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Maarten Vink

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all about citizenship | 🇳🇱 prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social 🇮🇹 🇪🇺 co-director @globalcit.bsky.social 🌏 | resident of Braga 🇵🇹 | eui.eu/people?id=maarten-vink | #MigCitSky | maartenpvink.substack.com | 🚲 cyclist in Florence ⚜️

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📣 New GLOBALCIT Review Symposium 📖 ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez, featuring comments by five authors 📝 @liorerez.bsky.social with the kickoff piece 🔗 globalcit.eu/introduction...
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GLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Globalcit
Introduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🟣 @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social What does citizenship renunciation express? 📖 globalcit.eu/introduction... 🟡 @pattitlenard.bsky.social: Does renouncing citizenship express much at all? 👓 globalcit.eu/introduction...
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GLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 4 of 6 - Globalcit
Introduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
⚪ @deeesharp.bsky.social: Renunciation, Emigration and the Point of Citizenship 📖 globalcit.eu/introduction... 🟢 Rainer Bauböck: Emigration is a Reasonable Condition for Renouncing Membership in a Birthright Community 📖 globalcit.eu/introduction...
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GLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 2 of 6 - Globalcit
Introduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🟠 @juleslepoutre.bsky.social: Where Renunciation Leads globalcit.eu/introduction...
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GLOBALCIT Review Symposium on ‘Citizenship Renunciation without Emigration’ by Lior Erez - Page 6 of 6 - Globalcit
Introduction by Lior Erez Comments by Daniel Sharp, Rainer Bauböck , Rebecca Buxton , Patti Tamara Lenard and Jules Lepoutre Read More ...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Citizenship in the News 📰🇪🇸🇲🇦 Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco: The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco
The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat.
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New Blog Post 🚨 Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui asks whether Western citizenship's promise of openness holds up against lived experiences of noncitizenship — and finds the Gulf model is often preferred over naturalising in the Global North 🌍 🔗 tinyurl.com/378b9ssx
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When Noncitizenship in the Arabian Gulf is Privileged Over Pursuing Western Citizenship - Globalcit
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui (Oxford University) Migration Patterns in and from the Arabian Gulf Migration planning and migrant identities in the Arabian Gulf are taking increasingly heterogeneous shapes a...
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
4-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh no... Now also Ireland is planning to increase the residence requirement for naturalisation (from 5 to 8 years)?? If this goes through it would be a pretty dramatic move. Justification rests on picking the most restrictive examples across Europe... www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Oh no... Now also Ireland is planning to increase the residence requirement for naturalisation (from 5 to 8 years)?? If this goes through it would be a pretty dramatic move. Justification rests on picking the most restrictive examples across Europe... www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the weird parts of this story is that Stockholm University apparently was forced to design the new language test for citizenship n Sweden.
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Senegal 🇸🇳 is on course to become the first African Union member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and the eradication of statelessness in Africa 🌍 📰 Catch up with our news article: l1nq.com/2qb458i
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Senegal takes first step towards ratifying the African Protocol on the Right to a Nationality and the Eradication of Statelessness - Globalcit
Senegal is on course to become the first African Union (AU) member state to sign and ratify the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights relating to the right to a nationality and ...
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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Senegalese Council of Ministers communique on adoption of draft law for accession to the Protocol to the ACHPR on the right to a nationality and eradication of statelessness
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
check out @polinera.bsky.social for a great project on Political Inclusion in an Era of Radicalization. POLINERA is a research project funded under the Nordforsk call for Nordic-Baltic research on migration and integration. www.tlu.ee/en/polinera
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Political Inclusion in an Era of Radicalization (POLINERA)
While the success of the populist radical right has been extensively documented in Europe and also the Nordic-Baltic region, we have little knowledge about how this is affecting the local immigrant an...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Let’s how long map providers keep it together…
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Good piece on England’s birthright citizenship in the @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Kathleen Commons · Short Cuts: England’s Birthright Citizenship
It was relatively straightforward for the British government to end birthright subjecthood: statute overrides common law...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Interesting experience sharing insights from @globalcit.bsky.social to weigh in on #citizenship discussions in Italian parliament 🇮🇹. Curious to see what happens from here. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/3...
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EUI expert weighs in on Italian citizenship bill
The European University Institute presents a comparison of the citizenship laws of 32 European countries to Parliament
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Interesting experience sharing insights from @globalcit.bsky.social to weigh in on #citizenship discussions in Italian parliament 🇮🇹. Curious to see what happens from here. @eui-eu.bsky.social @eui-schuman.bsky.social www.eunews.it/en/2026/07/3...
