"Critical pedagogy is out; productivity hacks are in. What’s sold as innovation is really surrender. [...] The future of education has already arrived, as a liquidation sale of everything that once made it matter." #HigherEd www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

‘The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban

Thanks, but no thanks. We don't want Amazon, Microsoft and Google to invest a trillion dollars in datacenters in Europe that will bring data of EU citizens within reach of Trump and will lock-in our digital dependence for decades to come. We need to start building our own digital infrastructure.

🚨BREAKING | 1,600+ fossil fuel lobbyists given access to #COP30 in Brazil EU governments alone brought 84 fossil fuel lobbyists, including representatives from TotalEnergies and Engie Climate policies can't be effective if they are shaped by the industry that is most responsible for climate change

The EU's environment ministers have agreed a proposed climate target for 2040 that is much lower than what even the EU's own science advisers called for Half-assing climate action will lead to more deaths, more lost homes, more lost harvests – and the EU will struggle play leader at #COP30 #EU2040

Lieve media, Wilders kan Playbook Trump alleen uitrollen als jullie, als wij journalisten, verslag doen van giftig nepnieuws als waren het feiten. Als er geen enkel bewijs is voor fraude, zijn dit soort berichten nagels aan de doodskist van de democratie

When activists reach out to us, they're often stuck in a frustrating situation: corporate harm is clear, but the link to those responsible is hard to prove 🤯 SOMO's free helpdesk, The Counter, helps find that missing link🔍 Need help exposing corporate harm? Get in touch ➡️ www.somo.nl/the-counter/

The fossil fuel industry’s playbook: Deny. Delay. Dilute. Chapter 2 of “Climate Obstruction” shows how Big Oil reinvented obstruction for the net-zero era. Read: cssn.org/news-researc...

Imagine selling off iconic landscapes like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite’s Half Dome to the highest bidder. Pretty crazy, right? That’s what’s happening in the Arctic. Last week, the Trump regime finalized its plan to sell off 16 million acres of public lands in the Arctic to oil and gas. 💔

Van der Plas boos op NOS: 'Ik word hier gewoon midden in een inhoudelijke discussie geplaatst' #hetdebat #slotdebat #verkiezingen

"3,000 CDC staffers have left since January, with thousands more gone from the FDA and NIH. The expertise drain also hits cyber defense, nuclear safety, weather forecasting and disaster response."😱 Enabled by a complicit GOP Congress that will live in infamy. www.axios.com/2025/08/30/t...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

That was fun to finally meet @brandaid-world.bsky.social in person in Copenhagen and discuss #realpuppetregime

If this continues, our recent paper (w/ Niels Selling) in the Journal of Business Research will soon turn out to be a history paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

DOD ending social sci. research funding--stopping 91 studies related to threats like climate change, extremism, & disinfo. "[DOD] does not do climate change crap,' Def. Sec. Hegseth wrote on X...'We do training & war fighting.'” For yrs, DoD acknowledged env. change threatens military capabilities

Denying the existence of a problem does not make it disappear. globalnews.ca/news/1107221...

Next time you publish something you feel is worthy of telling the world about, consider these steps for social-media-facilitated dissemination and attention assessment. Via publisher: doi.org/10.1016/j.bu... Open access preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=410...

"Bridging internal and external stakeholder expectations together: The new role of “issue brokers” in corporate social responsibility" - blog on our new paper in SO w/ Michiel de Roo, Christopher Wickert and Tom Elfring - www.vumanagementperspectives.com/2025/02/03/b...

"The dept’s letter will compel many of you to hide, rename or altogether discontinue DEI initiatives. I insist on doing the opposite. Now is the time to showcase DEI activities." I'd missed this by Shaun Harper and damn it's good. Such good guidance in here. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

Important editorial, also for other fields such as management and organization studies

Glaciers provide stable melting water to a very large % of all farms in the entire world. When (not if) we lose this stable, slow, dependable glacier melt water, our food system will collapse.

