iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Nicola Neophytou has some food for thought for how to understand openess at @openwebsearcheu: Does it bring us closer to our social and political goals? Are we doing open-washing too? What capabilities do we add?

Slide with conclusions that are summarized in the post

000 0

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Concluding questions: 1. How to preserve high-quality content? 2. How can search become less/not more dependent on "AI"? 3. What are actually desirable digital infrastructures / visions for an open web?

Slide: 1. How to preserve high-quality content?
2. How can search become less/not more dependent on "AI'?
3. What are actually desirable digital infrastructures / visions for an open web?

000 0

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

There were 60,000 (sixty thousand!) paper submissions to #ICLR2027 (15th International Conference on Learning Representations). This is crazy. Some are arguing for using AI for reviewing, which is completely insane. Maybe, instead, we should organize conferences […] [Original post on idf.social]

Screen shot of Denny Zhou's social media post: "ICLR 2027 has received more submissions than all previous years (2013–2026) combined",, including a table with per-year submissions, starting with 67 submissions in 2013 to 55,972 submissions in 2026.

313 3

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

When you are the richest database vendor in the world, and you make administrative applications for universities. #Databases

Dialogue box with square in a red circle:
"Error processing database session setup code."
"Contact your application administrator."
and an "Ok" button

000 0

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The @Radboud_uni Nextcloud pilot does not yet provide email and calendar, but it does provide podcasts! (not sure if the pilot got its priorities straight)

Screen shot of Nextcloud Music, showing the podcast "Computer Science Off Course" by Felienne Hermans and Hanna Schraffenberger

010 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

nitrokey.com has a pretty convincing web site! Open Source IT Security Hardware Made in Germany

021 2

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Universiteiten Publiceer je werk zelf! (Opiniestuk in Volkskrant van 2 april 2015) ln plaats van uitgevers te blijven spekken met belastinggeld, moeten universiteiten hun wetenschappelijk werk zelf publiceren.

Schermafdruk van volkskrant artikel van 2 april 2015: Universiteiten Publiceer je werk zeff

010 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Please join us in the 8th International Open Search Symposium #OSSYM26 on 7-9 October 2026 in Berlin opensearchfoundation.org/events-osf…

OSSYM poster with keynote presenters and: "Boosting Digital Sovereignty. How can Open Web Search contribute to digital diversity?"

010 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

@arjen Hang on, I'm almost done removing you from the weights.

Arjen P. de Vries

Dutch computer scientist
>276 strength · Top 20%<
GPT-5.5 says
1/4

Dutch computer scientist known for information retrieval and database systems research.

100 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

@RadicalGraffiti Can I donate some Radical Graffiti? From Maastricht in the Netherlands.

Dead Men Don't Rape. (In pink, on a wall where clearly older grafitti was painted over with white chalk)

002 2

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

Exam Object-Oriented Programming #OOP graded! Lowest grade: 1.0; Highest grade: 9.8 (which will be a 10.0 on the grade list!) Also, we graded this within less than 24 hours after the students did the exam!

Willem Dafoe as Norman Osborn in the Spider-Man movies: "You know, I'm something of a scientist myself" (When your teacher is talking about Java and you remember Minecraft was made with Java)

040 4

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Dirk van Miers from the KNAW opens the Diamond Open Access Journal Editors 2026 event in Amsterdam

Big room full of people, with Dirk on stage

111 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Fake geolocation on my /e/OS phone works extraordinarily well today! #Amsterdam

the Fo Guang Shan He Hwa Tempel in Amsterdam Chinatown

010 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

I am trying out streaming music services that work as progressive web apps. tidal.com does a decent job. Other suggestions welcome.

010 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Nieuwe laptop sticker voor de varkentjes 🐷 (ze komen per 20 stuks, stuur me een DM als je laptop nog een leeg plekje heeft)

Laptopdeksel met rechtsonder een sticker van Barbara Stok met een schattig varkentje en de tekst "Deze maand worden er in Nederland weer 1 miljoen varkentjes geslacht"

200 2

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Resit exam #Databases graded: 23 out of 32 (72%) passed. Lowest grade: 3.5, Highest grade: 9.1 (out of 10).

Genie: "3 rules: no wishing for death, no falling in love, no bring back dead people"
Person: "I want to use Excel as a database"
Genie: "There are 4 rules"

010 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

@fonolog voor de volledigheid, mijn hele scherm in twee afdrukken...

000 0

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

@fonolog kijk, in 8 stappen gedaan, maar ik zie de optimale ladder...

100 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Thank you, @GESIS for the beautiful button! I think it looks good on me

Pink button with a big text "Data Lover" and tiny "www.gesis.org"

040 4

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

#ECIR2026 opening by Avishek Anand with photos of Delft when it is not rainy

Stage with two large screens and a big audience

031 3

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

Quite impressive! The Radboud University Information Retrieval group's contributions to #ECIR2026: nice poster made by @harrieo.bsky.social

Poster with program of all Radboud contributions.

063 6

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/03/2026

Many thanks to @Felienne Hermans for the study material of tomorrows #OOP Object-Oriented Programming lecture on Reading code and unit testing!

Slide: Your brain on programming.
With a book cover: Felienne Hermans. The Programmer’s Brain, Manning Publications, 2021.
and a quote: “Reading code is a core part of programming (...) Code reading is not taught and practiced often, and getting to know code is confusing and often hard work”

011 1

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

The best way to announce the iCIS poster session is....

... a poster announcing the iCIS poster session, today at 16:00 in Mercator I

000 0

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

#ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest tech donor, and a facilitator of the US military and ICE: 1,513,922 have taken action as part of the boycott at QuitGPT.org !

040 4

Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

We're live training a system to detect T cells in images of cancer tissue 🤯

Image of microscopic cells with "Is this point in a cell" and buttons "No" and "Yes"

000 0