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Frank de Bakker

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Professor of Business & Society @IESEG | France | the Netherlands | organization studies | activism | social movements | CSR | sustainability managers | corporate political activity

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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Based on our Special Issue in Business & Society, we wrote an op-ed for @theconversation.com on how to manage partnerships (w/ Ralph Hamann, Domenico Dentoni, @mlinnenluecke.bsky.social and Amelia Clarke). Check the link below... @iesegresearch.bsky.social theconversation.com/partnerships...
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Partnerships between government, business and civil society are often tense: 3 tips on how to manage them
Partnerships need to grapple with the tension between what to preserve and what to change rather than be paralysed by it.
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The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com · 09/09/2026
Good partnerships don’t happen by accident. What can organisations do to navigate competing interests and build trust? Three practical lessons: theconversation.com/partnerships... #BusinessAndEconomy
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Partnerships between government, business and civil society are often tense: 3 tips on how to manage them
Partnerships need to grapple with the tension between what to preserve and what to change rather than be paralysed by it.
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Based on our Special Issue in Business & Society, we wrote an op-ed for @theconversation.com on how to manage partnerships (w/ Ralph Hamann, Domenico Dentoni, @mlinnenluecke.bsky.social and Amelia Clarke). Check the link below... @iesegresearch.bsky.social theconversation.com/partnerships...
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Partnerships between government, business and civil society are often tense: 3 tips on how to manage them
Partnerships need to grapple with the tension between what to preserve and what to change rather than be paralysed by it.
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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"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...
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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 Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/12/2025
‘The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban
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‘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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Kim van Sparrentak @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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.
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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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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🚨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
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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 05/11/2025
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
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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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Marcia Luyten @marcialuyten.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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
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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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/
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Climate Social Science Network @cssn.org · 28/10/2025
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...
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 28/10/2025
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. 💔
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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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De Speld @speld.nl · 28/10/2025
Van der Plas boos op NOS: 'Ik word hier gewoon midden in een inhoudelijke discussie geplaatst' #hetdebat #slotdebat #verkiezingen
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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
"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...
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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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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
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...
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Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
That was fun to finally meet @brandaid-world.bsky.social in person in Copenhagen and discuss #realpuppetregime
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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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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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 11/03/2025
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
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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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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Denying the existence of a problem does not make it disappear. globalnews.ca/news/1107221...
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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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Ian McCarthy @toffeeman68.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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...
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"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...
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Bridging internal and external stakeholder expectations together: The new role of “issue brokers” in corporate social responsibility - VU Management Perspectives
In the ever-evolving landscape of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable business practices, organizations face a critical question: how can they effectively respond to societal challen...
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
"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...
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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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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Important editorial, also for other fields such as management and organization studies
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Sustainable Farming @sustainablefarming.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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.
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Datagraver @datagraver.com · 17/02/2025
Monthly global climate data update from JMA for the month of January 2025. Hottest month of January since 1891. datagraver.com/climate-data... #climate
Graph with monthly world temperature anomalies compared to the 1991-2020 average, since 1891, plus a 10 year moving average.
This has gone from -0.8 beginning of 1900 to +0.36 now.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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).
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The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
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Laura Olkkonen @lauraonen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Call for Papers - Disaggregating Corporate Politics through Political Work: Implications for Business Ethics
Guest Editors Onna Malou van den Broek, University of Exeter, UK & CBS, Denmark, Onna Malou van den Broek Laura Olkkonen, LUT University, Finland, Laura ...
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
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...
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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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Prof Maja Korica @drkorica.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
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/...
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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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Enkelejda Havari @enkehavari.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
📢 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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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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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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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
How tyranny begins - www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
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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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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
They put a toddler in the White House.
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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/...
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World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create
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Jean Comte @jeancomte.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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...
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Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
Pixelfed said it is "seeing unprecedented levels of traffic."
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Parents For Future #EndFossilFuels 🪧🛢️❌ @parentsforfuture.de · 09/01/2025
Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly
Cartoon by Jonesy. Business executives look out of a window at fires burning, one says “Somehow we need to monetise this - and quickly”
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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
🆕 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...
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Tipping points phys.org/news/2024-12...
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Antarctica's tipping points threaten global climate stability
Antarctica is approaching a series of cascading tipping points that could reshape ecosystems and intensify global climate disruptions, according to a new study by an international team of scientists, ...
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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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How CCS became the fossil fuel industry’s favourite ‘escape hatch’
Oil and gas lobbyists have helped push carbon capture and storage into the heart of Europe’s climate plans.
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
‪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....)
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Activism in 2024: theecologist.org/2024/dec/12/...
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Activist arrests in UK 'three times global average'
Study finds a high proportion of climate and environmental protests globally now involve arrests, particularly in Australia and the UK.
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Redefining activism in a new context: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What Activism Will Look Like in Trump’s Second Term
You can leave your blue bracelets at home.
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Follow Friday tip: bsky.app/profile/moma...
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Jesse Griffiths @jesselgriffiths.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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...
Ranking of top 50 banks
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Michael Dean @michaelleedean.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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...
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Alarm over new law giving Paraguay powers to crack down on NGOs
Activists condemn law and liken it to civil society crackdowns in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Hungary and Russia
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Frank de Bakker @frankdebakker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
'Just sustainable transitions' - report by EEA: www.eea.europa.eu/en/topics/in...
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Environmental inequalities
Communities with lower levels of income and education are often more impacted by air, water and noise pollution, as well as climate change. So are the elderly, children and other vulnerable groups. In...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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
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Duke University, Statistical Science
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
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Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
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