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Monika Barget

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Early modern history & digital humanities @FASoS in Maastricht, opera lover & dance enthusiast, excited about (night) train travelling. 🚆 Formerly active on X as […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ akademienl.social/@mob, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I have only recently discovered #streamlit as a framework to build small apps for #datavisualisation in #Python, and it's making my life as an academic and teacher so much easier! Although their main account is on X (Twitter), you can follow their news here: bird.makeup/users/streamlit […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
Tijdens de Week van de #Wetenschap kunnen bezoekers aan de #UniversiteitMaastricht met mij oude kaarten van onze regio verkennen. Kleinere kinderen kunnen zelfs kaarten van #Limburg kleuren. En aan het eind van de dag kunnen ze nog een leuke UM-verrassing […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Kaart van 1635Kaart van Maastricht op schermSchattenjacht door de tijd: Ontdek oude kaarten
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
Mijn collega's aan de universiteit en COC Limburg zoeken mensen uit Limburg, vooral uit het midden en het noorden, die #queer & geen studenten zijn en willen bijdragen aan onderzoek over #vreugde in hun levens. Als jullie denken dat jullie verhalen niet belangrijk genoeg zijn om te vertellen --- […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I have completed one of my long-standing tech projects and #degoogled an old Samsung Galaxy A tablet from 2016 by installing /e/OS/. I initially wanted to get #lineageos but could not find a current zip download as my device is not officially supported and depends on unofficial builds. I will […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
@mobhistory Haha, this is THE account for me! I started using "mob" as a nickname during my PhD project on 18th-century riots, revolts and revolutions because it's also a good acronym in a family where my siblings' first names also start with an "M". So, I definitely have to follow you! 😁
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026
I have added more abstracts and posters submitted during the summer to our #DHBenelux2026 Zenodo community: zenodo.org/communities/dhbenelux202… If you missed the event in June, you may want to browse the records now, also to get some inspiration […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
I have just completed my first introduction day for new #MADigitalCultures students in my new role as program director. My alien Axel and I celebrated with icecream and having our picture taken in the photo booth. @fasosmaastricht
Introduction Day photo with Axel and a cone of mocca icecream.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
Ik heb even een donatie overgemaakt aan de Belgische solidariteitsfonds Brand in de #HogeVenen: donate.kbs-frb.be/WildfiresHautesFa… Doneren kan ook via een overschrijving op rekeningnummer BE10 0000 0000 0404 van de Koning Boudewijnstichting, met gestructureerde […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
@verbraucherzentrale_nrw : Wir hatten diese Woche Urlaub in #Monschau gebucht, aber treten diesen wegen der roten #ninaapp Warnung wegen Rauchbelastung in der Region nicht an. Die Vermieter der Ferienwohnung sagen, es bestehe keine Gefahr, doch wir nehmen die Auskunft der Behörden sehr ernst […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026
We avoid long journeys & flights for our #summerholidays & mostly visit nearby places in Germany or Belgium. This year, our holiday destination is affected by the devastating #wildfire in the Belgian #HogeVenen national park. More than 3000 hectares of land […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Area of the Hoge Venen wildfire indicated on Google Maps.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
I'm listening to the #BBC documentary on Kenyans trying to find their absent British #soldier dads. I agree that the human cost is huge. The following #ModernGhana article gives a good summary: www.modernghana.com/news/1490424/bb… What […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026
Finding fake references every year when grading student theses probably shouldn't surprise us when academics do the same. 🥺 I am currently working on Python code (run locally) that helps me check if referencing is consistent throughout a document, and if bibliographic APIs can verify the […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026
Googles Android Developer Verification-programma vereist een identiteitsbewijs, ondertekeningssleutels en een vergoeding van elke ontwikkelaar die wil dat zijn software installeerbaar is op Android. De EFF noemt app-gatekeeping "een weg naar censuur." Meer dan 67 organisaties hebben een open […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
Am I too stupid to use the new MS #Outlook or is this really software made in hell? Because the classic version seemed to miss out on mail in conversations all the time, I switched to the new interface on my work machine and I cannot make sense of anything anymore. What a bloated interface while […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026
Today I helped a student migrate an older HP laptop to #LinuxMint as no more Windows updates were possible. The student's first reaction was: "Nice interface!" He has never worked with Linux before but figured it out in no time and was eagerly browsing for additional software. I highly recommend […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
RE: c.im/@BBC/116695974776045636 Oh, as a passionate #DIY person and waste reducer, I love this so much! My own half-empty tins of paint always give me a bad conscience. So nice to see someone is actually recycling paint.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
At #dhbenelux2026, saxophonist Julia Warren is now translating conference presentation topics into jazz music. Our StoryScript demonstration became a swinging piece in F major! 👍🏼 Find out more about Julia's work on saxophoni.ca.
