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Alex Brandsen

@alexbrandsen.nl

Interoperability project lead at TDCC-SSH, with a background in computational archaeology and machine learning. Builder of agnessearch.nl

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Bo Salomons🔻@bosalomons.bsky.social · last wk.

Dit is foltering. Dit verhaal wordt steeds erger naarmate je verder leest. Een paar dieptepunten: iemands pols en ribben breken, toegang tot een arts ontzeggen, liegen over dat haar advocaat er niet bij wil zijn om iemand tot verhoor te dwingen, foltering voor illegale afname van vingerafdrukken...

Doorbraak.eu@doorbraak.eu · last wk.

Ze gingen duwen en trekken, ook aan mijn pols. Ik ging op de grond zitten en schreeuwde het uit. Vijftien minuten lang deden ze me pijn om me te bewegen mee te gaan werken met die onrechtmatige vingerafdrukken. Een agente zette haar nagels in mijn vingers

Alex Brandsen@alexbrandsen.nl · 2d ago

Perhaps one of the few truly good results of the recent genAI developments is that we no longer get these fake "I forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of [tv show] and generate a script" memes.

DANS@dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social · last mo.

Finding archaeological data by location just became easier. DANS has added GeoNames to Data Station Archaeology, helping researchers describe locations consistently and improving the findability and reuse of data. Read more: edu.nl/e3ynn

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Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CfP for our TAG Exeter session 'After the Election: Archaeology & Cultural Heritage in a Post-Reform UK'. Imagine it's 2029, Reform wins a landslide election victory, the Department for British Culture has oversight of all cultural output. What next for archaeology, museums & cultural heritage?

Screenshot of the call for papers for the session for Exeter TAG, which says: This session imagines the archaeological and heritage implications of a Reform UK government following its victory at the 2029 general election. The newly created ‘Department for British Culture’ oversees urgent revisions to Britain’s heritage and cultural sectors, operating under a mandate to suppress ‘woke’ approaches to the past. Institutional overhauls are in progress at museums and archives, at National Trust properties, in media, and publishing, and the DfBC are revising how the past is taught in schools as part of the new ‘National Curriculum Reformed’. Government policies call for the withdrawal of funding from museums and heritage sites that address difficult histories, particularly those related to colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, and migration. New national guidance has been issued that prioritises narratives of ‘traditional’ British culture, economic and wartime achievement, and Christian heritage. This session seeks reflections on this imagined future, focused on its implications for the present: Is this prediction accurate? To what extent? How can we better understand the structures and dynamics that shape the far-right framing and usage of the past? In what locales, and through what narratives, is the past mobilised towards far-right political goals? What about in 2029? Can archaeologists contribute to avoiding a future such as this? Where are we going wrong? How might we prepare? What does activist-archaeologist resistance to far-right state power look like? What are the political responsibilities of those who work with the past? How can we attempt to prevent political harms and marginalisation through our work? Conversely, should archaeology remain politically neutral?
Simon McGarr@tupped.bsky.social · 2mo ago

laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... An excellent and easily readable essay on the creeping effects of sameness on streets, music and culture as a whole (and the actual one weird regulatory trick to break out). Don’t let the graph image put you off, this is a good one.

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Would you like to work at a Cluster of Excellence on Human Origins with an office in a medieval castle? Then I have THE job ad for you below! (Oh, and not to mention: it’s a FULL PROFESSORSHIP for Early Prehistory!) 🏺 #paleosky

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HUMAN ORIGINS - Cluster of Excellence@humanorigins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

‼️ Fantastic new opportunity within our Cluster HUMAN ORIGINS ‼️ Full Professorship Early Prehistory at the Department of Geosciences of the University of Tübingen! Deadline for applications: 2nd October 2026. More info: uni-tuebingen.de/en/universit...

Doorbraak.eu@doorbraak.eu · 2mo ago

#nieuwselders “De Tweede Kamer wou Antifa al als terroristische organisatie bestempelen, en nu ligt er een wetsvoorstel voor iets dat bijna een directe kopie is van de Terrorism Act. We waarschuwen er al langer voor: wat vandaag in het VK gebeurt, gebeurt morgen in Nederland.”

