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The main reason we moved into our current house was the big, but fully closed, kitchen. Two windows, two doors, four walls.

Transparancy can be platformised. Thinking cannot. What can be platformised can be controlled, dictated and possibly owned. Thinking cannot.

Deze waarschuwing zou bij elke talkshow op groot scherm zichtbaar moeten zijn.

Familiarity breeds: clichés in article titles Ten years ago, Atkin1 reckoned that the popularity of ‘paradigm shift’ in the titles of medical articles was waning and that ‘pushing the envelope’ was up and coming. Foreseeing that even the envelope...

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ZPID Trier: Junior professorship (W1-equivalent) Psychological Metascience (with tenure-track to W2 LBesG-equivalent) (f/m/d) leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/job/10kku5n7 #Stellenangebot

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

Hoorah!

Afgelopen week ontving ik bericht dat WML, die ons drinkwater levert, en daarin monopolist is, haar leveringsvoorwaarden aanpast. Vrolijk schrijven ze dat het me altijd vrij staat, wanneer ik het niet met de nieuwe voorwaarden eens ben, mijn contract op te zeggen.

Congratulations to the both of you. Looks like a feast!

Sort of drawing together Collins argument of the tangible and the inferential experiments and Latour's argument on the extention of the laboratory. 3/3

Everyone who want to use it, simply has to create those conditions. Stats can insufficiently enforce these conditions of use because of the lack of materiality. Both black boxes are used by professionals who do not really know the details of what happens under the lid, but the difference matters. 2/

Thinking about the black boxing of stats compared to the black boxing of a mol bio kit, an enzyme, etc., it strikes me that the latter materially predetermine a lot of the conditions under which they are and can be active: the enzyme only works under certain conditions. 1/

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

De regels waar een Hans Wijers of de BBC zich aan moeten houden zijn blijkbaar fundamenteel anders dan waar een Yesilgöz of Trump zich aan moeten houden en dat is een groot f*cking probleem

Different from early-career or seniority, mid-career is a single point in time. In the middle between one's first formal day as a scholar and one's last. If those are the first day of employment in research and retirement, then *today* is my mid-career day! #midcareerday #academia When is yours?

Different from early-career or seniority, mid-career is a single point in time. In the middle between one's first formal day as a scholar and one's last. If those are the first day of employment in research and retirement, then *today* is my mid-career day! #midcareerday #academia When is yours?

LMU Munich is advertising a new W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. For more information, and to apply, follow this link: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b... #philosophy #education #professorship #academicjob #lmumunich

barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air . ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .

Yesterday evening, on a Sunday, from 9 to 10 PM, I was in a work meeting.

Volkskrant

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Nothing like filling out a European grant budgeting table to shine a light on the huge wage differences across European higher education. #highered

MetaArXiv title on osf.io: "Adversarial reanalysis and the challenge of open data in regulatory science"

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

Maybe a nice welcome mat?

It is in the door opening 😂

Three years....

Ugly office floor with a triangular spot that is not so reflective.

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....

Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.

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.

a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' . ALT: a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .

Seriously?

Random image: one week's worth of forgotten water bottles in one teaching building.

dat hebben we ook regelmatig. we zijn dan van 12(,2) naar 12(,1) gegaan.