Julia Warren's transcription of our demonstration theme into music.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
Rutger Schurgers and I are at #dhbenelux26 and have just set up our demonstration of #StoryScript. Rutger began developing this web engine ten years ago for interactive #fiction, but it can also be used for creating adventure and role-playing #games. In […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Laptop showing code and screen showing web deployment for our adventure game demo.Tablet showing the StoryScript website and two posters explaining functionalities.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026
Everything's set up for #dhbenelux26 in Maastricht! The workshops have already started and we are looking forward to welcoming the other participants tomorrow. ☺️
DH Benelux reception at FASoS Maastricht
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026
Multilingual menu outside a convenience store in Rome. No translation app needed!
Poster with photos of pasta, instant noodles, snacks and soft drinks framed by coloured lights.
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VNMRKRK 🖖 @edwinvmeerkerk.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Gelezen: Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author Zoals Barthes stelde is de auteur dood en bepaalt de lezer de betekenis van een boek. @nnedi, die ik al kende van het geweldige #Binti verkent (volgens mij dus) die vraag in deze wervelende speculatieve fictie over […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]
Cover van Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
The #Dariah2026 keynote lecture by Andreas Fickers addresses the challenges of a #UI design in #digitalarchives that unduly hides complexity and forces different perspectives into one unified corpus: annualevent.dariah.eu/andreas-ficke…
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Andreas Fickers is the Keynote Speaker for Annual Event 2026 – Annual Event
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Our #Dariah2026 presentation on "Digital Archives as a Public Good" is already available on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/20347224 Our slides outline how we built the #Letters1916 collection as a community-driven digital archive that also engaged volunteers in transcription and data […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026
I'm in Rome for the #dariah annual event & a visit to the #Vatican has allowed me to buy an Italian copy of Pope Leo's encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas, which was only officially published this morning. When I entered the book store at 11 am, the shop […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Encyclical letter Magnifica Humanitas fresh from the printing press -- and my receipt from a Vatican book seller.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
My student Saevin is conducting a survey on #OpenSource activities in #Nigeria and would also love to interview some of the survey participants online. Maybe members of @WACREN, @OpenSciNigeria or @dsnai can help? The survey is hosted on the Qualtrics instance of Maastricht University and will […]
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Alex Plaum @lxplm.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026
📣 Last Call! #Fediverse Hands-On: Wie Medienschaffende jetzt sofort in dezentralen Netzwerken durchstarten können. Mit @mervelous & @remrow 19.05.2026 13:45–14:45 #rp26 #rp26fedi Workshop 2 www.re-publica.com/en/node/10533
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Fediverse Hands-On: Wie Medienschaffende jetzt sofort in dezentralen Netzwerken durchstarten können | re:publica
Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gesellschaft.
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Open Science Festival Limburg @osflimburg.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026
The #osflimburg workshop "Setting Yourself Up For Open Science" takes place on the Heerlen day, organized by Gjalt-Jorn Peters (@matherion) from the Open University www.openscience-maastricht.nl/12-ju… "This track has a morning and afternoon […] [Original post on social.edu.nl]
Image from the UNESCO Open Science report showing a central "Open Science" circle, with a bigger circle around it with four components: Open scientific knowledge, Open science infrastructures, Open engagement of societal actors, and Open dialogue with other knowledge systems. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UNESCO-Open_science-pillars-en.png
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
Ik moest vandaag naar #Aken om een nieuwe Duitse passport aan te vragen. De hele stad was prima voorbereid op Nederlandse #Koningsdag vluchtelingen — maar ik heb er bijna geen Nederlanders gezien. De binnenstad was lekker rustig. Toch was het leuk dat de […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Ballonnen met tekst "Hartelijk welkom in Aken"Oranje ballonnen voor een sierraden winkelOranje ballonnen aan de straatverlichting
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
Rutger Schurgers & I will present the #storytelling engine #StoryScript (based on JavaScript & TypeScript) at #dhbenelux26 in Maastricht. While I have made a small historical demo & am working on extended versions, we can also showcase a fully developed fantasy game based on "Veils of Verdandi" […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
Delighted to announce that we are expanding the scope of #dariahTeach beyond the previous focus on #OER creation! Check out our new blogpost and join us at the #DariahEU Annual Event in Rome to contribute […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
It was nice to give a mini lecture at our #BADigitalSociety Experience Day! The topic which I addressed were the (corroding) boundaries between politics and the tech economy. Why do democracies ideally need a separation of government and business? Why is […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Smart screen with slides in our digital studies lab "The Plant"
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@ProjectJupyter/116381… I think everyone in academic IT should read this. We need distributed infrastructure, indeed, last but not least for teaching! Students are often excluded from more sensitive internal university infrastructures, and our options to […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
