ODISSEI

🚀 Ready to dive into the future of social science research?

Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences.

🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social

Register and check the programme 👉 edu.nl/men7n

Microdata Access Grant 2025-2 Q&A - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations Together with CBS, ODISSEI hosts an Information Event and Q&A Session to clarify the questions regarding the programme.

Interested in using @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata for your research?

💻 The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant funds 6 projects per round and offers step-by-step support.

Join the Q&A on 23 Sept (15:00–16:00 CET) to learn more & ask questions: odissei-data.nl/event/microd...

🎉 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...

New ODISSEI podcast! 🎙️

We talk with Bella Struminskaya about
@share-eric.bsky.social, why this European study on ageing matters, what challenges it faces, and how ODISSEI helps link SHARE to data like LISS & @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social 🎧

Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/sha...

Call for Nominations: ODISSEI Open Science Award 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations ODISSEI Open Science Awards 2025

🔍 Nominations open: ODISSEI Open Science #Awards 2025! 🏆

Celebrating researchers & teams making social science more transparent, reproducible & reusable.

Know someone making a difference? Or part of a project that should be recognised? 👉 edu.nl/48uy8

#OpenScience #FAIR

🎓 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

🚨 Just 2 more days to apply 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, 18:00

odissei-data.nl/2025/04/22/o...

💡We're seeking your input: which sensitive datasets from private firms or government agencies should we prioritise? Help us understand how to make these datasets available for research.

Join us tomorrow at 12:00 for an interactive session

Input needed: which sensitive data should we acquire? - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations ODISSEI is working on a proposal to acquire sensitive data that is currently out of reach for the SSH community.  For the proposal, we need your input! Which sensitive data sets from private firms and...

🔍 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-...

📝 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

Just 2 more weeks left to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025!

📣 Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social and @mercecrosas.bsky.social

Submit your abstracts (max 300 words) by June 27

🦄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...

Our ODISSEI LISS panel Grant Information event is tomorrow!

Grab your spot 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/liss-i...

LISS panel Grant Information event - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations On the 27th of May (9.30-10.30), ODISSEI and Centerdata will hold an online information event for the new round of the ODISSEI LISS panel Grant.

🗓️ On 27 May (9:30–10:30 CEST), together with Centerdata, we will hold an online information session on the new ODISSEI LISS panel Grant. The session will cover the Call and the option to collect data via data donation. More info and registration👉 odissei-data.nl/event/liss-i...

The new ODISSEI Podcast episode is out! 🎧

@drtomemery.bsky.social talks with @lisasivak.bsky.social
about the PreFer Data Challenge, benchmarking, and data challenges.

Listen here👉 odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ben...

NetAudit - Interpretable Embeddings for the Dutch Population Network - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations In this blog post, we introduce NetAudit, a project that combines large-scale population data from Statistics Netherlands with network embedding techniques to represent every individual as a vector ba...

New on the ODISSEI Insights blog: how the NetAudit project uses @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata and network embeddings to study the Dutch population through social ties and make those insights interpretable for researchers 🌐

@maltelueken.bsky.social Megha Khosla

🔗 edu.nl/gjr6t

🧠 Share your insights on FAIR in Dutch SSH!

We’re gathering input from data stewards, RDM experts & policy professionals to understand how #FAIR is implemented in practice. ~15 mins and anonymous. Please share!

🔗 edu.nl/aujab

@angelicamaineri.bsky.social

Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 4 November 2025 in Utrecht. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computa...

📢 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...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

🔗 Learn more: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
🔗 Explore ODISSEI support: odissei-data.nl/facility/gra...
📧 kasia@odissei-data.nl (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!

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open, providing excellent opportunities for postdocs to advance their careers through international and interdisciplinary mobility🌏

🧑‍🔬 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
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🚨New opportunity🚨

CLARIAH is hiring a Project Coordinator to help shape the future of digital infrastructure for the SSH domain in the Netherlands and work closely with ODISSEI.

Key tasks: managing budgets, reporting, and collaborating with multiple stakeholders.

Learn more 👉 edu.nl/paxww

Spotlight on: Angelica Maineri - TDCC.nl Interview with Angelica Maineri. Every other week, the Thematic DCCs and the DSIG put the spotlight on one research data steward working in the Netherlands, to stimulate knowledge exchange and peer-to...

🦄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...

🚀 The Parent-Child Interaction dataset from the YOUth Cohort Study (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social) is now available via SANE! Explore valuable insights into parent-child interactions, from teaching to free play.

🔗 Request 4 weeks of free access: odissei-data.nl/facility/sec...

Only 4 more days left to apply!

Don't miss out on the opportunity to receive up to €7,500 to kick-start your microdata project in 2025. Researchers from ODISSEI member organisations, including early-career researchers, are encouraged to submit proposals.

🚀 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