Vanavond in NOS journaal ook is de bedoeling. https://nos.nl/artikel/2599601-nederland-hangt-aan-amerikaans-tech-infuus-we-zitten-in-de-houdgreep - met nieuws over ziekenhuizen “Het gaat onder meer om 29 van de circa 70 ziekenhuizen met een zogenoemd patiëntenportaal, waarmee patiënten hun […]

RE: https://social.cwts.nl/@cwts/115921078636566433 Don't forget to join our seminar on public opinion and science communication this afternoon!

RE: https://social.cwts.nl/@cwts/115921078636566433 Very much looking forward to this seminar, touching not only on science communication, but also trust and politics. Do join us online or in person at CWTS!

RE: https://social.cwts.nl/@vtraag/111917750301769426 Happy to say that our introduction to structural causal models in science studies was just published in QSS: https://doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.405.

Komt er een minister voor digitale zaken? Eva Heijblom, directeur-generaal Digitalisering en Overheidsorganisatie & actief D66 politica, had er op BNR een mening over vorig jaar: https://www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/10544430/moet-het-nieuwe-kabinet-een-minister-voor-digitale-zaken-krijgen

"Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse" https://doi.org/10.1126/science.za60q6w "The subset of papers for which there was some evidence that the data set or code was subsequently used by others were—after the PathOS team controlled for a variety of […]

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

We are hiring! Please spread the word! The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in computer science. This is a broad call and all areas of computer science will be considered. We are in particular […]

❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️ Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph. 🔁 Please repost!

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

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

The leidenalg package is now also updated and now supports igraph 1.0. github.com/vtraag/leide... You can download and install using pip. The conda package will be updated shortly.

On my way home after two intense days at CWTS | Leiden University discussing data sources and indicators for bibliometric analysis. A huge thanks to Clara Calero Medina, Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag for the inspiring conversations and useful tips that […] [Original post on social.sciences.re]

New preprint! 🚨 We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before. 🧵 (1/10)

Great to see @luzuzek.bsky.social present our work on the interaction between science and misinformation during COVID-19 yesterday at @netsciconf.bsky.social

Weer mooi onderzoek van BNR Nieuwsradio! Ondanks mooie verhalen blijven hele stukken overheid in hoog tempo al onze privégegevens naar Amerikaanse clouds te verhuizen. Daar kan de regering Trump bij onze medische details, en misschien praktisch erger: ze kunnen onze toegang ook afsluiten. En […]

Techbedrijf aan de leiband van Trump – kan Nederland nog wel zonder Microsoft? https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/techbedrijf-aan-de-leiband-van-trump-kan-nederland-nog-wel-zonder-microsoft~b4262ab3/

🎉🔬 More news this weekend. @sciety (eLife's preprint evaluation platform) has secured funding from @nlnet to build a Bonfire flavour for federating preprint reviews and discussions. This means federated, community-governed spaces for open discourse around scientific preprints outside […]

This fall I will be teaching a course on processes on networks to a very interdisciplinary audience of 3rd year bachelor students. This includes diffusion and epidemic processes and more social spreading and social influence processes. Any recommendations for relevant (not too mathy) literature?

Nijmeegse collega's! Er is een steengoede brief die de universiteit oproept om geen software meer te gebruiken van grote (Amerikaanse) bedrijven en in plaats daarvan gebruik te maken van non-profit alternatieven, gebaseerd op publieke waarden en transparantie. Teken die brief! […]

I'm happy to say that after almost 5 years, our work on comparing peer review with metrics at the institutional level is now finally available from @QSS_ISSI at https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00352. Here's the previous thread on our preprint: https://social.cwts.nl/@vtraag/110107119844768262

That was fast: #bluesky might have taken its first step towards US govt related censorship: https://www.404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai-protest-video-of-trump-sucking-musks-toes-calls-it-non-consensual-explicit-material/ Anyway, good that bs is decentralized, so you can just switch to another s […]

We at Vivaldi are the only browser company with a Mastodon server. We have chosen to support the Fediverse in every way we can. We will continue to do so as we need options away from Big Tech. https://social.vivaldi.net/ #vivaldi @Vivaldi #mastodon #fediverse

The post by Fiona Fox raises some good questions, about scientists getting politically involved. In many cases, I tend to agree that scientists should show restraint, and that political involvement may risk decreasing trusts in science and scientists. In this case, I disagree. (1/6)

Update, on the #cdc order directing staffers to withdraw pending journal articles that use now-prohibited terms like #transgender and #immigrant (earlier in this thread) … Bravo to the #bmj (@bmj_latest) for calling this order "sinister and ludicrous." https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253 […]

The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University (Finland) is hiring five (!) Assistant Professors in these areas: - Computer Architecture - Programming Languages - Human-Computer Interaction - Software Engineering - Systems Security […]

Nu de regering-Trump hard ingrijpt in de wetenschap als die volgens politici de verkeerde woorden gebruikt, en nu het duidelijk is dat grote Amerikaanse bedrijven door de knieën gaan en het nieuwe regime steunen, wordt het belangrijk om keuzes te maken […]

This is a public service announcement to **never** ever use Oracle

Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: **Project Stargate** will be a $500.000.000.000 (_500 billion USD_) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you. Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and […]

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data. https://lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30/preserving-public-u-s-federal-data/ "In recent months the Harvard Law School @harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] has created a data vault to download […]

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset […]

Looking forward to our network analysis software & data satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social and seeing all your great contributions!

My department is hiring TWO assistant teaching professors of media studies! This is a great opportunity for people who are passionate teachers eager to explore new approaches to cultivating media literacy among diverse students. Learn more & apply here […] [Original post on social.coop]

@voltnederland vertrekt als eerste partij van X! "Dassen hoopt dat zijn besluit ook andere politieke partijen aanzet om over te stappen op alternatieve platforms als Bluesky en Mastodon." […]

New year, new role @Mastodon! Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users. Ideally: 1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #html 2. Proficient in modern #css 3. Experienced with #javascript, #typescript and complex […]

“Statistical analyses are only thought experiments of the form ‘under these assumptions, we get these probabilities…’” Few quotes from Sander Greenland’s recent presentation courtesy of @verawilde.bsky.social 🧵

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined! Focuses include (among others): 1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 2. Data Science in Biological Systems 3. Data Science in Human Mobility […]

University of #sheffield opts out of renewing deal with academic publisher Elsevier https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news/updates-access-library-resources-journals - no more cash for massively profitable commercial publisher - no impact on academics' ability to publish - plans in place to […]

📢 New preprint: #network analysis of the #danish #Bicycle infrastructure 🚲🕸️ -Yes, a *whole country's* bike network analyzed, led by @ane. See the 37-page paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06083 Main results: Good bikeability in cities, some regional […] [Original post on datasci.social]

"Despite their near-universal contributions to research and medicine, #opensource tools are often underfunded and difficult to support through mechanisms that support research, limiting their true potential…'We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even […]

Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! @graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool.skewed.de Graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N #networkscience

An important new article on misinformation and outrage by Killian Mcloughlin, William Brady, Aden Goolsbee, Ben Kaiser, Kate Klonick, and M.J. Crockett was just published. I'm planning to write a thread/post about what we learn from this study and what (importantly) we don't. What questions […]

Even wat bier inslaan. Buurtbier.nl heeft vandaag White Friday. Alle bier is 10% duurder. De opbrengst wordt door Gert Jan verdubbeld en aan de Voedselbank gedoneerd.

Also setup an account on BlueSky @vtraag.bsky.social, bridged to the fedi. Curious to see how things will unfold.