On the state of research funding
The political dynamics of research funding an increasingly important lens in understanding the influence of research funding on research itself. How to make sense of this?
Why I'm not going to SIPS 2025
I've been a member of SIPS since 2017, and have visited plenty of their conferences. But with the decision to host it in Hungary in 2025, I decided I won't be going.
Disclosing a Data Breach to Pensoft
For no apparent reason, I stumbled upon a data breach of one of my accounts, password and all. It is a humbling lesson in how much trust we place in platforms to keep that information safe and secure.
AkademieNL's new admin
I am happy to announce I am taking over as the admin for the Mastodon server AkademieNL. Robbert Hoogstraat is entrusting me with this and in this blog, I talk about what this means for AkademieNL.
Upstream reflections
Recently, I left the Upstream editorial team as a result of changing priorities. I figured it would be a good idea to reflect before I forget.
During my tenure at Upstream, I helped realize the following posts:
1. Language Diversity in Scholarly Publishing
2. The Environmental Impact of Research Infrastructures:
Remarks on barriers to Open Science for ECRs
Yesterday was the first of four listening sessions by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. These are specifically geared towards Early-Career Researchers (ECRs), which I guess I technically would still be had I stayed in academia.
I had the opportunity to briefly participate and share
(Not-)for-profit in research
In response to the European Council, I need to get a new pet peeve of mine off my chest.