Lovely weather and a fantastic atmosphere during today’s @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social BA open day. Thank you so much to all colleagues and students who were present today 🙏🏼

Welcome to @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! It’s a lovely day for an open day. Bandito coffee and cookies are waiting you ☕️🍪

Come visit us during tomorrow’s @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social BA Open Day and learn more about our four fantastic programmes in 📚 Arts & Culture 📚 🤖 Digital Society 🤖 🇪🇺 European Studies 🇪🇺 🌐 Global Studies 🌐 Details ☞ www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/bachelors-op...

Visited the PROTEST exhibition with my @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social MSc #EuropeanStudies students today. Had a great discussion on the role of #protests in #Europe afterwards 🇪🇺 Plenty of examples from their own experience in different countries and contexts.

Had a fab time last week during the Utrecht Summer School on #Governance, #Design and #Delivery of #Interdisciplinary #HigherEducation. Thanks to Bri and Iris for putting this together, to the many contributors for sharing their experience, and to fellow participants for inspiring discussions 📚🙏🏼

Lots of meetings about #teaching and #learning but today was the start of the only full course I teach, for our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social MSc #EuropeanStudies, on #democracy in #Europe

Zonet gespot in Utrecht #TK25

“Nu slaat Europa opnieuw een andere weg in. Het is revolutionair en gaat Nederland direct aan. Wat zou het een verademing zijn als de nieuwe premier eens over zulke dingen zou praten.” 🇪🇺

We had the first meeting of our nascent #Cycling #Europe Study Circle (a working title) today! Thanks a lot to @simonusherwood.bsky.social for the slides and for moderating, and to everyone who attended. Watch this space for updates - we promise not to (only) share pictures of bikes and lycra 🚴🏽‍♀️

Geen verrassing natuurlijk 🇳🇱🇪🇺 nos.nl/l/2587472

Nog een week tot de verkiezingen Chatbots zijn populair als bron voor stemadvies. ‘Een enorme bedreiging voor de democratie’ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Not aware of any such initiative in the Netherlands @jeremymoulton.bsky.social @alpsblog.bsky.social - very good idea!

Come and join our fantastic @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social #Teaching & #Learning Hub. The vacancy text is only available in Dutch but comes with contact details for more information. www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3533...

Kom vooral een keer op bezoek bij deze mooie tentoonstelling van Viewmaster Projects bij ons @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social “De faculteit was vorig jaar bezet door pro-Palestijnse demonstranten. Dat maakt het bijzonder dat de universiteit deze tentoonstelling een plek biedt.”

@simonusherwood.bsky.social and I are attempting to take initial discussions on research into #cycling and #Europe to a new level. So please join us for a first meeting of the new Cycling Europe Study Circle. Details below. Feel free to share in your networks 🙏🏼 @ecpr.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social

A real pleasure to contribute to this @edlab-ctl.bsky.social video series on #educational #research. Offers an insight into our research on the #international #classroom in #PBL and into how @carlahaelermans.bsky.social and I collaborated. #EduSky #TeachLearnSky @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

There’s a paper here somewhere @simonusherwood.bsky.social “The reality is completely otherwise, in that the Vuelta as well as many other races have always been affected by external protests like the pro-Palestine demonstrations of this year's Spanish Grand Tour.”

As a faculty in the humanities and social science, we @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social engage with contested contemporary issues on a daily basis in #learning, #teaching & #research. We are therefore happy to host the new Viewmaster exhibition PROTEST which opened yesterday. See: tinyurl.com/viewprotest

“[T]he KNAW Board furthermore calls on the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science to actively press for suspension of Israel’s participation in the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for scientific and scholarly cooperation.”

I agree that we may need an other #EU president, but this was not who I had in mind… 🇪🇺 www.politico.eu/article/dona...

“The simplification process was rushed, and there was no real involvement of scientific voices, neither by the commission nor from parliament or member states. Another problem is that the commission approached everything only from a cost perspective.” euobserver.com/green-econom...

Interesting graphic in today’s European Correspondent newsletter - how is the fixed book price that exists in several countries connected to this?

Last night @ #Muziekgieterij #Maastricht

A message from SURF, the IT cooperative of Dutch education and research institutions

#Dutch national #elections coming up on 29 October. The #EU being ignored just like in previous election campaigns 🇳🇱🇪🇺

On the 🚄 from Liverpool back to London, onwards to Maastricht. Another great @uaces.bsky.social Conference 🙏🏼local organisers, UACES office! Loved Liverpool - have to come back. To all the cycling aficionados, @simonusherwood.bsky.social and I will be back with a whole peloton next time #UACES2025 🇪🇺🚴🏽‍♀️

@simonusherwood.bsky.social and I hope this will be the start of a new @uaces.bsky.social trend: clothing that is reflective of your paper’s topic

Had a great time presenting my #cycling paper on the #Europeanness of pro cycling and attempts to globalise the sport. Helpful questions, remarks from the audience during the first ever @uaces.bsky.social cycling panel! @cyclingeu.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @simonusherwood.bsky.social

Welcome to the UACES 55th Annual Conference 2025! We’re excited to kick off Day One at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Registration is now open in the Student Life Building. Don't forget to pick up your exclusive UACES conference bag. First sessions begin at 09:00. #UACES2025

Approximately 650 km - 4 countries (🇳🇱🇧🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧) - 4 trains - just over 10 hours (with generous transfer times 🥐☕️). But now just a few minutes away from #Liverpool for #UACES2025. Drinks reception still ongoing, I hope…

Last day of our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social introduction week, welcoming our new MA and MSc students - also got a chance to meet the MSc #EuropeanStudies who I will see again in October/November/December for my course on #EU #democracy @yfreykers.bsky.social

Day 4 of our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social introduction week came with a pub quiz with staff and new students. Our staff team ‘unfortunately’ turned out to not be up to date with the music of today 😝 Fun evening!

“The strikes come as U.S. President Donald Trump is ramping up pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as he seeks to forge a peace deal to end the war.” That’s going well… 🇺🇦🇪🇺

On day 3 of our @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social introduction week we welcomed our new BSc Global Studies students 🌍

The EU is a market with 450 million people. There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities. Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...

Revised and resubmitted ✅

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Lovely morning for the start of our introduction week. Today we’re welcoming our new BA #EuropeanStudies students 🇪🇺 @historikarin.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social

Budapest? Not everyone may remember this, but in 1994 Ukraine already got assurances of territorial integrity from the US, Russia and the UK. In Budapest. Maybe I’m superstitious, but this time I would try to find another place.

Looking forward to it!

Students help with cold case research 🔍 @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social's ICCAP gives law students hands-on experience solving real unsolved cases. For Isis van Cruchten, it was the perfect match for her passion for cold cases. Full story 👉 edu.nl/9uhwd #ColdCases #Criminology #Forensics

““Is air-conditioning a far-right thing?” one talk show asked provocatively, reflecting how divisive the issue had become.”

#Cycling as an act of #resistance 🚲 www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

“I dream without limits. I get on my bike. I ride. I bring Black women with me. And I find joy in every mile. There is so much joy in cycling, and it grows every time a fat Black woman takes the lane and refuses to disappear.” 🚲💚

"Only just over a third (36%) of respondents are consistent supporters of democracy" as per a European Movement survey 😱🇪🇺 cdn-europeanmovementeu.b-cdn.net/wp-content/u...