Nathalie Van Raemdonck
@nathalievanraemdonck.com
Social media networks and social norms, PhD student at Brussels University (VUB). Belgian living in Barcelona, internet night crawler, STS
Very grateful for my stellar supervisor team @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social Trisha Meyer, and brilliant jury @snurb.info @tomdeleyn.bsky.social @pieterballon.bsky.social and Ksenia Ermoshina!
November 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Very grateful for my stellar supervisor team @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social Trisha Meyer, and brilliant jury @snurb.info @tomdeleyn.bsky.social @pieterballon.bsky.social and Ksenia Ermoshina!
I became a Doctor yesterday 🥳 presented my thesis "What Others afford: sociotechnical shaping of normative processes on social media platforms". In it I describe how the way we all shape each other's behavior on social media is shaped by the architectures of the digital environments we inhabit.
November 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I became a Doctor yesterday 🥳 presented my thesis "What Others afford: sociotechnical shaping of normative processes on social media platforms". In it I describe how the way we all shape each other's behavior on social media is shaped by the architectures of the digital environments we inhabit.
Great panel on digital sovereignty at #decidimfest with @francescabria.bsky.social : "we cannot build apps empowering popular sovereignty on top of critical infrastructure that is weaponized against democracy"
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Great panel on digital sovereignty at #decidimfest with @francescabria.bsky.social : "we cannot build apps empowering popular sovereignty on top of critical infrastructure that is weaponized against democracy"
Successfully defended my thesis to the jury this week 🥳 Public defense on 13/11! grateful to @snurb.info @tomdeleyn.bsky.social @pieterballon.bsky.social and Ksenia Ermoshina for their insightful feedback and @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social and Trisha Meyer for their amazing supervision!
September 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Successfully defended my thesis to the jury this week 🥳 Public defense on 13/11! grateful to @snurb.info @tomdeleyn.bsky.social @pieterballon.bsky.social and Ksenia Ermoshina for their insightful feedback and @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social and Trisha Meyer for their amazing supervision!
no, and i think it's been a wrong interpretation of some convoluted writing on something a family friend said www.bbc.com/news/article... other than that, it's just 4chan claiming him as a Groyper, which means nothing
September 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
no, and i think it's been a wrong interpretation of some convoluted writing on something a family friend said www.bbc.com/news/article... other than that, it's just 4chan claiming him as a Groyper, which means nothing
The response to openAIs replacing GPT4o is so disturbing. I keep reading these stories on r/myboyfriendisAI and r/AIsoulmates of people who have become emotionally dependent on a sycophantic ChatGPT model to replace human connection... Now recommending each other to pay to get the model back 😬
August 12, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The response to openAIs replacing GPT4o is so disturbing. I keep reading these stories on r/myboyfriendisAI and r/AIsoulmates of people who have become emotionally dependent on a sycophantic ChatGPT model to replace human connection... Now recommending each other to pay to get the model back 😬
The press release by Belgian Federal prosecutor on the arrest, questioning, and release of the 2 IDF soldiers identified by @hindrajabfoundation.be
This sets an important precedent for prosecutors all over the world
(See English translation in Alt text)
This sets an important precedent for prosecutors all over the world
(See English translation in Alt text)
July 21, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The press release by Belgian Federal prosecutor on the arrest, questioning, and release of the 2 IDF soldiers identified by @hindrajabfoundation.be
This sets an important precedent for prosecutors all over the world
(See English translation in Alt text)
This sets an important precedent for prosecutors all over the world
(See English translation in Alt text)
If you see this 👇🏽
Please quote post a beach pic you took off your phone
Barcelonetta beach in Barcelona Spain, beach volley on wednesday evening
Please quote post a beach pic you took off your phone
Barcelonetta beach in Barcelona Spain, beach volley on wednesday evening
May 14, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you see this 👇🏽
Please quote post a beach pic you took off your phone
Barcelonetta beach in Barcelona Spain, beach volley on wednesday evening
Please quote post a beach pic you took off your phone
Barcelonetta beach in Barcelona Spain, beach volley on wednesday evening
kreeg deze mail als ik toch probeerde het in te dienen met de eis dat ze geen gebruik mogen maken van mijn interacties met externe partners... mis ik iets of zijn ze ons hier weer met een dode mus aan het proberen te sussen?
May 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
kreeg deze mail als ik toch probeerde het in te dienen met de eis dat ze geen gebruik mogen maken van mijn interacties met externe partners... mis ik iets of zijn ze ons hier weer met een dode mus aan het proberen te sussen?
came here to recommend the same helmet for the same reason :) (still looks incredibly dorky but at least you can say it's European design)
May 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
came here to recommend the same helmet for the same reason :) (still looks incredibly dorky but at least you can say it's European design)
So grateful I was invited at @ahoy.eu to talk about power concentrations in the ATmosphere! In my talk I tried to make clear there is no social media without conflict, but we need to build democratic institutions to balance between feudalism and social norm conflict exhaustion.
April 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
So grateful I was invited at @ahoy.eu to talk about power concentrations in the ATmosphere! In my talk I tried to make clear there is no social media without conflict, but we need to build democratic institutions to balance between feudalism and social norm conflict exhaustion.
