Funder databases and bibliographic sources each tell different stories about funded research. I compared funding records from South Korea's NTIS with WoS and OpenAlex to show how combining them gives a fuller picture of funded outputs and where the gaps remain. Read more: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
I have written elsewhere that academics demanding pay and credit for public engagement is a neoliberal trap. People need jobs, healthcare, housing, and education. This includes artists and writers of all kinds. Employed academics don't need micropayments and merit points for doing public engagement.
View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen
Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026.
We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....
We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...
We have a new preprint that underscores some key claims here: even if one *can* design an agent that gets through a survey fine, it doesn't follow that such agents are undetectable or common. We find that they are far from common! Preprint link in thread👇
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🔸 La France accélère sa sortie de Microsoft dans l’administration, avec un abandon progressif de Windows au profit de Linux pour les postes de l’État et la migration de 80 000 agents de l’Assurance maladie vers Tchap, Visio et FranceTransfert.
Utrecht University is hiring an Assistant Professor in Statistics and Social Data Science - great opportunity for scholars working at the intersection of advanced statistical methods and computational social science research. #AcademicJobs #ComputationalSocialScience
uu.nl/en/organisation/worki...
Sounding another Egenis job klaxon! My excellent colleague Stefan Guttinger is looking for a #philsci postdoc to think through #AI agents and trustworthy knowledge in the biosciences. 4 year post! #HPS #STS
Celebrating the start of the new teaching semester at the Universität Rostock by providing Open Access to materials of two of my previous courses
1) Introduction to Computational Social Science:
github.com/akbaritabar/...
2) Computational Approaches to Migration Research:
github.com/akbaritabar/...
We opened a new PhD position in our department focusing on CSS research on and with AI agents. Please share the job ad and contact us if you have questions: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2594220?...
📣 New research seminar: @loubezuidenhout.bsky.social and @hughshanahan.bsky.social will give a talk on 'Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures'.
🎧 Make sure to join!
📅 Friday, 17/4/2026 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST)
📌 Online & in person at CWTS
🧵 New report just dropped 🚨 "Fractured Reality: How Democracy Can Win the Global Struggle Over the Information Space" — from the EU Joint Research Centre, led by Mario Scharfbillig and I. A landmark read for anyone working on disinformation, platforms & democracy. 👇
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Last day to submit abstracts to the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation! April 6, 11:59 PM AoE!
Screenshot from "Loi de Poisson" (French Wikipedia article). It says, "Ne doit pas être confondu avec Loi de Fisher."
Bilingual joke? French Wikipedia says the Poisson distribution is "not to be confused with Fisher's distribution" (the F-distribution)
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_...
Graphic with the European Commission logo on a blue and teal gradient background, displaying the text “Next phase for Open Research Europe: broadening the reach of open access publishing.”
Open Research Europe (ORE) enters its next phase as a collectively funded open access scholarly publishing platform: link.europa.eu/Y4DwbR
Co-funded by organisations from 11 countries & the EU, it:
- Secures long-term stability
- Enables more researchers to publish without fees
Europe builds Microsoft-alternative ‘Euro-Office’ to reclaim digital sovereignty tech.eu/2026/03/27/e...
My hack project before #AtmosphereConf @atproto.science: try and set up live streaming of scientific data (e.g. astronomical transients) on AT Protocol, which would give a decentralized & authenticated way to broadcast time-critical scientific results worldwide
In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...
🎓 Last week, Dr. Verena Weimer successfully defended her PhD thesis at Leiden University. She investigated the role of teaching within the academic recognition and reward system.
Congratulations! 👏🌟
💡More about Verena's research 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
@leidensocial.bsky.social
One more week for abstract submissions to ICSSI 2026, the International Conference on the Science of Science & Innovation!
icssi.org/guidelines
Boulder, CO this June 29 to July 1!
🏛️ Last week, Andy Stirling visited CWTS to mark the start of his visiting professorship. He stayed for four days full of presentations and meetings, including a research lab on multicriteria mapping (MCM) and a keynote on 'Opening up and closing down'. Looking forward to this collaboration!
Registration is open for the Master in Social and Economic Data Science at the University of Konstanz. Please distribute and feel free to DM if you have any questions!
www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/studium/mast...
“Authors [&] reviewers tell us that they have had a more constructive experience…choosing eLife not because of our impact factor, but because of our process”
👆 eLife comtinues to provoke debate but this is perhaps the most important point elifesciences.org/articles/110...
We're #recruiting a research assistant to work on a DFG-funded project on #MetaScience at the University of Cologne. Some coding skills in #python required, and interest in modelling the #cognition of #reading! Please spread the word!
New ORION-DBs tutorial to estimate #openaccess to biomedical research. With NIH price caps under debate, comparing NIH- and EC-funded articles shows how differently open access is supported.
Step-by-step guide to combining open research information on BigQuery.
orion-dbs.community/blog/posts/n...
📣 In our next research seminar, @crsugimoto.bsky.social from Georgia Institute of Technology will talk about 'Science superpower(s) and science diplomacy'.
🎧 Make sure to join!
📅 Friday this week, 20/3/2026 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CET)
📌 Online & in person at CWTS
🗺️ Adrià Plazas, Nicandro Bovenzi, Nicolau Duran, Enric Fuster and Ismael Rafols offer a new way of visualising the global funding landscape by mapping 82,000 EU research and innovation grants using semantic analysis rather than publication citations.
👉 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/the...
We are excited to announce the release of CSO Classifier v4.0.0, a tool for extracting Computer Science topics from research papers. A major update that brings significant enhancements to semantic understanding, modern data standards compliance, and compatibility with recent Python versions.
eLife plays a leading role in promoting innovation in scholarly publishing. Innovation in publishing requires innovation in infrastructures and technologies.
Glad to see eLife received funding to continue its important work in this area!