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EUI expert weighs in on Italian citizenship bill
The European University Institute presents a comparison of the citizenship laws of 32 European countries to Parliament
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What do you do when the Supreme Court doesn’t let you redefine birthright citizenship? You bring out the old “alien enemies” card… bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here we go again. 🧵 with links www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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Trump Signs Executive Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship and ‘Birth Tourism’ (Gift Article)
The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Here we go again. 🧵 with links www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
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Trump Signs Executive Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship and ‘Birth Tourism’ (Gift Article)
The orders come after the Supreme Court ruled June 30 that President Trump’s previous efforts to end birthright citizenship were unconstitutional.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Trump administration’s cuts to blue states effectively reclassify many Americans to second class citizens based on residency. @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Trump administration’s cuts to blue states effectively reclassify many Americans to second class citizens based on residency. @donmoyn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Grazie a Beda Romano per aver ripreso, nel suo blog per Il Sole 24 Ore, il mio intervento nell'audizione del 21 luglio davanti alla Commissione Affari Costituzionali della Camera dei deputati sulla proposta di legge A.C. 2124. bedaromano.blog.ilsole24ore.com/2026/08/02/l...
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La vicenda di Ceuta, la reazione del governo Meloni e le restrizioni all'ottenimento della nazionalità italiana - Dal fronte di Bruxelles (ex GermaniE)
Molti commentatori hanno criticato in questi giorni il governo Meloni per la reazione avuta dinanzi agli avvenimenti di Ceuta, l’enclave spagnola in territorio africano. Sono d’accordo con molte delle...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The perimeters of a new paper has been agreed to!
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Zoon van collega zoekt kamer in regio Rotterdam.
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Jani Erola @janierola.net · 02/08/2026
My son Eemil is about to begin his studies at Rotterdam Business School this autumn. If you know someone in the region who needs a trusty tenant, please let me known! Anything in a commutable range would definitely be fine, Eemil has already extended his search to Delft, Gouda and Dordrecht.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Huh… what? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Drifting SpaceX rocket heading for accidental collision with moon
Scientists and sky gazers will watch intently as rocket’s upper stage slams into lunar surface on Wednesday
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Citizenship in the News 📰 🇰🇭 Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’: Is the new law a legal tool to promote nationalism or a weapon to silence dissent? globalvoices.org/2026/07/19/c...
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Cambodian law can render citizens stateless for ‘undermining national security’
“I know how easily words like ‘traitor’ and ‘enemy’ can be wielded by those in power to crush hope and sow fear.”
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Citizenship in the News 📰 🌏 With comments by our Country Expert Christoph Sperfeldt Born Without a Country: In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality daily.jstor.org/born-without...
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Born Without a Country - JSTOR Daily
In Southeast Asia, colonial legacies and citizenship policies continue to leave hundreds of thousands without legal nationality.
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
❗New Entry Paola Cavalieri questions whether trust & sociability, the preconditions for interspecies politics in the debate, hold against the industrial agribusiness 🏭 Animal resistance is political action, doing politics with them starts with supporting that 🐾 📖 tinyurl.com/af5ybcbt
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Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Page 3 of 3 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Comments by Maneesha Deckha, Paola Cavalieri Read More ...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
So let me get this straight. This morning, André Ventura (Chega) suggests there was a Watergate-like break-in at his parliamentary office. CCTV reportedly showed 1 of his own MPs entering the office at 7am while cleaners said it was left open overnight Desperate? sicnoticias.pt/pais/politic...
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Citizenship in the News 📰🇮🇹🇪🇺 Italy sends citizenship-by-descent dispute to the Court of Justice: The Constitutional Court halted challenges to the Tajani Decree and asked whether restrictions affecting people born before the law took effect comply with EU law edition.cnn.com/2026/07/25/t...
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The global battle for Italian citizenship rights just got a potential lifeline | CNN
Italy’s Constitutional Court has referred a strict new law restricting citizenship to Europe’s highest court, offering hope to thousands seeking a new nationality.
