Berend van der Kolk
@berendvdkolk.bsky.social
Associate Professor | VU Amsterdam | 📚The Quantified Society | Studying metrics and their implications | Also into 🎹
Site: berendvanderkolk.com
Book: https://tinyurl.com/quantsoci
Research: https://tinyurl.com/scholarkolk
Site: berendvanderkolk.com
Book: https://tinyurl.com/quantsoci
Research: https://tinyurl.com/scholarkolk
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"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"
"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"
October 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"
"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report"
Follow your dreams...👇
October 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Follow your dreams...👇
Vandaag in de @telegraaf.nl een stuk over de prestatiesamenleving, met bijdragen van psycholoog Nienke Wijnants en ondergetekende.
Link: www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/waaro...
Link: www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/waaro...
October 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Vandaag in de @telegraaf.nl een stuk over de prestatiesamenleving, met bijdragen van psycholoog Nienke Wijnants en ondergetekende.
Link: www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/waaro...
Link: www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/waaro...
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from THE World University Ranking: www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...
Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...
Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...
September 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sorbonne University decides to withdraw from THE World University Ranking: www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en/news/sorb...
Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...
Why would universities do this? I wrote a blog about it recently on social science space, available here: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...
August 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
MS Teams in a car - I cannot wait..
Never able to skip a meeting anymore if you're traveling.
🤨 "Car productivity"
#surveillance
Never able to skip a meeting anymore if you're traveling.
🤨 "Car productivity"
#surveillance
July 30, 2025 at 6:52 AM
MS Teams in a car - I cannot wait..
Never able to skip a meeting anymore if you're traveling.
🤨 "Car productivity"
#surveillance
Never able to skip a meeting anymore if you're traveling.
🤨 "Car productivity"
#surveillance
Look! I found a scatterplot during my holidays 🤓
(@ Museo Can Mario)
(@ Museo Can Mario)
July 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Look! I found a scatterplot during my holidays 🤓
(@ Museo Can Mario)
(@ Museo Can Mario)
How does digitalization of finance departments take shape?
To answer this question, we conducted a survey and various interviews with finance directors. We find, among others, that having a digitalization strategy matters.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
To answer this question, we conducted a survey and various interviews with finance directors. We find, among others, that having a digitalization strategy matters.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
July 11, 2025 at 9:29 AM
How does digitalization of finance departments take shape?
To answer this question, we conducted a survey and various interviews with finance directors. We find, among others, that having a digitalization strategy matters.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
To answer this question, we conducted a survey and various interviews with finance directors. We find, among others, that having a digitalization strategy matters.
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
Well, well, well... 🤡
July 8, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Well, well, well... 🤡
Hoe verhouden controle en vertrouwen zich tot elkaar in de zorg? En welke rol speelt prestatiemeting?
Dit thema komt aan de orde in het dubbelinterview in FIZIER, het blad van de beroepsvereniging van zorgfinancials.
Interview (18-21): issuu.com/fizi4/docs/f...
Onderzoek: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
Dit thema komt aan de orde in het dubbelinterview in FIZIER, het blad van de beroepsvereniging van zorgfinancials.
Interview (18-21): issuu.com/fizi4/docs/f...
Onderzoek: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
June 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Hoe verhouden controle en vertrouwen zich tot elkaar in de zorg? En welke rol speelt prestatiemeting?
Dit thema komt aan de orde in het dubbelinterview in FIZIER, het blad van de beroepsvereniging van zorgfinancials.
Interview (18-21): issuu.com/fizi4/docs/f...
Onderzoek: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
Dit thema komt aan de orde in het dubbelinterview in FIZIER, het blad van de beroepsvereniging van zorgfinancials.
Interview (18-21): issuu.com/fizi4/docs/f...
Onderzoek: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...
June 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
For those interested in management control & motivation: a paper was published last week by Hikaru Goto and Makoto Kuroki, replicating our motivation paper in a Japanese setting.
