Hoera! Een NWO Vici‑beurs!🎉 Miljoenen mensen kunnen ontsnappen aan armoede met hulp van de overheid, maar doen geen aanvraag voor bijvoorbeeld huurtoeslag. Ze lopen tegen barrières aan. Ik noem dit welzijnsmuren: Welfare Walls. Wil je het onderzoek volgen? Laat het weten of mail [email protected]

Hopeful perspectives on the futures of our planet in these dark times. Our planetary futures are captured but we can unleash radical new ones. Please take the time to view this interview by @maartenhajer.bsky.social and Jeroen Oomen on their book 'Captured Futures'. vimeo.com/1161055336?f...

📣 New article in Government Information Quarterly 📣 OPEN ACCESS. Governments try to adopt new digital technologies. However, there was no reliable way to measure how public leaders are directing such transformations. We therefore validated a Digital Transformation Leadership scale.

So happy to see this paper out on deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies with Sofie de Wilde de Ligny, @mtschaefer.bsky.social & @albertmeijer.bsky.social! 🚀 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📣🆕Early View Why can the #humanities be beneficial for the practice of #PublicAdministration (PA)❓ In this Forum article, dedicated to Fabienne Maron, Edoardo Ongaro, @albertmeijer.bsky.social & colleagues argue that the humanities can deepen our understanding of PA👇

Roel Dobbe (TU Delft) in NRC: "De vloek van AI" (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/... @haroonsheikh.bsky.social @marleenstikker.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @mtschaefer.bsky.social @algosoc.org @silvertje.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social

Faced with USA technological vendor dependency and the risks this entails, initiatives such as EU OS are beginning to emerge. This is a proof-of-concept operating system based on Fedora (GNU/Linux) for European civil service. @itgespub.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social + info: eu-os.gitlab.io

When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector cityleadership.harvard.edu/resources/wh... via @albertmeijer.bsky.social

A bizarre decision by BBC; the documentary is indeed excellent: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Algorithm Registers - What are they? - What drives them? - Do they work? OA-paper from our ALGOPOL-project by Esther Nieuwenhuizen based on extensive research in the Netherlands. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Algorithmic Recommendations - Survey experiments - Interventions: procedural, rationale & combined - Findings: any type increases trust With E. Nieuwenhuizen, F. Bex & @stephangrim.bsky.social Main points: video www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 I want to share with you a very interesting article recently authored by Albert Meijer on how to design science on public administration research. Includes guidelines to create better situational and generic knowledge. The article is open access. More info here: academic.oup.com/ppmg/advance...