Geert-Jan van Bussel
Archival and Information scientist
Auditor
Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and the University of Amsterdam
Phd in Archival and Information Science
Masters in medieval history, informatics and administration.
- New review: R. Jisong Park (2024). Slow Burn. The Everyday consequences of Climate Change, Princeton University Press The cumulative and invisible erosion of human capabilities and economic productivity caused by a changing environment." 🧪 #AcademicSky www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- As reminder: I published a book review: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp See: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Dutch: vbds.nl/wp-content/u... Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
- I published a new book review: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp. See: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Dutch version: vbds.nl/wp-content/u... Original: vbds.nl/2025/11/01/m... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Histbookchat #booksky
- I published a new book review regarding: J.B. Fressoz (2024). More and More and More. An All-Consuming History of Energy, Penguin Random House, 400 pp. See: www.researchgate.net/publication/... For a Dutch version of this review see: vbds.nl/wp-content/u....
- Scientific fraud and research misconduct are not only the result of personal ambition but also of endemic and systemic causes: See my review of @charlespiller.bsky.social “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s.” www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- I published a review of: C. Piller (2025). Doctored. Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s, Atria, One Signal Publish-ers, New York, Amsterdam, London, 352 pp. www.researchgate.net/publication/... Originally published at: vbds.nl/2025/09/15/a... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Academics
- Interesting paper in: "Making AI Less 'Thirsty. Uncovering and addressing the secret water footprint of AI models", by Pengfei Li, and colleagues, in Communications of the ACM. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Confirmation of my: "Tthe ecological footprint of AI: vbds.nl/2024/07/30/v... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- The 1,000-year-old Pannonhalma Archabbey, one of Hungary’s oldest centres of learning and a World Heritage site, is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation. Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/14/e... #AcademicSky 🧪
- I published a Book Review of: S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263 p. www.researchgate.net/publication/... Originally published at: vbds.nl/2025/07/02/a... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Academics #AI #Ethics
- I made small changes in the text. I have published a book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- I have published a book review of: M. Pepi (2025). Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia, Melville House, Brooklyn-London, 224 p. www.researchgate.net/publication/... Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/23/i... #AcademicSky #Academics 🧪
- I made a mistake with my earlier post. I have published a book review of: C. Rosen (2024). The Extinction of Experience. Being Human in a Disembodied World, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 272 p. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/03/t... www.researchgate.net/publication/... #AcademicSky #BookReviews 🧪
- Oh, I agree. I don't think only living in a virtual space is possible and something learned there needs to be practiced and relearned in the physical world. But contrary to Rosen, I do not believe it is impossible to experience something in virtual reality.
- Form frustration to exhilaration, for instance. It is a transformation or a passage, so the rush of that passage can be just the same as in the physical world. It is just anorther, different experience. Rosen denies that an experience is possible in the virtual world. But we live in a hybrid world.
- I have published a book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/05/03/t... www.researchgate.net/publication/... #AcademicSky #BookReviews 🧪
- I have published a book review of: N. Carr (2025). Superbloom. How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, W. W. Norton & Company, 272 pages. Originally: vbds.nl/2025/04/03/t.... www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #AcademicSky #BookReviews
- I have published a book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York, an obligatory read and highly recommended, about the 'fascist' upheaval in the USA in context. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2025/03/20/b...
- I have published a book review of: J. Stanley (2024). Erasing History, Atria/One Signal Publishers, New York, an obligatory read and highly recommended, about the 'fascist' upheaval in the USA in context. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2025/03/20/b...
- Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar analysed 8 AI models. Collectively, they provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries. The level of inaccuracy varied, with Perplexity answering 37% incorrectly, while Grok 3 had an error rate, of 94%. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
- I have published a book review of Carl Ohman's, The Afterlife of Data, a concise and highly recommended book about the problematic use of peronal data after our demise, when privacy doesn't exist. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/.... Originally: vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- I have just published a book review of D. Davies (2024). The Unaccountability Machine. Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions — and How the World Lost Its Mind, Profile Books, 304 pp. Published on: www.researchgate.net/publication/... and on my own website: vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- There is no AI Revolution. 🧪 #AcademicSky www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu...
