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rensec.bsky.social
Rense Corten 🟥
@rensec.bsky.social
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Sociologist at Utrecht University, NL, studying cooperation, trust, social networks, social media, platform economy, using computational social science and experimental methods. I mostly follow academics.
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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
New paper out! Using data donation, we provide one of the first, if not THE first, assessment of the structure of the WhatsApp network with a population-wide probability sample (1/) link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Assessing mobile instant messenger networks with donated data - Social Network Analysis and Mining
Despite the increasing popularity and societal relevance of mobile instant messenger services (MIMSs) such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal, the vast majority of the research on social media is focuse...
link.springer.com

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 6h
“Shut up!” screamed Toad.

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 16h
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 1d
OK, check, NOS = vijand, staat genoteerd. En even voor de zekerheid: mensen die doelbewust de vrije pers ondermijnen?

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 1d
Uiteraard mag je kritiek hebben op verslaggeving, maar ongefundeerd twijfel zaaien over onafhankelijke media is wel glad ijs; daarmee speel je autoritaire regimes juist in de kaart. Ik zou dus terughoudend zijn met op elke slak zout leggen. Ogen op de bal: de NOS is hier echt niet de vijand.

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 1d
Ik bedoelde dit eerdere bericht (net vergeten link erbij de zetten): nos.nl/artikel/2599...
Man doodgeschoten door grenspolitie bij protesten tegen ICE in Minneapolis
Lokale media melden dat de man meerdere keren in zijn borst is geschoten.
nos.nl

rensec.bsky.social
Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 1d
Onderaan die pagina nog een link naar een kritische reportage over ICE. Je moet wel heel opzichtig selectief lezen om in de NOS-berichtgeving impliciete steun voor Trump te zien

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 1d
Dat doen ze dan ook niet in hun eerdere(!) berichtgeving over de schietpartij, waarin de reactie van Walz eerst aan bod komt en pas daarna de "verdediging" door de regering, die vervolgens expliciet door de NOS in twijfel getrokken wordt.

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 1d
Ik weet niet hoor, de NOS rapporteert gewoon wat de reactie van de regering was, en suggereert nergens dat die lezing klopt. Dat de lokale autoriteiten die lezing bestrijden staat er ook gewoon in.

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 3d
We've had similar discussions about Israel here, eg, doesn't boycotting Israeli universities hurt especially those who are most critical of the war? The answers to such questions are not trivial, and opinions were (and are) extremely divided

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 3d
Of course it's hard to know what I miss, but at least things like the No Kings demos and the whole Minnesota thing were on front pages of the serious media

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 3d
I think people are well aware of much of the resistance, and it is broadly covered in the media, at least in the Netherlands

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C. Thi Nguyen @add-hawk.bsky.social · 3d
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.

As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.

Here's what happened:

rensec.bsky.social
Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 4d
So far it looks like Trump tried to play Chicken with Europe and lost

rensec.bsky.social
Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 4d
Good news but the fact that this is even in the news is still depressing
asanews.bsky.social American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 4d
ASA has won a major victory for academic freedom. As part of a coalition represented by @democracyforward.org, we defeated the Dept of Ed’s attempt to get school districts to censor lessons, abandon student support programs, and certify compliance. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qKGo2U.

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 4d
ASA has won a major victory for academic freedom. As part of a coalition represented by @democracyforward.org, we defeated the Dept of Ed’s attempt to get school districts to censor lessons, abandon student support programs, and certify compliance. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qKGo2U.

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 4d
and Italian lunches on top!

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 4d
Ik ben geen econoom maar volgens mij is "beleggen" in cryptovaluta grotendeels speculatie, aangezien er bijna geen onderliggende waarde is (zoals bij andere valuta). Het deel dat geen speculatie is, is grotendeels gebaseerd op criminaliteit. Weet je hoe Nederlanders daar tegenaan kijken?

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks Tom!

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
We find that degree distributions in WhatsApp (in the Netherlands) resemble log-normal and exponential distributions, and that results from the literature on antecedents of personal network size mostly replicate. 4/

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
Data donation remains one of the few viable empirical options to study WhatsApp interactions. We use it to assess the degree distributions of WhatsApp connections (both to other individuals and groups) and differences between individuals in terms of network size 3/

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
Despite the prominence of WhatsApp in contemporary social interaction, we know very little about it, mostly due to its technical architecture and proprietary nature. This includes the network structure. 2/

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 6d
Goed bezig. Een groot Nederlands consortium waar ik aan heeft ook net de knoop doorgehakt om over te stappen van Google Docs/Drive naar Nextcloud, ism SURF. Eindelijk begint het te schuiven, lijkt het.

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 7d
I did not check this time but I have a suspicion.

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 7d
Your quarterly reminder that top econ journals are often full of sociology. In the latest issue of QJE: peer influence, educational inequality, ideals and beliefs, racial violence, collective action, and the impact of ideas. academic.oup.com/qje/issue/14...
Volume 141 Issue 1 | The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the President and Fellows of Harvard University. The oldest professional journal of economics in the English language, it covers all aspects of the field.
academic.oup.com

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 7d
Ideas from economics, in particular

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 7d
BREAKING! Economists discover that Ideas Have Consequences academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice*
Abstract. This article empirically studies the effects of the early law and economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Insti
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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 8d
It's this, I guess (good call on the layout!): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Writing is thinking - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.
www.nature.com

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Rense Corten 🟥 @rensec.bsky.social · 12d
The rector of #KSE (@tymofiibrik.bsky.social) is an alumnus of our graduate program, and I've been following him since the start of the war. It's incredible what they been doing to keep things going at KSE, even lecturing in the bomb shelters. Makes you feel humble.

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Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social · 12d
Costs of applying for grants amount to more than the value of the grants themselves. What excellent value for money for taxpayers!!!!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Client Challenge
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