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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 23h

De zaterdagknutsel: een te heet gewassen trui (ik was het niet! hij kwam van een kledingruil) omgetoverd tot nieuwe schoolsloffen voor de jongste, in FC Barcelona-kleuren. Wie het domme beginnersfoutje spot mag het zeggen.

Een collage van twee foto's. Op de bovenste: een rode wollen trui, een blauw lapje boordstof en een uit karton geknipt patroon. Daaronder een paar rode sloffen met blauwe boordjes en een opgenaaide patch in de vorm van een voetbal.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 21/10/2026

Was vandaag op de KreaDoe, een creatieve beurs. Overal AI-slop. 🤮

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Herfstige zondagmiddagwandeling in het Renkumse beekdal, misschien wel mijn favoriete plek, het licht is er altijd zo mooi en bij het bezoekerscentrum wonen varkentjes.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

verontrustende mail van een webshop

Dankjewel Hanna de Vries, je besteling wordt klaargezet voor verzending.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

Ik mocht de kersverse brugklasser helpen met boeken kaften en kon het natuurlijk niet laten ze even open te slaan. Spijt van.

Een pagina uit een geschiedenisboek. Tekst: "Source 6 Men and women. Once, a long time ago, men and women lived together in harmony. The man hunted and defended his wife and children against wild animals. He developed his skills as a sharpshooter. He learned to ficus on one thing And to determine how far or nearby things were. As a result, modern men are unable to listen closely. But they are good at reading maps. During the hunt, the women stayed together. They worked together in caring for the children and collecting food. They kept getting better and better at looking after others and doing more things at the same time. It went on like this for hundreds of thousands of years. Based on: Allan and Barbara Pease, Why men don't listen & women can't read maps, London 1999"

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026

The Vinted algorithm has figured out which generation i'm from

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 21/04/2026

Fun accidental discovery re: AI-generated 'definitions' in ScienceDirect papers: clicking 'Creative Commons' sends you to a page on 'Copyright Law', with a list of excerpts from 'relevant sources' that contains no info on CC, but instead features threatening language & a diss of the OA movement. 🤔

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 28/03/2026

Je kunt dus gewoon kaarsjes maken van het schilletje van een BabyBel!

Er staat een klein rood kaarsje te branden op een houten tafel, vastgeplakt op een stukje karton.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 26/03/2026

i appreciate the message but either this article was written by ChatGPT or this style is just how people write now and both options are equally depressing

A white and brown cow standing in the sea and staring at the waves dejectedly. Meme text: "I can't go the rest of my life asking if it's AI or not"

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 12/03/2026

I received yet another request from the Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge people, which is still doing the rounds apparently, and decided to send them an email this time. Here it is in case my response is useful to anyone else. #AcademicSky

I am writing to express my concern about the Novelty Indicators Challenge survey and let you know why I won’t be participating. (A second time, that is – I just received my second invitation to participate in this study, after having already completed the survey about two weeks ago and regretting it afterwards. I have not checked if this is an administrative oversight on your part or if the paper you want me to assess this time is a different one.)

As an Open Science advocate, I strongly believe that an overreliance on metrics is dangerous to science. While some aspects of scientific progress might be quantifiable, the academic community here in the Netherlands has increasingly recognised that metrics are inadequate proxies for scientific quality and moreover, that the more they are embedded in assessment procedures, the more actively harmful they become. Any effort spent by researchers on gaming or maximising a particular metric is effort not spent on writing the best possible article on its own terms, whatever they may be. Amazing contributions (and amazing researchers) end up overlooked because they do not fit whatever indicators the funding bodies are in love with at that moment. This is a particular problem when the indicator is novelty because novelty is without doubt one of the worst proxies for quality I can think of while also being incredibly easy to game. Some of the most persistent crises and biases in modern science (such as the replication crisis and the positive result bias) are rooted in a misguided emphasis on the shiny and the new.

Moreover, a persistent problem with metrics is that they apply equal assessment criteria to vastly different fields of research, obscuring how different research traditions have very different ideas about what makes a paper good. Having actually filled out your survey, I noticed that there was very little relation between the aspects of the target paper the survey asked me to rate, and the way research is actually read and assessed in my field. Because of this, I am very concerned that any metric that is developed on the basis of this study will end up favouring certain fields or types of research over others.

