Today in Teaching in Higher Ed

This will make a great double feature with Razorback :)

Oh, and if you are at the conference: @fmeissner.bsky.social is building a network on critical remote sensing. If that could be your thing, join us for our picnic in the afternoon :)

Satelliten and drones

I am looking forward to the amazing presentations in our sessions on “Orbiting and Hovering – Critical Remote Sensing and Volumetric Regimes” at the #STS-NL conference at #Utwente . @fmeissner.bsky.social did all the hard work, but at least I created a playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/0TX...

[2/2] During this session, you’ll:

🔹 Attend short sample lectures by our lecturers
🔹 Explore how philosophy, technology and societal challenges intersect
🔹 Experience the interactive and critical nature of PSTS
🔹 Get a feel for the types of discussions and assignments in the programme

Curious whether the Master’s in Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society (PSTS) at the University of Twente is the right fit for you?

Join our Taster Day on Thursday 7 May (13:45–15:30) on campus.

📍 Location: Horst building, room OH113
👉 Sign up here: www.utwente.nl/en/education...

Dungeons & Dragons: Animated Series | Episodes 1-3 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Watch the D&D Animated Series on our YouTube channel.

„A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.“ Great read.

Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society Choose date: Thursday, 7 May 2026 13.45 - 15.30 Join the on-campus Taster Day During the Taster Day on campus, you will discover what it is like to study Philosophy of Science, Technology & Society at the University of Twente. You will learn more about the programme and can ask all your questions to the programme staff or students. Sign up On-campus Master Campus tour In-depth activity Workshop

Unsure if PSTS is right for you?

Then you are warmly invited to join us for a Taster Day on May 7th, 2026 at the University of Twente!

Learn more about our interdisciplinary MSc program at the intersection of Philosophy of Technology, Ethics of Technology, and STS:
www.utwente.nl/en/education...

Are views on research ethics and questionable research practices discipline-specific? This study investigates attitudes toward research misconduct and questionable research practices (QRPs) among researchers (n = 11,050) and ethics reviewers (n = 144) across academic fields. Our findings indicate that while most questionable practices are viewed as unacceptable overall, attitudes vary systematically across fields. Medical researchers and ethics reviewers generally viewed questionable practices as less acceptable than researchers and reviewers in other fields. Female researchers and full professors also had stricter attitudes.

Are views on research ethics and questionable research practices discipline-specific?

New work by Amanda Lindkvist, @linakoppel.bsky.social, @danielvastfjall.bsky.social, et al.

doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

Hey #OSR

Interested in watching good and bad fantasy (and adjacent) movies for yor (well 70 & 80's mainly) and sharing your thoughts will the collective?

Once a month a group of us watch the same movie (whenever you can fit it in) and then leave an audio message for @freethrall.bsky.social podcast

So, I am taking a week off. Let’s see what I can do.

Happy Chinese New Year!
And for those born in 1966 or 2026:
"Year of the Fire Horse"

A poster for [Untitled Games Event] on Sunday the 18th, in Amsterdam! Sunday 18 Jan 2026 5-7PM Tussen de Bogen 46 1013JB Amsterdam (canal side through the gate)

Excited to announce a trial run of [Untitled Games Event], a new Amsterdam-based space for experimental games and playable arts 👾

This will be a monthly 'book club' of sorts for games and conversations about play, inspired by @molleindustria.org + others' LikeLike.

Help us spread the word!

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Today, higher education in NL takes to the streets once again to fight against budget cuts and for science, education, critical thinking and solidarity.

🟥 #WOinActie 🟥

Angry Academics in Amsterdam, hoping the next government may put a stop to the systematic destruction of higher education in the Netherlands.

#WOinActie

Action group 0.7: ‘To @d66.nl, if you break your promise to retract the budget cuts, you will lose the votes of students and academics forever.’

sfeerimpressie van de Dam bij de Nationale Hogeronderwijsstaking. #WOinActie @aob.nl

I’ve never actually heard Ted talk

Today is a good day to remind the incoming Dutch government about the necessity to provide adequate funding for Higher Education. I wish everyone save travel to #Amsterdam ! www.fnv.nl/cao-sector/o... #CabinetDemolishesHigherEducation

A must read about #AI and higher education!

We need more random appreciation in this world :)

An agenda for data-rich, action-oriented, ethical research on infrastructure in informal settlements Nature Cities - Low-income urban communities are facing infrastructural inequities. This Perspective advocates for an agenda that aims at reorienting infrastructure research by bridging...

(2) My first co-authored piece in #Nature #Cities came out: rdcu.be/eQnWo

Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025: Futures for Game and Play Research. | Center for Game Research Programme, sign-up sheet, and abstracts now available! This year the Dutch DiGRA is hosted by Utrecht University. The programme is filled with research about the future of game studies, gamification...

This is a good start if the day. (1) I am on my way to the Dutch DiGRA Symposium 2025 in Utrecht: gameresearch.nl/2025/05/dutc...

Poster for the event at Concordia (Enschede): The World’s End. I will do the introduction and a bit of discussion. The poster shows a pint of beer, of course.

Has been a while since I have been presenting a Philofilm. If you are in Enschede tomorrow, come and join me for discussing old guys and transhumanism.

‘Are you single, old man?’: Scam artistry has never been easier Going down the rabbit hole of online scams and exploitation, one finds an audience eager to believe the lies. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

If you've ever wondered how pig-butchering or love scams begin, here's how.

Made all the more timely by that recent Reuters report published yesterday on how Meta's internal research estimated that its platforms were involved in a third of all successful scams in the US.

This is horrifying and awful. TV has been a beacon of excellent and accessible political journalism for at least a decade now.

To unceremoniously fire every black woman and trans person in your organization is just fucking gross and Conde Nast should be ashamed.

A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow