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Open access journal publication in health and medical research and open science: Benefits, challenges and limitations

Scientific progress, including in evidence-based medicine, requires all available evidence to be accessed, scrutinised, interpreted and used. Missing or incomplete evidence creates biases and errors in later research. Open science practices are …

Open science takes on the coronavirus pandemic

Data sharing, open-source designs for medical equipment, and hobbyists are all being harnessed to combat COVID-19.

Preliminary analysis of COVID-19 academic information patterns: a call for open science in the times of closed borders

The Pandemic of COVID-19, an infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 motivated the scientific community to work together in order to gather, organize, process and distribute data on the novel biomedical hazard. Here, we analyzed how the scientific …

Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses

For almost half a century, Paul Meehl educated psychologists about how the mindless use of null-hypothesis significance tests made research on theories in the social sciences basically uninterpretable. In response to the replication crisis, reforms …

IIT vs. GNWT and the meaning of evidence in consciousness science

This post follows one I wrote earlier in the summer, after ASSC. Since then I have been trying (in a first-person therapy sort of way) to figure out what made me so worried after the IIT vs. GNWT showdown, and the media coverage that followed it. In …

(divorcing) WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE

This website is a long-time dream finally bearing fruit, a needed remix of the widely circulated article WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE originally written and published in 1999.

Positionality Statements are just the tip of the Iceberg: Moving toward a Reflexive Process

In July 2020, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering (JWM) started requiring a positionality statement in each paper published. To the best of our knowledge, requiring a positionality statement at JWM is a first for a journal in …

From private incentives to public health need: rethinking research and development for pandemic preparedness

Pandemic preparedness and response have relied primarily on market dynamics to drive development and availability of new health products. Building on calls for transformation, we propose a new value proposition that instead prioritises equity from …

Open Science Training in TRIPLE

This case study focuses on the online training activities on Open Science delivered within the H2020 project Transforming Research through Innovative Practices for Linked Interdisciplinary Exploration (TRIPLE, Grant Agreement 863420). The project is …

Introduction to Open Science principles and practices (in Health Economics)

This series of lecture slides were used during the "Advanced Simulation for Health Economic Analysis" course at the University of Twente, which took place in February - May 2023. The following Open Science topics were introduced to the course …
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