Academia is filled with missed meetings, deferred deadlines, vague promises half met, and obligations ducked. Marcel is, for my money, the most effective Director in Social Science. Always delivers, always clear, always diligent. Happy 25th Anniversary and I hope you are at Centerdata until 2050

🎉 This week, Marcel Das marks 25 years as the director of Centerdata! To celebrate, we invited him to the ODISSEI Podcast to discuss the LISS Panel: how it operates, the studies it supports, and why it matters for research. 🎧 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ope...

✨ There’s still time to nominate for the ODISSEI Open Science Award 2025! ✨ Celebrate researchers making computational social science more open, reusable & impactful. ⏰ Deadline: 26 Sept. Nominate here 👉 odissei-data.nl/2025/06/26/c...

Starting the academic year with FAIR data ✨ On 25–26 Sept in Utrecht, we are hosting a writing sprint & strategy meeting to co-create the SSH Action Plan for FAIR. More information and registration: odissei-data.nl/event/fair-i...

📣 Great opportunity to highlight Open Science initiatives in the Dutch Social Sciences!

🎓 What a ride! SICSS-ODISSEI 2025 brought together 20+ students for Python bootcamp, ML, and talks on ethics, corp networks & CSR. Week 2 = projects with FIRMBACKBONE data & SANE. Thanks to @esciencecenter.bsky.social, SoDa team, and all our brilliant speakers! 👏 #SICSS #SummerSchool

Lettera aperta al Presidente dell’Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (ISTAT @mm-istat-news-bot.bsky.social) – Italian Association for Population Studies (@aisp-sis.bsky.social) be FAIR, ISTAT! #beFAIR_ISTAT #openScience 🇮🇹 aisp-sis.com/lettera-aper...

🔍 ODISSEI is drafting a proposal to make sensitive data available to the SSH community. We need your input: which datasets should we target, and how should we share them? 💬 Join our Q&A: 🗓 19 June, 12:00–12:45 🔗 Register: odissei-data.nl/event/input-...

#SICSS @odissei.bsky.social 2025 gets underway today!! Massive thanks to @chrisbail.bsky.social and the SICSS team for keeping this inspirational light on for international, collaborative and open science.

📣Participants needed Is Slack making work more flexible — or just harder to switch off? We’re studying how digital tools like Slack affect well-being and work-life balance — and we’re looking for participants! Please join if you: 🟢 Live in NL 🟢 Work 15+ hrs/week 🟢 Use Slack for your job 👇

📝 FAIR in SSH needs your input! Join the Community Writing Sprint 📍 Utrecht or Online | 📅 Thu 25 Sept Let’s untangle the real bottlenecks in FAIR implementation & co-write the Action Plan for the Dutch SSH. Open to RDM pros, researchers, policy makers & more! 🔗 Info & registration: edu.nl/vbwxh

🦄Join the June 17 #DataStewards Interest Group (DSIG) meeting on @odissei.bsky.social infrastructure #LucasvanderMeer @angelicamaineri.bsky.social Connect with peers and share insights #datastewardship. Everyone is welcome 🗓️ June 17, 13-14.45 CEST ✏️ Agenda & Registration tdcc.nl/dsig/dsig-me...

📢 Call for Papers is now open for the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 🎉 Submit your abstract (max 300 words) on topics incl. computational social science, ethics & more. ⭐Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social & @mercecrosas.bsky.social 🗓️ Deadline: 27 June 🔗 odissei-data.nl/odissei-conf...

If you are considering moving to the Netherlands to do a Social Science Post-Doc, consider applying for MCSA and contacting ODISSEI to give you a boost 🚀🚀

🔗 Learn more: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p... 🔗 Explore ODISSEI support: odissei-data.nl/facility/gra... 📧 [email protected] (Scientific Manager, Kasia Karpinska) Let’s make your #Postdoc proposal stand out! 🚀 #MSCA #Fellowship #ResearchFunding #AcademicMobility

ODISSEI can assist you in: ✅ Refining your research question ✅ Integrating large-scale, high-quality data ✅ Strengthening your methodology ✅ Enhancing your proposal’s overall competitiveness ✅ And finding the right people to connect with!

🧑‍🔬 Are you considering applying for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025? If your research is in the social sciences and you’re aiming to develop a competitive, data-rich proposal, @odissei.bsky.social is here to help!

The ODISSEI Podcast is here. In the first episode, @drtomemery.bsky.social talks with @lboeschoten.bsky.social about Data Donation – a concept that could reshape social science research💻 Listen here 🎧 odissei.transistor.fm -- ccsky

🦄SPOTLIGHT ON #datastewards w @angelicamaineri.bsky.social @odissei.bsky.social: FAIR, RDM & Open Science are no checkboxes, but practices that are meant to accelerate scientific discovery & impact, for which we need their active contribution." tdcc.nl/spotlight-on... Series: tdcc.nl/category/spo...

🚀 Help Shape FAIR Implementation in Dutch SSH Research! We’re gathering insights on how FAIR principles align with RDM policies in Dutch research & cultural heritage institutions. 👥 Seeking input from data stewards, curators, RDM pros & decision-makers! ⏳ ~15 min, anonymous 🔗 edu.nl/j633j

⏳ Just over a week left to apply for our summer school! Don't miss an opportunity to gain hands-on experience working with highly enriched commercial data on firms and economic networks through the FIRMBACKBONE infrastructure. -- ccsky #StatsEd

The Combatting Bias project is now on Bluesky! A 1-year project funded by the NWO TDCC-SSH, aiming to produce practical guidelines to help SSH researchers identify, analyse, articulate, and reduce biases embedded in their work. Check out our website! 👉 combattingbias.huygens.knaw.nl

Above all though, its a fun two weeks were you get to collaborate with a diverse range of excellent young scholars. Its also a great way to become part of the wider ODISSEI community. Its a great network and my favourite part of ODISSEI is watching the alumni help develop that community.