Monthly global climate data update from JMA for the month of January 2025. Hottest month of January since 1891. datagraver.com/climate-data... #climate

This is the one article to read on contemporary (and future) U.S. politics. Laid out analytically and clearly. There is a hint of optimism (which I do not share but do appreciate).

CFP for Special Issue "Disaggregating Corporate Politics through Political Work: Implications for Business Ethics" in Journal of Business Ethics - now with an extended deadline (March 31)! link.springer.com/collections/... @onnamalou.bsky.social @tazeeb.bsky.social @frankdebakker.bsky.social

Interesting study on trust in science: "we cannot discount the concern that lack of trust in scientists by even a small minority may affect considerations of scientific evidence in policymaking." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free public education matters more than ever. So I've launched an online class on 'Surviving Organizations'. Each week, I'll cover one academic paper/book that deals with the reality of organizations & how to better navigate it. On TikTok too (@DrKorica). Do join! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

📢 Call for Poster Sessions for the 4th Migration and Family Economics Workshop, hosted by IÉSEG School of Management in 📍 Paris, on June 16-17, 2025. Great opportunity for PhD students and postdocs. 📌 Deadline: April 13, 2025. #📉📈EconSky please repost

How tyranny begins - www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

They put a toddler in the White House.

The world’s richest 1% have already used up their fair share of the global carbon budget for 2025, just 10 days into the year. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Transparency geek news: from the 1st of January, the EU Commission started to proactively publish minutes of the meetings held between lobbyists and staff with management function (from DG to head of units). It's short, and not very detailed, but still a step toward transparency

Meta is deleting links to Pixelfed, a decentralized, open source Instagram competitor that has had skyrocketing signups in recent days: www.404media.co/meta-is-bloc...

Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly

🆕 PIK study: Pricing greenhouse gas-intensive foods could help German agriculture meet climate targets while generating 8.2 billion € annually. If these funds were redistributed to households, it would alleviate financial strain and promote sustainable consumption: pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Tipping points phys.org/news/2024-12...

Carbon capture: The inside story of how the oil & gas industry's delay tactic became a darling of the EU - to the detriment of genuine climate action www.euronews.com/green/2024/1...

‪With Michiel de Roo, Chris Wickert and Tom Elfring, we examined how CSR managers engage w/ external stakeholders and internal buyers using three dynamic tactics: mobilizing external stakeholders, buffering external expectations, and moderating between parties (journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....)

Activism in 2024: theecologist.org/2024/dec/12/...

Redefining activism in a new context: www.thecut.com/article/what...

Follow Friday tip: bsky.app/profile/moma...

A new @banktrack.bsky.social ranking of the world's top 50 banks - most are failing badly on meeting UN human rights standards. Useful ranking in pic. www.banktrack.org/download/the...

Meanwhile "Opposition parties and human rights organisations in Paraguay have condemned an alarming new law giving the government powers to shutter NGOs who fail to comply with onerous additional audits–and suspend their directors and staff for up to five years." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

'Just sustainable transitions' - report by EEA: www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in...

Our Polarization Lab at Duke hopes to hire another post-doc this year-- apply below and/or please share with people who might be interested: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29305

A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...

📢 CfP: The #climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses & damages to real and financial #assets. But the dynamics and consequences of asset stranding are poorly understood. That´s why @trgn.bsky.social, @pgolka.bsky.social and I put together a special issue with SER academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

The G20 has removed language calling for the "transition away from fossil fuels," agreed on at COP28, from its leaders' statement in Rio. You can call this backsliding, or you can call it murderous indifference. Really, up to you. www.ft.com/content/8352...

"With rich Amazon forests and fewer than a million people, Suriname is one of the few countries that absorbs more carbon than it produces. But the former Dutch colony is now being forced to implement destructive austerity by global financial interests." jacobin.com/2024/11/suri...