU's innovation policy objectives (strategic autonomy, competitiveness, sustainability). See: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

💥 New: The new NATO spending target will hamper Europe’s innovation policy ✍️ @kfrenken.bsky.social ‬ blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

New here and not sure who to follow? 👀 We’ve created a starter pack of researchers working on topics related to socio-technical change. It’s a first attempt and will grow over time. Know someone who should be on it or want to be included yourself? Comment below or send us a DM ✉️ go.bsky.app/7STgwpg

Ik schreef een blog over de mismatch tussen de NAVO-norm van 5% BNP en de doelen van het innovatiebeleid (autonomie, concurrentievermogen, duurzaamheid). Zie: esb.nu/de-nieuwe-na...

I'm very honoured with the awarding of the 2025 Stevin prize for my research. And I'm particularly pleased that this prize goes to a philosopher, as it recognizes that we not only do blue sky research, but also analyses that can make a difference to the world. www.nwo.nl/en/prof-dr-i...