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...

@volkskrant.nl 24/9

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

When Colbert and Kimmel can't anymore, and the rest is under threat, please accept this as developmental aid youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE?...

When Colbert and Kimmel can't anymore, and the rest is under threat, please accept this as developmental aid youtu.be/7vRX-BQAjeE?...

"Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform", a new preprint by Sven Ulpts (not here), Sheena Bartscherer (also not here), @nicolecnelson.bsky.social and me. Read it here: zenodo.org/records/1713... 1/

"Epistemic oligarchies: capture and concentration through science reform", a new preprint by Sven Ulpts (not here), Sheena Bartscherer (also not here), @nicolecnelson.bsky.social and me. Read it here: zenodo.org/records/1713... 1/

My department, Sociology at the University of Calgary, is hiring FOUR (4) tenure track professors this fall in the areas of systemic justice and structural harm. Please help us to circulate this widely within your scholarly networks!

I want productivity tools that give me more time to read and think not productivity tools that do the opposite.

Ik spreek een aardig woordje Duits. Daar ben ik blij mee, ook wanneer het me geen direct economisch voordeel oplevert. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin... Natuurlijk kun je ook Engels praten met Duitsers. Maar die stap kennt eigenlijk alleen verliezers.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

We're hiring a new lecturer @stsucl.bsky.social. We're looking for someone with particular interests in the environment. Please share widely www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

My university already has a "Penders Lab". Globally, there are several "Bart Lab"-'s. I feel very constrained in my branding options here...

Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.

Become a Visiting Fellow! Interested in joining the Center for Philosophy of Science? More info about our programs available on our website at www.centerphilsci.pi... Applications for 2026-27 will be opening soon!

Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.

There are 99 people in our department right now. In two weeks, a new colleague will join us and for the first time, we'll move into triple-digit territory...

Philosophers: come work with me (and lots of other great people at CUNY)! philjobs.org/job/show/29522

Does writing have a future? journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ph...

Just published… I argue that preregistration does not improve the transparent evaluation of the severity of hypothesis tests (a) in Popper’s approach or (b) in Mayo’s error statistical approach when preregistration is treated as “a plan, not a prison.” Open Access: doi.org/10.1007/s112...

I admit, it made me chuckle.

Science is said to be self-correcting, but in practice it takes many forms Our Cultures of Trial and Error series has explored replication crises, the metascience movement, radical openness, and even hoaxes, each revealing a different path to correction Read: blog.trialanderror.org/blog/culture...

Zijn er al #pepernoten?

📢 Stellenausschreibung! Postdoc-Stelle (100%, 4 Jahre) Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @uni-kiel.de Bereich Soziologische Theorie 👉 Fokus ist Theoriebildung in Forschung + Lehre Bewerbungsfrist 30.09.25 Rückfragen per E-Mail an mich. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social www.uni-kiel.de/personal/de/...

Looking for sociologists & STS scholars (science & technology studies) to join us for 2 yrs of fully funded research at RWTH, one of Europe’s top technical universities. Deadline: Oct 5, 2025 | Start latest Mar 2026 www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/botjje...

First day back after summer #vacation. Back at work means finding 25 people waiting for you with tasks that should have been completed during your absence, but everyone was hoping you'd do them immediately and with priority the day you return. Every single one of them is the most important one.

Retreated into beautiful Norway for a while...

Retreated into beautiful Norway for a while...

When I was a kid, white pepper was the norm. Today, black pepper is. I somehow missed this transition. When was it, and what fuelled it? (Yes, I still have both types in my kitchen)