Ruben Kremers

Everything is gender, AI edition.

La friterie de la place Saint-Josse : l'ancienne gérante conserve l'emblématique snack tennoodois "Madame Palma incarne depuis de nombreuses années l'âme de ce lieu emblématique," rappelle la commune, et cela va donc continuer.

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ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality?

Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy

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Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism
International Workshop
Friday, 13 February 2026
Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt
With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills
Please register by February 6!

Wie lässt sich Renaturierung 🌱🌿🌳 erfolgreich politisch gestalten und umsetzen? 18 Studierende der Politikwissenschaft und des Zukunftsmoduls der JGU auf einer 2-tägigen #Exkursion 🧭 im #Nationalpark Hunsrück-Hochwald.

Kalt wars schon - aber ein super Erlebnis!!

Dank an die Freunde der Mainzer Poli

New co-written paper out asking how Marxist IPE can use history to question our theories. We ask how Marxists can study capitalism without reifying the world market?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

fantastic resource!

A thing I like here is (implicitly) bringing the sociology of conferences to political science. What is elsewhere called "field-configuring events" (of which Davos is a great case) is an instructive lens for understanding world politics.

Making sense of funding inequalities in the venture capital space: a state of the art review paper with views from Africa Abstract. Between 2015 and 2022, venture capital (VC) investments in Africa have increased significantly. However, a closer look reveals that these investm

💼 New in Socio-Economic Review:
VC funding isn’t equal — and looks different in Africa.
This review by Ben Mkalama and Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social unpacks how socio-spatial inequalities shape venture capital, comparing African, Asian and North American contexts.
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New methodologies in financial geography: Tracing corporate power and capital flows METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP New methodologies in financial geography: Tracing corporate power and capital flows Toronto, Ontario (at SmithToronto, 200 Front St. W) July 13-14, 2026 Organizers: Amanda Kass (...

Announcing a workshop on financial geographies in an era of asset management and corporate concentration. Held at Queen's Toronto classrooms in mid-July, the focus will be on learning from each other's methods with a mix of academics and practitioners. See CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder!

🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄

Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!

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For German speakers: A post about our collaborative BA seminar 'Studying Frankfurt's Financial District' 🏦🏦🏦

I'm currently teaching its second rendition. 🧑‍🏫

Here's the blog to the seminar: finanzplatz-frankfurt.blog

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Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

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finfluencers!!!

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outstanding interview!

and an amazing resource - comprehensive overview of critical macro finance & the wall street consensus...

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IPE workshop in Brussels!!!

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Hegel’s “Brown Rivulet of Coffee”: Colonies, Commodities, and Context by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”

this is fun - uses coffee as an everyday entry point to explore the colonial contexts of Hegel's thought! ☕

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more on data centres...

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fantastic piece and exciting method for studying app location data!

Fantastic resource, this!

This is ace - on the repo backbone of market based finance!

Willkommen zurück, liebe Studis!

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

First definitive proof that AI has a gender:

"[A] common trend among these AI models: rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...