Martijn Huysmans

D66 De Bilt presenteert met enthousiasme de kandidatenlijst voor GR2026!
Binnenkort stellen we alle kandidaten uitgebreid aan jullie voor.

Lijsttrekker Donja: “Een sterk team met nieuwe én vertrouwde gezichten. Trots!”

#HetKanWel #D66 #GR26

The American Economic Association's Committee on the Job Market surveyed Economics Departments in the U.S. regarding their plans to hire assistant professors this cycle (2025-26). 29.7% said that their department was under a hiring freeze.
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#EconSky #EconJobMarket

Happy birthday to our Nomenclature des Unités Territoriales Statistiques (NUTS)!

Looking forward to our next PEPP talk with @huysmans.bsky.social, December 2 in the Hague cc. @mileskellerman.bsky.social

Donald Trump told a journalist, “Quiet, piggy,” when she asked him about Epstein—continuing his pattern of demeaning women, Isabel Fattal argues in The Atlantic Daily: theatln.tc/1QFfSAvR

NewsNation chyron: TRUMP: FOOD TARIFFS CUTS WILL LOWER PRICES

it's almost like tariffs increase prices

fd.nl/opinie/15768...

If you like historical fiction, Dutch author Arthur Japin also has good books e.g. In Lucia's eyes, Mrs Degas. (I'm Belgian myself so look at me integrating in my country of residence :)

I concur it's excellent.

Potentially this gives an opening for VVD to enter in a coalition with them after all.

Dutch exit polls show potential clear 4-party centrist majority. D66 currently 27 seats in exit polls (out of 150), PVV second with 25. #NL #dutchelections #NL2025

Morgen kunnen we kiezen. Voor nog meer chagrijn en haat, óf voor hoop, samenwerking en vooruitgang. Het is tijd om de bladzijde-Wilders om te slaan. Stem morgen want samen laten we zien: het kan wél.

Thanks! Flight went well, in-flight entertainment malfunctioned but I mostly slept so can't complain. And I got to visit the Getty before leaving, so I am very happy with the trip.

Didn't know you also went running at IPES, next time I'd be happy to join if you'd have me.

‘Universiteit kan geen vrijplaats voor feitenvrije meningen zijn’ Dat de academische vrijheid onder druk staat, komt niet door de ‘linkse cancelcultuur’, betogen universitair docent Dick Zijp en universitair hoofddocent Mirko Tobias Schäfer. Zij hekelen de beeldvorm...

Opinie van @dickzijp.bsky.social en @mtschaefer.bsky.social. onder meer naar aanleiding van uitzending @nieuwsuur.nl en column van DUB-campuscolumnist.

Siri, show me how a narcissist or sociopath might respond to the death of a dear family friend and ally.

They published it, and it's even worse than I thought www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

If it's about remembering login details, I have started using @orcid.org to log in to all journal systems, works like a charm!

EJ Antoni has never worked in statistics collection. He is 5 years out of his PhD. He's only ever written one economics paper. His explicit, only qualifications are that he works in ultra-conservative think tanks & believes Trump's conspiracies about the BLS. Grim stuff.

The fun doesn't end

You can't make this up, continued... #"PhD level intelligence". #ai

Meta AI seems to be overcorrecting... But sure, current AI models have "PhD level intelligence".

Stanford is hiring: tenure-track, assistant professor position in Sustainable Food Systems. Please share! #academia

Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency White House cites Unesco’s focus on ‘divisive social and cultural causes’ in latest withdrawal from global bodies The US will quit the United Nations’ culture and education agency Unesco as Donald Trump continues to pull out of international institutions, the US state department said on Tuesday. “Unesco works to advance divisive social and cultural causes and maintains an outsized focus on the UN’s sustainable development goals, a globalist, ideological agenda for international development at odds with our America First foreign policy,” a state department spokesperson, Tammy Bruce, said in a statement. Continue reading...

Trump pulls US out of Unesco in blow for UN culture and education agency

Text of the press release. Full text in the link

EU Commission president responds to Trump's latest tariff letter
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

I mean, if you want to be extremely charitable, it could be a way to raise revenue (i.e. tax your citizens), while potentially getting a small rebate through terms-of-trade. But then just come out and say that, rather than "there is no tariff if you grow the bananas (and the coffee etc) in the US"

Dutch cabinet in trouble as Wilders' PVV announces it is leaving the coalition.

@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

The EU's hand suddenly looks much stronger. Good that it didn't fall for the empty 50% threat and hasn't caved in any way.