Replication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our original paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Replication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our original paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
For those interested in management control & motivation: a paper was published last week by Hikaru Goto and Makoto Kuroki, replicating our motivation paper in a Japanese setting.
Replication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our original paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Replication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our original paper:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🤩 Is there any place on earth with a higher (history+beauty)/m2 ratio than Rome?
May 31, 2025 at 10:50 AM
🤩 Is there any place on earth with a higher (history+beauty)/m2 ratio than Rome?
What's a potential problem of quantitative research?
"quantitative analysis and discourse often implies a degree of certainty in its generalisations that vastly exceeds the limits of assumptions and probabilities involved in the underlying calculations"
- Parker & Northcott, doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...
"quantitative analysis and discourse often implies a degree of certainty in its generalisations that vastly exceeds the limits of assumptions and probabilities involved in the underlying calculations"
- Parker & Northcott, doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...
May 26, 2025 at 7:50 AM
What's a potential problem of quantitative research?
"quantitative analysis and discourse often implies a degree of certainty in its generalisations that vastly exceeds the limits of assumptions and probabilities involved in the underlying calculations"
- Parker & Northcott, doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...
"quantitative analysis and discourse often implies a degree of certainty in its generalisations that vastly exceeds the limits of assumptions and probabilities involved in the underlying calculations"
- Parker & Northcott, doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...
Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.
Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130.
www.amazon.com/Quantified-S...
Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130.
www.amazon.com/Quantified-S...
May 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Not everything that matters can be measured, and not everything that can be measured matters.
Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130.
www.amazon.com/Quantified-S...
Source: The Quantified Society, p. 130.
www.amazon.com/Quantified-S...
"Managers [falsely] conceive of themselves as morally neutral characters whose skills enable them to devise the most efficient means of achieving whatever end is proposed."
- Alisdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
- Alisdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
May 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
"Managers [falsely] conceive of themselves as morally neutral characters whose skills enable them to devise the most efficient means of achieving whatever end is proposed."
- Alisdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
- Alisdair MacIntyre (1929-2025)
They have offices..? 🤔😉
May 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
They have offices..? 🤔😉
Could there be a tension between commercial academic publishing and research integrity? 🤔
May 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Could there be a tension between commercial academic publishing and research integrity? 🤔
Perhaps the worst data visualization job on the internet so far.. 🙄
May 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Perhaps the worst data visualization job on the internet so far.. 🙄
Source: NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2024
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2024
May 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Source: NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2024
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING INDICATORS 2024
Policy makers:
Let's count the number of publications to assess research quality!
Scientific community:
OK!
...
Total annual scientific publications rose from 2 million (2010) to 3.3 million (2022).
Let's count the number of publications to assess research quality!
Scientific community:
OK!
...
Total annual scientific publications rose from 2 million (2010) to 3.3 million (2022).
May 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Policy makers:
Let's count the number of publications to assess research quality!
Scientific community:
OK!
...
Total annual scientific publications rose from 2 million (2010) to 3.3 million (2022).
Let's count the number of publications to assess research quality!
Scientific community:
OK!
...
Total annual scientific publications rose from 2 million (2010) to 3.3 million (2022).
I'm trying to read a piece on Open Access in Nature... 😅
April 22, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I'm trying to read a piece on Open Access in Nature... 😅
That aged well...?
I made these two pictures 8 years ago in New York.
I made these two pictures 8 years ago in New York.
April 11, 2025 at 1:18 PM
That aged well...?
I made these two pictures 8 years ago in New York.
I made these two pictures 8 years ago in New York.
Oh irony 😀
The first of the 11 texts written by me that LLMs stole from me is...a text about the importance of ethical considerations. 😀
The first of the 11 texts written by me that LLMs stole from me is...a text about the importance of ethical considerations. 😀
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Oh irony 😀
The first of the 11 texts written by me that LLMs stole from me is...a text about the importance of ethical considerations. 😀
The first of the 11 texts written by me that LLMs stole from me is...a text about the importance of ethical considerations. 😀
