Julia Eberlen
@juliaeberlen.bsky.social
Research Support Staff @ulbruxelles.bsky.social, interested in way too many things, including open science & research integrity, social & cognitive psychology, science communication, and anything fiber related. https://milgram.ulb.be/
I met him at the EASP conference in Granada, 2017. Were it not for my own network, I’d think until today that he’s an honorable cornerstone of social psychology. Speaking up is important, *especially* for senior, male colleagues, and not only once these investigations are published
More voices from those also affected by Miles Hewstone‘s behavior, hitting walls when trying to be heard. Katherine Griffiths from @bloomberg.com gave everyone a voice that can no longer be silenced.
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November 20, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I met him at the EASP conference in Granada, 2017. Were it not for my own network, I’d think until today that he’s an honorable cornerstone of social psychology. Speaking up is important, *especially* for senior, male colleagues, and not only once these investigations are published
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November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Want to save time using LLMs? Let them generate a text for you which you can fact check meticulously over the next three weeks, because the AI companies don’t think they’re responsible for their work. 🤣😭
November 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Want to save time using LLMs? Let them generate a text for you which you can fact check meticulously over the next three weeks, because the AI companies don’t think they’re responsible for their work. 🤣😭
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happy 11th anniversary to this email sent to all staff at the School of Mathematics and Statistics
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 AM
happy 11th anniversary to this email sent to all staff at the School of Mathematics and Statistics
I love that #petiteknit is getting people to knit, I‘d love it even more if our new friends would be courageous and widen their skills. #tincanknits has great tutorials and patterns, or try this little cap: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... trust me, you can do it 🥰
Cap for Learning Stranded Knitting pattern by Cynthia Atley Peterson
Norwegain earlap cap with optional ear laps.
www.ravelry.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I love that #petiteknit is getting people to knit, I‘d love it even more if our new friends would be courageous and widen their skills. #tincanknits has great tutorials and patterns, or try this little cap: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib... trust me, you can do it 🥰
FAIR data management: I have talked extensively to researchers about file naming conventions and its benefits, and I understand it is not in any way an exciting topic. But until I no longer receive files CallY_draftX I will keep talking. This is a unique file name on *your* computer, not on mine.
a picture of a cartoon character with the words " ha ha " on it
Alt: a GIF of the depressed cartoon character Bernd the bread with the words "Haha We are Bernd, resistance is useless"
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October 24, 2025 at 7:37 AM
FAIR data management: I have talked extensively to researchers about file naming conventions and its benefits, and I understand it is not in any way an exciting topic. But until I no longer receive files CallY_draftX I will keep talking. This is a unique file name on *your* computer, not on mine.
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Today's email to an associate editor, declining to review for a big corporate publisher. This one focuses on Nature Publishing Group's practice of funneling rejected manuscripts to their newer journals with hefty APCs.
![Dear Dr. [redacted],
It was nice to meet you at the [redacted]!
Thanks for thinking of me as a possible reviewer, as I am interested in the topic. However, I decline to review this manuscript - I often do this in the case of journals published by profiteering corporate publishers. For Nature Communications, Nature Publishing Group charges an outrageous US$6990 to authors that has little to do with higher-quality service or journal processes and lots to do with a legacy first-mover advantage that it uses to exploit academia. This is rentier capitalism.
NPG funnels papers they reject from their most prestigious outlets to their newer subsidiary journals such as Nature Communications and Nature Communications Psychology, which academics go along with because they don’t (directly) foot the bill, and because, given the pressure academics are under to publish rapidly, they wish to take advantage of the reviews they may have already received from the higher-tier Nature journal. Because we are now live in a world where most studies can eventually be published somewhere, NPG has been able to exploit this by creating their own lower-tier journals and charging high-aspiration authors for the convenience.
This practice conflicts with my interest in universities and funders not wasting their money, which is why I do not wish to support it by contributing to the hundreds of millions of dollars of labor that academics donate to corporate publishers. Instead, I preferentially review, and volunteer as an editor for, diamond open access journals that are free to read and publish in.
For various reasons, including combating this strategy by which corporate publishers are extending the era in which they profiteer from university funds, many academics and funders now advocate for the Publish->Review->Curate model, in which academics publish their work immediately (on preprint servers, which prevents gatekeeping by editors), and then get it peer reviewed, preferably through low-cost…](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kynaetyuzsp46xejc6mzpjle/bafkreiaoe55bbl7zqu7nkhem6uy74kmqxc5pkassyn5ofayrfwxy7my3ia@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Today's email to an associate editor, declining to review for a big corporate publisher. This one focuses on Nature Publishing Group's practice of funneling rejected manuscripts to their newer journals with hefty APCs.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
Fits well with positioning themselves as research-only in the beginning: they used data that otherwise wouldn't have been available. Who would have known they would move to for-profit? Now, they use copyrighted content until the the lawsuits are over, by then, their models are well-trained.
