Directionality of innovation is a hot topic, and deliberate/modulated decline of tech. is doubly so. Check out our OA edited volume. doi.org/10.4324/978100321364…

🔖Our paper with B. Turnheim on the discursive work in phase-out is finally out in @Env_Pol ! We explore the construction of directionality in a post-socialist case, discuss how sustainability transitions can be exclusionary and unjust tandfonline.com/eprint/DIFJ9…

📢 A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 Destabilisation in transitions and its governance. Tune in my discussion with Leonard Frank of the University of Freiburg, one of the heads of the Destabilisation, Discontinuation and Phase-Out thematic group of the STRN creators.spotify.com/pod/pro…

📢 A new transitions vision! 🧊 How do communities experience impacts on cultural heritage posed by climate change and colonial legacies? Check out my talk with Abbie Yunita of Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. open.spotify.com/episode/6se…

📢 A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 What does conceptual disruption do and what can *we* do about it? I chat with my good friend philosopher Guido Löhr about these questions, as well as the politics of joint action, publishing strategies, and sex robots. open.spotify.com/episode/1jP…

Assistant professors with tenure tracks, it's cool that you can now officially be addressed "Professors" and all, but could you chill with the Veni applications and leave some room for us postdoc peasants? :D

📢 A new Transitions Vision! 🧊 Leaving academia to pursue an own entrepreneurial project? Klara Strecker shares her experiences, as well as motivation for this career transition. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

📢 A new Transition Vision! 🧊 How sustainability could be taught in universities? How should AI be embraced? And where do students' values come from anyway?? Tune in our conversation with philosopher of science @VlastaSikimic podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

New episode of Transitions Visions! Join my talk with @HiskeArts from #FossielVrij NL on their recent law suit against the European Union, as well as on systems change, building coalitions from within and just transitions. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

📢New episode! This one might be particularly interesting for @transitionsnest. Is 'switching to industry' a possibility for transitions PhDs? What does it take and who is it for? Join my chat with Hade Dorst about her experiences working at TNO. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

New episode of Transitions Visions! In this one, I speak with @IWakounig about his volunteering work for the World Energy Council and a bit about his switch from theoretical cosmology to transition studies. Bookmark now! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

Kind request for fellow Lowlands dwellers: if you happen on any info about an available apartment to rent in #Utrecht, pls let me know 🏡

New episode of Transitions Visions! This one is with @NataschavBommel from @TUe_TIS on dilemmas of just and urgent transitions. We discuss her research on whether just transitions can be fast, who can afford not to feel the urgency of transitions and more. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

"degrees in Behavioural and Social Sciences ... are popular with [international students], followed by programs in Law and Governance. These fields offer far less promising career prospects." You had to rub it in 🥲 cursor.tue.nl/en/news/2024/f…

Tune in my interview with Chloé Taillandier and Marc Dijk and explore the intriguing concept of 'de-transition' as a return to a prior system state. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

As a winter holiday special episode, I interviewed ChatGPT on some of the pressing transition dilemmas as identified in the 2019 STRN research agenda paper 😀🎄 The result is not _entirely_ silly! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

Tune in my interview with Lukas Fuchs, the recent winner of the best paper award of the 2023 Luhmann Conference, on arguments against and for the role of state in governance of transitions. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…

Last year I stayed at an Airbnb in A'dam owned by a young Dutch guy. He was accommodating enough but also curt. Placed off angle so that it's not obvious, there was a Thierry Baudet's portrait on a coffee table. It was jarring, surprising and discomforting. Same feelings now x5.