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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Wetenschappers vertellen elkaar graag gruwelverhalen over alle onwetenden die zich op internet zomaar met hun vak bemoeien, en die zo de wetenschap ondergraven. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/10/geen-onbe…

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Ik verken voor NRC het open sociale web. Deze mastodon-server is daar een belangrijke stap in. Hij vormt de uitvalsbasis voor NRC-redacteuren die actief zijn op Mastodon. Het is een werk in wording.

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Alexander Schniedermann @aschniedermann.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/06/2026

#PhDone! What a day! I finally defended my dissertation at Leiden University. I am so grateful to have completed thes journey. Many thanks to everyone who was part of this, especially my supervisors @sarahderijcke, Paul Wouters, Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner and […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.social.cwts.nl.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

Job Opportunity @cwts for a postdoc on Citizen Science and Public Trust in Science While earlier research about trust and citizen science has addressed the people actively participating in citizen science (CS) projects, we will investigate the perceptions and perspectives of citizens […]

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026

Vanavond in NOS journaal ook is de bedoeling. nos.nl/artikel/2599601-nederland-ha… - met nieuws over ziekenhuizen “Het gaat onder meer om 29 van de circa 70 ziekenhuizen met een zogenoemd patiëntenportaal, waarmee patiënten hun […]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.social.cwts.nl.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

RE: social.cwts.nl/@cwts/11592107863656… Don't forget to join our seminar on public opinion and science communication this afternoon!

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.social.cwts.nl.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

RE: social.cwts.nl/@cwts/11592107863656… Very much looking forward to this seminar, touching not only on science communication, but also trust and politics. Do join us online or in person at CWTS!

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.social.cwts.nl.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

RE: social.cwts.nl/@vtraag/111917750301… Happy to say that our introduction to structural causal models in science studies was just published in QSS: doi.org/10.1162/QSS.a.405.

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

Komt er een minister voor digitale zaken? Eva Heijblom, directeur-generaal Digitalisering en Overheidsorganisatie & actief D66 politica, had er op BNR een mening over vorig jaar: www.bnr.nl/nieuws/nieuws-politiek/1…

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OS Community Maastricht @oscmaastricht.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

"Is ‘open science’ delivering benefits? Major study finds proof is sparse" doi.org/10.1126/science.za60q6w "The subset of papers for which there was some evidence that the data set or code was subsequently used by others were—after the PathOS team controlled for a variety of […]

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Frida @frida.camp.smolnet.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/01/2026

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

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Jukka Suomela @jukkasuomela.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

We are hiring! Please spread the word! The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in computer science. This is a broad call and all areas of computer science will be considered. We are in particular […]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

❄️🎄 Help igraph through the cold unfunded winter! 🎄❄️ Donations to help support the maintenance and development of igraph are very welcome at opencollective.com/igraph. 🔁 Please repost!

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igraph - Open Collective

igraph is a collection of network analysis tools with an emphasis on efficiency, portability and ease of use.

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Mastodon @mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

The leidenalg package is now also updated and now supports igraph 1.0. github.com/vtraag/leide... You can download and install using pip. The conda package will be updated shortly.

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GitHub - vtraag/leidenalg: Implementation of the Leiden algorithm for various quality functions to be used with igraph in Python.

Implementation of the Leiden algorithm for various quality functions to be used with igraph in Python. - vtraag/leidenalg

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Laetitia Bracco @braccolaetitia.social.sciences.re.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

On my way home after two intense days at CWTS | Leiden University discussing data sources and indicators for bibliometric analysis. A huge thanks to Clara Calero Medina, Ludo Waltman and Vincent Traag for the inspiring conversations and useful tips that […] [Original post on social.sciences.re]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

New preprint! 🚨 We study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter during COVID-19 based on ~407M tweets. Both science and misinformation featured prominently during the pandemic, but the interaction between the two has not been studied on this scale before. 🧵 (1/10)

Mapping the interaction between science and misinformation in COVID-19 tweets.
Publication from @luzuzek.bsky.social, Juan Pablo Bascur, @annabertani.bsky.social, @ricgallotti.bsky.social. This project is supported by European Media and Information Fund.

Abstract: During the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific understanding related to the topic evolved rapidly. Along with scientific information being discussed widely, a large circulation of false information, labelled an infodemic by the WHO, emerged. Here, we study the interaction between misinformation and science on Twitter (now X) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We built a comprehensive database of 407M COVID-19 related tweets and classified the reliability of URLs in the tweets based on Media Bias/Fact Check. In addition, we use Altmetric data to see whether a tweet refers to a scientific publication. We find that many users find that many users share both scientific and unreliable content; out of the 1.2M users who share science, also share unreliable content. Publications that are more frequently shared by users who also share unreliable content are more likely to be preprints, slightly more often retracted, have fewer citations, and are published in lower-impact journals on average. Our findings suggest that misinformation is not related to a ``deficit'' of science. In addition, our findings raise some critical questions about certain open science practices and their potential for misuse. Given the fundamental opposition between science and misinformation, our findings highlight the necessity for proactive scientific engagement on social media platforms to counter false narratives during global crises.

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Great to see @luzuzek.bsky.social present our work on the interaction between science and misinformation during COVID-19 yesterday at @netsciconf.bsky.social

Lucila stands in front of slides with two network visualizations of papers highlighting which papers are more often shared by scientists (left) and reliable users (right), with more reliable users/scientists displayed in yellow and less reliable/non-scientists in purple.

