Michiel van Meeteren

@michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social

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Human Geographer, Social Scientist, Teacher, Onetime Musician. Assistant professor @ Utrecht University

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Political science 23%

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Koen Vlassenroot @kvlassen.bsky.social · 2d

Met @kasperhoffmann.bsky.social en @judithverweijen.bsky.social schreef ik een stuk over de wankele fundamenten van Trump's streven naar een nieuw Pax Americana in Congo. Wie denkt dat de door de VS gefaciliteerde akkoorden vrede zullen brengen, komt alvast bedrogen uit. www.mo.be/opinie/Trump...

‘Trumps streven naar een nieuwe Pax Americana in Congo rust op wankele fundamenten’ – MO*

In het vredesakkoord tussen Congo en Rwanda blijven de oorzaken van meer dan dertig jaar geweld grotendeels buiten beeld

www.mo.be

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 6d

this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

new yorker cartoon by bernstein. watercolor of a middle aged white dad holding a cord up from the cord box in a heavenly light in triumph. title reads THE BEST DAY OF MY FATHER'S LIFE. caption reads “Did you say you needed a six-pin-to-eight-pin FireWire for a 2006 MacBook?"

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 6d

made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

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Merijn Oudenampsen @merijnoudenampsen.org · 6d

Wat Marijn Kruk zegt.

Opinie: De samenleving is geradicaliseerd. Praktisch opgeleiden voorop

Het is een ‘feit’ dat praktisch opgeleiden minder van migratie moeten hebben dan theoretisch opgeleiden, stelt Marijn Kruk. Maar het is óók een politiek idee, bedacht door rechtse theoretisch opgeleid...

www.volkskrant.nl

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 11d

ouch,....

Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 11d

This is a real European Commission document, obtained via the right of access to documents. It instructs staff with management responsibilities to use AI to draft documents and formulate speaking points.

Whatever you think of technocracy, soon there'll be little 𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘯𝘦 (skill) left in Brussels.

Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 11d

Bringing the disruption to Brussels: The European Commission encourages its managers to draft policy-making documents with AI, including "explaining/summarising legislative initiatives". According to a newly released Commission document, this will "boost your team's productivity". 🫢

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 11d

Alexander Fanta @alexfanta.bsky.social · 11d

AI Guide for Managers – adopting and integrating AI in your work
2
I. Identifying work processes for AI integration
AI is a welcome opportunity for Commission staff to become more effective and efficient in daily work processes,
including new services that would not have been possible up to now. In encouraging its use, AI must be an
instrument of support for staff and for human-centric policy making.
Encourage active participation from your staff . Their involvement is essential in
accurately identifying the specific needs that AI can support meeting (also see II)).
High-Impact Areas for AI Utilisation
You may already have a concrete use case – get in touch with the to take it
forward. Or you are starting from scratch – check out the below table for concrete help:
Work Process AI Benefits Tools/Applications
Elaborating
Briefings
Faster, comprehensive first drafts of briefings (possibility to use
SNC* data)
First drafts of
documents
Faster first drafts (time-saving), AI tool as
sparring partner for generating and checking
ideas
(possibility to use
SNC* data)
Brainstorming/
analysis
Faster brainstorming (time-saving), AI tool as
sparring partner for generating and checking
ideas
(possibility to use
SNC* data)
Minutes
(Transcription)
Accurate, time-saving transcription AI transcription tools (e.g.
)
Preparing
Background Notes
Efficient generation of speaking points e.g.
(possibility to use SNC* data)
Summaries Quick, accurate summaries Summarisation tools (e.g.
)
(possibility to use SNC* data)
Policymaking Early-stage brainstorming for identifying/
substantiating potential policy problems;
Explaining/summarising legislative initiatives;
Analysing/summarising consultation activities
(possibility to use
SNC* data)
*SNC: sensitive, non-classified data

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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote a paper about Cryptofinance, and the ways the U.S. state has negotiated the consolidation of cryptocurrency trading in large platform firms. It traces the rise of FTX (Sam Bankman-Fried's firm) as it moves from Berkeley to Hong Kong to the Bahamas.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

From cryptocurrency to cryptofinance: FTX, disintermediation and the US state

During the first decade of cryptocurrencies (2008–2017) there were few connections established between crypto and the conventional finance sector, but in the US in 2025 the integration of these two...

www.tandfonline.com

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 16d

Nieuwe Publicatie 📣 : "Sociografie, sociale planning en de IJsselmeerpolders". voor het eeuwfeest van Mens en Maatschappij, het oude thuisblad van de Amsterdamse sociografen in de jaren 1930 en 1940 online.com/content/journals/10.5117/MEM2025.4.004.MEET

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 16d

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

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Colleen T @librarycolleen.bsky.social · 18d

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Important notice: AI-generated archival references

www.icrc.org

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Andrés Rodríguez-Pose @rodriguez-pose.bsky.social · 20d

The failure of the #Netherlands to disperse jobs beyond the #Randstad was more sociological than economic.
Resistance —as @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social & @martijnjsmit.bsky.social argue in @tesg-journal.bsky.social— came from civil servant’s deep-seated space preferences.
doi.org/10.1111/tesg...

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Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 24d

Een verdrietige dag om een van de bijzonderste mensen die ik ooit heb ontmoet te vieren. Een voorbeeld als geograaf, als ethicus, als planoloog, als ontwikkelingswerker. Maar bovenal als mens. Michel (1930-2025), je liet me nooit onberoerd, ik draag je lessen mee. 😢

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Michel van Hulten gaf kleur aan het kabinet-Den Uyl als het ‘christen-radicale’ geweten

Michel van Hulten (1930-2025) | oud-staatssecretaris: Als medeoprichter van de PPR stond Michel van Hulten midden in de progressieve politiek van de jaren zeventig. Zijn verzet tegen het afsluiten van...

www.nrc.nl

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 28d

New publication! I had the pleasure to write about a colourful figure in the History of Dutch geography: Robert Tamsma (1922-2005). Disciplinary innovator and public geographer, but also stuck between generations of scholarship. @tesg-journal.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Reposted by Rebecca Tushnet, Michiel van Meeteren, Kristina McElheran

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · Nov 20

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.

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Nov 17

Die is er wel, dit is een goed begin (stond in hetzelfde special issue als het Tamsma paper over het Noorden waar we het Forum waar deze onderdeel van is aan hebben opgehangen): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

THE ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING OF SOUTH LIMBURG BETWEEN 1965 AND 1971

Click on the article title to read more.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Nov 17

With Martijn Smit in @tesg-journal.bsky.social

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Nov 17

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...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Nov 10

Check the nineties, probably first in UK geography

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Nov 6

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

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Oct 31

“What could possibly go wrong….”

Adam Shapiro @adamshap.bsky.social · Oct 31

Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market

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Adam Shapiro @adamshap.bsky.social · Oct 31

Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · Oct 29

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...

www.utoday.nl

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Oct 14

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...

🧵

Fail Better: Why Your Rejections Will Shape You More Than Your Publications

The Art of Learning from Rejection

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Oct 11

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

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Oct 5

Intrigued…..

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.

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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.

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Oct 2

If you miss a particular topic or sub-discipline, now is your chance to help shape the program! The conference has currently opened a general Call for Session Proposals. You can submit proposals through the website, all you need is a title and a short abstract.

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Oct 2

The Scientific Committee of the BeNeLux Geography Conference has curated a first set of proposed sessions to kickstart our intellectual exchange. From countermapping and the governance of AI infrastructure, to bridging the natural and social perspectives within our discipline.

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