Of in het geval van bezorging door @delaatstedodo.bsky.social: dododrone

Ik zit vooral achter de Venator. Maar heb die aan mezelf beloofd als prijs voor het behalen van een bepaald omzetdoel als zelfstandige - het hangt dus af van mijn eigen prestaties ;)

Dank, dat wou ik weten :)

SHOC‑collega’s Dennis De Vriese en Matthijs De Graeve traden mee op als editors van het nieuwe boek "Brusselse plaatsnamen".

Zijn het echte kortingen, of vestzak-broekzak operaties?

Without more clear examples of people saying "get lost, that next 3-month postdoc 500km from here is just exploitative garbage", the system of academic precarity will not change.

👇The last line of this post is certainly, absolutely, definitively the hell-bent attitude we need junior academics to have.

Especially in the humanities.

At the severance meeting: "I know it´s never fun to be fired, but it doesn´t need to be a drama. I see you supervised nine PhD´s and 6 postdocs, they were all out of a job about every 6 months to 3 years, no? And I´m sure you can now rely on the same alt-ac career advice you gave them."

I went into my PhD knowing things would be very tough. I left knowing they were pretty much impossible.

Yet another underestimated problem in current academia: hard to fight redundancies of previously secure jobs if for the past two decades your entire sector has profited of the massive job precarity of junior entrants.

De beste prater van het peloton Altijd genieten, de interviews van Remco Evenepoel

Over Remco, de beste prater van het peloton.

indewaaier.substack.com/p/de-beste-p...

It is an underestimated problem that people who simply describe the realities of the academic labour market, figures in hand, are regularly dismissed or discredited as pessimists, frustrated careerists, or disloyal colleagues. The music must go on, always.

Certainly, and today no more than a noteworthy irony 😉

How does Belgium actually use its 30,688 km²? 🇧🇪

I mapped Belgium's land use into 13 categories. Here are a few fun facts:

- Belgium's golf courses (45 km²) take up nearly TWICE as much space as all wind and solar combined (27 km², <0.1% of the country). 👇

Superb!

Meer met koers bezig zijn ipv met voetbal, dan hebt ge dat niet voor.

If NATO really once was about "keeping the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" it sure seems to be in trouble.

Wat was de job, als ik vragen mag?

I´ll join the crowd of agreement here - entire parts of current academia are structurally unsound, with AI being a type of gasoline poured on the fire.

So to your fair point about where this train leads: either to thinking seriously about enforcement mechanisms in academic structures (or just create new structures), or to dropping those standards that are not met anyway (not just on AI). Overstated: start being cops, or stop playing saints.

That was also my response when reading the paper shared by OP: if my reading was correct, it claims that existing standards are actually sufficient to keep AI out, only to then (correctly) mention that those standards are increasingly failing to stop other major behavioral problems in academia.

So my fear is that setting another standard without clear enforcement will just make AI one of those typical cases: a situation whereby academia/academics promise to do A, and then in practice do things that go against that promise simply because there is no (serious) punishment for transgressions.

On the starting point we certainly agree: standards matter and should be set. But there are already too many cases in academia where the standards are fairly explicit (good) and the actual, observable behaviour is increasingly the opposite (bad, and hypocritical)

Those presidents are all full professors BTW, not external managers. So I´m not sure why questions about enforcement should be irrelevant (let alone reflect negatively on the person asking) if the reality is that top academics are already trying to cover up their LLM use (but some just suck at it).

Belgium has recently had a university president who supported a strict AI-policy and then got caught trying to hide hallucinated citations in a speech for the entire university; and a former university president who insists that several non-existent citations in his book stem from ´faulty memory´.

Foto van een groen berglandschap in Ticino in Italië.

Foto van een berglandschap in Duitstalig Zwitserland. Op de bergtoppen is sneeuw te zien.

Foto van de Urnersee.

Foto van de Dom in Keulen in het licht van de avondzon.

Zo, mijn dagje treinen van Milaan naar Brussel via de oude Gotthardroute zit er bijna op. Elke trein (het waren er vijf, goed voor meer dan 12 uur) was stipt, het weer was prachtig en de zichten mooi. En het bier lekker.

Benieuwd!

What a wonderful group portrait. #earlymodern

Admiral Tanguy Botman, chief of the Belgian Navy

M924 Primula, Belgian tripartite class minehunter

"La Belgique déploie un chasseur de mines en direction du détroit d'Ormuz
Publié le 19/04 à 19h19"

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#TheBelgianNavy
#BelgiumDefence
#M924Primula
#HormuzStrait
#MaritimeSecurity

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