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Geert-Jan van Bussel
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Archival and Information scientist
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Amsterdam
Phd in Archival and Information Science
Masters in medieval history, informatics and administration.
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As reminder:
I published a book review: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp

See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Dutch: vbds.nl/wp-content/u...

Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m...

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(PDF) More and More and More
PDF | Book review of J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp. First published on:... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I published a new book review: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp.

See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Dutch version: vbds.nl/wp-content/u...

Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m...

🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
(PDF) More and More and More
PDF | Book review of J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp. First published on:... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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I published a new book review regarding: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp.

See: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

For a Dutch version of this review see: vbds.nl/wp-content/u....
(PDF) More and More and More
PDF | Book review of J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp. First published on:... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
www.researchgate.net
November 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Scientific fraud and research misconduct are not only the result of personal ambition but also of endemic and systemic causes: See my review of @charlespiller.bsky.social “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.”
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) A Catalyst for Urgent Dialogue and Reform
PDF | Book Review of C. Piller (2025). Doctored. Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s, Atria, One Signal Publishers, New York,... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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September 19, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Geert-Jan van Bussel
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Many thanks to @gjvanbussel.bsky.social for “A Catalyst for Urgent Dialogue and Reform” – his astute, thorough, and fair-minded review of my book “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” vbds.nl/2025/09/15/a...
A Catalyst for Urgent Dialogue and Reform | Van Bussel Document Services
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September 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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I published a review of:
C. Piller (2025). Doctored. Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s, Atria, One Signal Publish-ers, New York, Amsterdam, London, 352 pp.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Originally published at:
vbds.nl/2025/09/15/a...
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September 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Interesting paper in: "Making AI Less 'Thirsty. Uncovering and addressing the secret water footprint of AI models", by Pengfei Li, and colleagues, in Communications of the ACM.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Confirmation of my: "Tthe ecological footprint of AI: vbds.nl/2024/07/30/v...
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Making AI Less 'Thirsty' | Communications of the ACM
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July 16, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey, one of Hungary’s oldest centres of learning and a World Heritage site, is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation. Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves.
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/14/e...
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Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation | CNN
Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.
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July 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I published a Book Review of:
S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263 p.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Originally published at:
vbds.nl/2025/07/02/a...
🧪 #AcademicSky #Academics #AI #Ethics
(PDF) AI as a Mirror
PDF | Book Review of S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...
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July 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I made small changes in the text.
I have published a book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Ideological Platforms
PDF | Book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p. The original version is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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May 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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I have published a book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/23/i...
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(PDF) Ideological Platforms
PDF | Book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p. The original version is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
www.researchgate.net
May 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I made a mistake with my earlier post.
I have published a book review of: C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton &
Company, New York, 272 p.
Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/03/t...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The Decay of Culture?
PDF | Book review of C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 272 p. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
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May 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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I have published a book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/03/t...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) The Decay of Culture?
PDF | Book review of C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 272 p. The... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...
www.researchgate.net
May 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I have published a book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/04/03/t....
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
🧪 #AcademicSky #BookReviews
(PDF) Tearing us Apart
PDF | Book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Published on my... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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April 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🧪 #AcademicSky #History #Fascism
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March 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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I have published a book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York, an obligatory read and highly recommended, about the 'fascist' upheaval in the USA in context. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2025/03/20/b...
(PDF) Book review: To Control History
PDF | Book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History. How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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March 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar analysed 8 AI models. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries. The level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37% incorrectly, while Grok 3 had an error rate, of 94%. 🧪 #AcademicSky
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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I have published a book review of Carl Ohman's, The Afterlife of Data, a concise and highly recommended book about the problematic use of peronal data after our demise, when privacy doesn't exist.
Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t...
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(PDF) The Data's Afterlife
PDF | Boek review of: C. Öhman (2024). The Afterlife of Data: What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care, University of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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March 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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I have just published a book review of D. Davies (2024). The Unaccountability Machine. Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — and How the World Lost Its Mind, Profile Books, 304 pp. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/... and on my own website: vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t...
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(PDF) The Unaccountability Machine
PDF | Boek review of: D. Davies (2024). The Unaccountability Machine. Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — and How the World Lost Its Mind, Profile... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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March 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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There is no AI Revolution.
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Geert-Jan Van Bussel on LinkedIn: Many Impressive AI Demos Were Fakes
Dr. Jeffrey Funk states the change in the 'narrative' for #AI stocks in the last two months as one of the reasons for the losses on the stock markets…
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March 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Microsoft is looking to split with OpenAI. It is developing its own models, and OpenAI has been unwilling to share details, as was agreed. Copilot, based on ChatGPT, has thus far received poor reception due to high cost and limited results.
See: gizmodo.com/microsofts-r...
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Microsoft's Relationship With OpenAI Is Not Looking Good
The major investor in OpenAI has been looking to cut ties as the two companies start looking more like competitors.
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March 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Alex Reisner in The Atlantic states that AI models are trained on questions of the benchmarks they are tested on, which taints the legitimacy of scores. He refers to studies and experiments published over the last two years showing they are cheating.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu...
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March 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Telling the truth is difficult for AI-models.
A paper from OpenAI demonstrates hallucinating between 53% and 81% when answering. See: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04368
For a critical review of this article, see: futurism.com/openai-admit...
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OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
If a partner made stuff up a third of the time, it would be a problem — but apparently, it's perfectly fine for OpenAI's new model.
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March 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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If you want to know what de three paradoxes of information access and accessibility are and gain an understanding why digital preservation is of the utmost importance, see pp. 7-24 of mt The Accessibility Conundrum. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
🧪 #AcademicSky #Access #Accessibility
(PDF) The Accessibility Conundrum. The Problematic Phenomenon of Information Access and Accessibility
PDF | The central thesis of this book is that access to information represents a vital aspect of contemporary society, encompassing participation,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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March 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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I have just published a book review of Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation. I recommend reading the book, but with a critical eye.
See (extended): vbds.nl/2025/03/03/o...
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu...
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Book Review: Overstating a Case | Van Bussel Document Services
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March 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM