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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Great news! Several years of punitive visa rules, higher taxes, hostile rhetoric and banning English are finally paying off! Highly educated people may be fleeing the US but they won’t be coming here. Dutch firms, universities, hospitals will be truly grateful!

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

When the Great Defunding started in 2025, the European Union introduced a "bold" program to attract top scientists from the US, funded at the tune of about ~$500 million spread over 3-5 years. In 2024, the NIH allocated almost twice as that per week.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

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Gaston Heimeriks @gastonheimeriks.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

We are organising a track on Science and New Forms of Geopolitics at the STS NL conference 2026 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...

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Ben Coates @bencoates1.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

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Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026

The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).

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Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) @tipconsortium.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Chats open - let us know if you would like to be added to (or removed from) our TIP starter pack! go.bsky.app/JrihoW5

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Lucas Guttenberg @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far. Here is why:

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Eu-SPRI Forum @euspri-forum.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

📢 PhDs & Postdocs: Join the Eu-SPRI Early-Career Training School📍Utrecht, 7–10 Oct 2025 🎓 Governance of Science, Technology & Innovation (STI) Policy in Times of Transformation ✅ Deepen your expertise ✅ Engage with global scholars ✅ Explore pathways to policy impact 🗓️Apply by 14 July. Link below👇

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The thing about Europe: it's the actual land of the free now. Whatever problems Europe has - and it has plenty - it is looking pretty damn good by comparison these days. My Charlemagne this week www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

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The thing about Europe: it’s the actual land of the free now

Europe’s very real problems don’t look so bad by comparison

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Important and interesting work on EU regional cohesion policies and how they need to be reformed.

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 16/03/2025

Europe has a generational opportunity to generate a brain gain that would benefit its research and its economy, but funding needs to follow It's not just a matter of attracting US-based scientists, it's also a matter of home growing scientists

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Caroline de Gruyter @carolinedegruyter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Here lies a monumental chance for European universities: recruit the best & brightest academics in America, axed by Musk - now! www.ft.com/content/64ad...

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Columbia University loses $400mn in US government grants

Federal agencies say the ivy league institution failed to protect Jewish students from harassment

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Nils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The EU’s Clean Industrial Deal is out. While the communication is mostly a grab bag of announcements for future legislative proposals, it still marks a real shift in how the EU approaches industrial policy—and, for the most part, a positive one. Three key takeaways: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Gaston Heimeriks @gastonheimeriks.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

"The goal isn’t just to change who runs government agencies—it’s to fundamentally transform how power operates, shifting it from democratic institutions to technical systems controlled by a small elite."

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The Arizona State University charter is really rather lovely -

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Eu-SPRI Forum @euspri-forum.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Call for proposals for Doctoral Researchers and Early Career Researchers in Eu-SPRI member organisations. Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher and PhD Circulation Award Submission deadline: 11th March 2025 Further details are available on the Eu-SPRI website bit.ly/3E7TmnX

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Utrecht University has formulated 10 Graduate Attributes which reflect what @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social believes is important in its students' development: from academic knowledge and skills to personal growth and societal responsibility. www.uu.nl/en/education...

screenshot of text on the page that is linked in the post, listing the 10 new graduate attributes that Utrecht University articulated in their new education model for the master level.

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Ben Johnson @ersatzben.com · 27/11/2024

I really liked the Google DeepMind paper on science for AI. There is a lot in there that was new to me. It is long, yes, but the encyclopaedic treatment -grounded in real examples- brings detail and colour to a discussion that suffers from under- and overhype.

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Gaston Heimeriks @gastonheimeriks.bsky.social · 29/03/2024

"If you want a theory that accounts for 1,000 years of inequality, you’ll need an independent variable, an underlying causal driver. For a minute I thought that, in assigning this role to productivity, the authors were onto something weird enough to be interesting." issues.org/power-progre...

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Gaston Heimeriks @gastonheimeriks.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Some interesting thoughts on thinking www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Gaston Heimeriks @gastonheimeriks.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Really interesting essay on the rise of populism and social contracts breaking down. www.edelman.com/trust/edelma...

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