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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It's October. That means that for the first time ever, a paper I wrote has been under review for more than 2 years.

Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All indicators are flawed. But for some we can wonder what they are even indicators of. Have I been read by AI? A new indicator of impact, relevance, or of abuse and appropriation? See www.amicitedby.ai 1/2

Stats for how often an AI has consulted one or more of my work.

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Maastricht University @maastrichtu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

💡 How can we prevent disease as a result of climate change? At Maastricht University, the new Climate Health Institute is studying the health effects of heat, water and air pollution - with a focus on those most at risk. What should climate-health research prioritise? More info at bit.ly/4xLOcEx

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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📣 New piece - Forum on Tech Oligarchy 📜 In "Epistemic oligarchisation: exploring capture and concentration through science reform," Sven Ulpts, Sheena F. Bartscherer, Bart Penders, and Nicole Nelson examine the impact of Tech Oligarchy on scientific knowledge production 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

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Epistemic oligarchisation: exploring capture and concentration through science reform

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Achievement unlocked: as of this week, our institute's CRIS system suggests, under the heading of "similar profiles" that my expanded research profile is similar to @sallywyatt.bsky.social's. If only.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you submit two papers simultaneously to the same journal, each citing yourself many times, you prompt the editor to screen your publication history. If that shows that you published 150+ papers in 2026 already and have 50+ accepted publications for 2027, do you actually think you'll get through?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Between the PRs of (largely likely stolen) math breakthroughs, claims of "rogue AI" (actually cybercrimes by companies, but whatevs), and doomerist "whistleblowers", it feels like we've been subjected to a gish gallop of hype recently. >>

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Research Centre Ukraine / Max Weber Foundation @rcu-mws-ukraine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Academic Coordinator (f/m/d) The application link is available here: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/2...

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Call for Applications: Academic Coordinator

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I took a German train again. I actually got where I needed to be, and roughly at the expected time. The email though...

Over a dozen emails from the German Train Company / Deutsche Bahn, about a single train journey.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Skimming through *that* policy document. We're rapidly approaching the metascience "I have become death, destroyer of science" moment.

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Research on Research Association @roration.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Skimming through *that* policy document. We're rapidly approaching the metascience "I have become death, destroyer of science" moment.

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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....

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Tech oligarchy

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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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Help Nimaro Grassere met Help Nimaro haar droom waarmaken – Op weg naar het Jeugd WK Schoonspringen 2026! | Talent Crowdfunding bij YVGTF

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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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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

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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

We're hiring. Associate/Full Professor of Democracy Policy apply.interfolio.com/188470

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications for a tenured faculty position focused on teaching, research, and public engagement in the emerging field of democracy policy: an area of public policy research that treats democracy as a policy domain with identifiable problems, measurable outcomes, and actionable interventions.

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

My brother and I both teach. He teaches carpentry. I'd probably make his pupils lose some fingers. Best not to try.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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/

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

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.

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Andy Lakoff died far too young. Terrible news. A brilliant scholar and a lovely man, we were lucky to have him in the world. I knew him more than 20 years and learned so much. Last year in Sydney he was so full of life, inspiring. How sad it is #sts #anthro

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Nat Hansen @nathansen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

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.

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Two positions as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

All our ehealth and telehealth research has acquired immediate new relevance.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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.

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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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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/06/2026

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

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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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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

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...

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Obviously a request to fill out a doodle prompted this post. 50 minutes later, the next one has already arrived.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

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.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

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...

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

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Wrighty @wrightsnake.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Nice thing to see on my way home.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

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Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices

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Cyrus Mody @ccmmody.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🚨🚨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...

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Postdoctoral Researcher Invisible knowledge work in open science practices

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'm boycotting the #FIFAscist World Cup in a week. That is easy for me to say, since I couldn't care less about football. I hope many others join me nonetheless

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MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"We have purposefully chosen a term which lays aside questions of epistemological inclusion or exclusion of contributions & instead embraces all ways of doing, knowing & understanding how research is practiced, produced & governed" Great to see this in the manifesto for this new r-o-r journal⬇️

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Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

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Alex Rushforth @alexrushforth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We are hiring!

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Research on Research Association @roration.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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

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Introducing the Journal of Research on Research (J·ROR): aligning constellations and communities

Published in Journal of Research on Research (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026)

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort.

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We had an invigorating day of international, yet local, #STS conversations yesterday, at the Euregional STS Day: the annual gathering of STS scholars from @rwth.bsky.social @maastrichtu.bsky.social and @universitedeliege.bsky.social

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"Through strategic performance, I am experimenting with sartorial innovation as a norm-setting form of climate adaptation." Or: I wore shorts to work because it was hot.

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