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Fighting for the academic community in the University Council @rug.nl LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/rug-sf Manifesto: wetenschapsfractie.nl E-mail: wf.ur@rug.nl

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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 27/08/2026
Happening right now: the very last University Council for @guidovisman.bsky.social, who later today gives up his seat (to be filled by @gerardrve.com). And the agenda is jampacked with important topics as well, such as the financial framework for all faculties and services 💰 rug.my-meeting.nl
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 19/02/2026
It's that Thursday of the month again: the Uni-Council meeting with the Board! The Science Faction is in full attendance, the agenda is packed: it's go time! Follow along live at rug.my-meeting.nl for a meeting more spectacular than the Olympics.
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 09/02/2026
Today at 4pm, at the RCS faculty, a Break & Cake with your University Council representatives! Come complain and ask about the (reversed?)budget cuts, governance, faculty mergers, work pressure, or whatever you like. For the Science Faction, @therezalangeler.bsky.social will be present.
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 28/01/2026
Happening today 4pm at Zernike: a Dialogue Session with the Board! Tell them directly what you think about the mergers and reorganizations they are planning. Science Faction University Council members @therezalangeler.bsky.social and @mseri.me will be there too!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 30/10/2025
Our @therezalangeler.bsky.social currently speaking in the Uni Council on PhD wellbeing, holding the Board accountable on structural power imbalances between supervisors and PhDs. Watch live: rug.my-meeting.nl/Vergaderinge...
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 29/10/2025
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 15/10/2025
This week’s faction meeting: budget cuts, SSH governance, and PhD wellbeing. Because nothing says ‘fun’ like deciding who gets the short end of the stick!
Guido Visman
Thereza Langeler
Marcello Seri
Gerard Ritsema van Eck
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 24/07/2025
Science Faction already gearing up for the next academic year! Had our first meeting with the team for the coming two years: Marcello Seri @mseri.me, Thereza Langeler @therezalangeler.bsky.social, Gerard Ritsema van Eck @gerardrve.com, and Guido Visman @guidovisman.bsky.social Enjoy the summer 🌞
Marcello Seri, Thereza Langeler, Gerard Ritsema van Eck and Guido Visman posing next to the statue of Aletta Jacobs
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 23/06/2025
Great strides last week at the Digital Sovereignty workshop. Support and scientific staff mapping out a 5-year roadmap together to get rid of big tech. Science Faction was happy to be there, let's keep pushing for a tech-savvy and autonomous uni! (And yes this is an extremely boring photo)
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 22/05/2025
Our chair @guidovisman.bsky.social now speaking in the University Council on the new Camera Surveillance policy and the Data Protection Impact Assessment report on camera surveillance. Boring bureaucratic topics perhaps, but privacy is crucial for academic freedom!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 22/05/2025
Monday the election results, and now back in benches of the uni council!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 19/05/2025
The votes are in... Congratulations to @mseri.me Marcello Seri, @guidovisman.bsky.social Guido Visman, and @therezalangeler.bsky.social Thereza Langeler on winning a seat in the Uni Council! 🎉 Thanks to your votes, they can continue to fight for academics at the @rug.nl
Marcello Seri Guido Visman Thereza Langeler
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 16/05/2025
🚨 Only two hours left to vote! Feel the FOMO and head to rug.nl/vote right now🚨 Not sure who to vote for? Simply pick our current chair and #1 on the list: Guido Visman @guidovisman.bsky.social, Lecturer & Faculty of Law Privacy & Security Coordinator. Two more hours to vote, two more years Guido!
Profile pic of Guido Visman
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 16/05/2025
#2 on our list: Thereza Langeler @therezalangeler.bsky.social, a PhD at FSS studying populism. Her motto: Girls just wanna have fun(damental research, academic freedom & a thriving scientific community)! For a strong PhD voice in the uni council, vote Thereza at 🗳️ rug.nl/vote 🗳️
Thereza Langeler
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 16/05/2025
Last day to vote! Introducing our top 3, kicking of with Gerard Ritsema van Eck @gerardrve.bsky.social, an assistant prof in technology law at the Law Faculty @rechten050.bsky.social His motto is simple: For Science! Read his full profile and go vote, while you still can ➡️ rug.nl/vote ⬅️
Profile pic of Gerard Ritsema van Eck
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 15/05/2025
And the second member of our FSE dream team is Marcello Seri @mseri.me, Associate Prof in mathematics and member of the Young Academy Groningen. His motto in this election is 'Supporting staff, empowering students: prioritizing people over pressure!' Read his full profile and VOTE ➡️ rug.nl/vote ⬅️
Marcello Seri
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 15/05/2025
Meet our candidates! Francesco Maresca is Associate Prof Engineering Mechanics and Materials Science at FSE, and he's running for re-election! His motto: Serving our community by focusing on what matters: research and education! Go vote now, only two days left ➡️ rug.nl/vote ⬅️
Profile picture of Francesco Maresca
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 14/05/2025
Meet our candidates! Laura Bringmann is an associate prof at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. Her motto: People are irreplaceable, so let's cherish one another! Follow her at @bringmannlaura.bsky.social and go vote at rug.nl/vote 🗳️
Laura Bringmann
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 13/05/2025
Meet our candidates! @paapst.bsky.social from Law: "For a university where part-time employees are heard and valued just as much as full-time employees." @ritumbra.bsky.social from the UCG. "Where the mind is free, the future is fearless!" Full profiles and voting on rug.nl/vote 🗳️
Mathieu Paapst
Ritumbra Manuvie
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 12/05/2025
Our support candidate Laurent Jensma was taking a bathroom break in the Bernoulliborg, when he was confronted with the highly mature sense of humour. It's all about timing, they say. So vote now! www.rug.nl/vote
Give a 💩 about science? Vote Science Faction!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 12/05/2025
The polling station is officially open, time to start voting for SCIENCE right now! Read our manifesto at www.wetenschapsfractie.nl, but more importantly: VOTE ➡️ www.rug.nl/vote ⬅️ VOTE
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 08/05/2025
AFAIK there is currently only one other staff party, and we ❤️ support staff! Without support staff, everything we strive for would be impossible. Our chair is even 50% support staff (more if you include uni council), so not sure what you are implying here...
Science Faction ❤️ support staff!

