Maik Larooij
@maiklarooij.nl
PhD Researcher @ the @uva.nl's ICAI @opengov.nl Lab | Information consultant @ Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding | My work includes Information Retrieval, AI for Open Government, Generative Agents and Data Engineering!
🗣️ We were present at the UvA (AI) Thesis Fair in the beautiful marble Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). Come see the pictures! opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...
OpenGov Lab at the UvA Thesis Fair 2025 - ICAI OpenGov Lab - opengov.nl
On Friday, October 17th, a delegation (David, Jaap, Damiaan & Maik) of the ICAI OpenGov Lab was present at the UvA (AI) Thesis Fair to talk to prospective thesis students!
opengov.nl
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
🗣️ We were present at the UvA (AI) Thesis Fair in the beautiful marble Royal Tropical Institute (KIT). Come see the pictures! opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...
✏️ First thought on my website on the start of my dual-PhD journey! I explain what a dual-PhD means and give an introduction to my (still broad) research topic.
maiklarooij.nl
September 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
✏️ First thought on my website on the start of my dual-PhD journey! I explain what a dual-PhD means and give an introduction to my (still broad) research topic.
Reposted by Maik Larooij
Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.”
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
September 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.”
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
Reposted by Maik Larooij
LinkedIn user? Starting November 3 posts will be used to train their AI.
Unless you opt out, actively.
Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out.
Unless you opt out, actively.
Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out.
September 18, 2025 at 1:13 PM
LinkedIn user? Starting November 3 posts will be used to train their AI.
Unless you opt out, actively.
Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out.
Unless you opt out, actively.
Your text, your data, your choice! This should have been an opt-in, not op-out.
Reposted by Maik Larooij
This is where it gets wild 👇
In 2020, Twitter use was highest among people who loved Democrats and disliked Republicans.
By 2024, it completely flipped: the more polarized Republican you are, the more you use Twitter/X.
From blue stronghold → red megaphone. All for just $44 billion.
In 2020, Twitter use was highest among people who loved Democrats and disliked Republicans.
By 2024, it completely flipped: the more polarized Republican you are, the more you use Twitter/X.
From blue stronghold → red megaphone. All for just $44 billion.
September 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
This is where it gets wild 👇
In 2020, Twitter use was highest among people who loved Democrats and disliked Republicans.
By 2024, it completely flipped: the more polarized Republican you are, the more you use Twitter/X.
From blue stronghold → red megaphone. All for just $44 billion.
In 2020, Twitter use was highest among people who loved Democrats and disliked Republicans.
By 2024, it completely flipped: the more polarized Republican you are, the more you use Twitter/X.
From blue stronghold → red megaphone. All for just $44 billion.
Reposted by Maik Larooij
Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35
Reposted by Maik Larooij
We have (silently) launched opengov.nl, our @opengov.nl lab website! It's a bit bare now but you can already read up on who's who and what we (plan to) do!
graus.nu/blog/opengov...
graus.nu/blog/opengov...
opengov.nl is live • David Graus
We have published our ICAI OpenGov Lab website at opengov.nl! It is a bit bare at the moment, containing some information on our team, projects, and some news items that were shared on socials. But as...
graus.nu
September 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We have (silently) launched opengov.nl, our @opengov.nl lab website! It's a bit bare now but you can already read up on who's who and what we (plan to) do!
graus.nu/blog/opengov...
graus.nu/blog/opengov...
I somehow never did this, but now seemed like the time: I launched my personal website (maiklarooij.nl)! It is still a work in progress, but I'm planning on sharing my PhD adventures and publications on it 🎓.
maiklarooij.nl
September 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I somehow never did this, but now seemed like the time: I launched my personal website (maiklarooij.nl)! It is still a work in progress, but I'm planning on sharing my PhD adventures and publications on it 🎓.
Last week, I joined the ICAI @opengov.nl lab as the lab's fourth PhD student! It's a dual position; I will also be working as an information consultant for the Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding, part of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Very excited to begin this journey!
September 8, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Last week, I joined the ICAI @opengov.nl lab as the lab's fourth PhD student! It's a dual position; I will also be working as an information consultant for the Rijksorganisatie voor Informatiehuishouding, part of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. Very excited to begin this journey!
Reposted by Maik Larooij
We're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change social media's core dynamics.
Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.”…
arstechnica.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
We're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change social media's core dynamics.
Reposted by Maik Larooij
We built the simplest possible social media platform. No algorithms. No ads. Just LLM agents posting and following.
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
It still became a polarization machine.
Then we tried six interventions to fix social media.
The results were… not what we expected.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.03385
Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation
Social media platforms have been widely linked to societal harms, including rising polarization and the erosion of constructive debate. Can these problems be mitigated through prosocial interventions?...
arxiv.org
August 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM