"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...

We're hiring - come an join our department at @ieseg.bsky.social in Lille, France - recruitment.ieseg.fr/jobs/5120035...

“Standing on the shoulders of giants” Google Scholar just turned 20 years old! Here are some facts and tips about the tool. blog.google/outreach-ini...

Created a list with scholars in the business and society field: bsky.app/profile/did:...

Surprise, surprise

The Death of Critical Thinking Will Kill Us Long Before AI. www.joanwestenberg.com/the-death…

New paper with Niels Selling: 'When employees matter: How employee resource groups and workforce liberalism jointly spur firms to support Pro-LGBTQ legislation' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important work by @samerabdelnour.bsky.social and Nicholas Roy, calculating the carbon emissions and work required to collect and process the 32 million tonnes of debris resulting from destroyed and damaged buildings in Gaza. www.business-school.ed.ac.uk/about/news/c...

Looking for people to follow? Find here a directory of almost 6500 starter packs & growing. Very useful, do share! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...