Dirk Derom

“When there’s so much misinformation around and distrust about science, it’s more important than ever that we are transparent about how exactly science goes on” - RoRI's @scurry.bsky.social calls on the research sector to end the “publication bias” against negative results: tinyurl.com/ux5xtm4d

CEMAS Opens State-of-the-Art Martial Arts Hall at VUB Nieuwe vechtsportzaal van CEMAS verwelkomt clubs, federaties en sociale organisaties

Finally!

www.vub.be/en/news/cema...

Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings As of 2026, Sorbonne University will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. The decision comes as part of a wider approach to promote open science and ref...

"The university will stop sharing the data required to be included in the ranking as of 2026. As a result, Sorbonne University will no longer feature in future rankings produced by THE, which include the World University Rankings, the Rankings by Subject or the Impact Rankings."

Excellent!

Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade It can't have been easy being Franz Kafka. But then, it can't have been much easier being Franz Kafka's fiancée, as evidenced by the correspondence read aloud by Richard Ayoade in the new Letters Live...

www.openculture.com/2025/08/fran...

VUB 🇧🇪 is hunting for a Postdoc / Research Engineer who vibes with NLP + ontologies.

We juggle:
💻 Python & transformers
🗂️ Ontology craft
🔍 Knowledge-graph wizardry

Partial remote? Totally cool.

DM me if you’re curious and feel free to boost! 🚀 #NLP #SemanticWeb

Largest study of its kind shows that the ‘Matthew effect’ in science funding holds true - Research on Research New RoRI paper shows that researchers who win funding early in their career are more likely to get funded in the future

🎯 Does early success in science funding shape the rest of your career?

New RoRI study says yes.

The ‘Matthew effect’ — early winners keep winning — holds across funders & countries.

📄 Read more: researchonresearch.org/largest-stud...

I can only agree.

*whole

That much I already knew. It’s the who hysteria around it that gets me.
In Europe (France/Belgium/Germany…) it is consumed without the drama.
So surely I must be missing out on something…

Could anyone explain what the issue with drinking raw milk would be? What treatments should it undergo before deemed safe?

PhD Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research Publishing PhD candidate Paper Mills and Systematic Manipulation in Research PublishingThe past decade has seen the rise of distinct new challenges for research integrity in the context of scientific publishing....

Papers mills and other manipulative practices are major problem in scientific publishing system. Addressing this problem requires in-depth system-level understanding of dynamics leading to these practices. At @cwts.nl we have PhD position to work on this!

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Looks like NCBI, BLAST, Pubmed etc are gone now. Wowzers. Remember that you can get all the Genbank data from EU mirrors - www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/.... How does local BLAST work again..? 🫣

It seems PubMed has disappeared. This is the digital equivalent of burning a library.

Can only confirm.