Wide view over fields and greenery

Saarland. I never post images of my kids. This seems like a safe exception...

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These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

#STS #STSNL #WTMC #STSNLOne #STSNL26

STS NL One has begun!

PhD Research Fellow in Theory of Science (vitenskapsteori) (299248) | University of Bergen Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Theory of Science (vitenskapsteori) (299248), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 10, 2026

We have a vacancy for a PhD Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities @vitenskapsteori.bsky.social

Application deadline: 10 May 2026

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Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

Agree.

How libraries classified physics preprints before arXiv and set the stage for distinguishing insiders from outsiders - Nature Reviews Physics In a world with ever-growing scientific literature, meaningful classifications are vital to keep on top of the latest results. In this Comment, historian and sociologist Phillip Roth traces the histor...

I'm super thrilled that my Comment on the vital role that #libraries have played in the history of #preprint communication in #physics is now out with @natrevphys.nature.com 🥳🥳🥳 www.nature.com/articles/s42...
(message me if you can't access the article! It's not a preprint 😉)

Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN - Minerva Minerva - This article deals with the early development of preprint communication in high-energy physics (HEP), specifically with how preprint communication was formalized in the early 1960s at the...

How did the whole #preprint thing start? 🤔 In my #OA article, I look closely at how the #library at @cern.bsky.social formalized preprint #communication in #physics in the 1960s; while my Comment in @natrevphys.nature.com gives a general overview: doi.org/10.1038/s422...
doi.org/10.1007/s110...

INTERVIEWER Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they have read it two or three times. What approach would you sug- gest for them? FAULKNER Read it four times.

Through this partly closed process, authority can emerge as pure on the other end. Added bonus is that this results in one, centrally orchestrated media-savvy event, where purity (as in "socially produced freedom from social production") can be put on a pedestal. 3/3

but showing that negotiation makes it difficult to argue that one is speaking on behalf of some pure process of knowledge-making or speaking on behalf of "nature". So it has to be hidden from sight (see also: mitpress.mit.edu/978026252492...). 2/

It is the standard playbook if it is policy change one is after. The paradox of scientific authority is that the process of aligning positions into a consensus (big-N paper, large report, etc.) requires a lot of discretionary space (degrees of freedom), 1/

a man in a tuxedo holds a microphone with the words welcome to the x factor below him ALT: a man in a tuxedo holds a microphone with the words welcome to the x factor below him

The X factor [authorisation]

A 'Dinosaur Smarties' Easter egg.

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

America might just need to release the Epstein Files to distract from this war of incompetence.

Too-Big-To-Fail Science ❓

Remember this when someone tells you ‘science isn’t political’.

I'm increasingly seeing students on campus with a leather briefcase. Laptops fit inside comfortably. This is a trend I can get behind.

This is not unheard of. I recall an interview I did with an undisclosed ManyLabs coordinator, who told me that they had prenegotiated with a journal the publication of 26 papers (actually 27, but they dropped one in the process).

It is the proposed automation of the policing that bugs me most this time. And it is the one thing that sets this apart from previous incarnations. The political ambition is reshaped and foregrounded.

"reinforces concerns" - - > repeats scandalisations

I'm oscillating between "let's get the critical metascience band back together for a spicy response" and "for my sanity I need to leave this alone".

This 2013 paper offers a whole literature review section on collaborative grant writing, offering a nice starting point for an overview of that body of work: files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1... 2/2

Looks like we took the same approach, by and large, for a project now funded by the same funding instrument. I might add, though, that collaborative grant writing is not invisible in the literature. 1/2

Excited and happy to report that we (@ccmmody.bsky.social, Ewout Meijer, Marielle Prevoo, Yannis Stravrakakis, Penelope Bollini, and I) will be able to start the new project "Invisible knowledge work and the transformation and scaling of open science practices". This is a unique project --> 1/2

Ja. Tack.

With the new government's changed retirement policies in the air, my mid-career moment could also be today. Turns out, mid-career was and is a temporaly plural event!

When we are done, those numbers should have lost their meaning, and we will not be academic and support staff. We will just be *staff*. 4/4

We will study "the invisible knowledge worker" and how they allow Open Science practices to be built, maintained and flourish. At the same time, we seek to make this work visible and assign credit to it. That starts at the very beginning: hence the 50-50 mix of visible and invisible applicants. 3/4