"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...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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

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

Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date

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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.

US tells EU to 'roll back' digital rules against US tech companies | Euractiv

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick dangled the "carrot" of US giants investing in EU data centres in exchange for "reasonable" laws – and the "stick" of tariffs

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🚨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

Environment ministers botch EU climate targets - Greenpeace European Unit

Brussels – After a night of haggling, the EU’s national environment ministers have proposed a climate target for 2040 that falls significantly short of even the minimum that the EU’s…

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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

NRC@nrc.nl · 10mo ago

Wilders legt zich niet neer bij verkiezingsuitslag, doet onbewezen suggestie van stembusfraude

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. 💔

Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to open the coastal plain of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, renewing long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one...

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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...

Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government

Trump believes the "Deep State," scientific establishment and federal bureaucracy were overdue for a purge.

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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...

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

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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...

When employees matter: How employee resource groups and workforce liberalism jointly spur firms to support Pro-LGBTQ legislation

Employees are increasingly vocal about and attentive toward their organizations’ social policies and practices. Scholars have identified two main chan…

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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

Climate change is now a national security priority for the Pentagon

“There is little about what the Department does to defend the American people that is not affected by climate change,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote. “It is a national security issue, and we mu...

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Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · last yr.

Pentagon abruptly ends all funding for social science research: 91 studies on threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation are halted (with thoughts by me)

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

U.S. rejects 2030 UN goals on ending poverty, tackling climate change - National | Globalnews.ca

The U.S. renunciation was one of the first — if not the first — by any country of the 17 goals that were adopted unanimously by all 193 U.N. member nations.

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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...

A Dear Colleague letter in defense of DEI, by Shaun Harper

Shaun Harper identifies 11 specific actions higher ed institutions can take to uphold their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.

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

Cyrus Mody@ccmmody.bsky.social · 2y ago

under the leadership of editor-in-chief @thatminesgirl.bsky.social the @engrstudies.bsky.social board members (incl. @dmriley.bsky.social & @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social) & former EOCs (Gary Downey & me) have put our names to an editorial regarding current "events" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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.

Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · 2y ago

Forty percent. “European glaciers have shrunk 40% since 2000, study says” on.ft.com/3Xe9j2W

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).

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

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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...

Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

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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/...

Prof Maja Korica on LinkedIn: #education #work #businessschool #careers #betterwork #tiktok | 11 comments

🔔 Free public education matters more than ever. So I've launched an online class on 'Surviving Organizations'. Over on TikTok last Friday, Dr Barlow posted a… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

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📢 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

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How Generative AI Could Transform Scholarly Publishing: Themes and Reflections from Interviews with Industry Leaders

How will generative AI transform scholarly communication and where will change be most rapid and revolutionary?

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

Opinion | Lessons on Authoritarianism From Around the World

Tyranny doesn’t happen overnight. Take it from the people who missed the first signs.

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They put a toddler in the White House.