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Bart Penders 🟥
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Science studies scholar: #credibility of sci, #trust #collaboration #integrity #food #STS #reform, @ Maastricht University
Also: @bart@akademieNL.social
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Hi there old and new followers! Just to be sure, let me re-introduce myself. I study the credibility of scientific claims and scientists, how that credibility is built and maintained, contested and destroyed. To that end, I look at collaboration, integrity, rhetoric, and a lot more. 1/2
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De regels waar een Hans Wijers of de BBC zich aan moeten houden zijn blijkbaar fundamenteel anders dan waar een Yesilgöz of Trump zich aan moeten houden en dat is een groot f*cking probleem
November 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Different from early-career or seniority, mid-career is a single point in time. In the middle between one's first formal day as a scholar and one's last. If those are the first day of employment in research and retirement, then *today* is my mid-career day! #midcareerday #academia When is yours?
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Different from early-career or seniority, mid-career is a single point in time. In the middle between one's first formal day as a scholar and one's last. If those are the first day of employment in research and retirement, then *today* is my mid-career day! #midcareerday #academia When is yours?
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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LMU Munich is advertising a new W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. For more information, and to apply, follow this link: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b... #philosophy #education #professorship #academicjob #lmumunich
Professorship (W2) of Philosophy Education
job-portal.lmu.de
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Yesterday evening, on a Sunday, from 9 to 10 PM, I was in a work meeting.
barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .
ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face with his hands in the air .
media.tenor.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Volkskrant

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October 31, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Nothing like filling out a European grant budgeting table to shine a light on the huge wage differences across European higher education. #highered
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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In v2 of our preprint on "Adversarial Reanalysis," Kelsey Ichikawa, @nicolecnelson.bsky.social, & added our take on Gold Standard Science as an example of how #OpenData challenges science's existing tools for self-governance

osf.io/preprints/me... #sts #metascience
October 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
My office floor was waxed last week. This little triangle they skipped is going to annoy me for the next there years or so, until they do it again....
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv.

There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Eerder vandaag, luisterend naar een groepje ouders in Brunssum, sprekend over de #verkiezingen, zonk me de moed in de schoenen.
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Random image: one week's worth of forgotten water bottles in one teaching building.
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Is someone starting a #treasurehunt without telling me? I found this unknown key on my chair this morning...
October 9, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Please come join our team! Looking for junior and senior faculty in science, technology, and innovation policy!!
The Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech invites applications for multiple open-rank tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions with a focus on science, technology and innovation policy.

careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

#AcademicSky #PolicySky @appam.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Proud dad moment: watching my eleven year old daughter adressing the municipal council!
October 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Proposed one-off solutions to the "replication crisis" are turning metascience into a snake oil industry. The loss of all nuance, the throwing around of claims of heroic feats, the lack of basic definitions, the monolithic, reductionist framing of issues, and the dogmatic, magical promises...
October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
After closing my laptop on Friday afternoon and reopening it this morning, I received 7 peer review requests. One is absolutely unrelated to my expertise, but 6 are. I cannot and do not accept more than one per week, so I have to bump 5 back into the system. This hardly seems sustainable.
October 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...
October 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We've always been trying to minimise our electricity consumption, saving where we could. Most of those saves are tiny, but at up to a lot. Now, however, we have an electric car and our regular electricity consumption dwarfs that of that car. >
October 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Wat een zinnigheid en redelijkheid in dit interview. Het gemak waarmee retoriek en vooroordeel worden doorgeprikt is zowel geruststellend (@jwduyvendak weet waar hij het over heeft) als alarmerend (waarom gaan we allemaal mee in de foute frames?). www.folia.nl/actueel/168424
Hoogleraar Jan Willem Duyvendak: ‘De wetenschap is nog nooit zo weinig elitair geweest’
www.folia.nl
October 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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If I have to hear another "the environment isn't stimulating enough" from grown ups with agency and education, I'm going to fucking lose it.
September 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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You still have until the end of this week to apply for a team lead position in our research area.

If you have expertise in innovation studies, machine learning, LLMs, econometrics, or related fields, consider joining us!

ats.talentadore.com/apply/resear...
Research Team Leader, Quantitative Science and Technology Studies
Are you interested in revealing future phenomena by utilising advanced data-analysis methods to create novel tools and information for strategic decision-making with superb colleagues who are top expe...
ats.talentadore.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Umeå University's Department of Political Science is hiring 1-2 PhD students. The working conditions in Sweden for PhD students are excellent, and Umeå is a beautiful city!

www.umu.se/en/work-with...
1-2 PhD students for the Department of Political Science
www.umu.se
September 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM