Yikes, this is uninspiring.

Full of empty jargon.

No political narrative.

Full of EU-speak that means nothing to ordinary voters.

That’s why liberal-centrists will struggle against the far-right in the European elections.

Previously unseen details of human brain structure revealed. Featured image: a single neuron with ~5,600 of the nerve fibers that connect to it.

I feel overwhelming awe at nature's complexity and order.

nih.gov/news-events/ni…

Diogenes was one of history's strangest (and funniest) philosophers.

He lived in a barrel, disrupted Plato's lectures, and made fun of Alexander the Great to his face.

But Diogenes wasn't just a joker — his ideas are as relevant now as they were two thousand years ago...

Finding official sub-national GDP data is a nightmare.

I've spent years researching this.

Here's an UPDATED comprehensive list of official sub-national GDP sources for 50+ countries, I wish I had 5 years ago:

'The student protests are driven by an attachment to peace and human life. This is what makes the repressive reaction of many academic administrations so shocking'.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🚨🚨🚨Job alert: 4-year senior postdoctoral/ERC fellowship position in survey research with Aidan Regan, studying the political economy of multinationals, corporate tax regimes and inequality.

Deadline: 27th June

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal…

We need more of this from people with power in academia.

New resource – hopefully useful for students, researchers, and journalists: irishpoliticsdata.com presents websites, datasets, text corpora, dashboards, and literature related to Irish politics.

Feel free to contribute and add additional resources.

This by Aidan Regan➡️'if everyone in the world lived like an average Irish person, the planet would become mostly uninhabitable by the end of the century.

Based on how we are currently living and polluting, measured in terms of our carbon emissions, almost everyone under the

'Europe is heating up faster than the rest of the world. We are creating the conditions for an uninhabitable planet'

✍️ Aidan Regan
businesspost.ie/analysis-opini…

In 2022, China accounted for 85 percent of all clean-energy manufacturing investment in the world, says the International Energy Agency. How is our 'green liberalism' doing?

The media have a responsibility to speak truth to power about what effective climate actions means and requires – both from the business and political world.

My latest Business Post column 👇

businesspost.ie/analysis-opini…

Article reports IDF is now mostly controlled by the supremacist far right and that images of shocking offenses against international law that are posted by IDF soldiers on their own social media are only tip of the iceberg of what is really going on
haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Taxing the rich in India amounts to taxing the upper castes. New paper on Indian inequality with redistribution proposals and data on wealth and caste. With Nitin Kumar Bharti
Anmol Somanchi Thomas Piketty
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t.ly/B_wHQ

Democracy has a lot more to fear from capitalism, than capitalism has to fear from democracy.

How extreme is the new far-right-led Dutch government, and the man behind it, Geert Wilders? Me Financial Times on how I got him wrong before, and why Wilders has stopped calling for a ban of the Koran, closing of mosques etc on.ft.com/3yBj9lV

And if Israel refuse, any country sending arms to Israel is acting illegally and in breach of international law.

'The flag of Israel hung in a corner.......I asked what the Arabic sticker on his door said. He replied, “That the Koran is poison and Mohammed is a liar.”

ft.com/content/4b946b… via @ft

Lovely ❤️