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Don van Ravenzwaaij @donvanraven.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Out now: our paper on how to deidentify data sets in the social sciences while navigating privacy concerns. The paper includes a step-by-step de-identification guide and two worked examples, with tons of accompanying material on OSF. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

We were just notified that our contract to UCSD and Scripps Research to support wastewater surveillance in San Diego (searchcovid.info) was terminated immediately for the same reasons 👇. That means no more genomic wastewater surveillance, and our proposed extensions to measles, Hep A, others, gone.

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Laura Batstra @laurabatstra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Als jij hoogleraar of uhd bent, dan is jouw salaris er in de afgelopen jaren honderden euro’s meer per maand op vooruit gegaan dan dat van veel van je collega's. De boodschappen zijn echter voor iedereen evenveel duurder geworden. Teken daarom deze petitie voor 'centen in plaats van procenten'!

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Eerlijkere loonverdeling in het hoger onderwijs

Zeker nu minister Bruins van OCW de grootste bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs in decennia heeft aangekondigd is het essentieel dat de sector zich niet tegen elkaar uit laat spelen en solidair met ...

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Roos Vonk @roosvonk.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Om de eigen kleine belangen weer relevant te maken in de huidige geopolitieke onrust, claimt BBB dat krimp vd veestapel de (internationale) voedselzekerheid bedreigt. Maar het tegendeel is waar: onze vee-industrie draagt bij aan voedselschaarste. Dieren eten meer calorieën dan ze leveren.

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In 4 grafieken: hoe Nederland miljoenen extra mensen kan voeden, als we stoppen met de vee-industrie

Politici van de BoerBurgerBeweging waarschuwen dat krimp van de veestapel de (internationale) voedselzekerheid bedreigt. Klopt dat wel? Uit een analyse van Follow the Money blijkt het tegenovergesteld...

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers 🟥 @dirkscheffers.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Please consider signing this petition if you are employed in a high(er) payscale (12 or up) at a Dutch university! 1/

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UKrant @ukrant.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Een groep medewerkers van de RUG, onder wie hoogleraren en universitair hoofddocenten (uhd’s), is in navolging van een landelijk initiatief een petitie begonnen voor een eerlijker cao. ‘Centen in plaats van procenten.’ ukrant.nl/petitie-een-...

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Petitie: 'Een eerlijker cao: centen in plaats van procenten'

Een groep medewerkers van de RUG, onder wie hoogleraren en universitair hoofddocenten (uhd's), is in navolging van een landelijk initiatief een petitie begonnen voor een eerlijker cao. 'Centen in plaa...

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 04/04/2025

Cuzzocrea said he has had “very few” publications corrected and retracted: “I’m saying ‘very few’ because I published more than 900 papers, and I have only 70 with some problem, and only eight or nine were retracted.”

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Former Italian university head faces retractions and criminal investigations

Salvatore Cuzzocrea A prominent Italian pharmacologist under investigation for embezzlement and rigging university contracts has garnered a dozen and a half retractions in the last year for image a…

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Meanwhile over on the other place, rightwing free speech warriors (this guy is a former DeSantis campaign staffer) are calling for me to be denaturalized and deported because they don’t like my political speech. This is what fascism and racism looks like, folks.

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Stefan Haas @stefhaas.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Bij sociale huur denken we aan subsidie. Bij villa's denken we aan 'hard werken'. Jaarlijks subsidieert de overheid eigenwoningbezit met €14 miljard. Ruim twee keer meer dan de €6 miljard huurtoeslag. Dat is een herverdeling van arm naar rijk. Nederland kent hierdoor een netto subsidie op vermogen.🧵

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New blog post "Weaponized Metascience," on Ted Cruz' list of "woke DEI" NSF grants, NIH indirect cost fuckery, and using the trappings of science to undermine science dhicks.github.io/posts/2025-0... #philsci #sts

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Weaponized metascience – Dan Hicks

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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here is a link to volunteer to help organize the Stand Up for Science rally on March 7th in DC, state capitals, and more locations. airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Ein Blick über die Grenze zeigt, was passiert, wenn Mitte-rechts-Parteien der radikalen Rechten die Hand reichen. Statt sie zu schwächen, legitimiert und stärkt es sie. Mit besten Grüßen aus den Niederlanden…

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Erik Jonker @erikjonker.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Ik heb het idee dat Nederlandse nieuwssites missen dat de Amerikaanse overheid nu structureel wordt gezuiverd, gelijk geschakeld, onwelgevallige data wordt verwijderd, toezicht wordt afgebroken, officieren van justitie verwijderd etc, de enormiteit kan je ontgaan als je alleen NL nieuwssites leest

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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CDC Data Are Disappearing

The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.