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

Weer mooi onderzoek van BNR Nieuwsradio! Ondanks mooie verhalen blijven hele stukken overheid in hoog tempo al onze privégegevens naar Amerikaanse clouds te verhuizen. Daar kan de regering Trump bij onze medische details, en misschien praktisch erger: ze kunnen onze toegang ook afsluiten. En […]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.social.cwts.nl.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

Techbedrijf aan de leiband van Trump – kan Nederland nog wel zonder Microsoft? www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/techbe…

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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

🎉🔬 More news this weekend. @sciety (eLife's preprint evaluation platform) has secured funding from @nlnet to build a Bonfire flavour for federating preprint reviews and discussions. This means federated, community-governed spaces for open discourse around scientific preprints outside […]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.social.cwts.nl.ap.brid.gy · 19/03/2025

This fall I will be teaching a course on processes on networks to a very interdisciplinary audience of 3rd year bachelor students. This includes diffusion and epidemic processes and more social spreading and social influence processes. Any recommendations for relevant (not too mathy) literature?

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025

Nijmeegse collega's! Er is een steengoede brief die de universiteit oproept om geen software meer te gebruiken van grote (Amerikaanse) bedrijven en in plaats daarvan gebruik te maken van non-profit alternatieven, gebaseerd op publieke waarden en transparantie. Teken die brief! […]

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2025

That was fast: #bluesky might have taken its first step towards US govt related censorship: www.404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai-… Anyway, good that bs is decentralized, so you can just switch to another s […]

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2025

We at Vivaldi are the only browser company with a Mastodon server. We have chosen to support the Fediverse in every way we can. We will continue to do so as we need options away from Big Tech. social.vivaldi.net #Vivaldi @Vivaldi #Mastodon #fediverse

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Vivaldi Social

Vivaldi Social is part of the Mastodon network and is hosted in Iceland by the makers of Vivaldi Browser. Everyone is welcome to join.

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The post by Fiona Fox raises some good questions, about scientists getting politically involved. In many cases, I tend to agree that scientists should show restraint, and that political involvement may risk decreasing trusts in science and scientists. In this case, I disagree. (1/6)

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2025

Update, on the #CDC order directing staffers to withdraw pending journal articles that use now-prohibited terms like #transgender and #immigrant (earlier in this thread) … Bravo to the #BMJ (@bmj_latest) for calling this order "sinister and ludicrous." www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253 […]

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Jukka Suomela @jukkasuomela.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

The Department of Computer Science at Aalto University (Finland) is hiring five (!) Assistant Professors in these areas: - Computer Architecture - Programming Languages - Human-Computer Interaction - Software Engineering - Systems Security […]

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2025

Nu de regering-Trump hard ingrijpt in de wetenschap als die volgens politici de verkeerde woorden gebruikt, en nu het duidelijk is dat grote Amerikaanse bedrijven door de knieën gaan en het nieuwe regime steunen, wordt het belangrijk om keuzes te maken […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

This is a public service announcement to **never** ever use Oracle

A screenshot of an interaction with Oracle Cloud customer service where I ask: "I understand that. So for a reason that I cannot be told my account was terminated without any notice, all of my data deleted, and there is nothing Oracle can do to change this?"

Oracle support responds "That is correct."

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: **Project Stargate** will be a $500.000.000.000 (_500 billion USD_) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you. Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and […]

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/02/2025

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01/30… "In recent months the Harvard Law School @harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil] has created a data vault to download […]

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2025

Thousands of datasets have disappeared from data.gov. Determining what's gone, why it's gone, and whether it moved elsewhere will to take time. Things are definitely being purged but archivists working hard to determine exactly what has happened to a given dataset […]

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Vincent Traag @vtraag.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Looking forward to our network analysis software & data satellite at @netsciconf.bsky.social and seeing all your great contributions!

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2025

My department is hiring TWO assistant teaching professors of media studies! This is a great opportunity for people who are passionate teachers eager to explore new approaches to cultivating media literacy among diverse students. Learn more & apply here […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Erik Kemp 🇪🇺 @erikkemp.voltnederland.org · 10/01/2025

@voltnederland vertrekt als eerste partij van X! "Dassen hoopt dat zijn besluit ook andere politieke partijen aanzet om over te stappen op alternatieve platforms als Bluesky en Mastodon." […]

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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2025

New year, new role @Mastodon! Our core team is looking for a senior Front-end Developer to elevate the web UI/UX experience for our users. Ideally: 1. You are highly skilled in accessible and semantic #HTML 2. Proficient in modern #CSS 3. Experienced with #Javascript, #Typescript and complex […]

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

“Statistical analyses are only thought experiments of the form ‘under these assumptions, we get these probabilities…’” Few quotes from Sander Greenland’s recent presentation courtesy of @verawilde.bsky.social 🧵

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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.social.skewed.de.ap.brid.gy · 20/12/2024

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined! Focuses include (among others): 1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 2. Data Science in Biological Systems 3. Data Science in Human Mobility […]

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2024

University of #Sheffield opts out of renewing deal with academic publisher Elsevier www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/news/up… - no more cash for massively profitable commercial publisher - no impact on academics' ability to publish - plans in place to […]

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Michael Szell @mszll.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2024

📢 New preprint: #network analysis of the #danish #Bicycle infrastructure 🚲🕸️ -Yes, a *whole country's* bike network analyzed, led by @ane. See the 37-page paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.06083 Main results: Good bikeability in cities, some regional […] [Original post on datasci.social]

Map of Denmark aggregated into small hex units, each showing one of five colors (categories), from high stress to highest bikeability+high density. The map shows highest bikeability in cities, some regional low stress connectivity, and high stress in most rural areas.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2024

"Despite their near-universal contributions to research and medicine, #OpenSource tools are often underfunded and difficult to support through mechanisms that support research, limiting their true potential…'We don’t value software, data, and methods in the same way we value papers, even […]

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