@gertmeyers.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Tilburg University, @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social
STS/ Digitalisation of health and wellbeing/ BD and insurance /sociology of economics (Smoutebollen/bitterballen!)
STS/ Digitalisation of health and wellbeing/ BD and insurance /sociology of economics (Smoutebollen/bitterballen!)
George Orwell anyone?
October 30, 2025 at 12:08 PM
George Orwell anyone?
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Oh this cheered me this dark morning~ @SASE mini conferences announced including MC20: Insurance: Financialisation, New Data and Emerging Risks sase.org/events/2026-...
2026 Bordeaux - SASE
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October 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Oh this cheered me this dark morning~ @SASE mini conferences announced including MC20: Insurance: Financialisation, New Data and Emerging Risks sase.org/events/2026-...
Of was het een dubbelklik?
October 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Of was het een dubbelklik?
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👀 Our Review symposium - Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co 'Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
👀 Our Review symposium - Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co 'Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I am hiring PhD candidates to study the psychology of attention & technology use at @tilburg-university.bsky.social.
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
We're looking for motivated & curious scholars with expertise in cognitive psychology and statistics, and offer a friendly work environment with great terms & benefits.
tiu.nu/22989
Has Schumpeter just won the 'nobel prize' in economics? www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2025 was awarded “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Joel Mokyr “for having identified ...
www.nobelprize.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Has Schumpeter just won the 'nobel prize' in economics? www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...
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Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Applications open for 26-27 postdocs. Welcoming apps from any field that relates to the theme of the Seminar, "The Meanings of Merit: Labor, Categories of Difference, and the Creation of Knowledge." See: pembroke.brown.edu/funding-oppo.... Due 11/24. @pajaf.bsky.social @brownanthro.bsky.social
Anuj Puri leaving @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social , but if course staying a Tiltie
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Anuj Puri leaving @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social , but if course staying a Tiltie
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Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, confirms “no opt-out" for authors
The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).
www.thebookseller.com
September 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
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Hier de bijbehorende illustratie. Letten jullie op, beste journalisten, debatleiders en talkshowhosts?
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Hier de bijbehorende illustratie. Letten jullie op, beste journalisten, debatleiders en talkshowhosts?
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This is quite something... 🤯
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is quite something... 🤯
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Fella tried to rush me and said 'C'mon, the clock is ticking...' but that's not an urgent matter to me. Clocks are supposed to do that. Stick around and you might even experience a tock or two.
September 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Fella tried to rush me and said 'C'mon, the clock is ticking...' but that's not an urgent matter to me. Clocks are supposed to do that. Stick around and you might even experience a tock or two.
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Stefania Milan points to critical issues of today's data governance infrastructures but also empowering ways to safeguard democracy in the digital society @digisoc.bsky.social IDS2025 conference
September 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Stefania Milan points to critical issues of today's data governance infrastructures but also empowering ways to safeguard democracy in the digital society @digisoc.bsky.social IDS2025 conference
Towards a more than human ethics of AI with @rosamundevb.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Towards a more than human ethics of AI with @rosamundevb.bsky.social
@biekezaman.bsky.social opens the international conference for an inclusive digital society, continuing the 600th anniversary celebration of @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
@biekezaman.bsky.social opens the international conference for an inclusive digital society, continuing the 600th anniversary celebration of @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
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Patient: Doc, I can't stop singing "What's new Pussycat"
Doc: Sounds like you’ve got Tom Jones Syndrome
Patient: Is it common?
Doc: It's not unusual...
Doc: Sounds like you’ve got Tom Jones Syndrome
Patient: Is it common?
Doc: It's not unusual...
September 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Patient: Doc, I can't stop singing "What's new Pussycat"
Doc: Sounds like you’ve got Tom Jones Syndrome
Patient: Is it common?
Doc: It's not unusual...
Doc: Sounds like you’ve got Tom Jones Syndrome
Patient: Is it common?
Doc: It's not unusual...
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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
August 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.
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Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…
August 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Je suis triste ce soir d’apprendre la mort de Michel Callon, que j’ai commencé à lire au mitan des années 1980, en même temps que son ami et co-auteur Bruno Latour. Quel choc ce fut, en 1986, de lire son article (devenu célèbre) sur les coquilles Saint-Jacques dans la baie de Saint-Brieuc…
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This is a stupid argument.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
Zero‑Knowledge Proofs let users prove they are over 18 without exact birth dates, but they don’t stop verifiers from collecting information like your IP address. These alone aren’t enough to protect privacy and shouldn’t be pushed forward without proper protections in place.
Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...
www.eff.org
August 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This is a stupid argument.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
ZKPs aren’t bad because they’re not confidential enough.
Worry instead because people can ask you to prove anything, at any time, to provision or deny you access to services, while saying ‘privacy is solved’! Rules, not disclosure, are the risk.
Do better @eff.org.
He @jbaert.bsky.social , nog steeds niet de burgemeester van Boom?
July 17, 2025 at 5:26 PM
He @jbaert.bsky.social , nog steeds niet de burgemeester van Boom?
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Job alert: Universitair docent in AI Beleid en Ethiek
Come work with @linnetelwin.bsky.social , @gertmeyers.bsky.social , me, and many other nice colleagues
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3533...
Come work with @linnetelwin.bsky.social , @gertmeyers.bsky.social , me, and many other nice colleagues
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3533...
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
July 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Job alert: Universitair docent in AI Beleid en Ethiek
Come work with @linnetelwin.bsky.social , @gertmeyers.bsky.social , me, and many other nice colleagues
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3533...
Come work with @linnetelwin.bsky.social , @gertmeyers.bsky.social , me, and many other nice colleagues
www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3533...
Jolien van de Sande presenting the second study of her postdoc at the @algosoc.org consortium meeting in Zeist, near the (Dutch) Austerlitz. @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Jolien van de Sande presenting the second study of her postdoc at the @algosoc.org consortium meeting in Zeist, near the (Dutch) Austerlitz. @tilt-tilburgu.bsky.social
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Vaak wordt gedaan alsof een stijging van defensie-uitgaven ten koste gaat van de sociale zekerheid. Niemand lijkt te beseffen dat België 17,9 miljard uitgeeft aan subsidies voor fossiele brandstoffen, die de EU "economisch inefficiënt" noemt....
vrtnws.be/p.93R79ZZ4x
vrtnws.be/p.93R79ZZ4x
Energiecrisis duwde fossiele subsidies omhoog: in 2022 gaf België 17,9 miljard euro steun aan brandstoffen | VRT NWS: nieuws
In 2022 keerde de federale overheid 17,9 miljard euro uit aan directe en indirecte subsidies voor fossiele brandstoffen. Dat blijkt uit de nieuwste cijfers over die steun, die VRT NWS kon inkijken. De...
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June 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Vaak wordt gedaan alsof een stijging van defensie-uitgaven ten koste gaat van de sociale zekerheid. Niemand lijkt te beseffen dat België 17,9 miljard uitgeeft aan subsidies voor fossiele brandstoffen, die de EU "economisch inefficiënt" noemt....
vrtnws.be/p.93R79ZZ4x
vrtnws.be/p.93R79ZZ4x