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Laura Batstra @laurabatstra.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Mijn eerste bericht op dit platform: "Universiteiten hebben een voorbeeldfunctie. Met de aankomende bezuinigingen is dit hét moment om te stoppen met procentuele loonsverhogingen die inkomensverschillen vergroten en de sterkste schouders spekken." www.scienceguide.nl/2025/01/dit-...

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‘Dit is hét moment om als universiteit te stoppen met procentuele loonsverhogingen’ - ScienceGuide

De universiteit kan daarmee voorleven dat de sterkste schouders de zwaarste klappen moeten opvangen, schrijft Laura Batstra.

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Casper Albers 🟥 @casperalbers.nl · 16/01/2025

Had Laura's stuk al op LinkedIn gedeeld, maar kan nu ook hier: Hoogleraren (en decanen) verdienen al genoeg. Volgende CAO-afspraken graag in absolute ipv relatieve bedragen.

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███ACTED @vicjager.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Possibly the best clap back against ignorant antivaxxers.

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Chris Klomp @chrisklomp.nl · 05/01/2025

Ik weet niet wat jullie goede voornemen is, maar ik heb mij voorgenomen om dit jaar wat scherper te gaan twitteren. Ik wil af van dat imago van een lieve, aardige, sympathieke man. Ik ben meer dan alleen een mooi uiterlijk en een lief karakter.

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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · 27/12/2024

If someone asked you what the number "e" is, and they didn't know anything about calculus, how would you explain the meaning and significance of this marvelous number? Here was how I approached the challenge in my book The Joy of x.

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"It does not make sense to think of our judgements as being estimates of ‘true’ probabilities." David Spiegelhalter's excellent introduction to the nuances and intricacies of probability. doi.org/10.1038/d415... #Methodology #Statistics #Probability 🧪

There is a limited range of well-controlled, repeatable situations of such immense complexity that, even if they are essentially deterministic, fit the frequentist paradigm by having a probability distribution with predictable properties in the long run. These include standard randomizing devices, such as roulette wheels, shuffled cards, spun coins, thrown dice and lottery balls, as well as pseudo-random number generators, which rely on non-linear, chaotic algorithms to give numbers that pass tests of randomness. In the natural world, we can throw in the workings of large collections of gas molecules which, even if following Newtonian physics, obey the laws of statistical mechanics; and genetics, in which the huge complexity of chromosomal selection and recombination gives rise to stable rates of inheritance. It might be reasonable in these limited circumstances to assume a pseudo-objective probability — ‘the’ probability, rather than ‘a’ (subjective) probability.

In every other situation in which probabilities are used, however — from broad swathes of science to sports, economics, weather, climate, risk analysis, catastrophe models and so on — it does not make sense to think of our judgements as being estimates of ‘true’ probabilities. These are just situations in which we can attempt to express our personal or collective uncertainty in terms of probabilities, on the basis of our knowledge and judgement.

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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.

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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers. www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

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Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'

Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.

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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Get this. Just had a paper rejected. Main reason? Didn’t use multi item measurement. What constructs? What time did you go to bed…what time did you get out of bed…etc. This holiday season let’s be a little more reflective and a little less reflexive about measurement “rules”

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/12/2024

Please sign this if you support academic freedom and are against profiling. My university is backsliding into weird ideological territory. When do we know it's gone too far? I don't know when but we're past that point now. This is ridiculous and disgusting. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Hold Radboud University accountable for the wrongful arrest of staff and students

To the Radboud College van Bestuur, On Monday December 16, six staff and students from the Radboud University were wrongfully accused of property damage and held overnight in jail on the grounds of s...

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simine vazire @simine.com · 18/12/2024

Starting in 15 minutes! Still time to register (I think!)

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Jeremy Labrecque @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This type of error is everywhere and it’s like the third day of stats 101. The penalty for making this error should be 1 year no publishing and you have to retake two semesters of stats.

