The truth about China’s Cash-For-Publication Policy
Geen reactiesMIT Technology Review released an article on their website about the Chinese policy of rewarding publications of Chinese researchers in top Western journals with cash. The cash rew...
Inside Higher Ed starts “Rethinking Re...
Over the last twelve years it has become clear concerns regarding reproducibility of research have risen. Not only the article “Why public research Findings are False” of John Ioannidis but also the lack of reproducibility of studies in the fields of psychology and cancer biology led to a so cal...
Shutting down the ‘Miracle Machine...
On the 11th of July 2017 Daniel Sarewitz, co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes at Arizona State University, released a column in Nature about the “miracle machine”, a fictive machine based on basic science that according to some researchers drives the economy. Despite o...
Societal impact of academic research in the knowledge society
Geen reactiesIn March 2017 the League of European Research Universities (LERU) released a position paper called: ‘Productive interactions: societal impact of academic research in the knowledge society’. In this paper LERU “reflects on the con...
“Vertrouwen moet verdiend worden”
Geen reactiesOp 19 juni 2017 vond er een bijeenkomst plaats op de Koninklijke Industrieele Groote Club in Amsterdam. Verschillende wetenschappers spraken over het vertrouwen in de wetenschap, wetenschappers en wetenschappelijke inzichten. Onder de sprekers was o...
Improving the transparency and reproducibility of research by means of data accessibility
Geen reactiesIn an article published on their website on June 12th, Nature encourages open data sharing and the use of open data platforms. According to Nature there are good reasons for sharing open data. “It speeds research, allowing others to build promptly ...
De grote afstand tussen de idealen en de praktijk van de wetenschap
Geen reactiesBrian Nosek, hoogleraar aan de University of Virginia was dit jaar een van de grote sprekers op de World Conference on Research Integrity in Amsterdam. Als co-founder en directeur van het Centre for Open Science wil hij idealisten de middelen geven o...