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Posts by Peter Kerkhof
This is the needed corrective to the new round of "when humans write it's like music, every word carefully chosen and precisely placed" which is simply not the reality for most people and situations. Much of writing is a tedious task that we have to slog through to simply keep our job/day/etc going.
What are the main issues discussed in a set of documents?
We’ve just released a step-by-step BERTopic tutorial.
We also launch a new page, gathering various NLP tutorials for social scientists.
👉 www.css.cnrs.fr/tutorials-an...
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I talked to some people recently who said they got bored or overwhelmed by Bluesky after a while. Turns out they didn't know about alternative feeds yet and we're scrolling the chronological one.
If you like that, great, but here are some alternative feeds I like.
Behavior changed, but attitudes or intentions did not. This suggests a salience effect: social media content likely kept donation top-of-mind.
It shows that low-cost, non-targeted digital exposure can shift real-world health behavior.
Funded by #Sanquin, supported by VU Network Institute 🙏
The results:
- New Facebook followers were 32% more likely to make their first donation
- They made 12% more whole blood donations over one year
- They made 17% more total donations, including plasma donations
These effects emerged without reminders, incentives, or direct outreach.
#publichealth
During registration, new donors were randomly assigned to either:
🔹 Follow the Dutch blood bank (Sanquin) on Facebook
🔹 Control (no follow)
We tracked behavior over 6 months via Sanquin’s records, and additionally ran 3 surveys
Publication alert: Boosting Blood Donations Through Facebook Engagement
Key question: does a blood bank’s social media presence affect the number of 🩸donations?
Open access in Journal of Medical Internet Research:
www.jmir.org/2025/1/e64740/
w/ Steven Ramondt & Eva-Maria Merz
#blooddonation
🎉 New publication out!
Really happy to share that our article “Privacy calculus, privacy paradox, and context collapse: A replication of three key studies in communication privacy research” is now published in the Journal of Communication.
Full article: doi.org/10.1093/joc/...
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I thought this was really interesting: Sam Altman Admits That Saying "Please" and "Thank You" to ChatGPT Is Wasting Millions of Dollars in Computing Power futurism.com/altman-pleas...
On May 19, 15:00 and 18:00 hrs, we will host the event "Ethics of AI and Lab's tools introduction".
In it, Dr. Katleen Gabriels, @maastrichtu.bsky.social, will talk about the impacts of #GenAI in our lives.
We will also kick-off AI tools we make available to
@vuamsterdam.bsky.social researchers.
Elk jaar weer een feest in mijn straat
As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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🆕 2025 versie! Bekijk hier de ontwikkeling van het Social Media-landschap in Nederland in de afgelopen 20 jaar.
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Ja, klopt. De groei van Reddit kan ik i.i.g. bevestigen, gaat heel erg hard
Reddit is tegenwoordig mijn favoriet. Kijk ook eens naar Vine, dat ging heel even heel hard, net als BeReal
Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric. It's been 84 years meme #AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD
Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:
We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!
We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.
Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.
Let's get into it!
Dank Marco!