Alex Brandsen

This is so fucking stupid. We already know how to engineer dogs to be more vicious to humans, and it’s called wolves. The path of domestication makes dogs more social. You make them less social by going back on that path. You also make them less trainable.

Anyway they don’t want these dogs for war they want to set them on protesters I hope this helps

Dit is foltering. Dit verhaal wordt steeds erger naarmate je verder leest. Een paar dieptepunten: iemands pols en ribben breken, toegang tot een arts ontzeggen, liegen over dat haar advocaat er niet bij wil zijn om iemand tot verhoor te dwingen, foltering voor illegale afname van vingerafdrukken...

Perhaps one of the few truly good results of the recent genAI developments is that we no longer get these fake "I forced a bot to watch 1000 hours of [tv show] and generate a script" memes.

What could an open science community in The Hague look like? On 3 November, DANS, NIDI, and others bring together colleagues from organisations across The Hague to exchange ideas, share ongoing initiatives and explore what is needed locally. Join us: edu.nl/xpcrn Funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social

Finding archaeological data by location just became easier. DANS has added GeoNames to Data Station Archaeology, helping researchers describe locations consistently and improving the findability and reuse of data. Read more: edu.nl/e3ynn

Het is al decennia een gegeven dat rechtse partijen absoluut niet met geld om kunnen gaan. Begrotingstekorten lopen meestal op onder rechts beleid. Armoede neemt toe. Inkomensongelijkheid groeit. Niet gek dat ze het intern ook niet kunnen.

laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur... An excellent and easily readable essay on the creeping effects of sameness on streets, music and culture as a whole (and the actual one weird regulatory trick to break out). Don’t let the graph image put you off, this is a good one.

slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

Would you like to work at a Cluster of Excellence on Human Origins with an office in a medieval castle? Then I have THE job ad for you below! (Oh, and not to mention: it’s a FULL PROFESSORSHIP for Early Prehistory!) 🏺 #paleosky

Lezersbrief in de Volkskrant

Zo blij voor Shell 🥹🥰

#nieuwselders “De Tweede Kamer wou Antifa al als terroristische organisatie bestempelen, en nu ligt er een wetsvoorstel voor iets dat bijna een directe kopie is van de Terrorism Act. We waarschuwen er al langer voor: wat vandaag in het VK gebeurt, gebeurt morgen in Nederland.”

Good thing we don’t have a long history of people incorrectly projecting human traits on computers and overestimating what they’re really doing.

Goed draadje!

Allowing genocidal ethnonationalists to define what Judaism and antisemitism are inevitably leading to the Jewishness of anyone who doesn't support genocidal ethnonationalism enthusiastically enough being denied.

Diep verankerd koloniaal racisme: waarom miniatuurbeeldjes van Hitler niet 'normaal' gevonden worden, maar van J.P. Coen wèl👇🏻 www.doorbraak.eu/diep-veranke... #Hoorn #Kolonialisme #Nationalisme #Racisme #RechtseOpiniemakers

Senior Lecturer, spatial.and statistical analysis www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG826/s...

"It’s become fashionable lately to say that capitalism has entered a new phase in which it has become parasitical to forms of creative cooperation. This is nonsense. It has always been parasitical." - David Graeber

The Luddites were right by the way. They were violently suppressed by the military, working on behalf of the factory owners. Chartists and other activists took up the fight of Luddism to win us back worker rights. George, just have a read of this mate: tomhumberstone.com/luddites

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

We just published a recap of the TDCC interoperability event in Utrecht, where researchers, data professionals, and policy makers tackled the messy, human side of making data actually work together. 🔗 Read the full story: tdcc.nl/connecting-k... #Interoperability #OpenScience #ResearchData

Ideeën (of juist zorgen!) over een LLM voor de Nederlandse archeologie? Vul dan de vragenlijst in! We nemen deze input mee in de ontwikkeling van TARA. Vragenlijst: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/s9S8buhqUJ Website: tara-llm.nl

We're building an LLM for Dutch Archaeology! With funding from Stichting Reuvens, I'm working with Archol and BAAC to create a RAG based system connecting an LLM to AGNES, making it possible to interrogate archaeological grey literature. See tara-llm.nl for more info (in Dutch)

Universiteit Utrecht gaat na een datacenterbrand eigen mail, Linux-laptops en eOS-telefoons testen. Minder afhankelijk van Microsoft = meer digitale soevereiniteit én privacy. Precies waar de Piratenpartij al jaren voor pleit. Goed voorbeeld, hopelijk volgen meer instellingen!🏴‍☠️ #DigitaleAutonomie

Last week to apply for a position as Software Engineer at DANS. In this role you will develop FAIR data infrastructures and open science services in European projects such as EOSC Data Commons. You will work with Python, Linked Data and research data infrastructures. Apply by 6 July: edu.nl/efrdw

📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN: LMU Open Science Summer School. Deadline: July 6 Hybrid program with two tracks for early-career researchers: build practical open science skills or learn to teach open science. Keynote speakers include COS Senior Director of Research Tim Errington.

Laat me benadrukken wat code rood voor hitte betekent. Er zullen mensen sterven. Vooral zieke en oude mensen; ook jonge en gezonde. De extreme hitte komt door de klimaatcrisis, die voortduurt door politieke onwil. Die onwil is dodelijk. Kom in opstand (als het koeler is) Revolutie = self care ✊🌳

A story in 2 parts...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

European repositories can now apply for the FIDELIS Open Call on adopting trustworthy repository solutions. The programme combines expert guidance and financial support to help repositories strengthen preservation, privacy and service management practices. More information: edu.nl/xe77b

Looking for social sciences research data in the Netherlands? On 11 June, Ricarda Braukmann introduces the ODISSEI Portal, a single interface for discovering nearly 10,000 datasets across institutions. Interested in improving findability and access? Register and join the session: edu.nl/n4nwv

1/3 New recommendation: Haley Anne Schwartz & Tania González Cantera (2026). Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Reliable Access Method for ChatGPT 4o in Archaeological Heritage Prompting). V3 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI #Archaeology doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 🏺🧪🦣 #OpenScience #openaccess

Lmao. He’s triggered? Oh Ken. America should band together and send him millions of tiny guillotines all at once.

this is why, when we win, we gotta win all the way.

Data retention is more than a setting. In this session, Kristine Racina and Laura Huis in ’t Veld will explore with participants how retention relates to policy, responsibilities and long-term availability within DataverseNL. How does your organisation approach retention? Register: edu.nl/vj4q7

Het is totaal bezopen dat een primetime talkshow een Telegraaf-schrijver en een Nederlandse ex-Mossad-agent uitgebreid aan het woord laat, terwijl diezelfde krant die dag in opspraak komt vanwege het verspreiden van Israëlische propaganda en de presentator daar met geen woord naar vraagt.

Nominations are still open for the 2026 Sarah Jones Award! This RDA award recognises individuals or teams who advance collaboration in open science and data stewardship. DANS proudly supports it, with @Ingrid Dillo on the selection committee. Nominate by 14 June 2026: edu.nl/ej78u

The proceedings of @caaint.bsky.social in 2023 are finally out! Proud of our nice book that brings together many different themes. All papers are recommended through @pciarchaeology.bsky.social

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at https://www.sidestone.com/books/advances-in-digital-archaeology