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Behind the ScenesBy Marcel Hobma
Yesterday, Stefan Gaillard (JOTE, DNUS), Megan Milota (UMCU, DNUS), Robert Dasović and Marcel Hobma organized a workshop on values in science, for the annual Dutch conference on Science Communication.
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OpinionBy Marcel Hobma
Philosophers teach us that science is drenched in values, but what does this mean for science communication? Editor Marcel reflects on what values mean for his earlier work on clinical trials.
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OpinionBy Marcel Hobma
Although the global switch from quantitative to qualitative evaluation measures is certainly necessary, without lowering academic competition they too might become game-able targets.
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OpinionBy Martijn van der Meer
In recent attempts to reform research assesment, metrics have explicitly become “incentives”. Yet, the Dutch debate about this transition focussed on the wrong elements.
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OpinionBy Marcel Hobma
More and more researchers pay processing costs for publishing in Open Access, but these costs disadvantage authors who are female, early in their career or, from low-income countries.
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OpinionBy Marcel Hobma
Science reformers suggest direct replications as a solution to the replication crisis, but they might not be able to deal with the conceptual and measurement issues that underlie the crisis.
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InterviewBy Stefan Gaillard, Laurien Hakvoort & Avi Gilboa
Mistakes are quite common in music therapy, yet rarely discussed. The book Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy and this interview are an attempt to remedy that.
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OpinionBy Sarahanne Field & Sean Devine
We should beware of using Ariely and others as scapegoats. Rather than dwelling on the moral failings of individual researchers, we might reframe fraud and misconduct as a systemic problem.
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InterviewBy Max Bautista Perpinya & Daniel Lakens
So if you ask, ‘who’s responsible?’ The truth is that everybody’s pointing but nobody is doing anything.
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OpinionBy Sean Devine
Psychological science is in a crisis, and has been for quite some time.
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InterviewBy Max Bautista Perpinya & Lea Roumazeilles
We talked with Léa Roumazeilles, PhD candidate in Neurobiology at Oxford University. We spoke with her about her thesis subject: ‘Structure and function of the social brain in primates’.
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Behind the ScenesBy Stefan Gaillard & Max Bautista Perpinya
On February 6, the Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU) organized a symposium on Open Science at the Faculty of Science of Utrecht University.
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