Iran’s authorities are committing large-scale killing of protesters while having shut down the internet, cutting off people in Iran from the rest of the world.
Iranian authorities should immediately end the bloodshed and release everyone arrested for exercising their human rights.
Amid Iran's internet blackout, there are concerning reports of large scale killings by security forces.
Hear from HRW's Executive Director Philippe Bolopion on the emergency situation in Iran:
IMO one of the best research studies of the year.
TLDR: A new study shows that rideshare has improved employment outcomes, social connections, and well being of people with disabilities—with the highest benefits being for those with vision/hearing or mobility disabilities. WOW. #disabilitysky #phd
Gemini, ChatGPT & Claude: “What is the single best investment equivalent in spending $1000 that I could make if I time traveled back to any destination circa 1300.”
Gemini: Magna Carta stored at Durham Cathedral
ChatGPT: A share in Stora Kopparberg
Claude: A waqf at Al-Azhar
If you support universal basic income, please start walking the walk this year by donating monthly to @itsafoundation.bsky.social in support of making UBI happen, because it's not going to just happen without resources.
Top CEPR Discussion Paper of 2025 - DP19943
Do Temporary Cash Transfers Stimulate the #Macroeconomy? Evidence from Four Case Studies
Valerie Ramey
https://ow.ly/pRhM50XLr81
#CEPR_MG #EconSky #2025inReview
Cezary Miżejewski nie żyje.
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Pictured is the authors' figure, titled, "The downward spiral of junkification." This starts with "commodification of research," which leads to "pay-to-publish proliferation," which leads to "decline in quality and integrity," which leads to "increase in low-quality publications" and "innovation decline", the end result of which is "junkification."
Christmas reading:
The junkification of research - Rhodes & Linnenluecke (Organization, 2025)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... #academicsky
Pictured: the downward spiral of junkification ⬇️
Steven Greenhouse on AI & work. He cites Acemoglu: there are "essentially two routes for developing AI: an anti-worker route and a pro-worker route." Includes link to video of related panel, co-hosted by @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social and @stone-lis.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Americans for Tax Fairness” shows the explosive growth in billionaire wealth in the United States from December 30, 2017, to October 27, 2025. It reports that the number of billionaires increased from 551 to 916, and their total wealth grew from $2.9 trillion to $8.0 trillion—an increase of $5.1 trillion or 176%. The table lists the top 20 billionaires, including Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and others, with each person’s net worth in 2017, their net worth in 2025, and the dollar and percentage growth over the period. Elon Musk’s wealth grew the most in dollar terms (from $20 billion to $490 billion, a 2,305% increase). At the bottom, a highlighted row shows the top 20 billionaires gained $2.45 trillion (a 286.6% increase), while all other billionaires combined gained $2.7 trillion (a 133.2% increase).
New analysis from Americans for Tax Fairness: US Billionaires added $5.1 trillion to their fortunes since 2017. To put that in perspective, if that money went to the American people instead, every household would get $37,800.
📣New #PATHS2INCLUDE working paper, using a cross-nationally harmonized factorial survey experiment designed to study the organizational context of ethnic discrimination.
Read about the experiment and its outcomes 👇 paths2include.eu/publications...
"W sumie nisko opłacani pracownicy doznają pięciokrotnie więcej urazów związanych z upałem niż ich najlepiej wynagradzani współpracownicy".
markiewka.substack.com/p/kryzys-kli...
🗣️ Wypowiedź Sławomira Mentzena z @konfederacja.bsky.social ❌ #fałsz.
💡Wśród projektów dofinansowanych z KPO nie ma wniosku o rozszerzenie działalności o udzielanie chwilówek.
"Being poor is actually a full-time job and being broke is like a full-time job with the amount of paperwork and the time going from office to office proving what you have done. . With Universal Basic Income all that would be eliminated with the time liberated to do something socially productive." – David Graeber
In many ways its the knock-on benefits of UBI that make the policy so important.
Ciężki jest los obrońców demokracji.
This is an extremely informative resource. Visualizes range of estimates of minimum wage estimates across a large number of studies. Also really illustrates which studies are outliers.
Emocjonalizować czy deemocjonalizować wypowiedź o zamachu stanu?
90% of unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in the EU are boys.
Wyniki przeliczenia głosów w ponad 250 komisjach. Nie ma dowodów na masowe fałszerstwa.
Prywatyzacja i urynkowienie - mechanizmy w edukacji, ochronie zdrowia i mieszkalnictwie
Apokalipsa znaczenia i drogi wyjścia
Wdrażanie AI w polskiej administracji publicznej
Incredible!
The EU Commission falsely claims the draft Return Regulation (2025) is based on distinct pieces of research.
See reaction of research insitutes involved.
Evidence-base policies don't allow cherry-picking...
'The road to 80% collective bargaining coverage: the need for ambitious national action plans under the Minimum Wage Directive'
📑 ETUI policy brief by Torsten Müller and @thorsten-schulten.bsky.social
🔗 etui.org/Z6f
"Rada Europy (RE) - międzynarodowa organizacja stojąca na straży praw człowieka i praworządności - orzekła w środę, że Belgia naruszyła prawo do mieszkania. W szczególności skrytykowała politykę mieszkaniową Flandrii."
📕 Launch of the latest edition of our annual joint publication with the European Social Observatory, 'Social policy in the EU: state of play'
🗣️ A full-day conference that brings together leading experts, policymakers, and advocates to unpack the evolving landscape of #SocialEurope
On the agenda 👇
