New paper with Mandy de Wilde! 'A good drainage economy: the elemental politics of Dutch carbon farming' in @jcultecon.bsky.social tracing how scientists calculated CO2 emissions and how environmental NGOs acted on them. #Valuationstudies #politicalecology #STS www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🫪 En lees de laatste alinea ook even. Sinds de overname in 2007 heeft het Indiase moederbedrijf niet in Tata Steel geïnvesteerd. Er ging vanuit hier wel 1 miljard dividend naar India. Hahahaha. www.ewmagazine.nl/economie/ach...

What are our universities for? This needs to be answered given the risks we all face in this more turbulent & dangerous world. It is a real disappointment that university managers behave as if the answer can only be found in a spreadsheet. www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-...

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

technosphere.earth

screaming www.tumblr.com/reggiemess/8...

<quiet voice> staying with the slop

Roland Meyer@bildoperationen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than people actually want.

Always nice to see colleagues put in effort to start something new. I do however wonder whether 'big tent'-journals are future-proof. I think we will move towards journals/outlets connected to smaller communities rather than journals trying to bring 'everyone' together.

Research on Research Association@roration.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're excited to launch J·ROR, the Journal of Research on Research. A new open-access home for research on how research is funded, organised, conducted, communicated, and evaluated. Our first editorial: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ResearchOnResearch #MetaScience #OpenScience #STS

This is so on point. The worst chapter in every such book. (I've had several authors tell me that publishers basically force them to write this chapter.)

Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂@rude1.blacksky.team · 2mo ago

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

we moeten terug

Zie je wel: de klimaatwetenschap zat ernaast met haar alarmisme. Dat claimen opgewekte sceptici, onder wie Trump, nu het ergste horrorscenario de prullenbak in gaat. Aan het hoofd van die bijstelling stond Detlef van Vuuren. ‘Volkomen onzin’, zegt hij over de euforie. www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

Door deze hoogleraar ging het ergste klimaatscenario de prullenbak in – en Trump ging ermee aan de haal. ‘Dit had ik nog nooit meegemaakt’

Zie je wel: de klimaatwetenschap zat ernaast met haar alarmisme. Dat claimen opgewekte sceptici, onder wie Trump, nu het ergste horrorscenario de prullenbak in gaat. Aan het hoofd van die bijstelling ...

trouw.nl

LLMs intensify a tension in the present political economy of authorship. On the one hand, cultural production is obviously collective, citational, iterative, and infrastructural. On the other hand, the only durable mechanisms many artists have for surviving are individualizing property forms.

Okay but look, what about the fact that "AI" objectively _is_ bad (As in produces a lot less socially beneficial value than the cost it creates). ("Useless" is a straw man).

Waarschijnlijk trilveenveenmos op een natuurontwikkelingsproject (Omhoog met het Veen!) In de Krimpenerwaard, op deze plek kwelt waarschijnlijk wat grondwater op. We zijn deze soort nog nooit tegengekomen in de Krimpenerwaard. Wat zou nodig zijn om definitief uitsluitsel te hebben?

Data Centers are Disasters - new graphic on the Justseeds downloads page : justseeds.org/graphic/data...

Une thèse en STS au Centre de sociologie de l'innovation (Mines Paris PSL), ça vous tente ? Nous démarrons une nouvelle campagne de recrutement pour la rentrée 2026-2027. Date limite pour le dépôt des candidatures : vendredi 29 mai. Tout est expliqué ici : www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

‘Maar het bedrijfsleven’

Trouw@trouw.nl · 4mo ago

Insectengif op de veren wordt zwaluwen fataal: ‘Ook in de hersenen vonden we het’

leftist publishers when you ask them about open access

Also, thank god for some of the sane comments from the peer-reviewers (from this Nature paper).

I increasingly think the last journal article I will ever write is not so far in the future. Good opportunity to slow down our writing in the critical social sciences and rediscover all the ways of writing that is not the journal article.

AKA Fa͍ͥ͒ͦͣ͑bi̗̼̣̦̳̊͐̏͊̇aͭn̜͕̜̠̼ͤ̐̏ Munié̼͙̭͉̫̌ͤ̑̓s͚͔̩̓̆a@provokedeconomy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

LOL doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Check this out! There's a book launch of my essay "The Netherlands is a bad idea" in Moezeum (010), April 23. With responses from: Zakia Essanhaji ❤️, @quinsyg.bsky.social ❤️, and Nawal Mustafa ❤️. The book was made in collaboration with Multi Tool Press ❤️ and will be available in limited supply.

Graslandperceel in de veenweiden van de Krimpenerwaard. In de noordrand direct naast natuurgebied. Verkocht aan de hoogste bieder (125k voor een ruime hectare), gras bespoten, mest erin en grasland scheuren. Wordt dit de toekomst voor de veenweiden met grondprijzen die door het dak gaan?

Very happy to see our latest Peatscapes article out in Environment and Planning E, led by Nye Merrill-Glover! Do give it a read if you're interested in peatland governance, carbon credit markets, or both! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Thanks as ever to @leverhulme.ac.uk! 🙏

Ik kan niet meer. Dit is zo schrijnend. Zo onmenselijk. Eigenlijk wil je het niet lezen. Maar het kan hier wel (cadeaulink). www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

WIE DE FUCK IS ER HIER NOU DE CULTUUR VAN DE DOOD?

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Channel 13 in Israel is now broadcasting a giant countdown clock…

This is so, so well-articulated.

Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

In the early 1990s, Bruno Latour was not hired at the Institute for Advanced Study. I wrote an article about that decision and what it reveals about the science wars and the history of science studies, now live @histsocialscience.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/985884

Next week the Peatscapes Team will join up with social scientists from 10 European countries for the two-day interdisciplinary 'Mapping Peatscapes' workshop at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social, co-organised by @kargkama.bsky.social & @thomasfranssen.bsky.social! Agenda: peatscapes.com/mappingpeats...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.