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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 5h

Try it yourself at the ODISSEI Conference 2025!

🧠 LLMs for data annotation
🗝️ SANE for sensitive data
💻 Software showcase with metasyn & SURF Cloud.

Hands-on workshops to explore tools, ask questions & boost your research.

Claim your spot 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/odisse...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 14d

🚀 Ready to dive into the future of social science research?

Join us on November 4 at Royal Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, for cutting-edge insights on computational social sciences.

🎤 Keynotes: @mercecrosas.bsky.social & @melindacmills.bsky.social

Register and check the programme 👉 edu.nl/men7n

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 27d

Interested in using @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata for your research?

💻 The ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant funds 6 projects per round and offers step-by-step support.

Join the Q&A on 23 Sept (15:00–16:00 CET) to learn more & ask questions: odissei-data.nl/event/microd...

Microdata Access Grant 2025-2 Q&A - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

Together with CBS, ODISSEI hosts an Information Event and Q&A Session to clarify the questions regarding the programme.

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · 29d

🎉 This week, Marcel Das marks 25 years as the director of Centerdata!

To celebrate, we invited him to the ODISSEI Podcast to discuss the LISS Panel: how it operates, the studies it supports, and why it matters for research.

🎧 Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ope...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Sep 5

✨ There’s still time to nominate for the ODISSEI Open Science Award 2025! ✨

Celebrate researchers making computational social science more open, reusable & impactful. ⏰ Deadline: 26 Sept.

Nominate here 👉 odissei-data.nl/2025/06/26/c...

ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔍 Nominations open: ODISSEI Open Science #Awards 2025! 🏆

Celebrating researchers & teams making social science more transparent, reproducible & reusable.

Know someone making a difference? Or part of a project that should be recognised? 👉 edu.nl/48uy8

#OpenScience #FAIR

Call for Nominations: ODISSEI Open Science Award 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI Open Science Awards 2025

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Sep 2

Starting the academic year with FAIR data ✨

On 25–26 Sept in Utrecht, we are hosting a writing sprint & strategy meeting to co-create the SSH Action Plan for FAIR.

More information and registration: odissei-data.nl/event/fair-i...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jul 18

New ODISSEI podcast! 🎙️

We talk with Bella Struminskaya about
@share-eric.bsky.social, why this European study on ageing matters, what challenges it faces, and how ODISSEI helps link SHARE to data like LISS & @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social 🎧

Listen here: odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/sha...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jul 15

🔍 Nominations open: ODISSEI Open Science #Awards 2025! 🏆

Celebrating researchers & teams making social science more transparent, reproducible & reusable.

Know someone making a difference? Or part of a project that should be recognised? 👉 edu.nl/48uy8

#OpenScience #FAIR

Call for Nominations: ODISSEI Open Science Award 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI Open Science Awards 2025

edu.nl

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 30

🎓 What a ride!

SICSS-ODISSEI 2025 brought together 20+ students for Python bootcamp, ML, and talks on ethics, corp networks & CSR. Week 2 = projects with FIRMBACKBONE data & SANE.

Thanks to @esciencecenter.bsky.social, SoDa team, and all our brilliant speakers! 👏

#SICSS #SummerSchool

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨 Just 2 more days to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025!

Submit your abstract (max 300 words) on topics incl. computational social science, ethics & more.

⭐Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social & @mercecrosas.bsky.social

🗓️ Deadline: 27 June, 18:00

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 18

💡We're seeking your input: which sensitive datasets from private firms or government agencies should we prioritise? Help us understand how to make these datasets available for research.

Join us tomorrow at 12:00 for an interactive session

ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 16

🔍 ODISSEI is drafting a proposal to make sensitive data available to the SSH community. We need your input: which datasets should we target, and how should we share them?

💬 Join our Q&A:
🗓 19 June, 12:00–12:45
🔗 Register: odissei-data.nl/event/input-...

Input needed: which sensitive data should we acquire? - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI is working on a proposal to acquire sensitive data that is currently out of reach for the SSH community. For the proposal, we need your input! Which sensitive data sets from private firms and...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 16

🔍 ODISSEI is drafting a proposal to make sensitive data available to the SSH community. We need your input: which datasets should we target, and how should we share them?

💬 Join our Q&A:
🗓 19 June, 12:00–12:45
🔗 Register: odissei-data.nl/event/input-...

Input needed: which sensitive data should we acquire? - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI is working on a proposal to acquire sensitive data that is currently out of reach for the SSH community. For the proposal, we need your input! Which sensitive data sets from private firms and...

odissei-data.nl

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 13

📝 FAIR in SSH needs your input!
Join the Community Writing Sprint

📍 Utrecht or Online | 📅 Thu 25 Sept

Let’s untangle the real bottlenecks in FAIR implementation & co-write the Action Plan for the Dutch SSH. Open to RDM pros, researchers, policy makers & more!