Another huge problem with metrics is that they take research assessment away from the academic community itself (where it rightfully belongs) and transfer it to big tech companies like Elsevier whose calculations are proprietary and who are making eye-watering amounts of money selling researchers’ own data back to universities. In this particular case, it looks like Elsevier is involved with and/or sponsoring this challenge. It is hard to find clear information on your website but I don’t think it’s far-fetched to assume that Elsevier will end up developing another proprietary product on the basis of the results, which the academic community (including myself, and you) will have once again provided the data and free labour for.

In short, in a time where both the inherent harm done by overreliance on metrics, as well as the harm to academic freedom and independence caused by overreliance on proprietary products are increasingly recognised, it seems incredibly regressive not just to try to turn novelty into a metric, but to do so sponsored by / with the involvement of Elsevier.

Having written this expression of concern, I also would like to ask you to remove my initial survey responses from your study.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 11/03/2026

Zojuist tijdens een fijne avondwandeling met mijn dochter 7 padden (en 2 wormen) een druk fietspad overgezet. Hopelijk gaan ze nu lekker veel kleine padjes maken! 🥰

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026

Ach ja, de bekende Nederlandse woorden 'zok' en 'seef'. (Het enige minimale paar dat ik heb kunnen bedenken is overigens zonde/sonde.)

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026

I looked up the study this likely referred to and surprise, the actual data do not support this conclusion. Also the respondents were all born between 1925-1950, basically the most outlier-y cohort in European history. But even then it looks like women were happiest in same-age relationships.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 03/02/2026

I actually looked up the Maastricht University study after my nausea had subsided (Groot & Maassen van den Brink 2002). This. This is the 'life satisfaction' data.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 15/12/2025

Ik had voor dat doel ooit deze foto gemaakt, maar toch maar niet gebruikt. Tenslotte is voornamelijk het systeem kapot, niet ik.

Defecte draaideur in Hoog Catharijne met de tekst "Oops... I am broken but will soon be fixed!"

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 03/12/2025

Klaar, denk ik. Er klopt iets niet aan het stekeltje rechtsonder en ik had eigenlijk iets meer moeten doen met het bovenste rode vlak (die gouden spiralen waren pure luiheid) maar ik laat het los, het is ok zo!

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 02/12/2025

Vandaag knutsel ik tussen het werk door een map voor de schooltekeningen van mijn zesjarige. Een drakenoog, met 3D-schubben van knutselrubber. Het maakproces is bij mij altijd chaotisch en vindt meestal plaats op een hinderlijke locatie middenin de woonkamer. #DDfotos #02creatie

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 30/10/2025

It is maddening to see my timeline full of internationals completely misinterpreting the Dutch election results. The 4(!) parties whose programmes were found to adhere to the rule of law (no red proposals in the graph below) together have 27 seats our of 150. The ones w/ more red than green: 71

A bar graph showing for each Dutch political party how much of their party programme was found to adhere to the rule of law by an independent legal body. Only 4 programmes (Denk, GLPvdA, PvdD and Volt) fully comply. 6 parties (BBB, FvD, JA21, PVV and VVD) contain more non-compliant than compliant proposals.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 17/10/2025

Dat behang ☠️ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A police photo of a neonazi's bedroom. The floor is a jumble of clothes and assault rifles. On one wall, a swastika flag. On the other, childish construction site-themed wallpaper.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 14/10/2025

My favourite kind of project: turning my own old clothes (2 pairs of trousers in this case) into things for my kids. Sustainable clothing with instant history, & a dent in the mending pile :) (Pattern: the casually stylish Waves & Wild Sunday Pants)

Two pairs of children's trousers laid out side by side on a bed. One is grey with some space-themed patches. The other is an olive green with contrasting colourful pockets and knee patches.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 10/10/2025

Help out a confused elder millennial. Why are all the youtubers doing this face in their video thumbnails? Is it coincidence or A Thing? Does it have a name?

a compilation of thumbnails showing different YouTubers all pulling the same exaggeratedly baffled face.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 27/09/2025

Attempting to escape from my day job with @sallypointer.bsky.social's course in prehistoric textiles but it turns out I cannot escape from my day job

A female academic lecturing in a conservatory surrounded by various kinds of plant fibres and woven baskets. The subtitles say "...that so many of the papers are behind academic paywalls"

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 26/09/2025

Is er eigenlijk een #naaisky? In mijn nopjes met deze nieuwe regenbroek voor de jongste. Stof een restje softshell van Vinted, patroon van Waves & Wild. Laat de herfst maar komen! 🌧

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 19/09/2025

"Anything you actually care about you can't measure"

The guy from the "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point" meme

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 13/09/2025

Fellow crafters/academics, I may just have found the best use for old conference badges!

