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Beyond infrastructure: Unpacking the complexity of exclusion and implications for just mobility transitions

As cities promote cycling as a sustainable mode of transport, this project asks a crucial question: Who is being left behind? Focusing on Amsterdam, the study explores what a just mobility transition looks like by examining the barriers faced by …

Joy in academia: centering racialized voices in Dutch and Belgian universities.

Joy in Academia is a podcast series that highlights how racialized academics in the Netherlands and Belgium cultivate joy within academic institutions often shaped by exclusion. Through conversations across fields like law, psychology, and …

JUST PREPARE ‐ Putting REsident Practices And REsidential areas at the center of a JUST and effective energy transition in underprivileged neighbourhoods

Shaping an effective and just energy transition in underprivileged neighborhoods requires better understanding of both the diversity of household energy practices and how to meaningfully engage residents in renovation planning and implementation. …

Turtle and Hare Workshops: Exchanging software skills from beginner to experienced

Scientific findings often hinge on a single, opaque set of analytical decisions, obscuring how alternative approaches might affect results. The Journal of Robustness Reports (JRR) directly tackles this issue. As a new Diamond Open Access journal, it …

What's New in Neuro

This project is a neuroscience-focused podcast that highlights the diverse and innovative research currently taking place across the Netherlands. By featuring conversations with researchers from various backgrounds and career stages (ranging from …

Game-Based Approaches for Research Skills Training and Researcher Development: A Survey of Attitudes and Acceptance in Higher Education

Research skills training is both crucial and ubiquitous in Higher Education (HE), however there are a range of pedagogical challenges in effectively delivering research capabilities and learning outcomes. The move towards constructivism, including …

FORRT’s Open and Reproducible Science Syllabus

To provide educators with an example of how they can draw resources from FORRT’s educational nexus to integrate open scholarship into their teaching, FORRT has developed an Open and Reproducible Science 101 syllabus.

Symposium "Qualitative Open Science: Challenges, Opportunities, Tensions, and Synergies"

The Qualitative Open Science symposium, organised on the 28th of March 2025 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam featured plenaries and workshops dedicated to a wide range of qualitative OS topics with the aim of facilitating knowledge exchange and …

Team Neurodiversity

This team is responsible for discussing how open scholarship can be used to support the neurodiversity movement and enhance connections between open scholarship and neurodiversity; and how neurodiversity and open scholarship can intersect to make …

COS 10 Year Anniversary: Starting, Scaling and Sustaining Improvements to Research Credibility and Trustworthiness

The session was part of the COS 10 Year Anniversary, which took place in Washington, DC on May 8, 2023.
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