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Fits well with positioning themselves as research-only in the beginning: they used data that otherwise wouldn't have been available. Who would have known they would move to for-profit? Now, they use copyrighted content until the the lawsuits are over, by then, their models are well-trained.
So it appears we moved from “this could have been an email” to LLM-generated essay-length emails where the receiver spends double the time saved by the sender to identify the relevant information. Can we go back to phone calls please?
September 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So it appears we moved from “this could have been an email” to LLM-generated essay-length emails where the receiver spends double the time saved by the sender to identify the relevant information. Can we go back to phone calls please?
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Kimmel was a great first step, now let's talk about Karen Attiah
Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
September 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Kimmel was a great first step, now let's talk about Karen Attiah
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Découvrez ce nouvel épisode sur le langage dans le spectre autistique, écrit par Marine Petit du centre ACTE (Autisme en Contexte - Théorie et Expérience) de l'Université libre de Bruxelles.
Un super épisode à écouter par ici! ⤵️ 🎧
milgram.ulb.be/100g/episode...
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Un super épisode à écouter par ici! ⤵️ 🎧
milgram.ulb.be/100g/episode...
📸 Freepik
September 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Découvrez ce nouvel épisode sur le langage dans le spectre autistique, écrit par Marine Petit du centre ACTE (Autisme en Contexte - Théorie et Expérience) de l'Université libre de Bruxelles.
Un super épisode à écouter par ici! ⤵️ 🎧
milgram.ulb.be/100g/episode...
📸 Freepik
Un super épisode à écouter par ici! ⤵️ 🎧
milgram.ulb.be/100g/episode...
📸 Freepik
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Choosing Leuven over #Molenbeek for cultural capital 2030 was the safe option.
Solid, reliable, traditional, unexciting.
Our neighbours across the canal would really have deserved the recognition and a gesture of confidence.
Solid, reliable, traditional, unexciting.
Our neighbours across the canal would really have deserved the recognition and a gesture of confidence.
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Choosing Leuven over #Molenbeek for cultural capital 2030 was the safe option.
Solid, reliable, traditional, unexciting.
Our neighbours across the canal would really have deserved the recognition and a gesture of confidence.
Solid, reliable, traditional, unexciting.
Our neighbours across the canal would really have deserved the recognition and a gesture of confidence.
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::slowly stands while clapping::
September 10, 2025 at 11:07 PM
::slowly stands while clapping::
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2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies.
(Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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(Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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![3.2 We do not have to ‘embrace the future’ & we can turn back the tide
It must be the sheer magnitude of [artificial neural networks’] incompetence that makes
them so popular.
Jerry A. Fodor (2000, p. 47)
Related to the rejection of expertise is the rejection of imagining a better future and the rejection
of self-determination free from industry forces (Hajer and Oomen 2025; Stengers 2018; van Rossum
2025). Not only AI enthusiasts, but even some scholars whose expertise concentrates on identifying
and critically interrogating ideologies and sociotechnical relationships — such as historians and gender scholars — unfortunately fall prey to the teleological belief that AI is an unstoppable force. They
embrace it because alternative responses seem too difficult, incompatible with industry developments,
or non-existent. Instead of falling for this, we should “refuse [AI] adoption in schools and colleges,
and reject the narrative of its inevitability.” (Reynoldson et al. 2025, n.p., also Benjamin 2016; Campolo and Crawford 2020; CDH Team and Ruddick 2025; Garcia et al. 2022; Kelly et al. 2025; Lysen
and Wyatt 2024; Sano-Franchini et al. 2024; Stengers 2018). Such rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting
that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly. Organised workers died for the eight-hour
workday, the weekend and other workers’ rights, and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons from
fridges to mitigate ozone depletion in the atmosphere. And we know that even the tide itself famously
turns back. People can undo things; and we will (cf. Albanese 2025; Boztas 2025; Kohnstamm Instituut 2025; van Laarhoven and van Vugt 2025). Besides, there will be no future to embrace if we deskill
our students and selves, and allow the technology industry’s immense contributions to climate crisis](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreidzio5vcvzus3xjqxcpav64pwk2gwslwslogabl7b5dzhn6egf37i@jpeg)
September 6, 2025 at 8:24 AM
2. the strange but often repeated cultish mantra that we need to "embrace the future" — this is so bizarre given, e.g. how destructive industry forces have proven to be in science, from petroleum to tobacco to pharmaceutical companies.
(Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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(Section 3.2 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...)
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if you, too, wonder sometimes whether it is still worth fighting for a better world, the answer is yes:
As we see ANOTHER huge drop in the cost of curing tuberculosis, I am reminded that 1. drugs are not expensive because they're made of platinum or something, and 2. the fruits of activism are often harvested over many years. Thanks to all the folks who made this happen. www.stoptb.org/news/breakin...
