Caspar and Sicco talk academic careers and what motivates you to stay in academics with Alexandra Vennekens from the Rathenau Institute. Is #LeavingAcademia really happening and what do academics actually value in their own work? And does the university think about that the same way?Some background reading: - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-…

ShownotesFirst, thanks to the great Bianca Kramer we now have a transcript! You can find it here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zhpOk-yw8G-xLRCXDNad1zwUaxAe2Wgev77bwPUl5Y8/edit#heading=h.xvuiepf8k4ajFrom the newsynews:- HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership initiative on Open Scholarship): https://www.heliosopen.org/news/22/3/22- Discussion ser…

Sicco and Sanli talk to the new chair of the Utrecht University open science platform about her vision on promoting good scientific practices, collegiality, and the implementation of the university policy on recognition and rewards based on the TRIPLE criteria.mentioned in this episode:- Polution map of Utrecht measured by UU professors on their ou…

This episode we talk 'Team Science' and how to really 'Open Up' your science with Ruth van Veelen and Judith de Haan. Together with colleagues they worked on the Utrecht University Open Science Monitor of 2020. In this episode we mentioned: > Sicco's thread on Royal Academy (KNAW) report on recognition and rewards https://twitter.com/SiccodeKnecht/…

“Who are these Open Science people, anyway?” In this special installment Felix and Sicco interview Susanna Bloem and Martijn van der Meer on their project called ‘Faces of Open Science’. These two young researchers in the field of the history and philosophy of science went out to find oral histories – as it happens – for which they spoke to a myria…

We talk to Jose Urra Llanusa and Santosh Ilamparuthi, founders of the open hardware community at Delft Technical University, on promises and pitfalls of open hardware, and how to scale up good quality devices.Show notes:+ [Guide to preprints](https://zenodo.org/record/5600535)+ [Book launch "Open Science, the Very Idea"](https://www.uu.nl/nieuws/on…

We talk to Michael Bon, founder of the Collective Science Platform (CoScience) on his take on the big sin of academia and how reviving the scientific debate in the digital age make science great again.Show notes:+ Climate Helpdesk: https://www.klimaathelpdesk.org/+ National measures to combat threats against scientists: https://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/ne…

The recognition and reward discussion surged during the summer. Charisma Hehakaya (PhD candidate at the UMC) had co-authored a opinion piece about including early career academics, because the decisions affect them the most. She talks with us about the background of this discussion and why she is active in the Young Science In Transition.Show notes…

Can science be truly open if it doesn't allow for all perspectives? In this episode we talk diversity and inclusion with associate professor at the UMC Utrecht Gönül Dilaver. Also, we touch base on the newsynews and talk education with Gönül. Shownotes: - Interview Paul Boselie on not using the Journal Impact Factor: https://www.nature.com/articles…

"Code often isn't your project, the research question is your project." Research software is a major component of modern science, but not everyone is a specialist in this regard. Barbara Vreede and Lieke de Boer from the Netherlands eScience center talk about the increasing importance of version control and the role of the research software enginee…

How do you replicate history? No, this is not a rhetorical question but an actual ongoing open science project by historians from Utrecht University. Together with a group of students Pim Huijnen and Pieter Huistra are shaping an entirely novel approach to historical research.Also, your shownotes:Innovation is overvalued, hail the maintainers!: htt…

Yet another installment of the Road to Open Science podcast where we tackle the question of how to find a needle in an ever growing haystack: Automated Systematic Reviews (ASReviews). With Rens van de Schoot we discuss what drives him and his team to run this project, and why they opted for the 'open' approach.SHOWNOTESSanli introduces himself as a…

In this episode, Sicco and Sanli review some open-science-related projects and events. They talk to dr. Marieke Adriaanse and prof. Paul Boselie, co-chairs of the “Recognition and Rewards” workgroup at Utrecht University, about their vision document. This document, recently approved by the University board, will set the basis for transformation of …

In this episode, cohosts Sicco and Sanli share their personal takes on the essence of open science and how it benefits the academic community and the society at large taking examples from the hot debates around handling of the Covid19 pandemic by national health agencies. They review the recent announcements and news. They talk to Melanie Imming ab…

In the first University Cooperative workshop on May 14th 2019, at Utrecht University, participants were introduced to the issues, the concepts, and successful examples of governing common resources. They also investigated two cases related to the university and knowledge dissemination. In this podcast some of the participants reflect on the program…

Nearly thirty years ago, Elinor Ostrom published her groundbreaking book Governing the Commons, in which she showed that users of natural and agricultural resources can and do govern such resources themselves. They do not have to rely on hierarchical state or corporate regulation, nor on a pricing mechanism to overcome the collective action problem…

In the May episode of the Road to Open Science newschat, Melanie Imming and Loek Brinkman talk with Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer about some of the latest developments in Open Science in Utrecht and beyond. Topics discussed include recent activities of the Open Science Community, developments within the National Platform Open Science (NPOS), and …

[Bianca Kramer](twitter.com/MsPhelps) and [Jeroen Sondervan](twitter.com/jeroenson) share recent development with open science activities in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the EU. We also discuss a recent report from the Horizon 2020 expert group on Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication provided to the European Commission .…

[Anita Eerland](twitter.com/AnitaEerland) and [Jeroen Bosman](twitter.com/jeroenbosman) share some hot news about open access publishing. We also discuss the recent growth of the Open Science communities in The Netherlands and formation of the Open Science platform at Utrecht University with an ambitious plan.…

Micah Vandegrift is Open Knowledge Librarian at North Carolina State University, and recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to study the state of Open Science in two European Countries, Denmark and The Netherlands. He tells us about his observations in Europe and his vision on the future position of libraries in the "discovery" decade of open science.…

