Skimming through *that* policy document. We're rapidly approaching the metascience "I have become death, destroyer of science" moment.
Bart Penders
@penders.bsky.social
Science studies scholar: #credibility of sci, #trust #collaboration #integrity #food #STS #reform, @ Maastricht University Also: @bart@akademieNL.social
The Journal of Research on Research has received an unexpected but very welcome number of submissions in the last few weeks. We thank you all for these! As we move into the summer, we will pause our review processes, resuming them in September again. *Reviewers deserve a summer break too.* 1/2
Skimming through *that* policy document. We're rapidly approaching the metascience "I have become death, destroyer of science" moment.
Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Tech oligarchy
Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)
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With some delay, our website is now up! If you want to know more, go to www.roration.org
RORATION: Research on Research Association | metaresearch
Learned society for researchers researching research and metaresearch
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One of my daughter's best friends is a youth diving champion. She won the Dutch championship, won European qualifiers and now qualified for the Youth World Championships. She is not being supported to travel there and is trying to crowdsource her participation. If you have a dime to spare...
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Nimaro Grassere is een veelbelovend talent in Zwemmen - schoonspringen. Bekijk het project 'Help Nimaro haar droom waarmaken – Op weg naar het Jeugd WK Schoonspringen 2026!'. Doneer veilig en direct v...
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As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
Not a single prompt can change the fact that these technologies destruct the environment and our institutions, concentrate power in the hands of a few technofacists, further marginalize already minoritizes communities and invisibilize the human labor and toxic supply chain that sustain the industry
My brother and I both teach. He teaches carpentry. I'd probably make his pupils lose some fingers. Best not to try.
Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w agoThought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?
This is in part - but not completely - a neutral citation problem. When we cite, we should disclose what we cite something for and what that citation means in our text. Most citations nowadays are 'neutral' in the sense of lacking these narrative indicators. 1/
Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 3w agoUnfortunately our citation practices fail to properly distinguish between original research offering theoretical/empirical evidence from something someone said in an academic looking piece. It's a reification mechanism we perpetuate via our every day research practices.
Reviewer invite frequency always rises just before summer, when people submit their work and then retire for a much-needed summer break. However, this year it seems excessive. I'm getting on average about 2/day since the beginning of July.
Umeå University is advertising two assistant professor positions in the humanities: www.umu.se/en/work-with... I was a postdoc at Umeå and it's a great place to work! @ethannowak.bsky.social would back me up on this.
Two positions as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
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All our ehealth and telehealth research has acquired immediate new relevance.
Claas Gefroi@claasgefroi.bsky.social · last mo.Bundesgesundheitsministerin Warken will nun eine Krankschreibung per Videosprechstunde. Man muss also krank ausschauen, um krank geschrieben zu werden. Was machen denn da beispielsweise Migräne-Patienten? Wie kann man Migräne visuell glaubhaft rüberbringen? Das wird alles noch sehr interessant.
#Postdoc gesucht – zum Thema Zukunftsforschung/Digitale Zukünfte! ⏱️ Jetzt noch schnell bis zum 5. Juli bei uns bewerben! stellenangebote.cais-research.de/de?id=cc0a8a
PostDoc Zukunftsforschung/Digitale Zukünfte (all genders) - Job Bochum - Stellenangebote CAIS
Das Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) gGmbH sucht zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine wissenschaftlich profilierte Persönlichkeit auf PostDoc-Level in Vollzeit...
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Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣 Wir suchen eine:n PostDoc Zukunftsforschung/Digitale Zukünfte (all genders) – Vollzeit, unbefristet, EG 13 TV-L. Bau mit uns unser neues Forschungsfeld zu digitalen Zukünften auf. Bewerbung bis 05.07.2026. Alle Infos findest du hier: cais-research.de/aktuelles/st...
Join us as a postdoctoral researcher! "Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.
Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you an ambitious post-doctoral researcher with an Open Science mindset who seeks to unravel the threads of visibility and invisibility of staff across research pr...
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Oooh, we're entering the era of academic journals dropping their "qualitative checklists". Well done, Implementation Science. Maybe I'll send you a paper now. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Embracing complexity by reducing rigidity: guiding principles for the intersection of implementation science and qualitative research - Implementation Science
In this editorial we reflect on recent contributions that have focused on how researchers should involve qualitative research in implementation science. Implementation science as a discipline has firm...
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the method is already named--"adaptive surveying"--and research from a year and a half ago finds that chatbot adaptive surveys substantially underperform human in-depth interviews in richness (aka, the salient metrics we use to evaluate interview data quality) arxiv.org/abs/2309.10187
Collecting Qualitative Data at Scale with Large Language Models: A Case Study
Chatbots have shown promise as tools to scale qualitative data collection. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) could accelerate this process by allowing researchers to easily deploy sophis...
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Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhy not let large language models do the interviewing? Give an LLM an interview guide and ground rules for neutral, non-directive probing, and it can run semi-structured interviews by chat or voice. We call this AI Conversational Interviewing.
Our neighbours, who are by all standards, the best neighbours one can wish for, are moving out. Maybe, in a year's time, we will no longer be the youngest people in our street...
Obviously a request to fill out a doodle prompted this post. 50 minutes later, the next one has already arrived.
Bart Penders@penders.bsky.social · 2mo agoDoodles just don't work. I get multiple of them a day, and filling one out, often cancels out the one I filled out before. If at some point a date and time is picked, for half of the people it longer it's available, starting the whole circus up again.
Doodles just don't work. I get multiple of them a day, and filling one out, often cancels out the one I filled out before. If at some point a date and time is picked, for half of the people it longer it's available, starting the whole circus up again.
I've been going #flightfree since 2019. It has been difficult to maintain at times and I am realistic enough to know I will not be able to maintain this indefinitely. In the meantime, trains are great! Usually...
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
Join us as a postdoctoral researcher! "Invisible Knowledge Work in Open Science Practices", funded by OSNL #STS #metascience Come help us map and understand the invisible labour that enables, allows, supports and shapes #openscience, and lets it grow. Mostly #qual work, with small #quant pockets.
Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you an ambitious post-doctoral researcher with an Open Science mindset who seeks to unravel the threads of visibility and invisibility of staff across research pr...
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🚨🚨postdoc alert🚨🚨 come work w/ @penders.bsky.social & our colleagues on the Invisible Knowledge Work and the Transformation and Scaling of Open Science Practices project funded by Open Science NL: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3617...
Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices
Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you an ambitious post-doctoral researcher with an Open Science mindset who seeks to unravel the threads of visibility and invisibility of staff across research pr...
academictransfer.com