This particular follow-up news story doesn't seem to have been noticed outside of Canada. Though the original incident was a global news story. What causes someone to do something so tragic in a small, remote community? Apparently, it might have been ChatGPT. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Come join us at #UCL STEaPP & the Policy Impact Unit for an online webinar on the evolving landscape of #research #security policies across #Europe with Professor Andrew James (The University of Manchester) on 9th September from 13:30 – 15:00 BST 👇 Find out more and sign up here: lnkd.in/enK2G4J8

@williams-r-b.bsky.social, @paultrautt.bsky.social, Kim Hajek & Rena Alcalay managed to put a great #interdisciplinary panel on #uncertainty in data-intensive #research #practices together for @ishpssb2025.bsky.social. As part of it, I discussed uncertainty in the context of #research #security.

@haguediplomacyjrnl.bsky.social invites contributions to a forum on #theorizing #culture in #global #politics 📩 www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/202... If you are studying culture in global politics, make sure to submit your proposal by 15 September!

Join our Symposium on *Japan between the East and the West* in The Hague! Experts from the Asia-Pacific, North America and Europe will debate Japan's international challenges when the 80-year-old international liberal order is shaken if not collapsing. www.universiteitleiden.nl/hjd/news/202...

#Regulation is not all there is to #AI governance. This is why I focus on the role of #STI policy in governing AI in my latest article and trace the history of the so-called “CERN for AI” – a proposal to organize Europe’s AI research in a #CERN-like ecosystem 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Check out this super interesting piece by my brilliant colleague and co-author👇

Great to see our first anniversary issue published 🤩🥳 Should you be at the @isanet.bsky.social Convention in #Chicago and interested in publishing with us, please feel free to reach out 📩

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Interested in the influence of mobility policies on global research dynamics & scientific collaboration? 🎓 Then submit an abstract to the Symposium on Government Policies and Scientific Collaborations that our colleague Dominika Czerniawska is organizing @unileiden.bsky.social: scicolnet.github.io

Very excited that my first PhD article on the promotion of climate objectives at trade committees is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks @ingaulnicane.bsky.social for featuring my blog post on local resistance to #Big #Science on the Europe for Knowledge blog 🙏 If you are interested in the science-society interface, go check it out: era.ideasoneurope.eu/2024/11/25/w....

Hey #STS crowd 👋 I would like to follow scholars working on the political sociology of science. Do you have any recommendations? Cheers 😊

Thoroughly enjoyed my first in-person #EASST4S2024. It was a real treat to be back in beautiful #Amsterdam, to make new connections here and to catch up with my @inscons.bsky.social colleagues 🤩 Kudos to @vuamsterdam.bsky.social for the great organisation (and food)!

Three INSCONS presentations at #EASST4S2024 on the socio-cognitive structure of #fusion, the role of #geopolitics in #fusion collaboration and #AI research governance in two days💪 Many thanks to the attendees and panel convenors for the interesting discussions 👥

@inscons.bsky.social represented at #EASST with no less than three presentations. If you are interested in #fusion & #AI research governance, join the presentations of INSCONS team members @arueland.bsky.social, Dominika Czerniawska & Richelle Boone today at 2pm and tomorrow at 8:30am 🤓

I am #PhDone! On 4 July, I successfully defended my #thesis @unileiden.bsky.social. Many thx to @inscons.bsky.social for funding my #PhD research and my opposition committee, @ingaulnicane.bsky.social, @jameswilsdon.bsky.social, JC Mauduit, Jan Melissen and Maria Rentetzi, for the great discussion.

In case you can read German and wonder how a professor at a public university can afford a private plane

Yesterday, INSCONS postdoc @arueland.bsky.social chaired a policy panel on #ResearchInfrastructures at #Eu-SPRI24. Panelists Emanuela Reale, Andrea Scharnhorst & Robert Feidenhans'l discussed issues like geopolitics and sustainability. We thank them & the audience for a thought-provoking exchange.

Just in time for my defence in July, my third PhD article is now available #OA at Technology in Society: sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Of my three PhD projects, this one was by far the most instructive & challenging. It taught me a lot about #positionality, #reflexivity & #Hawaiʻi.

The UCL-based @inscons.bsky.social project is hiring two postdocs. If you are interested in international research collaboration, consider applying. Pls spread the word & message me if you'd like to chat about the position(s) 🗣️ www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#STS peeps, I am looking for literature on the social structure (i.e. working styles, practices, norms etc) of the social sciences & humanities. I am particularly interested in the social structure of specific subfields (i.e. economics, history, polsci etc). Who can help me? 😊

"40% of English and Northern Irish universities (plus 36% of Scottish ones...) are expected to go into the red this year" Just an absolutely WILD stat (at least from a US pov).

Was greeted with sunshine & cherry blossoms in #Atlanta for the 2024 Atlanta Academy on #Science & #Technology #Policy yesterday 🌸 very impressed with my cohort of fellows & their research. Many thanks to Cassidy Sugimoto, John Walsh & Georgia Tech for bringing us together!

Today I had the pleasure of talking about #publishing & #networking before & during the #PhD at a #PhD workshop for #IR MA students @unileiden.bsky.social. Big shout-out to the organisers of the workshop - supporting (aspiring) PhDs is so important!

It's official 🥳 Today marks the first day of my #postdoc at #UCL where I will continue working on #science #diplomacy, #research #infrastructures & #science, #technology and #innovation #policy. I am very excited to start this new chapter, but will miss beautiful #Leiden.

Friends, I wrote up a quick guide to getting started on Bluesky for folks who are used to old Science Twitter. Please share it with your folks who are joining. And please let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong. 🧪 www.southernfriedscience.com/bluesky-is-n...

Interested in science diplomacy (SD)? 🤓 Then check out my co-author's & my new paper in Global Policy! We investigate the parliamentary discourse on SD against the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, contributing to recent debates on SD in times of war: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bonn, heute Nachmittag.

Submit to our Eu-SPRI panel until January 29 🤓 You can look forward to an impressive line-up of speakers and contributions for this dual paper-practitioner track 💪

STI policy researchers, listen up! Together w/ @mcavallaro.bsky.social & others, I am organising a track on "The Org. & Gov. of European Research Infrastructures" at Eu-SPRI 2024 in Twente. Are you researching the topic? Then submit an abstract to our panel: www.utwente.nl/en/euspri202....

Die Inflation findet bei den Zugewinnen der AfD zu wenig Beachtung. Wir finden in einer Umfrage vom Sommer 2023, dass mit Sorgen um steigende Preise die Wahrscheinlichkeit AfD zu wählen stark wächst. Bei denen mit den meisten Sorgen (30% der Befragten) ist die AfD stärkste Partei.

There's a deep sense of sadness and loneliness seeing this record shattering graph. November 17, 2023 was the first day in recorded history when the earth's surface was a whole 2°C hotter than pre-industrial times. Yet, there's barely any chatter about this staggering breach.