Jeroen Sondervan

@jeroenson.bsky.social

Programme Leader Open Scholarly Communication at @opensciencenl.bsky.social | Dutch Research Council (NWO) | http://www.openscience.nl | co-founded @MediArXiv.bsky.social | #openaccess | views my own | posts in 🇳🇱 & 🇬🇧 | www.orcid.org/0000-0002-9866-0239

Young Europeans spend an average of 4.5 hours online on school days and 6.1 hours on weekends. While social media offers many opportunities to learn, connect, and create, it also presents risks. Nearly 60% of young children have also experienced emotional or psychosocial harm online.

We've received the recommendations from an expert panel on how to better protect and empower young people online. Leading academics, practitioners, youth and parent representatives, and specialists from across Europe assessed social media's impact on minors and set out practical measures for action.

A promotional graphic about online child safety featuring a young child in a bright orange hoodie looking down at a smartphone. The child is positioned on the left against a blurred blue and green background with abstract paint-like accents. Large text on the right reads: "Special Panel" in white and "Child Safety Online" in yellow. The design emphasizes digital safety for children.

The Netherlands' new open access strategy specifically name-checks 'scaling small' & puts community-driven publishing at its core - the very ethos the OBC was built on. Fantastic to see scholar-led values embedded into national policy! #OpenAccess #OAPolicy #ScalingSmall

When 'scaling small' becomes national policy

The Netherlands' new open access strategy echoes the principles the Open Book Collective was built on - 'scaling small' and community-led publishing

obc.copim.pub

My PhD Sajedeh Rasti has published a World View piece in Nature today: "Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future" www.nature.com/articles/d41... She discusses how she successfully brought together a team of meta-scientists to collaboratively apply for funding.

Don’t compete, collaborate: why collective funding applications are the future

Scientists with disparate expertise writing grants together can identify knowledge gaps and drive progress — but systems must change to incentivize them.

nature.com

"The biggest + most disruptive series of AI-fueled breakdowns have been the server outages that have disrupted service to the MHDL search engine Lantern. These crashes are the result of LLM bots crawling the website, scraping the scanned trade papers + fan magazines to train their next gen models."

AI and Archives. Breakdowns and Breakthroughs.

By Eric Hoyt, Kahl Family Professor and WCFTR and MHDL Director  The past year has been a time of AI-powered breakdowns and breakthroughs for the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR)...

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And so it begins. De uitrol van een heel donker scenario: dat wetenschappelijk onderzoek in VS onder staatscontrole komt te staan. De implementatie van de executive order ‘Gold Standard Science’ krijgt vorm. En dat is buitengewoon zorgwekkend. Code dieprood. www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/c...

Code rood om politieke inmenging in wetenschap VS: ‘Als dit erdoor komt, zijn we de klos’

Wetenschappers in Amerika moeten hun onderzoeksvoorstellen voortaan laten beoordelen door politieke functionarissen, in plaats van door andere wetenschappers. Daarbij telt vooral of het onderzoek stro...

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