XR-rebel: "Ik ben lid van een terroristische organisatie" (persbericht) | Doorbraak.eu

In Londen spreken vandaag honderden burgers hun steun voor de in het VK verboden organisatie Palestine Action uit. Onder hen bevinden zich twee Nederlandse rebellen van XR Justice Now! Ze riskeren een...

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Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3mo ago

Good thing we don’t have a long history of people incorrectly projecting human traits on computers and overestimating what they’re really doing.

In computer science, the ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits—such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy—onto rudimentary computer programs. ELIZA was a symbolic AI chatbot developed in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum that imitated a psychotherapist. Many early users were supposedly convinced of ELIZA's intelligence and understanding, despite its basic text-processing approach and the explanations of its limitations.
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment

OccupyNederland@occupynederland.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Diep verankerd koloniaal racisme: waarom miniatuurbeeldjes van Hitler niet 'normaal' gevonden worden, maar van J.P. Coen wèl👇🏻 www.doorbraak.eu/diep-veranke... #Hoorn #Kolonialisme #Nationalisme #Racisme #RechtseOpiniemakers

Diep verankerd koloniaal racisme: waarom miniatuurbeeldjes van Hitler niet 'normaal' gevonden worden, maar van J.P. Coen wèl | Doorbraak.eu

Enige tijd geleden verscheen in het Noordhollands Dagblad een artikel over het 3D-printen van replica’s van het standbeeld van de genocidepleger Jan Pieterszoon Coen in Hoorn. Afgelopen zaterdag werde...

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Alex Brandsen@alexbrandsen.nl · 3mo ago

We just published a recap of the TDCC interoperability event in Utrecht, where researchers, data professionals, and policy makers tackled the messy, human side of making data actually work together. 🔗 Read the full story: tdcc.nl/connecting-k... #Interoperability #OpenScience #ResearchData

Connecting Knowledge: Tackling Interoperability in Research - TDCC.nl

Authors: Walter Baccinelli, Vedran Kasalica, Kathrin Füllenbach, Dani Metilli, Alex Brandsen On 21st May 2026, a room full of researchers, data stewards, developers and research support organisations ...

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Alex Brandsen@alexbrandsen.nl · 3mo ago

We're building an LLM for Dutch Archaeology! With funding from Stichting Reuvens, I'm working with Archol and BAAC to create a RAG based system connecting an LLM to AGNES, making it possible to interrogate archaeological grey literature. See tara-llm.nl for more info (in Dutch)

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Piratenpartij Nederland@piratenpartij.nl · 3mo ago

Universiteit Utrecht gaat na een datacenterbrand eigen mail, Linux-laptops en eOS-telefoons testen. Minder afhankelijk van Microsoft = meer digitale soevereiniteit én privacy. Precies waar de Piratenpartij al jaren voor pleit. Goed voorbeeld, hopelijk volgen meer instellingen!🏴‍☠️ #DigitaleAutonomie

Universiteit Utrecht gaat proberen het mailverkeer (weer) zelf te regelen

De brand die in mei woedde in het datacentrum dat de Universiteit Utrecht gebruikt, had ook een gunstig effect. Het bracht intern mensen in beweging, vertelt Marije de Vries. Ze is ‘strategisch kwarti...

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DANS@dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week to apply for a position as Software Engineer at DANS. In this role you will develop FAIR data infrastructures and open science services in European projects such as EOSC Data Commons. You will work with Python, Linked Data and research data infrastructures. Apply by 6 July: edu.nl/efrdw

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Asha@ashatenbroeke.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Laat me benadrukken wat code rood voor hitte betekent. Er zullen mensen sterven. Vooral zieke en oude mensen; ook jonge en gezonde. De extreme hitte komt door de klimaatcrisis, die voortduurt door politieke onwil. Die onwil is dodelijk. Kom in opstand (als het koeler is) Revolutie = self care ✊🌳