Martijn is a historian of science and medicine and works as a lecturer and researcher at Erasmus Medical Centre and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a policy advisor on responsible research at Tilburg University. In 2018, he co-founded the Center of Trial and Error and currently chairs the board.
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 Stefan Gaillard & Martijn van der Meer
Vorige week presenteerde minister Van Engelshoven haar langverwachte ‘Strategische Agenda voor het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek’.
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Behind the ScenesBy Martijn van der Meer & Max Bautista Perpinya
As fall hits, we now look back and reflect about the beginning of summer.
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Behind the ScenesBy Martijn van der Meer
On the 16th of June, project leader Martijn van der Meer gave a lecture at the Descartes Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Humanities at Utrecht University.
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Behind the ScenesBy Martijn van der Meer
An Open Science talk by Dr. Katja Mayer, who investigates practices of Open Science in computational Open Science and big data...
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Behind the ScenesBy Martijn van der Meer
After a course in philosophy of science and a historiographical course on the history of the natural sciences, we had gotten a taste of what the rest of the program could be...
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Expert endorsement seems a promising tool in countering vaccine hesitancy. Yet findings from an experiment in the United Kingdom, published in this journal, found that repeated expert‐backed “debunking” messages had little effect on vaccination intentions or behaviors. At the same time, a similar…
Sean Devine, Max Bautista Perpinyà, Valentine Delrue, Stefan Gaillard, Thomas F. K. Jorna, Martijn van der Meer, Lottricia Millett, Chelsea Pozzebon & Jobke Visser
With the publication of our first issue, we are pleased to formally introduce the Journal of Trial and Error (JOTE). Our goal in this editorial article is to (i) outline the problem JOTE aims to solve, (ii) detail our solution, and (iii) state our goals as a journal. As readers will see, we…