[Bianca Kramer](https://twitter.com/MsPhelps) and [Barbara Vreede](https://twitter.com/barbaravreede) tell us some good news and we review the newly released information about the execution of planS and the discussions around it.By Open Science Community Utrecht

Jeroen Sondervan reports from the KNAW- organized meeting on Plan S and publishing open access booksBy Open Science Community Utrecht

We hear from Marleen Stikker and Bianca Kramer on governing scholarly work like creative commons.Marleen Stikker is founder of Waag. She is also founder of De Digitale Stad (The Digital City) in 1993, the first virtual community introducing free public access to the Internet. She leads Waag, a social enterprise that consists of a research institute…

Barbara Vreede and Jeroen Bosman talk about Plan S and the Force2018 conference in MontrealBy Open Science Community Utrecht

In episode 5 of the Road to Open Science podcast we talk to Cameron Neylon.David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. From 2012 - 2015 he was the Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.Cameron is one of the four authors of Th…

Rosanne Hertzberger is a microbiologist, writer and columnist. She obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam and worked at the Washington University in St. Louis at the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research. She is now a visiting researcher connected to the VU University in Amsterdam. Within the context of open kitchen science, she s…

Egon Willighagen is assistant professor at Maastricht University, in the Department of Bioinformatics. Egon is active in various projects and initiatives connected to open science. For example BridgeDb, a framework for finding and mapping equivalent database identifiers, WikiPathways, a database of biological pathways, The Chemistry Development Kit…

Francien Peterse is assistant professor of organic geochemistry and a climate scientist. Despite the large body of evidence for the climate disaster we face, in the not-so-distant future, and the confirmation that this is caused by human activities, she sees insufficient efforts are made to save the planet. We talked about the role of scientists in…

We spoke with Rosanne Hertzberger and Egon Willighagen. Rosanne Hertzberger is a microbiologist, writer and columnist. After receiving her PhD at the University of Amsterdam and postdoctoral appointment in United States, she continued her research as an independent open scientist next to her professional writing activities. She is now a visiting re…

Jean-Sébastien Caux is a professor in theoretical condensed matter physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITFA), part of the Institute of Physics within the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. He is also a ricipient of the ERC-advanced grant for his research. You can read more on his blog and follow his Twitter @jscaux. He…

Christopher Jackson is a professor of basin analysis at the Imperial College in London and a member of the advisory board of EarthArxiv. He shared his views about open access publishing and the use of preprints for more effective dissemination of knowledge.By Open Science Community Utrecht

We had conversations with Christopher Jackson and Jean-Sébastien Caux, two researchers who have started open access publishing platforms. They both told us that academics should be more in charge of the publishing system than they currently are, because publishing is too important for academia to be left at the discretion of the commercial players.…

We talked to Daniel Lakens, assistant professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at Eindhoven University of Technology, and author of the blog 'The 20% Statistician'. In 2017, he recieved the Leamer-Rosenthal prize for Open Social Science as a Leader in Education. He believes science should be a much more collaborative enterprise A shorter version o…

We talked to Kirstie Whitaker. She is a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (London) and senior research associate at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Mozilla Open Science Fellow. The Mozilla Science Lab is a community of researchers, developers, and librarians making research open and accessible. …

The Road to Open Science podcast series follows the path to open science through the perspective of researchers. In the second episodeswe had conversations with Kirstie Whitaker, Daniel Lakens, Anita Eerland and Loek Brinkman. We asked our guests, what motivates them personally to advocate for adapting open science practices and what is the most im…

We talked to an expert of digital innovation: Sascha Friesike, assistant professor of Digital Innovation at VU Amsterdam and associated researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin. Sascha is one of the editors and writers of the book Opening Science, on the significant impact of internet on research, collab…

Frank Miedema, is a professor of Immunology and dean and vice chairman of the board at the University Medical Center in Utrecht. We talked to him for the first episode of R2OS, "A Social Dilemma".In this interview Miedema states ‘The purpose of the individual is not in sync anymore with the purpose of the system.’ In his opinion, the management of …

Episode 1: A social dilemmaThe Road to Open Science podcast series follows the path to open science through the perspective of researchers. What is open science and what can it do for research? In this first episode, ‘A social dilemma’, we try to answer the first part of this question and will also look into the current contradiction between the go…

Four young researchers from four faculties talk frankly about their unhealthy work habits. They wish to promote a sincere and rational discussion on how to create a healthier working environment at the university.By Open Science Community Utrecht

Wim Otto looks differently at the “cure” or career dichotomy. He does so by putting meaning above science, elevating the discussion level so high that talking about the “academic career” will sound naive. Looking from his perspective, the “cure” or career question becomes almost irrelevant. He is a successful neuroscientist with a long publication …

With the current political climate persisting and war and climate refugees reaching record high numbers, a fundamental discussion on the rights of immigrants and natives is hard to avoid. This area of sociology is a main topic of research for Borja Martinovic, associate professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science/Ercomer at Utre…

Ron Dotsch is a psychologist that has studied human perception of others' faces for more than a decade. For his research he heavily uses technologies such as virtual reality and computer-generated modelling. He tells me how we adjust our interaction with people based on less than a second of looking at their faces. When meeting strangers, we tend t…

In a pleasantly sunny summer day, I sat with Lars in Sterrenburg in the center of Utrechtand we talked about job autonomy, his research on policy alienation, and his vision on open science.By Open Science Community Utrecht

How did she become a law professor? What can academics learn from judges in dealing with perils of the new public management? And how can slowness of law be one of its strengths? Hear the answers to these questions in my dialog with Professor Elaine Mak.By Open Science Community Utrecht

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