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JUST-OS @just-os.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Today we presented JUST-OS at the Dutch reproducibility symposium 🪼 #NLRN2024 We got some good feedback, critical questions and made some valuable connections. 👋 Check out our poster and some impressions below ⬇️

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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Didier Raoult now published a 'preprint' claiming I am 'close' to Gates Foundation - citing a France Soir article as the reference. He also suggests that my poor facial recognition skills are linked to autism, with 'serious psychosocial consequences'. What a sad man. hal.science/hal-04795904/

$Highlighted text from the article: "This platform has been widely used by Elisabeth Bik, a biologist with a scientific background who has a self-proclaimed "fraud hunter" whose funding for this activity is totally obscure and is close to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (9). She recently confessed in an interview (10) , she was a victim of face blindness also call prosopagnosia, a condition link to autism in 36% of cases (11) and which may have serious psychosocial consequences. She said his brain has the uncanny ability to spot retouched or doctored images in a fraction of a second. She explains that his neurons, by a strange mechanism, launch themselves in search of repetitive patterns, replicated angles, points or similar lines scattered throughout the pages. She manages to spot copy-paste even when an academic has taken care to flip the original image or edit it in Photoshop (10). "Before, I thought everyone was like me...". “I only recently realized that I had some kind of special ability. ». This donation will push her to flush out scientific fraud using the PubPeer platform."$

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group Corp) has a 6 billion dollar market cap yet I haven't seen a single "think-piece" about it being an echo chamber. People with a brain are on bluesky because it's a more useful platform for doing what they used to be able to do on twitter. Simple.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Maybe @phoebebovy.bsky.social can consider a companion piece, or explain exactly how twitter in it's current space *can* broaden horizons? Or perhaps spend more than 7 minutes on a platform before caricaturing it? This is of course a lot to expect from an opinion columnist these days though.

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Nina Schwarzbach @ninaschwarzbach.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Link to newsletter: mailchi.mp/bc86c7ac1beb...

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JUST-OS @just-os.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

🪼 Welcome JUST-OS! JUST-OS is an exciting initiative by researchers at the University of Groningen and FORRT (@forrt.bsky.social; forrt.org). We’re developing an AI-based chatbot to simplify navigating Open Science resources.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Einstein Foundation awards to Elisabeth Bik and Pubpeer. 💪 award.einsteinfoundation.de/award-winner...

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Recipients 2024 – Einstein Foundation Award

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Pete Etchells @peteetchells.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is wonderful news, and very well deserved!

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Chris Klomp @chrisklomp.nl · 16/11/2024

Het ging een week lang over de normen en waarden van Marokkanen, maar nu blijkt dat de enige politica met normen en waarden in dit kabinet een Marokkaanse afkomst heeft. De ironie.

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Chris Klomp @chrisklomp.nl · 17/11/2024

Ik wil het met jullie eens hebben over de inspanningen van het Openbaar Ministerie tegen wappies/complotdenkers/soevereinen. Want er lijkt een omschakeling plaats te vinden. Draad.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

“I don’t understand why every single journalist in the west is not enraged by this – Palestinian journalists are being wiped out.” amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

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We are witnessing the final stage of genocide in Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

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Malte Elson @malte.the100.ci · 30/10/2024

The program for the 7th Perspectives on Scientific Error workshop is now online, and we have opened registration. Come join us in Bern to talk about errors, hype, negligence and fraud in science! errorsin.science

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7th Perspectives on Scientific Error Workshop

Save the date: PSE7 will take place on February 5-7, 2025 in Bern, Switzerland.

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Mathijs Bouman @mathijsbouman.nl · 30/10/2024

fd.nl/opinie/15354...

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Jonny Coates @jacoates.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Do you want a brief (lunch-break perfect) overview of the history of preprints? Well then, you should go and take a watch: youtu.be/d5rkCyq-H9s Our context-based YouTube has been the most successful video-outputs we've done & I'd love to hear what you'd like more (or less) of!

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A brief history of preprints in the life sciences

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Peder M Isager @isager.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

Ever had really great discussions during a hackathon and gone home thinking others could also benefit from the ideas bounced around? Inspired by @simine.com's garage analogy, we thought about how to coordinate scientific self-correction. See our ‘hackathon proceedings’ osf.io/preprints/me... 1/

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