At #ahoy25 @aendra.com reminds everyone why we need to build social networks that both protect vulnerable populations and provide them with safe spaces AND not remove them from public life.
Queer resilience is visibility 👏 @ahoy.eu
Queer resilience is visibility 👏 @ahoy.eu
April 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
At #ahoy25 @aendra.com reminds everyone why we need to build social networks that both protect vulnerable populations and provide them with safe spaces AND not remove them from public life.
Queer resilience is visibility 👏 @ahoy.eu
Queer resilience is visibility 👏 @ahoy.eu
For those wondering how the hell I wandered into a church on Thursday, I was staying in a monastery for a week to finish my last paper! The madness a PhD can drive people to 🙃 (but the writing breaks were divine!)
April 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
For those wondering how the hell I wandered into a church on Thursday, I was staying in a monastery for a week to finish my last paper! The madness a PhD can drive people to 🙃 (but the writing breaks were divine!)
Knee-deep in my thesis, last months!
April 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Knee-deep in my thesis, last months!
Scavenger's reign was soooo good 😭 I got the vinyl as a consolation price
March 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Scavenger's reign was soooo good 😭 I got the vinyl as a consolation price
this is obviously the 3rd on this scale
February 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
this is obviously the 3rd on this scale
I didn't call it fake, I said it was misleading. I can agree that the emotions might be because of his own failures as a chair, but MAGAs have been using this compilation to argue Europeans can't handle Vance's criticism (pretty sure they didn't see the jumpcut, nor did many others)
February 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I didn't call it fake, I said it was misleading. I can agree that the emotions might be because of his own failures as a chair, but MAGAs have been using this compilation to argue Europeans can't handle Vance's criticism (pretty sure they didn't see the jumpcut, nor did many others)
Our paper on social norm affordances is out in Social Media + Society! @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social & I analysed how the technological affordances of Instagram and Twitter shape the social norm dynamics of climate change publics. Proud of this one! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
February 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Our paper on social norm affordances is out in Social Media + Society! @ikepicone.bsky.social @imuses.bsky.social & I analysed how the technological affordances of Instagram and Twitter shape the social norm dynamics of climate change publics. Proud of this one! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
23/24th and 3 more years of Trump to go
January 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
23/24th and 3 more years of Trump to go
I don't remember anymore, I was looking at a 'what if' prediction paper I wrote in 2020 at my previous job on a potential future of a defragmented internet, and used Roposo as an example that Indians might have moved to.
this was the 3-page paper btw, on page 23 www.iss.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
this was the 3-page paper btw, on page 23 www.iss.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
January 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I don't remember anymore, I was looking at a 'what if' prediction paper I wrote in 2020 at my previous job on a potential future of a defragmented internet, and used Roposo as an example that Indians might have moved to.
this was the 3-page paper btw, on page 23 www.iss.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
this was the 3-page paper btw, on page 23 www.iss.europa.eu/sites/defaul...
Last 2am brainfart; Taylor Swift (BL's bestie) probably played a role in BL striking back through court and collecting the receipts.
Taylor Swift has always been a guiding light in cybersecurity (see the origins of @swiftonsecurity.com name), funny how she now appears to be the same for info ops.
Taylor Swift has always been a guiding light in cybersecurity (see the origins of @swiftonsecurity.com name), funny how she now appears to be the same for info ops.
December 22, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Last 2am brainfart; Taylor Swift (BL's bestie) probably played a role in BL striking back through court and collecting the receipts.
Taylor Swift has always been a guiding light in cybersecurity (see the origins of @swiftonsecurity.com name), funny how she now appears to be the same for info ops.
Taylor Swift has always been a guiding light in cybersecurity (see the origins of @swiftonsecurity.com name), funny how she now appears to be the same for info ops.
This story isn't just irrelevant celeb drama, it's symptomatic for manipulation happening in our information ecosystems.
- By which I'm not saying manipulation ops are always successful, you NEED organic engagement and unfortunately for BL she doesn't seem to be very well liked.
- By which I'm not saying manipulation ops are always successful, you NEED organic engagement and unfortunately for BL she doesn't seem to be very well liked.
December 22, 2024 at 12:50 AM
This story isn't just irrelevant celeb drama, it's symptomatic for manipulation happening in our information ecosystems.
- By which I'm not saying manipulation ops are always successful, you NEED organic engagement and unfortunately for BL she doesn't seem to be very well liked.
- By which I'm not saying manipulation ops are always successful, you NEED organic engagement and unfortunately for BL she doesn't seem to be very well liked.
Feeds! Zelf kunnen bepalen door welke content ik scroll
November 26, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Feeds! Zelf kunnen bepalen door welke content ik scroll
And the worst is, drawing/doodling is scientifically proven to help hold attention! www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-thi... (I WISH I did this in HS, I would just dream away with no coping mechanisms) I now draw all the time at conferences (and I'm also starting to like how they look!) my latest 👇
November 22, 2024 at 6:42 AM
And the worst is, drawing/doodling is scientifically proven to help hold attention! www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-thi... (I WISH I did this in HS, I would just dream away with no coping mechanisms) I now draw all the time at conferences (and I'm also starting to like how they look!) my latest 👇