One task that staff & students outsource to #llmchatbots is transforming #BibTex from a publisher website or library catalogue into particular academic citation styles. To save resources, we can look into alternatives like Chris Proctor's pybtex-apa7-style #Python plugin for #APA7. I have […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
I'm creating #syntheticdata for teaching in the social sciences & find that #SDG with LLMs isn't for my small-scale use. While there are workflows to combine LLMs & generate more credible output ( link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/9… ), general-purpose models often […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
A PhD candidate asked me today why it was methodologically dangerous to let general-purpose #genAI do qualitative data coding for them, even when spot checks confirm that citations are correct. I shared the following 2025 article about AI-supported thematic analysis with them, which makes […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026
#VibeCoding killing #OpenSource is a serious concern! I often ask AI to find packages / tools that could help with a certain problem when a traditional web search doesn't reveal enough, and I let AI write regular expressions or create dictionaries. But I always make sure to credit #devs and […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026
My student Jenny has made survey on data collection by #RiotGames for her MA thesis and welcomes input from #gamers that have previously played #Valorant: maastrichtuniversity.eu.qualtrics.c…
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
My partner and I are currently (re)watching The Wire season 5, and the Xerox "lie detector" scene made me laugh out loud as I saw uncanny parallels between detectives struggling to prove juvenile drug trafficking and us teachers trying to prove AI use among our students. 🎓 […]
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026
So cool: @radboud University has announced to switch to #Fairphone for (all?) their employees. 🎉 They explicitly cite #sustainability, cost efficiency and management support as reasons. www.ru.nl/en/staff/news/radboud-uni…
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拉德堡德大学选定Fairphone作为员工标准智能手机
Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees (www.ru.nl) 16:23  ↑ 117 HN Points
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Alexander Winkler @awinkler.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026
There are some really useful suggestions in this article as to what #GLAM|s can do in the #Wikiverse / on #wikidata (it's pretty straightforward to get started): culturalcontent.substack.com/p/shar…
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Sharing the world’s paintings on Wikidata
Hi there Team Content,
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026
Gestern die (hoffentlich!) letzte Nacht mit privatem #Feuerwerk zu Neujahr in den #Niederlanden überlebt. Ich habe in einer kleineren Stadt bei Amersfoort gefeiert und noch nie so viel Pyro gesehen. 🥺 Schon am frühen Abend mussten wir alle Fenster und Türen schließen, weil draußen so viel Lärm […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
@econetwork have a fundraiser to buy land for agricultural youth projects. They raise awareness about #climatechange and trial solutions. Read more here: gofund.me/d353dcb65
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/11/2025
Just a reminder that #dhbenelux26 takes place at #MaastrichtUniversity next summer! Visit our website & read our call for papers here: 2026.dhbenelux.org Our main theme will be #storytelling --- so we welcome papers, workshops or demonstrations by […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Digital Humanities Benelux 2026, Maastricht, 02-06 June -- still from the promotional animation
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025
"Vakbonden: 9 december demonstratie tegen ‘sloop’ #hogeronderwijs Er komt opnieuw een actie tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs op 9 december. Dat maakt de AOb bekend samen met de FNV, #WOinActie, LSVb en Actiegroep 0.7." […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025
My colleague Brigitte is #hiring two PhD candidates in migration studies. The research focus should be on women from Italy and Turkey. Read more here and apply: vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/j… […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025
📢 Bachelor Open Dag – 8 november 2025! Ben je klaar voor je studie? Kom naar de Open Dag van Universiteit Maastricht! 🔹 Ontdek onze opleidingen 🔹 Proef de sfeer op de campus 🔹 Stel vragen aan studenten & docenten 🔹 Ervaar Problem-Based Learning (PBL) 📅 Zaterdag 8 november, 9:30–16:30 📍 […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2025
📢 #BachelorsOpenDay – Saturday 8 November 2025 Are you planning to start your studies in the next academic year? Join us at Maastricht University’s BA Open Day! 🔹 Explore what it’s like to study here. 🔹 Ask our students & lecturers your questions. 🔹 Discover how Problem-Based Learning (PBL) […]
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
Because it came up in discussions during #nosf2025 today: Pandoc is a powerful document conversion tool that helps you prepare content for different purposes and publication contexts. #OpenAccess #OER #OpenScience pandoc.org
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Pandoc - index
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
I have a new credit card and will definitely donate for the server that hosts me again soon! 💐Just wanted to share it here because following ko-fi updates is not directly possible for Mastodon users. ko-fi.com/akademienl/goal?g=64
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Monika Barget @mob.akademienl.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025
I am grateful for our lively discussion in my workshop on creating & hosting Open Educational Resources. Across institutions and disciplines, we share the same challenges and experiment with similar solutions. There is no one-fits-all workflow or platform […] [Original post on akademienl.social]
Flipchart with a hand-drawn outline of file formats and publication strategies in OER creation
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