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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2026

I guess the apple tree in my garden is a bit confused, trying a second blossom in November

renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2025

The virus of fake science is spreading: LLMs are hallucinating references that scholars are citing, and editors of real scholarly journals are accepting in published articles […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2025

@casperalbers.nl thank you for setting the stage for open science in the Netherlands - identifying software sovereignty and the public good nature of science as fundamental values we should keep in mind today and in the future

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2025

The name of the author seems fitting for the topic - a merchant studying international trade […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Very curious how this Portokolova Fifironka Chili Pepper from Macedonia will taste. The three on the left are Blue Christmas peppers - initially dark purple. Here's a hilarious but rather accurate review: pepperdiaries.com/blue-christmas-pe…

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

If you zoom in: 1000s of guillemots on the cliffs at St Bee's Head

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

Enjoying some time off hiking in the Lake District. In the background Skiddaw looming over Keswick

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2025

"Findings of Study 1 support our hypothesis" Drawing by @csilverman

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2025

Nav het nieuws dat een meerderheid van de Tweede Kamer de ANBI status van Extinction Rebellion wil schrappen nos.nl/l/2553608 hier het advies aan de Staatssecretaris over toezicht op algemeen nut: www.rijksoverheid.nl/documenten/rap…

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2025

"Pff - the final season of America is way over the top" - cartoon by Jip van den Toorn www.volkskrant.nl/cartoons/jip-van-…

Two people on a couch with popcorn, one saying: "Pff the final season of America is way over the top"

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

Inspiring piece by Robert Merton, written in 1942 - how relevant today. www.bitss.org/education/mooc-parent…

A NOTE ON SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY
by Robert K. MERTON

SCIENCE, as any other activity involving social collaboration, is
subject to shifting fortunes. Difficult as the very notion may appear
to those reared in a culture which grants science a prominent if not a
commanding place in the scheme of things, it is evident that science is
not immune from attack, restraint and repression. Writing a scant
thirty-five years ago, Veblen could observe that the faith of western
culture in science was unbounded, unquestioned, unrivalled. The revolt
from science which then appeared so improbable as to concern only
the timid academician who would ponder all contingencies, however
remote, has now been forced upon the attention of scientist and layman
alike. Local contagions of anti-intellectualism threaten to become
epidemic.

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2025

What could #metascience learn from #criminology for the prevention of #researchmisconduct and #researchintegrity violations? In a seminar at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), I discussed with researchers in […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Graph (triangle) titled Offense Gravity — Incentives in Academia illustrating a downward slope from Ideal Science in green on the left (Responsible Research Practices) through Questionable research practices (QRP, e.g., harking, p-hacking) in a grey middle zone, to Research Misconduct (Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism) on the right in red. A green ball rolls down from the top left to become a grey ball in the middle, and a red not permitted circle on the bottom right.

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2025

Not sure what it means, but the Dark House has taken the 2022 OSTP guidance to make federally funded research freely available offline #openscience www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-update…

404 PAGE NOT FOUND message illustrated with a line drawing of the White House

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2025

Very nice walk in the woods today with friends and some sun

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2024

Thanks @chrisdc77 for the convincing comparison of corporate control of #peerreview with community-controlled peer review - this is the way to go!

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2024

De citatietellingen, impactfactoren en beurscompetities zijn fnuikend. Het wordt hoog tijd dat we voor kwaliteit kiezen, en het competitieve systeem achter ons laten. #hogeronderwijs #impact #impactfactor #ranking #openscience Recognition & Rewards Vrije […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cartoon by Bas van der Schot: a university professor in a traditional black toga with beret, sitting behind a grey desk littered with white tablets and colored pills and capsules, looking stressed

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renebekkers @renebekkers.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2024

Update: new version of "Prosocial Values for the Philanthropic Commons", including the finding that compliance with requests for solicitations for charitable contributions in the Netherlands have plummeted since 2002. #philanthropy #charity osf.io/d9wte

Line graph showing the number of donation methods by the number of requests in the past two weeks for households in the Netherlands. The line for the entire period 2002-2019 slopes upward, but at a decreasing rate, indicating decreasing marginal utility of the number of fundraising channels. The marginal utility has declined over time. While in 2002 the line was more or less linear, the line for 2019 is much flatter and shows negative marginal utility after three channels.

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