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Bart Penders

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Science studies scholar: #credibility of sci, #trust #collaboration #integrity #food #STS #reform, @ Maastricht University Also: @bart@akademieNL.social

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

03.03.2026 12:19 β€” πŸ‘ 299    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 2
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Duke University Fueled by creativity, informed by scholarship

:-)

03.03.2026 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Leuk! - Uitgeverij Ten Have HΓ©t boek waarmee je onbekommerd plezier gaat hebben.

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/

03.03.2026 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Curious to see how those flavours find their way into your words :-)

02.03.2026 11:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Constructive intersections with John Law's "Making a mess with Method" [https://methods.sagepub.com/hnbk/edvol/the-sage-handbook-of-social-science-methodology/chpt/making-mess-with-method1]

02.03.2026 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

*who*, not that

27.02.2026 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

For all, predefined lists of projects are available for students to choose from, but also for all of them one can depart from this and pursue one's own topic and find a supervisor that allows that. 2/2

27.02.2026 09:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Here it depends on the programme. Some MSc programmes are two years, others are one year. MA programmes are nearly all one year. The long programmes have a whole year for a Master's thesis, the shorter ones usually 2-3 months. 1/2

27.02.2026 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So, mathematical witch trials?

26.02.2026 22:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So I believe that they believe that the prose does not matter. I also believe that it matters a lot, also to them...4/4

26.02.2026 18:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those who say that all they need from a paper are the tables and the figures, clearly align themselves with the first view. The qualities of the text are invisible to them. Which is not the same as irrelevant. 3/

26.02.2026 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Science’s moral economy of repair: Replication and the circulation of reference Responding to the so-called reproducibility crisis, various disciplines have proposed – and some have implemented – changes in research practices and policies. These changes have been aligned with ...

I've written a bit about the distinction between writing as reporting and writing as research. In the first, knowledge-making is imagined to happen before the writing and in the latter, knowledge-making and writing overlap. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 2/

26.02.2026 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been thinking about this. There have been a number of replies pointing out exactly this in different words. And I agree with all of them. I think it has to do with the imagined disconnect between the knowledge represented through a text and the text itself in some fields. 1/

26.02.2026 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trust in Numbers A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification

Where does Trust in Numbers flip into Distrust in Numbers? And do those who trust numbers so much they start to distrust numbers, no longer trust their own number-trusting? Or are they blind to their own distrust of number-trusting?

26.02.2026 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, tbh, it is mine, but it served mostly as a prop for a conference on Technological Refusal. I have noticed that my thinking processes have been shaped by the immediate editability of text so much that I have difficulty doing without it. It is no longer on my desk - but it is still standing by.

26.02.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 erklΓ€re dem Erzieher, dass Anna Max weiter mitspielen lassen muss.

26.02.2026 10:40 β€” πŸ‘ 57    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Value-aware nutrition science: building credibility through reflexivity - European Journal of Nutrition Purpose Values can influence various aspects of scientific research, including research questions, methodologies, interpretations, and applications of scientific knowledge. Instead of pursuing value-f...

Exactly! We recently made this case for nutrition science specifically (paper annoyingly not OA): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

26.02.2026 07:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Salarisschalen (per 1 januari 2025) Salarissen per 1 januari 2025

NL has publicly available pay scales. Associate profs salaries start at 78k€ (bottom of scale 13) and end at roughly 100k€ (top of scale 14) www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/salarisschalen

25.02.2026 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

While I'd be happy to accept that title, this is part of a thread summarising others' positions, and it is not my own.

24.02.2026 17:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

23.02.2026 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework β€” automatically.

Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework β€” automatically.

There are many interesting and challenging questions about AI and education, but what to do about a student who makes use of this sort of service is really not one of them.

23.02.2026 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 13

They do. Most of them, actually, so much that a next scheduled conversation will centre only that.

23.02.2026 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll do more of these over the coming weeks. This isn't research per se, more like stakeholder consultation, but I try to approach it as if it were: curious about what people think, what they do, and which reasons they offer for both.

23.02.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

^^^ Some seem to be under the impression that this is either my position or one I support. It is not. Sadly, it is one I hear regularly and which also came up in the meeting I discuss in this small thread.

23.02.2026 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

This is definitely not my view :-(

23.02.2026 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Everyone in this group is in biomedicine & health sci.

23.02.2026 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Their argument presumably extends to you not having to read it, since the more uniform prose is more amenable to machine processing.

23.02.2026 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The claim that one could live on one income in the 1950s isn't wrong. We are just no longer willing to live *that life*.

23.02.2026 08:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Supporting a family on one income is still possible today if you live like in the early 1950s: don't heat your house. No subscriptions of any kind, no tuition for your kids, no gifts, one pair of pants and two shirts - no more. No showers, no baths, just a bi-weekly wash from a shared, etc. etc.

23.02.2026 08:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The struggle between human and imagined post-human epistemologies has become everyone's struggle. Yet most are staying very silent on their position in this, only disclosing it backstage. I'm guessing it is time for a dramaturgical analysis... /

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