A sewing pattern (Waves&Wild Hot Chocolate) held together by a clip-on type conference badge. Instead of name/affiliation the badge shows the pattern name and size.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 26/08/2025

Romantische taferelen in onze voortuin vanmorgen.

Twee lichtbruine naaktslakken in het gras, liefdevol om elkaar heengekronkeld. In het midden van de kronkel hun twee lichtblauwe, half transparante penissen.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 27/07/2025

My 5yo's newest pastime is organising funerals for dead bumblebees. He buries them with flowers and a note saying "Ik vont het vijn dat je hebt geleevd" (I'm glad you existed). He doesnt really know how to write yet, this note took him 8 tries but he kept going 😭

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 17/07/2025

The article is infuriating but I have to admit this infographic helpfully showing us 5 vs 25 rockets got a chuckle out of me www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A visual representation of the number of SpaceX rocket launch permissions before 2025 and now. The first row shows 5 rockets. The second row shows 25 rockets.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 02/07/2025

Elsevier cramming in all the buzzwords

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 01/07/2025

It's very comforting that linguistics is never far away even when I'm at a #metascience conference :) (slide from a talk by Kyle Siler)

A powerpoint slide listing 7 academic journals in linguistics and bibliometrics. The presentation compares the 'zombie journals' 'Lingua' and 'Journal of Informetrics' with the competing journals set up by their former editorial teams.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 30/06/2025

These are the opening paragraphs of a report included in the official conference pack. I find it all quite off-putting. I am considering doing an unconference session with people who'd like to have a more critical AI conversation...

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 30/06/2025

The older I get the more i appreciate a nice bit of brutalism.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 30/06/2025

On my way to Metascience 2025! Several of my fellow Eurostar passengers have removed their shoes to be more comfortable and the entire compartment smells of feet, it's going to be a long ride

A departure sign at Rotterdam Central station announcing the 7:28 Eurostar train to London St Pancras

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 24/06/2025

De betreffende quotes van Van der Starre voor mensen zonder ScienceGuide-abonnement.

"Veel van die extra middelen zijn daarom ingezet om ook onderzoekstijd te bieden aan medewerkers die eerst alleen een docentencontract hadden, legde Van der Starre uit. “En dat kwalificeert bij de Universiteit Utrecht voor een vaste aanstelling als UD. Zeker binnen de faculteit Geesteswetenschappen, waar veel mensen alleen maar onderwijs gaven, is dat op grote schaal doorgevoerd.”
Achteraf had men hier misschien wat terughoudender in moeten zijn, zo stelt het CvB nu vast."

"Nu waarschuwde Van der Starre dat het verkleinen van de loonverschillen de interne loopbaanstructuur kan aantasten. “Vanuit HR en loopbaanperspectief is het niet goed om de stapjes al te klein te laten zijn. Het is misschien leuk als je begint aan een nieuwe baan, dat je gelijk goed begint met een heel mooi salaris, maar het is ook wel fijn als je een tijdje ergens werkt en je hebt laten zien wat je kan, en ervaring hebt opgedaan, dat je dat op de een of andere manier terugziet in je beloning.”"

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 08/06/2025

Take a break from the world being on fire with this punny cartoon by my #eurovision-obsessed 10yo :)

A cartoon depicting three capybaras in a sauna

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 19/05/2025

Ja dit lijkt een extreemrechtse persiflage op het oorspronkelijke stripje, hopelijk omdat de poster even niet goed oplette.

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hanna 🧶 @hannadevries.eurosky.social · 18/05/2025

Lately i've been helping out with the incunabula digitisation project at our Special Collections dept. It turns out that few things are as zen as leafing through a 15th-century book for four hours straight. And stumbling upon people's scribbled notes and doodles is like time travel. ❤️

A fragment of an early printed work, shown enlarged on a screen. In the margins of the Latin text, someone has doodled a hand that gestures at a particularly interesting paragraph.

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