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Michiel van Meeteren
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Human Geographer, Social Scientist, Teacher, Onetime Musician. Assistant professor @ Utrecht University
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
Stack of blocks labeled, all modern digital infrastructure. A ratchet tipping over the entire stack is labeled AI. A load bearing pillar is labeled unpaid open source development. Another label is AWS, and Cloudflare and Unpaid Open Source Developers.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
New paper Alert! 📣 In all the debates on "left behind places", awareness of historical policies is largely absent. In the Dutch policies to allay uneven development have existed for 70 years and economic geographers were there to study it! in
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Episodes in Dutch Policy to Develop ‘Left Behind Places’ (1945–2025)
This contribution takes Rob Tamsma’s 1972 paper ‘The Northern Netherlands: Large problem area in a small country, small problem area in a large economic community’as a starting point to probe the his...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Join us on the BeNeLux geography conference April 8-10 2025, in Leuven, Belgium. The call for abstracts and early bird registration is now open! (closed December 8), I'm looking forward to a nice but cosy community led geography conference! www.benelux-geo.eu
BeNeLux Geography Conference – BeNeLux Geography
www.benelux-geo.eu
November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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“What could possibly go wrong….”
adamshap.bsky.social Adam Shapiro @adamshap.bsky.social · 27d
Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Voor collega’s die nog wat zweven op links: de PvdD stemde gisteren vóór een bezuiniging op universiteiten van bijna een half miljard. GLpvdA, Volt, SP en D66 tegen

www.utoday.nl/news/76115/e...
Eerste Kamer stemt in met extra bezuinigingen
De Eerste Kamer is dinsdag akkoord gegaan met de aanvullende onderwijsbegroting voor 2025, die ruim 400 miljoen euro aan extra bezuinigingen bevat. Een motie van D66 en andere partijen om deze bezuini...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Wat een verhaal. Zweden heeft een regering die gedoogd wordt door radicaalrechts, dus Thunberg kreeg nauwelijks steun van Zweedse ambassade.
diplomatofnight.com Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · Oct 15
Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc
Aftonbladet
October 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Every academic career is built on rejection, but we don’t show it.

CVs list publications, grants & awards, not rejected manuscripts, unfunded proposals, or failures.

But those invisible rejections shape us more than our successes ever do.

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/fail-bette...

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Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications
The Art of Learning from Rejection
catherineeunicedevries.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Everyday now there is new information detailing just how economically unviable AI is. Data centers will be the new abandoned Walmarts, but on an even larger scale.

futurism.com/future-socie...
AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought
An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.
futurism.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
Intrigued…..
iliasalami.bsky.social Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Oct 5
First day of term at Cambridge tomorrow. Here's an excellent book to inspire the teachers of the world for this academic year.
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
On 8-10 April 2026 the inaugural “BeNeLux Geography” conference will be held in Leuven, Belgium.

🌍 Explore the curated sessions: www.benelux-geo.eu/sessions.html
💡 Submit your own: www.benelux-geo.eu/call-for-ses...
📅 Deadline: 15 October 2025
Proposed Sessions – BeNeLux Geography
www.benelux-geo.eu
October 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Wat een zinnigheid en redelijkheid in dit interview. Het gemak waarmee retoriek en vooroordeel worden doorgeprikt is zowel geruststellend (@jwduyvendak weet waar hij het over heeft) als alarmerend (waarom gaan we allemaal mee in de foute frames?). www.folia.nl/actueel/168424
Hoogleraar Jan Willem Duyvendak: ‘De wetenschap is nog nooit zo weinig elitair geweest’
www.folia.nl
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Chat GPT talks to itself. A cup-de-sac of nothing
bootsmcgoot.bsky.social Boots (real person) @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · Oct 1
"i just use it to generate ideas"
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
Insurance is the canary in the coal mine of what the future will most likely hold….
thierryaaron.bsky.social Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Oct 1
“If we continue, however, with the policies that we have out there, we are clearly on a pathway now of 2.7 degrees or 3 degrees where adaptation is simply not doable anymore. This is just what it is. We cannot protect Amsterdam from sea level rise of 3m. This is just not doable,” Thallinger said.
Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable
Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.
www.cnbc.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
“Labour (and hey the Conservatives too) seem to hate their own voters.”
benansell.bsky.social Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Sep 30
On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n
British Politics' Midlife Crisis
Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters
benansell.substack.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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peteapps.bsky.social
Labour is pitching the New Towns announcement today as a return to the "transformative post-war housing boom under Clement Attlee".

Actually it looks much more like housing policy under Blair, or even Thatcher and Boris Johnson (thread)
September 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New RSA Blog 🗺️ Maps are powerful tools — but do we use their full potential?

@jakobeder.bsky.social reflects on why visual literacy matters in geography & shares 5 simple tips for designing clearer, more engaging maps.

👉 www.regionalstudies.org/rsa-blog/202...
Putting Graphicacy Back into Geography: Why it Matters How We Design Maps for Science Communication - RSA Main
Tools play a crucial role in research and the visual representation of regions. In this piece by Dr Jakob Eder, we explore mapping (graphicacy) and discuss its application and potential improvements f...
www.regionalstudies.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social
“What could possibly go wrong….”
mims.bsky.social Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Sep 26
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history

* Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system

* Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market. Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers. How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
September 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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A logic to trust the future of humanity to….
peterdonaghy.bsky.social Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy.bsky.social · Sep 23
Incredible stuff
No, it's not possible to physically "throw" a paper plane from Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland because the border is an actual physical land boundary, not an aerial one you could cross with a paper aircraft. While you can cross the border with ease for people and goods, the concept of throwing a paper plane across this geographical divide is a physical impossibility. Why It's Not Possible Physical Border: The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is a geographical, not an aerial, boundary. There is no open airspace for paper planes to travel across. Distance: The land border is significant, and a paper plane thrown by hand simply lacks the power and range to cover that distance. Gravity and Aerodynamics: A paper plane is subject to gravity and air resistance, which would quickly bring it down after being thrown. In Summary You can move freely between the two jurisdictions, but this doesn't mean you can throw an object across the physical landmass. The question is about a physical action that cannot be performed over the distance between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
September 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Sums up the right-wing rage against unis beautifully! 😜 “I urge you to make your places of learning return to pre-woke sanity: (…) when the music was better, when colors were more vibrant, when urinating was simpler, and when our foreheads were unburdened by the wrinkles of a life spent in anger”
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 16
"Back when I was in college, I was a cool, virile twenty-two-year-old with washboard abs and a large group of friends. Students today would struggle to say the same, since I’m sixty-two, my kids hate me, and my doctor says I’m prediabetic."
The Problem with American College Campuses Is That I Desperately Miss Being Young
The wokeness epidemic has infected none of our institutions harder than our nation’s college campuses. It’s a sad sight to see these once bastions ...
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September 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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TESG joined the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham, where Dr Melanie Griffiths delivered a powerful lecture on the future of migration studies. Full lecture to appear in our 2026 issue - stay tuned!
September 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Vandaag nieuwe cijfers en een informatieve website. Zendtijdincampagnetijd.nl
September 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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The Groyper Wars
September 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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jvanslageren.bsky.social
Weer een goede aflevering van de SRV podcast! Ook een mooi moment voor wat zelfpromotie over twee onderwerpen die worden besproken. Voor wie een uur discussie tussen twee wetenschappers niet stoffig genoeg vinden: een draadje over de PvdA-PVV overstap met relevante bronnen: bsky.app/profile/jvan...
September 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM