Excited and happy to report that we (@ccmmody.bsky.social, Ewout Meijer, Marielle Prevoo, Yannis Stravrakakis, Penelope Bollini, and I) will be able to start the new project "Invisible knowledge work and the transformation and scaling of open science practices". This is a unique project --> 1/2

With the new government's changed retirement policies in the air, my mid-career moment could also be today. Turns out, mid-career was and is a temporaly plural event!

Excited and happy to report that we (@ccmmody.bsky.social, Ewout Meijer, Marielle Prevoo, Yannis Stravrakakis, Penelope Bollini, and I) will be able to start the new project "Invisible knowledge work and the transformation and scaling of open science practices". This is a unique project --> 1/2

Reality is a bit on the nose these days.

"The uncritical adoption of AI can lead to students not developing essential academic skills such as critical thinking and writing." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

Friendly reminder: Die Deadline ist 31.03.2026 (nächsten Dienstag) ...

Our brilliant PhD student, Hannah Piehl, published her first paper: "Between Map and Maze: reframing trust in healthcare AI": link.springer.com/article/10.1... It shows how in writing on AI in healthcare, intersecting and conflicting views on trust and trustworthiness interfere with one another. 1/

I have a new GP. Turns out he was a former student of mine. Teaching a single medical ethics lecture now has an immediate positive effect on my personal life.

I am currently jointly supervising students with three (recently) retired professors. Retired existence in academia is many things at once, and there is no singular approach to it. Letting go seems to be very hard, especially letting go of influence.

“One of the great weaknesses of our era is we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort, more like caregiving than it is like war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...

Ai heeft weer wat over the Netherlands verzonnen hoor.

A wild exchange captured in yesterday's AAP decision overturning RFK Jr's ACIP appointments. The Trump admin argues that the CDC can literally advocate for *spreading measles* without court review under the APA. This case isn't just about vaccine policy. This is a battle for objective truth.

In de gemeente Vaals ook deze abri's. Meerdere. Maar ja. Het kan niét. Althans dat stemmen op D66 dan. Want in onze gemeente doet D66 helemaal niet mee.

📚🎶 Når musikk møter kunnskap… Ved Musikkbiblioteket på UiT Norges arktiske universitet søker vi en spesialbibliotekar/rådgiver. 🎻 Vil du jobbe med noter, studenter, forskning og samlingsutvikling i Tromsø? Tips noen – eller søk selv! #UiT #bibliotek #musikk 🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

In a sense, we have completely replaced a lot of scientific processes with the power of statistical methodology and essentially outsourced part of our scientific thinking and practice to statistical inference. And now we're confronted with the risk of the same thing happening with AI.

I know I don't complain about academic working culture as much as I should - but here is my contribution for today: 77 emails in a single weekend, outside of office hours, is not particularly healthy. Only a handful of these are from other time zones, and most are just from inside my own institute.

International Women's Day is the perfect moment to remind myself and others that I owe my academic development to two absolutely amazing female mentors. I can only aspire to their level.

Timeline cleanse... Spring has arrived in our garden!

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Plezier kan een daad van verzet zijn, een politiek wapen, betoog ik in Leuk! Laat het je niet afpakken door mullahs, Trumps of Netanyahu’s. www.uitgeverijtenhave.nl/boek/leuk/

Anna hat Max gebeten, ihr beim Bau einer Legoburg zu helfen. Weil er aber alle ihre Steine anlutscht bevor er sie zu einem Raumschiff zusammenbaut, will sie doch nicht mehr das er mitspielt. Ich vertrete Max und erkläre dem Erzieher, dass Anna Max weiter mitspielen lassen muss.

Next academic year's teaching will consist of group conversations around a fireplace, with a glass of cognac.

A week ago, we had an open conversation amongst senior academics in leadership roles and their use of LLMs (in both their leadership capacities and individually). Small group, not representative, but it already taught me a great deal about the diversity of perspectives (& their consequences). 1/

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

No cheating your last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. [Looks like I'll live]

To be a professor in 2026 is to be a middle-manager who has to teach from time to time and who likes to write in their spare time. www.chronicle.com/article/is-e...

This morning, our teenager was walking around with her baby picture album. Why, I wondered. Well, it served as visual evidence that the sweater I'm wearing is at least 14 years old. And that, apparently, is not OK. I respect the evidentiary strategy, but the argumentation still needs work.

Looking at some of the discourse surrounding the current Olympics, I fear that the 2028 Olympics are going to painfully take inspiration from those in 1936.

A university website (not my own) asks that I rotate a cat until it is oriented properly as proof that I am human. Cats, FYI, rotate in every desirable direction IRL.

Post a banger that isn't in English "Frank Boeijen & Within Temptation - Kronenburger Park"

Why am I still sending work email this close to midnight?

Slowly starting to plan for a 2027 sabbatical. For those of you who recently did one - is it like vacation, where the anticipation forms at least half of the worth?

Slowly starting to plan for a 2027 sabbatical. For those of you who recently did one - is it like vacation, where the anticipation forms at least half of the worth?

A bit concerned about the Bluesky user which is closest to me on this map...

AI literacy is pseudo-education

The CFP for #AusSTS2026 is now live! This year’s theme is ‘Antipodean Interruptions’. We invite submissions for presentations, written workshop papers, meet-ups, and Making and Doing sessions. Deadline is Friday 3 April (11:59pm NZST). Full details on our ✨NEW WEBSITE✨ aussts.org/aussts2026

Toch mooi om te zien dat #Lidl deze #vegan "block" op hun schap etiket gewoon #boter noemt. #burgerlijkeongehoorzaamheid

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

The stories we tell build our world, so we should be careful about the stories we tell ourselves and we should be wary of the stories that others tell. This goes for politics and for science alike.

New on Cultures of Trial and Error: Open Science isn’t just a set of reforms, but also a story about science in crisis, heroes, urgency, and repair. In this post, Sheena Bartscherer looks at the narrative side of (Open) Science, and why these stories matter blog.trialanderror.org/cultures-of-...

exactly. this is not difficult. as.ft.com/r/58ed1b23-d...

I don't get smartwatches. I have a watch, which tells me the time and date. I have a phone. I never have to charge my watch (solar powered) and I am endlessly annoyed at how often I have to charge my phone. Very little in my life it's so important I need instant updates from my wrist.

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Take four minutes out of your day.

I'll let Bruce do the talking / singing

An academic nightmare in five words