For five years through 2018, our humanist community, the Humanist Hub*, met every Sunday afternoon at our suite in Harvard Square for fellowship, music, and a speaker. Our advisory board included luminaries of humanism such as Rebecca Goldstein, Steven Pinker, and Dan Dennett. These friends of the organization regularly spoke at Humanist Hub events.

I want to recommit to writing, to recommit to actively and publicly think about what is happening. I want to recommit to the idea that thoughts are dynamic and never settled — that thinking in public helps move away from sharing only finalized arguments. Thoughts are produced and reproduced through the conversations we have, be it directly on the phone or indirectly through writing and reading.

Introduction On August 21, 2022, we made available the first version of our dataset of scholars on Twitter created with two open data sources: Crossref Event Data and OpenAlex.

If you are a leader of a Library or a Research Institution and would like to learn more about the existing open infrastructures that could help your institution to evolve in the research environment, but you don’t know where to look for, you can now use Infra Finder, a brand-new tool aimed at foster discovery, adoption, and investment for open infrastructure services.

The Barcelona Declaration: a call for openness… but also for diversity and inclusion The launch of the Barcelona Declaration last week aims to mobilise the global research community towards making research information open and accessible.

An often overlooked source of the “replication crisis” is the tendency to treat the replication study as a definitive verdict while ignoring the statistical uncertainty inherent in both the original and replication studies. This simplistic view fosters misleading dichotomies and erodes public trust in science.

Research Information can be defined as an information (sometimes referred to as metadata) relating to the conduct and communication of research.

Open Educational Resources werden von verschiedenen Akteuren im Web veröffentlicht. Um diese Ressourcen bündeln, durchsuchen und plattformübergreifend nutzen zu können, braucht es Absprachen und technische Modelle zur Austauschbarkeit von Metadaten. Das Kompetenzzentrum Interoperable Metadaten (KIM) hat sich als praxisorientiertes Forum zur Kommunikation über geteilte OER-Metadatenpraktiken etabliert.

Open Science at CWTS in retrospect Leiden University sees Open Science (OS) as a key element on the path towards making greater scientific and societal impact and fostering research quality and integrity.

Die Gates Foundation hat angekündigt, ab 2025 keine APCs mehr für Gold OA zu bezahlen. Es reicht ihr, wenn Forschende stattdessen nur einen Preprint mit einer CC-BY-Lizenz veröffentlichen. Geförderte Forschende können ihre Publikationen allerdings immer noch in einem Peer-Review-Journal (auch hinter einer Paywall) veröffentlichen.