Djoerd Hiemstra @hiemstra@mastodon.utwente.nl

Niels Niessen in de Volkskrant:
"De redenering van veel universiteiten tijdens de eerste lockdown was: het onderwijs en tentamens moeten zo normaal mogelijk doorgang vinden. De redenering had ook kunnen zijn: als universiteit willen we allereerst een sociaal veilige omgeving creëren. Studenten thuis surveilleren hoort daar niet bij."

https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-universiteiten-stop-met-bespieden-eigen-studenten~bb1ceaf9/

Aanrader!

Why Shankar Raman Won’t Review or Write for Elsevier and Other Commercial Scientific Journals

https://science.thewire.in/the-sciences/why-i-wont-review-or-write-for-elsevier-and-other-commercial-scientific-journals/

An NWO PhD grant programme aimed at Dutch master's graduates with a non-western migration background:

https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/announcement-call-proposals-follow-programme-mosaic

Outcome of the polls at yesterday's Open Access and Information Retrieval Panel: 98% of the audience thinks #ECIR2021 should move its proceedings to open access.

Ahmed Awadallah is the recipient of the award and the #ECIR2021 keynote: "Learning with Limited Labels"

Jochen Leidner introduces the winner of the Karen Spärck-Jones award, specifically mentioning Karen's achievements in both IR and NLP, #ECIR2021

We need to discuss open access! Please join the #ECIR2021 Panel on Open Access and Information Retrieval, tomorrow at 9:00 UTC+2.

https://www.ecir2021.eu/open-access-and-ir-panel/

#ECIR2021 social program with a cooking lesson from Lucca!

It is Anti-Racism Awareness Week here at Radboud U.

https://www.ru.nl/english/about-us/our-university/diversity-equity-inclusion/anti-racism-awareness-week-2021/

Geert-Jan Bogaerts en Johan Oomen: Haal de techreuzen uit de machinekamer van onze informatiesamenleving!

https://publicspaces.net/2021/02/28/haal-de-techreuzen-uit-de-machinekamer-van-onze-informatiesamenleving/

Nice helpful error message, Microsoft Teams!

Just started your study program, and feeling lonely? Frisse Gedachtes is a free platform where you can chat anonymously with psychology students or experience experts.

https://en.frissegedachtes.nl

Over 400 professors and employees of Wageningen University are calling on pension fund ABP to stop investing in large Brazilian meat companies, which play a major role in Amazon deforestation.

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/oproep-aan-wageningen-universiteit-om-foute-beleggingen-van-pensioenfonds-abp-aan-te-kaarten~b5117126/

The TREC 2020 proceedings are online:

https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/trec29/trec2020.html

Zelfs als je het niks vindt: Luister tenmiste naar Tweede Kamer van Sophie Straat!

https://sophiestraat.bandcamp.com/track/tweede-kamer-feat-goldband

Highly recommended: The Dutch indy musicians for BIJ1 play list on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1SdUZVeqrlR4CbvHJwxJ5x

Real time bidding? You mean advertisement search using all your personal data as the query!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvug8jdges

Understanding tracking with Cookiedatabase.org

https://cookiedatabase.org/

Is it me, or is Element @matrix still unusable for normal people? The app asks me to verify with only one option: "Overslaan" (English: "Skip")