🗣️ We were present at the UvA (AI) Thesis Fair in the beautiful marble Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). Come see the pictures! opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...

✏️ First thought on my website on the start of my dual-PhD journey! I explain what a dual-PhD means and give an introduction to my (still broad) research topic.

Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.” Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov

LinkedIn user? Starting November 3 posts will be used to train their AI. Unless you opt out, actively. Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out.

This is where it gets wild 👇 In 2020, Twitter use was highest among people who loved Democrats and disliked Republicans. By 2024, it completely flipped: the more polarized Republican you are, the more you use Twitter/X. From blue stronghold → red megaphone. All for just $44 billion.

Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35

We have (silently) launched opengov.nl, our @opengov.nl lab website! It's a bit bare now but you can already read up on who's who and what we (plan to) do! graus.nu/blog/opengov...

I somehow never did this, but now seemed like the time: I launched my personal website (maiklarooij.nl)! It is still a work in progress, but I'm planning on sharing my PhD adventures and publications on it 🎓.

Last week, I joined the ICAI @opengov.nl lab as the lab's fourth PhD student! It's a dual position; I will also be working as an information consultant for the Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding, part of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Very excited to begin this journey!

We're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change social media's core dynamics.

I'm really stoked about this paper! Builds on amazing MSc thesis work by @maiklarooij.nl‬