This year we will be switching focus and looking at company data using FIRMBACKBONE. We will provide an introduction to machine learning, NLP, and network analysis in the first week and then giving you access to large and complex company data as part of a data challenge in week two. firmbackbone.nl

This summer we are hosting the 4th installment of the ODISSEI-SICSS. Its a summer school on Computational Social Science. We provide access and training to the ODISSEI infrastructure and if you aren't local, we provide accomodation for two weeks. sicss.io/2025/odissei/

💡Today our team is in Utrecht co-hosting the Seminar on 𝐅𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐒𝐇 together with the FAIR Expertise Hub! We are discussing the key challenges that emerged from FAIR implementation, as well as use cases and possible solutions! @angelicamaineri.bsky.social

📢 Workshop on LLMs in Social Science Research Join the ODISSEI SoDa workshop to explore measurement errors in LLM-based annotations and improve statistical inferences using LLM-derived variables. 📅 21 March, 09:30-14:00 📍 @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, Science Park 🔗 edu.nl/3kqfb

1/ 🚸 *Does grandparental involvement boost school grades?* Our new study (with @valeriabordone.bsky.social) explores whether grandchild care, financial support or contact impact grandchildren's school performance. Let's unpack the findings🧵👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Interested in FAIR implementation in the SSH? Join us at the Seminar FAIR data infrastructures for the SSH on February 13th, 2025, from 10 to 17 in Utrecht

🚨 Calling Open Science enthusiasts in Amsterdam! 🚨 OSCA is making a starter pack so people can connect with others in Open Science. Whether you’re new or deeply involved, we’d love to include you! ✨📚 DM or comment. Know someone who fits? Share this post! Let’s grow the OSCA! 🤝 #OpenScience #OSCA

This is one of the most exciting parts of our calendar. Apply to SICSS-ODISSEI!

Calling all PhD students, postdocs & early-career researchers📣 Apply for the SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School (June 16–27, 2025) at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 📚 Topics: network analysis, ML, ethics 💻 FIRMBACKBONE & ODISSEI supercomputer (OSSC) 🎓 Earn 5 ECTS credits 🗓️ Deadline Feb 28 🔗 edu.nl/bxwxc

The symposium 'Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies' brings together those working with qualitative data. DANS'er Ricarda Braukmann will lead a workshop about archiving & publishing qualitative data. Sign up 👉 https://edu.nl/j7qth

The DANS Open Hour is back. Join us on Monday, 20 January, at 10 a.m. CET. Bring your questions on #FAIR #OpenScience, data storage, and Research Data Management for the #SSH community. Our Data Station managers are here to help. Sign up now 👉 https://buff.ly/3E5H7Iy

We just moved in here! The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national, repeated cross-sectional survey research programme on basic human values. It provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values and opinions of citizens all over Europe.

With the new #release of the @odissei.bsky.social Portal #metadata is continuously updated which results in an up-to-date discovery platform for #SocialSciences data for the Netherlands. Also a new #DataProvider is included: the Individual Development Data Catalogue. Read more: 👉https://edu.nl/4b7uf

Thank you everyone who joined us this Tuesday for our Annual Conference 2024! We're happy to share the pictures from our Annual Conference 📸 Follow this link to browse and download the photos: dashanelina.gallery.photo/gallery/odis... Pictures by Dasha Nelina

Did you know that we collect materials from the @odissei.bsky.social conference on Zenodo? This way you can have a look at slides and posters presented on the day even if you weren't there!

Today, I presented at the @odissei.bsky.social conference. In this work, I analyze whether Twitter reflects the European family ties division. Thank you all for the great comments. You can find the article here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🥁And the winners of the PreFer challenge are… Highest Score – Team Stork Oracle Improving Understanding – Team Gas Innovative Approach – Team Cruijff #ODISSEI2024

The incoming ODISSEI Scientific Director, @daob.nl, introduces our closing keynote speaker: Guido Imbens, Nobel Prize laureate and professor at Stanford University. #ODISSEI2024

Gert Stulp presents on the Predicting Fertility data challenge! The results of the challenge will be announced during our Award Ceremony later today🏆

@feloe.bsky.social (UvA) presents her study on young people’s exposure to electoral campaigns content using a combination of data from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study (NKO) and YouTube data obtained via data donation using the software PORT #ODISSEI2024

Lunch break? 🍎 We combine it with the poster session! Lots of insightful conversations, interesting projects and a very inspiring atmosphere. Stay tuned to know the winner of our ODISSEI Poster Award 🏅 #ODISSEI2024

ODISSEI Executive Director @drtomemery.bsky.social is taking a spotlight in the session Pushing the boundaries of social sciences and presenting his work on network sampling. #ODISSEI2024

Shuai Wang (VU) and @angelicamaineri.bsky.social (ODISSEI) presenting applications of FAIR implementation profiles (FIPs). Shuai and Angelica became GO-FAIR Foundation qualified FIP facilitators early this year, you can reach out to them if you want to make a FIP for your community

The day is finally here! Our Annual Conference 2024 is about to begin with the insightful panel session on Infrastructure for Policy Research💻 Dtay tuned and follow the day with us #ODISSEI2024

Our Panel Session has started! @claesdevreese.bsky.social states that research for policy will come under big pressure, and we seem unprepared for that. #ODISSEI2024

On my way to Utrecht to attend our annual @odissei.bsky.social conference! Looking forward to an inspiring day of presentations (and chats!)