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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Recently published #openaccess: 'Towards an evolutionary perspective on institutions in economic geography' by Ron Boschma. Find the article at doi.org/10.1080/00343404.20...

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

#Institutions are not spare parts: regional reform must build on the institutional system in place. In @regionalstudies.bsky.social, @ronboschma.bsky.social shows that Innovation, missions and the green transition depend on the rules, norms and trust already in place. space”. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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Jennifer Clark @jclarkcrp.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper Award! Flavio Pinheiro, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Dominik Hartmann & @ronboschma.bsky.social! @regionalstudies.bsky.social

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Andrea Morrison @andrea-morrison.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

‼️DEADLINE IS APPROACHING - APPLY NOW‼️ Winter School #Geography of #Innovation by University of Pavia & Bocconi University held in Pavia on 📅 February 2-6, 2026 👉 lnkd.in/dNFsBmCW #Deadline: October 15, 2025 @ronboschma.bsky.social @dariodiodato.bsky.social @jeromevicente.bsky.social

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Competitiveness thrives on cohesion, not concentration. My brand new article in @regionalstudies.bsky.social makes the case for unlocking #Europe’s full potential, wherever it can be found, as #cohesion is the foundation of #competitivenes, not its antithesis. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"A boycott is in place until further notice." Utrecht University becomes first Western academic institution to announce an academic *boycott* of Israel. This is the result of strategic, ethical work by students & university staff.

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Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Secondly, while average workers’ payroll taxes have fallen, the UK has become increasingly reliant on the payments of the richest taxpayers. The top 1% now pay 29% of the total tax bill, up from 11% in 1980 6/7

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Your DNA sequence reveals a rare mutation. Will you get the disease, i.e. penetrance? A new study using machine learning predicts this across 10 common diseases, 1,600 genomic variants New @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Margaret Rossiter named a truth hidden in plain sight: the Matilda Effect—the systematic erasure of women’s achievements in science. Her three-volume Women Scientists in America proved their exclusion wasn’t because of individual failures but of systemic barriers into the structure of science itself

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 03/08/2025

The Israeli government has told so many lies since Oct. 7. In this video — and in under three minutes — @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunks the top 10 Israeli lies about the genocide in Gaza. Subscribe to Zeteo to support our journalism. Tap the link in bio.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/08/2025

Breaking News: President Trump moved to fire the official in charge of jobs data, claiming, without evidence, that labor numbers were being “manipulated.”

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Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were ‘Manipulated,’ Moves to Fire Labor Official

Economists said ousting the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics could undermine confidence in government economic data.

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Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📢 Call for Editors We invite applications for 2 Editors for @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social . Help shape the future of this leading #openaccess journal in regional studies. Full call at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsrs-ed... 🗓️ Deadline: 30 Sept 2025

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In 2012 and 2013, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing redirected his $3 million performance bonuses to 10,000 of the company’s employees. The amount received per employee was $314. This gesture was made to recognize their contributions in Lenovo’s success. #CorporateLeadership #EmployeeRecognition #Lenovo

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Bas Heijne @basheijne.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

BBB blokkeert. Een mengeling van recalcitrantie, incompetentie en een afzichtelijk gebrek aan verantwoordelijkheidsgevoel - kortom alles wat ons land inmiddels hopeloos op achterstand heeft gezet. Lees en huiver: www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/pow...

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Powerplay bewindspersonen BBB: landbouwpost in Rome blijft voorlopig leeg

Nederland heeft op dit moment geen permanent vertegenwoordiger bij drie VN-organisaties in Rome. De belangrijkste buitenlandse landbouwpost is vacant, omdat de BBB-bewindspersonen weigeren de door amb...

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This is very worrying. Making offering a "bowl of soup" to someone without legal papers a criminal offense. In times of far-right political experimentation, Dutch politics can ill afford a parliamentary "slip-up". It’s up to the Senate now to demonstrate its purpose of chambre de reflexion.

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Misha Teplitskiy | Science of science | on LinkedIn mostly @innovation.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Why do we peer review? In a new paper, we establish a self-interested reason: learning. With a quasi-experimental design applied to admin data from 55 journals, we show reviewing a paper doubles chances of citing it in future work!

