📢JUST OUT in PSJ (@psjeditor.bsky.social)! Our article on policy advice & policy influence in hybrid regimes. We look at policy-making in #Ukraine & #Moldova and examine the relevance of long-standing assumptions based on the Western policy experience. 📚Check it out👉bit.ly/3cVsZ7z

Major media all covered the results from a study (not peer reviewed) on the climate change impacts or causes of the flooding in Pakistan. Spoiler alert: the effect wasn't quantified with certainty using the climate model attribution methods.

'Uncertainty is the rule. Events that one could imagine that they will never happen, they are happening one after the other.' EU Ambassadors Annual Conference 2022: Opening speech by Josep Borrell Fontelles europa.eu/!d8dMvC

🧐The secret weapon of every PhD: a good supervisor! Sandra van Thiel is an excellent supervisor & she deserves this award. It was an honor to hand it out to her.

📢Gezocht: Postdoc voor een boeiend interdisciplinair project over het gebruik van onzekerheidsinformatie door beleidsmakers. Een mooie kans!

Last night, the Supervisor of the Year Award 2023 was also presented, on behalf of the PhD council, by chairman Wouter Lammers to Associate Professor Brenda Vermeeren from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Congratulations to Brenda for winning the prize!

This is very good, and very very sad. The awful horror of the Hamas-Israel war is creating deep divisions close to home. The impact of the violence 3,000 miles away is leaving lasting scars on our Jewish communities and families theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/…