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New Entry 📣 The Politics of Everyday Lives: A Feminist Perspective on What Counts as Political Maneesha Deckha argues that treating animal sociality as "underlying" politics reproduces the public/private divide Caregiving & family life are political acts in their own right 🐾🏡 tinyurl.com/5n74cw7j
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Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Page 2 of 2 - Globalcit
Kickoff contribution by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka Comments by Maneesha Deckha Read More ...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Among the thousand reasons to enjoy the summer on Portugal’s Silver Coast are the most beautiful, in-your-face sunsets. Boas férias! 🌅
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Among the thousand reasons to enjoy the summer on Portugal’s Silver Coast are the most beautiful, in-your-face sunsets. Boas férias! 🌅
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Check out also at @eui-sps.bsky.social Peter Mair Assistant Professorship in Comparative Politics Deadline: 27 August 2026 at midnight (Florence time) www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Fantastic job opportunity at the European University Institute in Florence: Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics Application deadline: October 15. @eui-sps.bsky.social www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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Jisu Kim @jiisu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
🔊 We are hiring! PhD vacancy: Migration Narratives in Digital Societies How do online migration debates become politically consequential? Where: Utrecht University Deadline for application: 20th August 2026 Starting date: 1 October 2026 For more details: www.uu.nl/en/organisat...
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PhD: A Multimodal Analysis of Emotion, Narrative, and Migration Politics Online
What Moves Us? - How do emotionally charged migration narratives shape public debate and political engagement?
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Summer Reading? 🤔 We have more than 800 entries in our Citizenship literature Database 🌏 Check out the recent additions 💰 Tax aspects of CBI 🇫🇷 🇦🇷 Minority precarity and diaspora citizenship 🇮🇳 The penal-legal mediation of migration as ‘infiltration’ 🔗 tinyurl.com/47zjfzwn
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Citizenship literature Archives - Globalcit
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
📣 New Forum Debate❗ Kickstarted by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, who ask 🤔 Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents❓ Stay tuned for the ensuing debate 💭 📖 tinyurl.com/5e6hn9ju
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Political Animals: Should non-humans be recognised as co-citizens, denizens and self-governing political agents? - Globalcit
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Science comment on the supposed justification of the Trump assault on science funding in the US. “This is all bullshit”
Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about “gold standard science” and the “reproducibility crisis” and funding “bold inquiry” for “transformational breakthroughs”. This is all bullshit, and it’s important to realize that. Shameless hand-waving bullshit, delivered in a how-dare-you-think-otherwise manner is the defining style of the entire Trump administration. You can see it in every appointee, in every part of the executive branch, and in the pronouncements of all of Trump’s supporters. I realize that this is a simple heuristic to apply, and a very unambiguous and unflattering one, but I find it to be all too useful and all too accurate. Give it a try.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Science comment on the supposed justification of the Trump assault on science funding in the US. “This is all bullshit”
Time for another note about the Trump administration’s approach to funding US science. But let me make something clear right up front. When I talk to people about this subject (and that includes some journalists as well) and say what I'm about to at the end of this paragaph I am sometimes met with disbelief. But I mean what I say and I am trying my best to say what I mean: The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story. They are naturally not putting it in those words, but instead talking about “gold standard science” and the “reproducibility crisis” and funding “bold inquiry” for “transformational breakthroughs”. This is all bullshit, and it’s important to realize that. Shameless hand-waving bullshit, delivered in a how-dare-you-think-otherwise manner is the defining style of the entire Trump administration. You can see it in every appointee, in every part of the executive branch, and in the pronouncements of all of Trump’s supporters. I realize that this is a simple heuristic to apply, and a very unambiguous and unflattering one, but I find it to be all too useful and all too accurate. Give it a try.
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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Our GLOBALCIT Co-Director @maartenpvink.bsky.social testified before Italy's Constitutional Affairs Committee ⚖️ The proposed legal amendment, which would restrict access to citizenship for native-born immigrants' children & widen revocation grounds ⚖️ 🇮🇹 Read the full report 📝 tinyurl.com/49dpxw6j
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yes. But keep in mind that the American passport’s decline is modest in absolute terms. So it’s mainly a story about relative decline (change in rank). open.substack.com/pub/maartenp...
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was an honor to speak today at the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies & share evidence from @globalcit.bsky.social, commenting on deeply problematic proposals to restrict access to citizenship for native-born immigrants' children, and widen grounds for revocation.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It was an honor to speak today at the Constitutional Affairs Committee of the Italian Chamber of Deputies & share evidence from @globalcit.bsky.social, commenting on deeply problematic proposals to restrict access to citizenship for native-born immigrants' children, and widen grounds for revocation.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Betting on wildfires occurring clearly should be illegal.
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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Did an interview with @berlingske.bsky.social on worrying developments on citizenship revocation across Europe (esp in Belgium, drastic changes earlier this year). I guess this reaction is a badge of honor… www.berlingske.dk/politik/euro...
Are Danish taxpayers working on construction sites paying for Maarten Vink’s alleged “research”? Because if so, they should get their money back if he does not even follow Supreme Court judgments. I can see that he says he is on Bluesky, which means he is an insignificant loser.
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