Excellent: The right trip, at the right price, to the right driver: Understanding Uber’s dynamic pay system in Europe. Evidence from ten European countries. www.etuc.org/en/publicati...

Bart Verspagen over maatschappelijke relevantie als kerntaak van de universiteit in antwoord op de ivoren-toren oproep www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

Opinie: Maatschappelijke relevantie is een kerntaak van de academie

De academische vrijheid in het geding door ‘politisering’? Dat past in de tijdgeest om alles wat tegen de sociaal-conservatieve maatschappijopvatting ingaat af te doen als woke en links. Maar het is g...

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My latest op-ed, summing up one of the key messages of my book "The Rulers. Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud" @versobooks.bsky.social 👇👇👇👇👇

Project Syndicate@projectsyndicate.bsky.social · last mo.

For the world's biggest cloud giants, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, AI is a Trojan Horse through which to conquer even greater swathes of the economy, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social argues. bit.ly/4ccLU9t

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tech oligarchy

Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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🚨 Dubbele vacature alert! Waag Futurelab zoekt een Senior Onderzoeker én een Onderzoeker (Publieke technologie), 32-40 uur p/w. Kom bij ons werken in hartje Amsterdam en solliciteer nu! Senior Onderzoeker: waag.homerun.co/senior-onder... Onderzoeker: waag.homerun.co/onderzoeker/nl

Are you a sociologist studying social inequality? Come join our awesome sociology department at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as an assistant professor www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Assistant Professor in Social Inequality

Are you an expert in the sociology of social inequality or social stratification? Do you want to inspire students? Become our new assistant professor!

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Vijf onderbouwde argumenten tegen kernenergie. kernenergie-nee-bedankt.nl

Kernenergie? Nee bedankt.

Vijf redenen waarom kernenergie geen antwoord is op de klimaatcrisis.

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U.S. airlines are starting to onboard more Starlink wifi capability. Here's a peek at their privacy Terms of Service. They apparently collect data from files and also use it for AI. starlink.com/legal/docume...

Joint White Paper @butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @pollinera-horizon.eu @wildposh.eu @agri4pol.eu #ProPollSoil @restpoll.bsky.social @safeguard-pollinators.eu Towards pollinator stewardship in all policies Media coverage in 10 languages butterfly-europe.eu/media-covera...

Yesterday, the UOC's Faculty of Economics and Business, received a fantastic visit from Professor @kfrenken.bsky.social of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, during which he gave a great seminar on his evolutionary capability model in evolutionary economic geography 🤩 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

Science Magazine@science.org · 4mo ago

The White House today announced it plans to make major changes in how the U.S. government manages research funding. https://scim.ag/43HgW4s

Goed Nieuws! Wij zijn gisterochtend met de crowdfunding voor The Firewall begonnen en inmiddels hebben zich meer dan 2.000 medestanders gemeld en beschikken we over meer dan 90 bondgenoten! #StaOpTegenBigTech en word ook medestander van @thefirewall.eurosky.social ! www.thefirewall.eu/doe-mee

#StaOpTegenBigTech Word ook medestander van TheFirewall www.thefirewall.eu/doe-mee

Breek de macht van Big Tech, doe mee

The Firewall is een journalistieke waakhond die niet alleen blaft naar misstanden maar daar ook zijn tanden in zal zetten. The Firewall richt zich op Big Tech en onderzoekt de macht, invloed en impact...

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BIAS Conference - Mitigating Diversity Biases of AI in the Labour Market - Leiden, Sep 02–03, 2026. Send your abstract before 1 April biasconference.zohobackstage.eu/MitigatingDi...

BIAS Conference: Mitigating Diversity Biases of AI in the Labour Market

Join the BIAS Conference: Mitigating Diversity Biases of AI in the Labour Market

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Open Access paper by Gabriël van Rosmalen: 'Balancing Competition and Worker Protection: The EU’s Platform Work Package in a Social Market Economy', in: Utrecht Law Review. Looks at how competition law can be utilised more proactively to protect platform workers utrechtlawreview.org/articles/10....

