Heerlijke column. Blij dat die door een student geschreven is en niet door een oude zeurpiet als ondergetekende ;-) www.mareonline.nl/opinie/all-i...

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

Mijn nicht, Gite Penders, staat in de nieuwste Libelle als "vrouw met een missie". Ze is een paar jaar ouder dan ik en ik heb in alle fases van haar leven, in alle "missies" als het ware, naar haar opgekeken - en dat doe ik nog steeds. En daar heb ik voldoende redenen voor. 1/

Different from early-career or seniority, mid-career is a single point in time. In the middle between one's first formal day as a scholar and one's last. If those are the first day of employment in research and retirement, then *today* is my mid-career day! #midcareerday #academia When is yours?

Mijn nicht, Gite Penders, staat in de nieuwste Libelle als "vrouw met een missie". Ze is een paar jaar ouder dan ik en ik heb in alle fases van haar leven, in alle "missies" als het ware, naar haar opgekeken - en dat doe ik nog steeds. En daar heb ik voldoende redenen voor. 1/

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

Stealworkers

I might never visit the US again, if no one reserses this nightmarish folly. Overall, they'll not miss me, individually. But there are many me's.

📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below. 🔗 www.utwente.nl/en/bms/sts-n...

The INRS Centre Urbanisation Culture Société is accepting applications for a a tenure-track professor position in teaching and research on the theme of cities and immigration (French language is required). Deadline: January 19, 2026. atlas.workland.com/work/70383/p... #urban #sociology

Zoals Mark Rutte als eens stelde: ”doe eens normaal!”

Someone in the North-East of the US has my last name and the same initial. She is desperately trying to either get a job, or switch jobs. How do I know? I am receiving the rejections to her job applications in my personal inbox. After quite a few of them, I thought I'd take action. 1/

One imaginary sees the scientific literature as a gigantic library, with texts to be read. Another sees it as a database, with facts to be mined. Our analysis clarifies contrasting expectations informing current publishing innovations, and their epistemic and political risks. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Da djevelen ville at intet skulle skje, satte han ned en komité

🚨🚨 We're #hiring! 🚨🚨 Assistant Professor of Political and Social Philosophy @maastrichtu.bsky.social @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social @hdijkstra.bsky.social @ccmmody.bsky.social @masssimons.bsky.social www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3566...

The nice folks over at our Philosophy department are hiring: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3566...

If you or your prospective PhD students are affected by NSF's archiving of programmes, we may be able to offer a tiny bit of relief to some candidates in the sense that we (some Dutch universities) can (still) offer external PhD candidate status, tuition-free. 1/

If you or your prospective PhD students are affected by NSF's archiving of programmes, we may be able to offer a tiny bit of relief to some candidates in the sense that we (some Dutch universities) can (still) offer external PhD candidate status, tuition-free. 1/

Deze waarschuwing zou bij elke talkshow op groot scherm zichtbaar moeten zijn.

ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot

Mooie vacature bij de Tweede Kamer, en op een erg belangrijk moment. Kennis coördinator digtitale zaken https://werkenbij.tweedekamer.nl/vacatures/kenniscoordinator-digitale-zaken

Afgelopen week ontving ik bericht dat WML, die ons drinkwater levert, en daarin monopolist is, haar leveringsvoorwaarden aanpast. Vrolijk schrijven ze dat het me altijd vrij staat, wanneer ik het niet met de nieuwe voorwaarden eens ben, mijn contract op te zeggen.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

De regels waar een Hans Wijers of de BBC zich aan moeten houden zijn blijkbaar fundamenteel anders dan waar een Yesilgöz of Trump zich aan moeten houden en dat is een groot f*cking probleem

Different from early-career or seniority, mid-career is a single point in time. In the middle between one's first formal day as a scholar and one's last. If those are the first day of employment in research and retirement, then *today* is my mid-career day! #midcareerday #academia When is yours?

LMU Munich is advertising a new W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. For more information, and to apply, follow this link: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b... #philosophy #education #professorship #academicjob #lmumunich

Yesterday evening, on a Sunday, from 9 to 10 PM, I was in a work meeting.

Volkskrant 🙏

Nothing like filling out a European grant budgeting table to shine a light on the huge wage differences across European higher education. #highered

In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience

My office floor was waxed last week. This little triangle they skipped is going to annoy me for the next there years or so, until they do it again....

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Eerder vandaag, luisterend naar een groepje ouders in Brunssum, sprekend over de #verkiezingen, zonk me de moed in de schoenen.

Random image: one week's worth of forgotten water bottles in one teaching building.

Is someone starting a #treasurehunt without telling me? I found this unknown key on my chair this morning...

Ceci n'est pas une populiste www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Please come join our team! Looking for junior and senior faculty in science, technology, and innovation policy!!

Proud dad moment: watching my eleven year old daughter adressing the municipal council!

Proposed one-off solutions to the "replication crisis" are turning metascience into a snake oil industry. The loss of all nuance, the throwing around of claims of heroic feats, the lack of basic definitions, the monolithic, reductionist framing of issues, and the dogmatic, magical promises...

After closing my laptop on Friday afternoon and reopening it this morning, I received 7 peer review requests. One is absolutely unrelated to my expertise, but 6 are. I cannot and do not accept more than one per week, so I have to bump 5 back into the system. This hardly seems sustainable.

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...

We've always been trying to minimise our electricity consumption, saving where we could. Most of those saves are tiny, but at up to a lot. Now, however, we have an electric car and our regular electricity consumption dwarfs that of that car. >

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Wat een zinnigheid en redelijkheid in dit interview. Het gemak waarmee retoriek en vooroordeel worden doorgeprikt is zowel geruststellend (@jwduyvendak weet waar hij het over heeft) als alarmerend (waarom gaan we allemaal mee in de foute frames?). www.folia.nl/actueel/168424

If I have to hear another "the environment isn't stimulating enough" from grown ups with agency and education, I'm going to fucking lose it.

You still have until the end of this week to apply for a team lead position in our research area. If you have expertise in innovation studies, machine learning, LLMs, econometrics, or related fields, consider joining us! ats.talentadore.com/apply/resear...

Umeå University's Department of Political Science is hiring 1-2 PhD students. The working conditions in Sweden for PhD students are excellent, and Umeå is a beautiful city! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

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Vanaf vandaag elke week Antifa-leestips (voor het hele gezin) uit de collectie van de bibliotheek. We beginnen met de stripbewerking van HET DAGBOEK VAN ANNE FRANK door David Polonsky. #leesvaardig #informatievaardig