An Intellectual Vocation In his book “The Soul of a University” (2018), Chris Brink describes the story of G.H. Hardy, a Cambridge Mathematician whose principled stance on his academic research was that it had no practical use whatsoever: “No discovery of mine” Hardy proudly wrote, “has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world”

Last March, the  Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) launched its call for members to propose Working Groups and National Chapters.

We are most grateful to the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for its commitment to sustaining the activities and developments of three SCOSS-selected infrastructures (PKP, OpenCitations and ROR) together with the Netherlands Reproducibility Network.

Blogs sind heute ein integraler Bestandteil der digitalen Wissenschaftskommunikation und unterstützen verschiedene Kommunikationsfunktionen in der Wissenschaft. Sie können als Tagebuch im Sinne von Open Science genutzt werden, um aktuelle Ergebnisse aus dem Laboralltag zu dokumentieren und zu kommunizieren.

Felipe Romero presented his work - “The conceptual origins of metascience: Fashion or revolution?” - in The Popper Seminar at the London School of Economics on 30th May 2023. Here, I highlight a few points that he raised and provide some comments along the way. ::: {#youtube2-AKWCCdK-jgc .youtube-wrap attrs=“{"videoId":"AKWCCdK-jgc","startTime":null,"endTime":null}” component-name=“Youtube2ToDOM”} Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.

Abstract I discuss Van Drimmelen’s (2023) Metascience2023 presentation on researchers’ decision making during the research process.

Die EU-Wissenschaftsministerien haben sich auf ihrer heutigen Sitzung in Brüssel unter dem Titel “Council conclusions on high-quality, transparent, open, trustworthy and equitable scholarly publishing” (PDF der englischen Version, PDF der deutschen Version) mit den aktuellen Herausforderungen des wissenschaftlichen Publikationswesens befasst.

Unter dem Titel “Respect for freedom and inclusiveness in scientific research and promotion of open science” haben die Wissenschaftsminister:innen der G7-Staaten das Thema Open Science auf ihrer jüngsten Sitzung in Sendai, Japan, vom 12. bis 14. Mai 2023 behandelt.

Tom Hostler has just published an article titled “The invisible workload of open research” in the Journal of Trial and Error’s special issue on the “Consequences of the scientific reform movement: Is the scientific reform movement headed in the right direction?” It’s an insightful and thought-provoking piece that uncovers the potential workload costs of open research, considers why these costs may be ignored by university management,

In this new article, I consider questionable research practices in the field of metascience. A questionable metascience practice (QMP) is a research practice, assumption, or perspective that’s been questioned by several commentators as being potentially problematic for metascience and/or the science reform movement. I discuss 10 QMPs that relate to criticism, replication, bias, generalization, and the characterization of science.