Balancing Competition and Worker Protection: The EU’s Platform Work Package in a Social Market Economy | Utrecht Law Review

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Open Access paper in Technology & Regulation by @buissink.bsky.social: 'Constitutive Regulation as a Compromise for Disruptive Innovation', on how the French regulatory state uses constitutive regulation for #platformeconomy, creating new identities for social partners. techreg.org/article/view...

𝐖𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐧? Samen met onderzoekers van de Universiteit Maastricht / ROA deed ik onderzoek naar dit vraagstuk. Via het YoungOnes platform vulden 1.790 freelancers onze survey in. De eerste inzichten: www.zipconomy.nl/2025/10/waar...

💸 UK’s multibillion AI push may rest on “phantom investments”, warns IIPP Head of Research @ceciliarikap.bsky.social in a new @theguardian.com investigation. #BigTech can inflate data centre jobs and economic impact to please governments eager to show growth. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/gfyQHBO

By threatening to deny the license of any broadcast news company that does not tow the Trump line, Carr is publicly announcing that the goal of the Trump Administration is to rip up the Constitution to install an authoritarian government.

FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage

FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal.

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Nu de Eurosky er is, heb ik de stap gemaakt om hier een account aan te maken. Ik ga hier vooral over Big Tech en de democratische rechtsstaat berichten. En natuurlijk over Big Tech-waakhond The Firewall thefirewall.eu

The Firewall

The Firewall is een journalistieke waakhond die niet alleen blaft naar misstanden maar daar ook zijn tanden in zal zetten. The Firewall richt zich op Big Tech en onderzoekt de macht, invloed en impact...

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Postdoc job! I'm looking to recruit a postdoc to work on a project about research evaluation & metadata. More info here: www.yorku.ca/research/wp-... Salary: CDN$70,000 (+ benefits) Location: Toronto, ON (can be remote in ON) Length: 18 months Deadline: 31 March 2026 Start date: 1 July 2026

On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

This is a great thread on the bias in metascience itself. There is a big bias towards "its all terrible!!!!" and loads of very unrealistic assumptions. As a community we are also dismal at seeing the very dubious politics behind a lot of metascience throughout its history.

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 8mo ago

On the publication bias discourse, I regret that metascience has become a source of decontextualized, low-res, bean-counting-focused `science is in crisis' narratives. It is largely uncurious abt science, desperately lacking in theory & measurement. I'll quote a few takes I liked & add my thoughts🧵

True cohesion is less about shifting resources between places and more about expanding what individuals can actually do within them. Artelaris & Mavrommatis argue in European Planning Studies for a "people-centric" turn in territorial #Cohesion Policy. doi.org/10.1080/0965...

Congratulations to the editors. Chapter 35 in Section Six is on the ‘Unionisation of Digital Labour’

Rafael Grohmann@grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett. us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...

🌟New book! SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour, edited by Ergin Bulut, Julie Chen, Rafael Grohmann, and Kylie Jarrett. us.sagepub.com/en-us/sam/th...

"Uber Eats doet volgens de Inspectie te weinig om maaltijdkoeriers zonder werkvergunning te weren bij de bezorging. Bij controles bleken koeriers niet over de benodigde documenten te beschikken." nos.nl/artikel/2595...

Arbeidsinspectie wil bezorging door Uber Eats in Amsterdam een maand stilleggen

Uber Eats doet volgens de inspectie te weinig om maaltijdkoeriers zonder werkvergunning te weren bij de bezorging. Bij controles bleken koeriers niet de juiste documenten te hebben.

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Ik wil graag dit NRC-artikel met je delen: "Arbeidsinspectie is klaar met Uber Eats en wil het bezorgplatform een maand sluiten in de regio Amsterdam": www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Arbeidsinspectie is klaar met Uber Eats en wil het bezorgplatform een maand sluiten in de regio Amsterdam

Maaltijdkoeriers: De Arbeidsinspectie en politie constateren dat Uber Eats te weinig doet om illegale maaltijdkoeriers te weren van het platform. Na een reeks boetes wil de inspectie nu een ingrijpend...

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