🔗 Info & registration: edu.nl/vbwxh

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Jun 11

Just 2 more weeks left to apply for the ODISSEI Conference 2025!

📣 Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social and @mercecrosas.bsky.social

Submit your abstracts (max 300 words) by June 27

ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 Call for Papers is now open for the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 🎉

Submit your abstract (max 300 words) on topics incl. computational social science, ethics & more.

⭐Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social & @mercecrosas.bsky.social
🗓️ Deadline: 27 June
🔗 odissei-data.nl/odissei-conf...

Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 4 November 2025 in Utrecht. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computa...

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Mijke Jetten 🌱 @jettenmijke.bsky.social · May 28

🦄Join the June 17 #DataStewards Interest Group (DSIG) meeting on @odissei.bsky.social infrastructure #LucasvanderMeer @angelicamaineri.bsky.social

Connect with peers and share insights #datastewardship. Everyone is welcome

🗓️ June 17, 13-14.45 CEST
✏️ Agenda & Registration tdcc.nl/dsig/dsig-me...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · May 26

Our ODISSEI LISS panel Grant Information event is tomorrow!

Grab your spot 👉 odissei-data.nl/event/liss-i...

ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · May 16

🗓️ On 27 May (9:30–10:30 CEST), together with Centerdata, we will hold an online information session on the new ODISSEI LISS panel Grant. The session will cover the Call and the option to collect data via data donation. More info and registration👉 odissei-data.nl/event/liss-i...

LISS panel Grant Information event - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

On the 27th of May (9.30-10.30), ODISSEI and Centerdata will hold an online information event for the new round of the ODISSEI LISS panel Grant.

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · May 16

🗓️ On 27 May (9:30–10:30 CEST), together with Centerdata, we will hold an online information session on the new ODISSEI LISS panel Grant. The session will cover the Call and the option to collect data via data donation. More info and registration👉 odissei-data.nl/event/liss-i...

LISS panel Grant Information event - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

On the 27th of May (9.30-10.30), ODISSEI and Centerdata will hold an online information event for the new round of the ODISSEI LISS panel Grant.

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · May 14

The new ODISSEI Podcast episode is out! 🎧

@drtomemery.bsky.social talks with @lisasivak.bsky.social
about the PreFer Data Challenge, benchmarking, and data challenges.

Listen here👉 odissei.transistor.fm/episodes/ben...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 30

New on the ODISSEI Insights blog: how the NetAudit project uses @cbsstatistiek.bsky.social microdata and network embeddings to study the Dutch population through social ties and make those insights interpretable for researchers 🌐

@maltelueken.bsky.social Megha Khosla

🔗 edu.nl/gjr6t

NetAudit - Interpretable Embeddings for the Dutch Population Network - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

In this blog post, we introduce NetAudit, a project that combines large-scale population data from Statistics Netherlands with network embedding techniques to represent every individual as a vector ba...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 25

🧠 Share your insights on FAIR in Dutch SSH!

We’re gathering input from data stewards, RDM experts & policy professionals to understand how #FAIR is implemented in practice. ~15 mins and anonymous. Please share!

🔗 edu.nl/aujab

@angelicamaineri.bsky.social

Untangling FAIR in Social Sciences and Humanities

The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 23

📢 Call for Papers is now open for the ODISSEI Conference 2025! 🎉

Submit your abstract (max 300 words) on topics incl. computational social science, ethics & more.

⭐Keynotes: @melindacmills.bsky.social & @mercecrosas.bsky.social
🗓️ Deadline: 27 June
🔗 odissei-data.nl/odissei-conf...

Call for Papers: ODISSEI Conference for Social Science in the Netherlands 2025 - ODISSEI – Open Data Infrastructure for Social Science and Economic Innovations

ODISSEI welcomes proposals for presentations on Computational Social Science to be given at its conference on 4 November 2025 in Utrecht. This conference seeks to bring together a community of computa...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 15

🔗 Learn more: marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...
🔗 Explore ODISSEI support: odissei-data.nl/facility/gra...
📧 [email protected] (Scientific Manager, Kasia Karpinska)

Let’s make your #Postdoc proposal stand out! 🚀
#MSCA #Fellowship #ResearchFunding #AcademicMobility

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 15

ODISSEI can assist you in:
✅ Refining your research question
✅ Integrating large-scale, high-quality data
✅ Strengthening your methodology
✅ Enhancing your proposal’s overall competitiveness
✅ And finding the right people to connect with!

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 15

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open, providing excellent opportunities for postdocs to advance their careers through international and interdisciplinary mobility🌏

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ODISSEI @odissei.bsky.social · Apr 15

🧑‍🔬 Are you considering applying for the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2025?

If your research is in the social sciences and you’re aiming to develop a competitive, data-rich proposal, @odissei.bsky.social is here to help!

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