So happy to see this paper out on deconstructing sociotechnical imaginaries of digital twin technologies with Sofie de Wilde de Ligny, @mtschaefer.bsky.social & @albertmeijer.bsky.social! 🚀

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📣🆕Early View

Why can the #humanities be beneficial for the practice of #PublicAdministration (PA)❓

In this Forum article, dedicated to Fabienne Maron, Edoardo Ongaro, @albertmeijer.bsky.social & colleagues argue that the humanities can deepen our understanding of PA👇

Roel Dobbe (TU Delft) in NRC: "De vloek van AI" (in Dutch): www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

@haroonsheikh.bsky.social @marleenstikker.bsky.social @claesdevreese.bsky.social @mtschaefer.bsky.social @algosoc.org @silvertje.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social

Faced with USA technological vendor dependency and the risks this entails, initiatives such as EU OS are beginning to emerge. This is a proof-of-concept operating system based on Fedora (GNU/Linux) for European civil service. @itgespub.bsky.social @albertmeijer.bsky.social

+ info: eu-os.gitlab.io

When Innovation Causes Conflict: Ostrich, Chameleon, and Dolphin Strategies in the Public Sector

cityleadership.harvard.edu/resources/wh...

via @albertmeijer.bsky.social

A bizarre decision by BBC; the documentary is indeed excellent:
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Algorithm Registers

- What are they?
- What drives them?
- Do they work?

OA-paper from our ALGOPOL-project by Esther Nieuwenhuizen based on extensive research in the Netherlands.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Same here! My favorite director. Loved Twin Peaks but also all his films (except for the straight story).

Explanations Increase Citizen Trust in Algorithmic Recommendations

- Survey experiments
- Interventions: procedural, rationale & combined
- Findings: any type increases trust

With E. Nieuwenhuizen, F. Bex & @stephangrim.bsky.social

Main points: video

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 I want to share with you a very interesting article recently authored by Albert Meijer on how to design science on public administration research. Includes guidelines to create better situational and generic knowledge.

The article is open access. More info here: academic.oup.com/ppmg/advance...