Breaking News: Historical Drop of DR-TB Treatment Cost Below $300 After Third Major Cut in 2025 by Stop TB’s Global Drug Facility | Stop TB Partnership
www.stoptb.org
September 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
if you, too, wonder sometimes whether it is still worth fighting for a better world, the answer is yes:
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Euroculinary help needed! 🇪🇺🍽️
For an event we're organising, our university restaurant offered to cook dishes typical for the cities of our European partner universities. For all students and staff during a whole week - if we provide ideas.
Any suggestions for dishes from the following ten places? ⬇️
For an event we're organising, our university restaurant offered to cook dishes typical for the cities of our European partner universities. For all students and staff during a whole week - if we provide ideas.
Any suggestions for dishes from the following ten places? ⬇️
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Euroculinary help needed! 🇪🇺🍽️
For an event we're organising, our university restaurant offered to cook dishes typical for the cities of our European partner universities. For all students and staff during a whole week - if we provide ideas.
Any suggestions for dishes from the following ten places? ⬇️
For an event we're organising, our university restaurant offered to cook dishes typical for the cities of our European partner universities. For all students and staff during a whole week - if we provide ideas.
Any suggestions for dishes from the following ten places? ⬇️
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Les discours métalinguistiques antilibéraux portent leurs fruits : aucun règlement n'exclut l'utilisation de formes inclusives dans les universités belges, encore moins pour un texte français rédigé dans une université flamande.
Et pourtant on présume l'existence d'une interdiction formelle.
Et pourtant on présume l'existence d'une interdiction formelle.
August 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Les discours métalinguistiques antilibéraux portent leurs fruits : aucun règlement n'exclut l'utilisation de formes inclusives dans les universités belges, encore moins pour un texte français rédigé dans une université flamande.
Et pourtant on présume l'existence d'une interdiction formelle.
Et pourtant on présume l'existence d'une interdiction formelle.
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I think they’re here to stay, but it’s worth remembering (and this will become increasingly apparent in the years to come) that, despite some clear benefits, LLMs/large AI models are a net negative for society and it’s not even close.
July 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I think they’re here to stay, but it’s worth remembering (and this will become increasingly apparent in the years to come) that, despite some clear benefits, LLMs/large AI models are a net negative for society and it’s not even close.
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Was #Merz und #Reiche vortragen sind geziehlte und seid Jahren eingesetzte, leider erfolgreiche, Strategien: Discourses of Climate delay. Fast alle Figuren komplett nur mit einer Rede! #Merz How to debunk 👉
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
July 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Was #Merz und #Reiche vortragen sind geziehlte und seid Jahren eingesetzte, leider erfolgreiche, Strategien: Discourses of Climate delay. Fast alle Figuren komplett nur mit einer Rede! #Merz How to debunk 👉
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Tfw du eine sms deines Kindes bekommst mit dem Inhalt "nichts ist ok!" und nach 10m Panik verstehst dass es heißen sollte "nichts, ist ok!"
a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a building
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a building
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July 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Tfw du eine sms deines Kindes bekommst mit dem Inhalt "nichts ist ok!" und nach 10m Panik verstehst dass es heißen sollte "nichts, ist ok!"
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The "common problem" is a shared disregard for the rights of migrants, refugees, and European citizens.
Several governments agreeing to break European law doesn't change the law. It just multiplies the number of infringements.
Several governments agreeing to break European law doesn't change the law. It just multiplies the number of infringements.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Germany is in talks with Poland about establishing "joint controls in border areas" because "we have a common problem that we want to solve together".
He also denied claims that Germany sends its own asylum seekers to Poland.
He also denied claims that Germany sends its own asylum seekers to Poland.
Kanclerz Niemiec o decyzji polskiego rządu
- Mamy wspólny problem, który chcemy wspólnie rozwiązać - powiedział we wtorek kanclerz Niemiec, pytany o wprowadzenie przez Polskę tymczasowych kontroli na granicy polsko-niemieckiej. Friedrich Merz ...
tvn24.pl
July 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The "common problem" is a shared disregard for the rights of migrants, refugees, and European citizens.
Several governments agreeing to break European law doesn't change the law. It just multiplies the number of infringements.
Several governments agreeing to break European law doesn't change the law. It just multiplies the number of infringements.
Number convention question: one of my kids, since forever, says the higher number first when giving a range. I thought it’s just a matter of repeating consistently in the “right” order, but they’re now closer to college than kindergarten and there’s no change. Is this a known “thing”?
July 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Number convention question: one of my kids, since forever, says the higher number first when giving a range. I thought it’s just a matter of repeating consistently in the “right” order, but they’re now closer to college than kindergarten and there’s no change. Is this a known “thing”?
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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
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June 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort www.politico.com/news/2025/06...