- Microsoft is looking to split with OpenAI. It is developing its own models, and OpenAI has been unwilling to share details, as was agreed. Copilot, based on ChatGPT, has thus far received poor reception due to high cost and limited results. See: gizmodo.com/microsofts-r... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- Alex Reisner in The Atlantic states that AI models are trained on questions of the benchmarks they are tested on, which taints the legitimacy of scores. He refers to studies and experiments published over the last two years showing they are cheating. www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- Telling the truth is difficult for AI-models. A paper from OpenAI demonstrates hallucinating between 53% and 81% when answering. See: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.04368 For a critical review of this article, see: futurism.com/openai-admit... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- If you want to know what de three paradoxes of information access and accessibility are and gain an understanding why digital preservation is of the utmost importance, see pp. 7-24 of mt The Accessibility Conundrum. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Access #Accessibility
- I have just published a book review of Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation. I recommend reading the book, but with a critical eye. See (extended): vbds.nl/2025/03/03/o... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Academics
- "Who is an AI Ethicist? An empirical study of expertise, skills, and profiles to build a competency framework" New paper published in AI and Ethics, by @floridi.bsky.social and others. Free version: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🧪 #AcademicSky #AI #Ethics #Archivists
- If you want to gain and use an elaborate checklist for evaluating your institution's information access and accessibility, based on its five requirements, see pp. 180-186 of my: The Accessibility Conundrum. www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #AcademicSky #Archives #Archivists #RecordsManagement
- Stephen Pyne (theconversation.com/profiles/ste...): Humanity’s fire practices are so vast that it is creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Fires in living landscapes and fires in lithic landscapes are crossing, often with lethal consequences theconversation.com/human-use-of... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- The consideration of #climate effects in relation to energy sources is not a recent phenomenon, as evidenced by the accompanying journal article (discovered by @beeasmarine.bsky.social). Instead of a few centuries, we are seeing rising temperatures within a century. 🧪 #AcademicSky
- To understand how AI is contributing to climate change, look at the way it’s being used. The (negative as well as positive) impact of AI is going to be from the applications they’re built for, not necessarily the cost of training. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ais-...
- If you are interested in #organizationalgovernance and #accountability, maybe my 2021 #book is interesting for you: An Accountability Puzzle. Organizations, Organizational Governance and Accountability. It is available free of charge. Download: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧪 #AcademicSky
- I have just published a book review of Dan Davies, The Unacountability Machine, a highly recommended book about the way organizations use 'accountability sinks' to prevent individual accountability. See (extended): vbds.nl/2024/12/31/t... LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/posts/gvanbu.... #AcademicSky 🧪
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- It is a book review that is completely free. The book can be bought bij a bookseller, on- or offline.
- The biggest gamble in economic history? Limitless investment against slowing adoption. A discussion no one is allowed to miss! 🧪 #AcademicSky #SkyEdu www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- AI’s water usage is concerning. Water scarcity is a challenge dealing with a growing population, depleting water resources, and ageing water infrastructures. The concern is also about how AI developers respond to the challenge of water shortage. Thanks to @moisesjafet.com. 🧪 #AcademicSky
- If you want to know why information access and information accessibility are not the same thing (although they're often used interchangeably), read my new book! 🧪 #AcademicSky www.researchgate.net/publication/...
- I have published a review of Carl Ohman's, The Afterlife of Data, a concise and highly recommended book about the problematic use of our data after our demise, when privacy doesn't exist. 🧪 #AcademisSky #Privacy #Data #Preservation www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
- @daniel-solove.bsky.social's blog: 'The Tyranny of Algorithms' discusses problems of predictive algorithms in (health) insurance, social media, credit, sentencing, education, and employment, impressing the need for an Algorithmic Accountability Act. 🧪 #AcademicSky teachprivacy.com/the-tyranny-...
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- You're absolutely correct. The effects of algorithms are widespread. Pricing goods based on personal characteristics is one of the most successful (if morally debatable) applications of algorithms in daily life!
- The SCEaR Newsletter is concentrating on 'Artificial Intelligence and Documentary Heritage', edited by @lduranti.bsky.social and Corinne Rogers. About AI literacy and AI for: Archives (LLMs), metadata enrichment, digitization, and other aspects. Important publication! 🧪 @AcademicSky @Archives
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View full threadI have never made that association. One of the fundamental objectives of archiving is to preserve information over time. For that to be possible, organizations need to take precautions. Starting journals is not something an institution is doing lightly. (1)
- So, if an institution starts wit a (scientific) journal, it needs to take care of its survival over time. It could use an archiving service or could take precautions itself. In practice, journals disappear because archiving them isn't organized. Otherwise, the academic record will be deteriorating.
- I have just finished my new book: The Accessibility Conundrum. The Problematic Phenomenon of Information Access and Accessibility. The central thesis of this book is that having access to information does not guarantee its accessibility. 🧪 #AcademicSky #Archivists #Archives #Access
- AI results in a large increase of data center power demand, and largely effects natural resources. Training GPT required 1.3 GWh of electricity (550,000 kg of CO2), and 700,000 liters of (largely potable) water for cooling. See: www.vbds.nl/2024/07/30/v... and www.goldmansachs.com/insights/art... 🧪
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- Tja, daar zijn onderwijsinstellingen blijkbaar slecht in. Al mijn jubilea bij de HvA zijn ook vergeten. Toch blij dat ik niet de enige ben, maar netjes is het natuurlijk niet. Mijn felicitaties.
- Labelling of content for LLM's to enhance their search capabilities is important work. While the hourly rate exceeds the Kenyan average, the psychological and mental stress involved is considerable. See also: 'Feeding the Machine. The hidden human labor powering AI'. www.amazon.nl/-/en/James-M...
- I have just finished my new (scientific) book: The Accessibility Conundrum. The Problematic Phenomenon of Information Access and Accessibility. The central thesis of this book is that having access to information does not guarantee its accessibility. 🧪 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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- Please add me to this feed. My ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-37.... I am lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and professor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Thank you!