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Alex Coad @coad.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@royalsociety.org‬ here is your man, Elon Musk.

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

When you go without food for a while, your body starts a powerful cleaning process that scientists call autophagy. Cells build special containers to trap junk, break it down, and reuse the useful bits for energy. A little hunger gives your body the chance to do its own internal spring cleaning.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Brain scan study of ChatGPT users indicates that ChatCPT reduces brain connectivity. Also: In educational settings ChatGPT users who are forced to write w/o the AI tool perform worse than people who never used AI at all arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 15/06/2025

A leader of the MN House Democrats is murdered by a Republican pro-life activist. Rather than condemning political murder of his opponents, Elon Musk spreads the conspiracy theory that it was done by Democrats. Journalists don’t need to use any social media site. But they really shouldn’t use X.

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Kris Olds @oldskris.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

"The dozen board members of the prestigious Fulbright program that promotes international educational exchanges resigned on Wednesday because of what they said was political interference by the Trump administration in their operations..." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference

The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.

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Johannes Wachs @johanneswachs.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

How much code now comes from AI? With @simonedaniotti.bsky.social, @xfeng.bsky.social & Frank Neffke we estimate that by end-2024 30% of Python functions pushed by US devs on GitHub are AI-generated. Adoption is rapid but diffusion lags globally. How did we do it? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945

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Alexander Bakker @alexanderbakker.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Nederland heeft nu drie migratieministers, maar vrijdag is er geen één aanwezig bij een vergadering van EU-migratieministers…

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Public R&D expenditures in the US is dominated by spendings on defense

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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 28/05/2025

Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the United States is weakening the system of innovation that it has spent decades and trillions of dollars to build—and China is poised to reap the benefits, writes David Victor.

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Trump Is Killing American Innovation

China will reap the benefits.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

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Tom-Jan Meeus @tomjanmeeus.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Een routinier vd Rekenkamer schreef zijn memoires. Ze werden niet gepubliceerd. Hij deed 35 jaar terug zijn eerste - onthullende - stikstofonderzoek op Landbouw, en zijn boek legt grote gelijkenis bloot tussen de omgang met stikstof toen en nu www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

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Interne notities van een Rekenkameronderzoeker over Landbouw

Machtige Tijden: Een oud-onderzoeker van de Rekenkamer beschreef voor intern gebruik zijn jarenlange ervaringen met het ministerie van Landbouw en stikstof: bagatelliseren, verdoezelen, hinderen, (opn...

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Unbelievable, speechless ....

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The majority of people in the British Isles descend from the Spanish. Oxford University discovered that the Celts, Britain's indigenous people, are descended from Iberian men who migrated about 6,000 years ago. They have an almost identical genetic "fingerprint" to the inhabitants of coastal Spain.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

The tyranny of the top-5 journals in economics: "Pursuit of top-5 publications has become the obsession of the next generation of economists... Reliance on the T5 to screen talent incentivizes careerism over creativity... incentivizes professional incest and clientele effects"

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 19/05/2025

This is a really good piece on the haves and have-nots of public higher education, using Western Illinois University as a case study. I'm worried about the future of rural higher education and rural America.

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America’s College Towns Go From Boom to Bust

Enrollment is plummeting at lesser-known universities, taking down the local businesses they had fostered.

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Learn more here: brilliantmaps.com/gdp-europe-1...

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Ron Boschma @ronboschma.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Alfred Wegener noticed how the coastlines of Africa and South America fit together. Then came fossil evidence—identical species were found on both continents. To him, the answer was clear. But back then, science wasn’t ready. After his death, his theory helped form the basis of plate tectonics.

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Hubert Smeets @hubertsmeets.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Trump is finishing aid for independent media in Eastern Europa and Russia. In joint appeal @platformraam.nl & @dekoder.org urge EU to take over/to support these threatened media. It’s in interest of reliable information in East and West. Please share in your network👇 platformraam.nl/raam/appeal-...

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Don't leave independent journalism in Eastern Europe out in the cold

BERLIN/AMSTERDAM, May 15, 2025 – The expertise sites dekoder and Platform RAAM are concerned about the future of independent journalism in and...

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