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Frank Miedema
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Emeritus Utrecht University, UMCUtrecht. https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/FMiedema
OA Books: Open Science: The Very Idea, Springer, 2022
Ciencia Abierta, Una Buena Idea, 2024, AmeliCA
The University in Transition, 2024
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research
A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Update. As recently as January 2, 2025, #nasa had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
January 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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💥New: Case studies are vital to monitoring the development of open science

✍️Louise Bezuidenhout, Paola Castaño, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @ismaelrafols.bsky.social & Andrea Vargiu

#AcademicSky #OpenScience
Case studies are vital to monitoring the development of open science
As a recent consultation on how to monitor open science practices draws to a close, Louise Bezuidenhout, Paola Castaño, Sabina Leonelli, Ismael Rafols and Andrea Vargiu argue that if monitoring fra…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 27, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Next to Open Science, and in fact highly synergistic with it, there is the European Universities Initiative. A collection of university alliances to improve education and research across the EU!
Utrecht University is a proud partner of the CHARM-EU alliance. charm-eu.eu

charm-eu.eu
Home - CHARM-EU
charm-eu.eu
November 24, 2024 at 9:00 PM
What’s going on in The Netherlands Open Science program? Check here: www.openscience.nl/en
Landing page | Open Science NL
www.openscience.nl
November 24, 2024 at 8:38 PM
CoARA, The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment that started 2 years ago has now 700 members world wide, with a many activities: coara.eu/news/coara-r...
CoARA Reaches 700 Member Milestone - CoARA
CoARA Membership Now Reaches 700 Members, Signifying a Key Milestone in the Initiative’s Development Nearing the 2nd anniversary of CoARA, membership recently hit 700 members worldwide, […]
coara.eu
November 24, 2024 at 8:33 PM
My book ‘Open Science: The Very Idea, Springer 2022, is open access available, but the paperback is now available with a major discour for 16,28 euro only.
November 24, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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See also Ian Boyd's article this week: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
November 22, 2024 at 12:26 PM
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“government needs to incorporate not just scientific knowledge, but scientific thinking. Instead of being a post-political service for government […] science needs to become a way of thinking about problem-solving within the political calculus.” 1/2
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
Politics makes science an instrument of injustice - Research Professional News
The way that governments think corrupts scientists and their work. Ian Boyd offers an alternative
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer...

I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...

Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻
AIMOS 2024 conference
AIMOS conference 2024
agbarnett.github.io
November 19, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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Columnist @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social vraagt zich af wat Karel de Grote, de ‘Vader van Europa’, ervan had gevonden dat Europese ministers een voor een de talen en kunsten uit het vakkenpakket halen. ‘Hoe houd je een cultuur bijeen als je daar de bijl in zet?’
Barbaren hakken weer in op de universiteit
Beatrice de Graaf vraagt zich af wat Karel de Grote ervan had gevonden dat zijn opvolgers een voor een de talen uit het vakkenpakket halen.
buff.ly
November 22, 2024 at 4:18 PM