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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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...

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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 👇👇👇👇👇

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

$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

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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....

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Waag Futurelab @waag.org · 17/07/2026

🚨 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

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Alan Jagolinzer @jagolinzer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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...

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Jeroen van der Sluijs @jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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...

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Jules Wilson @julescwilson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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.

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Eric Smit @esmit-thefirewall.eurosky.social · 17/05/2026

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

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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....

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

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

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...

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View of Constitutive Regulation as a Compromise for Disruptive Innovation?

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Martijn Arets @martijnarets.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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...

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

💸 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

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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.

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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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Eric Smit @esmit-thefirewall.eurosky.social · 15/03/2026

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

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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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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

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

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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🧵

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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.

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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...

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Kurt Vandaele @kurtvandaele.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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

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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🌟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...

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

"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...

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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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Marleen Stikker @marleen.oso.social · 18/12/2025

Al meer dan 500 ondertekenaars: openletter.earth/nl/zorgvuldi...

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Progressive News Service @prognews.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Amazon workers go on strike world-wide. “From Germany to Bangladesh, thousands of workers walked off the job on Friday and marched against Amazon’s labor practices to push for better wages, working conditions, and union protections." www.commondreams.org/news/make-am...

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Global Black Friday Strikes Against Amazon Target 'Techno-Authoritarian' Assault on Workers | Common Dreams

"We are joining Make Amazon Pay to demand the most basic rights: safety, dignity, and the chance to go home alive," said one Amazon worker from India.

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Er komt een nieuw kabinet. Maar de onderwijsbezuinigingen van 606 miljoen op het hoger onderwijs staan nog. We blijven druk zetten op de politiek en komen we 9/12 weer in actie! Zorg dat je erbij bent✊ Stop de sloop van het hoger onderwijs‼️ 📍De Dam, Amsterdam 📅Di 9/12 🕛12:00 uur lnkd.in/eAh3bTwZ

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Jaap van Slageren @jvanslageren.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Publication Alert: @evertmeijers.bsky.social and I examined the spatial orientation of MPs in NL. We studied whether MPs' region of origin matters and the parties' electoral consequences. We show a paradox: peripheral places don't reward parties that pay attention to them doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

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Unequal Political Representation of Core and Periphery: How Regions That Don’t Matter Vote for Parties That Don’t Bother

Geographical orientation of political party families in the Netherlands, 2017-2021.

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

New SPECIAL ISSUE on "Geographies of Innovation and #Wellbeing" in RRR with papers on theoretical foundations, on regional inequalities (due to autonomation and energy transition), the Corona pandemic and #qualityoflife, and the social innovation of citizens' juries link.springer.com/journal/1003...

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Review of Regional Research

Review of Regional Research is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing original research across all fields of regional science. The ...

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New paper "Geographies of Innovation and Well-being" with Fulvio Castellacci + @emilevenhuis.bsky.social: rdcu.be/eJJpO. We outline the pathways through which innovation can contribute to #wellbeing and how political considerations regarding well-being provide #directionality in innovation (policy).

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Geographies of innovation and well-being

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

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Martijn Arets @martijnarets.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Event: "Ghostwork, de onzichtbare arbeid achter AI Hoe beschermen we de 150 miljoen datawerkers achter onze AI?" Kom op 15 oktober naar de Hogeschool van Amsterdam en neem deel aan een discussie over hoe we datawerk een plek kunnen geven in discussies over Responsible AI. www.hva.nl/evenementen/...

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Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University @uugeo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Kom op zondag 5 oktober naar het Utrecht Science Park! Kan een rivier naar de rechter? Bouw met lego je eigen droomtuin! En hoe maak je olifantentandpasta? Ontdek dit en nog veel meer tijdens het Weekend van de Wetenschap, voor families met kinderen tussen de 8-12 jaar. www.uu.nl/agenda/neem-...

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Neem een kijkje achter de schermen van de Universiteit Utrecht en kom naar het Weekend van de Wetenschap!

Op zondag 5 oktober 2025 organiseert het Centrum voor Wetenschap en Cultuur (CWC) het Weekend van de Wetenschap: een publieksevenement met verschillende activiteiten gericht op families met kinderen t...

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Follow the Money @ftm.nl · 20/09/2025

Wat betekent het voor ons als tech-miljardairs en cryptobedrijven de heerschappij van de banken zullen doorbreken? In zijn nieuwe boek ‘Geld genoeg, maar niet voor jou’ neemt Thomas Bollen je mee naar goudkluizen, banktorens en cryptofeestjes. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/ho...

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Hoe heroveren we de macht over ons geld?

Van woningnood en groeiende ongelijkheid tot de opkomst van autocratische leiders – in zijn nieuwe boek ‘Geld genoeg, maar niet voor jou’ legt FTM-journalist Thomas Bollen bloot waarom de grote proble...

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Stefan ten Teije @stefantt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Onderzoeksjournalistiek is superbelangrijk. Gelukkig is het niveau in Nederland hoog. Maar het kost meer tijd en geld dan het formuleren van een mening... Word dus snel vriend van @investico.bsky.social en steun onderzoeksjournalistiek. Kan al vanaf 1 euro per maand. Je helpt ze er ontzettend mee.

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Laat de feiten regeren. Word nu Vriend van Investico.

Antidemocratische krachten en cynische politici zijn in opkomst. Feitenvrije politiek bedreigt onze vrijheid. Steun onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalistiek en laat de feiten regeren.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If you think technology will solve your problems, you don't understand technology and you probably don't understand your problems either.

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Koen Frenken @kfrenken.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a new global policy tracker to provide a comprehensive overview of legislative initiatives concerning digital labour ('#gigeconomy') platforms. Great resource for all stakeholders. See: www.ilo.org/resource/new...

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ILO launches Global Policy Tracker on Digital Labour Platforms

A new ILO resource to support evidence-based policymaking and social dialogue on platform work.

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

My new article "Do artifacts have political economy" out in @sthv.bsky.social - developing a constructivist #politicaleconomy as a way to understand the embedding of political economy in #technology (incl bridges, #generativeAI + #adtech)

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Dom White @domw.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do. Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

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Mirko Tobias Schäfer 🇪🇺 @mtschaefer.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Just out our paper on realities, politics & economics of so-called digital twins, and how the imaginary of "digital twins" is stifling dissemination & implementation. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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