No support
No science
No future

Science Faction | Wetenschapsfractie

rug.nl/vote
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 07/05/2025
Flyers have arrived for the campaign! Children are really pleased about the highly mature sense of humour. And obviously anonymised, because the Science Faction values privacy!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 18/04/2025
Happy extra long funding application writing weekend everyone!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 10/04/2025
First one this morning in the room for a day of Committee meetings of the University Council, we are ready to go! ☕
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 27/03/2025
Our statement on the (way...) too narrow assignment that the board gives to the process supervisor for the SSH faculties reshuffle: "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi!" But this assignment sets the supervisor at a disadvantage before he has even started.
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 21/03/2025
The deadline has passed! ⏰ Thanks to everyone who contacted us, we were able to submit an awesome candidates/superheroes list to the central electoral committee yesterday. 📃 Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks! Hyped for the elections, let's fight for the academic community together!
12 superhero silhouettes.
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 27/02/2025
🟥 The Board refuses to unconditionally stand with the announced strikes. We will not stop pushing for their support! Read our statement (EN & NL) from today’s University Council below 👇
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 27/02/2025
"Kun je tegenwoordig beter hoogleraar of medewerker vastgoed worden bij de RUG?" vraagt onze voorzitter Guido Visman vandaag aan het CvB. Wat blijkt: een medewerker vastgoed. Daarom stemt de Wetenschapsfractie TEGEN extra investeringen in vastgoed FTEs. Lees onze volledige stemverklaring hier 👇
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 27/02/2025
"Is it better to become a professor or a real estate employee at the RUG these days?" asks our chair Guido Visman to the board today. It turns out: a real estate employee. Therefore, the Science Faction votes NO on millions of extra investments in real estate FTEs. Read the full statement below 👇
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 26/02/2025
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 11/02/2025
De WF steunt een sterk D&I-beleid dat binnen de faculteiten wordt uitgevoerd. We pleiten ook voor het opnemen van D&I in alle managementtrainingen. Een aparte D&I-officer kan hierbij fungeren als waakhond voor het CvB. Zie ook punt 2 van ons manifest: www.rug.nl/about-ug/org...
2. Minder bureaucratie: Bezuinig op overhead, niet op onderzoekers en docenten. Als er bezuinigd moet worden, gebeurt dit bij de centrale en ondersteunende diensten, niet bij de faculteiten;
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 07/02/2025
Behind a log-in and hidden beneath layers of convoluted management jargon the board's latest announcement reveals a sweeping overhaul—one designed to fundamentally reshape the structure of our university and its faculties. myuniversity.rug.nl/infonet/mede...
Woops, we leaked it...
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 31/01/2025
Are you passionate about science and do you want to get involved? We're looking for candidates to strengthen our faction and make a splash in the University Council! Check out www.sciencefaction.nl, shoot us a DM, or mail us at wf.ur@rug.nl.
The current faction, with a silhouette suggesting that more people will join!
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 28/01/2025
Galaxy brain meme with four panels:
1: Stamp out paper mills
2: Change the underlying incentive structure that rewards the publication of low quality papers to improve career prospects
3: Take control of university
4: Vote Science Faction
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Wetenschapsfractie | Science Faction @sciencefaction.nl · 23/01/2025
This morning, @gerardrve.bsky.social represented University staff in a meeting on security cameras at the @unigroningen.bsky.social. Good that these cameras are gone, but the CCTV policy of the whole University needs to be updated. The Science Faction will keep the board accountable on privacy!
The BauWatch cameras in front of the Academy building in December. Photo by Gerard Ritsema van Eck.
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