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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Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 1d

Check the nineties, probably first in UK geography

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 11d

“What could possibly go wrong….”

Adam Shapiro @adamshap.bsky.social · 11d

Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market

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Adam Shapiro @adamshap.bsky.social · 11d

Mag 7 approaching 100% of the entire stock market

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 13d

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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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 26d

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

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 27d

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

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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.

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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.

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

The conference is organized by the geographical communities of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg, and will provide an opportunity to present and debate work in geography and spatial planning as well as ample opportunities for informal conversation and networking.

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

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

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · Oct 1

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’

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Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Oct 1

Insurance is the canary in the coal mine of what the future will most likely hold….

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

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Boots @bootsmcgoot.bsky.social · Oct 1

"i just use it to generate ideas"

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · Oct 1

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

Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Sep 30

“Labour (and hey the Conservatives too) seem to hate their own voters.”

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

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Sep 30

British Politics' Midlife Crisis

Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

benansell.substack.com

Reposted by Michiel van Meeteren, Katherine Brickell

Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · Sep 28

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)

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Michiel van Meeteren @michielvanmeeteren.bsky.social · Sep 27

“What could possibly go wrong….”

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.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · Sep 26

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RSA Blog @rsablog.bsky.social · Sep 25

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...

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

A logic to trust the future of humanity to….

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.

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Peter Donaghy @peterdonaghy.bsky.social · Sep 23

Incredible stuff

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TESG (Journal of Economic and Human Geography) @tesg-journal.bsky.social · Sep 16

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!

Reposted by Jonathan Wolff, Michiel van Meeteren, Richard M. Carpiano

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."