Academia relies on good faith. It cannot be done otherwise. This is precisely why plagiarists, people who fake data, people who deliberately ignore counter-evidence, and fascists need to be driven out. Full cordon sanitaire against this crap.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

I’ve found Mariana Pargendler’s work highly instructive on the antecedents of modern innovations in the global regulation of multinational enterprises - and this is another banger tracing Brazil group law from 1937 to 2024, Musk, X, Starlink and beyond

One of the things we end up discussing most with students in my “Governing the green transition” class is the definitional politics around what, exactly, constitutes ‘clean’ energy. Another good case study here.

Yet to see the predicted AI-induced increase in the value of rich qualitative work materialise. All I’m seeing is another new conceptual-only intervention and another new complex quant paper and another and another

You’ll never guess what this US state dep comment is in response to

it me, the reader

People will have, I'm sure, their own straw-that-broke-the-camel's-back moments of, "yup, that's enough of having to read AI-generated text for a lifetime, rip this whole system down". I've endured but I think it just happened to me now.

The ERC reversed their decision on this, by the way, after community blowback:

For those keeping score at home: Corporate income taxes have been rising in the OECD for four years running (for the first time on record), since the global minimum tax agreement.

Unless they’re tracking Chinese clean tech export data - which I think only Ember does consistently? - all the energy scenarios models etc are just plain wrong.

Sound Dues (Øresundstolden) haven’t been this hot since the early 1600s.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

Trump's petrowars threaten to unleash carbon shock therapy around the world - disorderly decarbonization and deindustrialisation. The answer, we argue w @benbraun.eurosky.social, is decarbonised sovereignty, a pathway for the Santa Marta coalition. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...

Elodie Lamer has been on this beat for years, more than anyone else, and this is another nice piece laying out how the Commission is - more and more, and to great effect and consequence - gaming the EU legal system to override member states' tax policy vetos.

Friday is, by the way, your deadline if you want to come hang out with the fine FSN folks in Copenhagen this year.

American Sociological Review onto the new FT50 journal list (!)

Come work with us!

"Being a stranger who wanders into (and often quickly out of) people’s lives may have some methodological advantages vis-à-vis allowing for intimacy and distance to commingle." Aliya Rao with a super useful article for thinking about rapport in qualitative research.

Agree. This increases the lottery effect of the results and, in essence, adds more Matthew effect to it.

Man, I hate this decision. I get the drive to reduce submissions given soaring (AI) applications. But given the inherent variability of evaluations, this goes too far in cutting unsuccessful applicants out of the system for years.

Appreciate that this FT piece styles every comment by an opponent of the proposed New York 'pied-à-terre' tax as made by "John Rich, who spent X million dollars opposing Mamdani’s candidacy"

Today, Danish political leaders took a full-day break from coalition negotiations to hear lectures from (amongst others) @abenewman.bsky.social and @adler-nissen.bsky.social on AI, tech, and geopolitics. Pretty cool.

Per today's OECD Secretary-General report to the G20 leaders, we are *firmly* back in the doomloop "delay" territory.

Where’s the Troika when you need ‘em?

"The Pope is weak on crime and wrong on theology", I'm sorry but there's simply no way anything is going to top that for the remainder of the year, no way.

Integration is a logical response to market trends + recurring scandals but will also make it harder for the global network to ringfence national units, a hitherto favoured response when faced with reputational crises.

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

Tilly: War made the state Silly:

Very excited about updating my Cuban missile crisis teaching to the more contemporary Trump Hormuz crisis teaching.

The Hormuz business has got to have some entrepreneurial Danish politicians thinking, "hmm, maybe we can revive the sound dues (Øresundstolden) of 1429, I mean, 5% of world oil supplies pass through Danish waters for god's sake"

"For every additional dollar of windfall profit, approximately $0.20 is booked in tax havens. This diversion intensifies during commodity booms." Noteworthy in light of <gestures broadly at the world> taxobservatory.world/publication/...

ECB to European governments: Please please invest in renewables, it’ll make our job so much easier. Plain as day.

Finished up C. Thi Nguyen’s The Score (it’s good), and the quote that’ll stick with me is, “Cheese is glorious in the mouth, but hard to express in the language of bureaucracy” (it’s not a book about cheese)

From all of us to all of you:

Trump war windfall taxes are coming

Chart for the ages. In Danish but what you see here is a significant decline in visits to official public health platforms after the launch of Google's AI summaries (which, systematically, provide non-evidenced health advice).

Trump war windfall taxes are... coming?

Democratic duty done ✅ Happy election day 🇩🇰

Well when you put it like that..

Doomloop update time, folks. We're slowly re-entering "delay" territory.

Vigtig historie her - velkrydret med gode kommentarer fra min knivskarpe kollega Benjamin Egerod:

Wow, this looks like fantastic and important work.

Amid the AI influx, SocArXiV continues to be an important critical voice in/for the social sciences

I can see a world where this brings windfall taxes back on the menu

Pleased to be quoted in today's @nytimes.com, supporting their reporting on the Iran war with a China angle: “China’s push for renewable energy is not motivated by the environment but by the need for energy security and also as a driver of growth.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

Fall me: sure I can lump together all my teaching for the year in the spring, it’ll be fine. Spring me: who’s the idiot that lumped together all my teaching for the year in the spring?