Academic Life and Culture

 

Open Science education through student participation

We are back with a very special Pedagogies, this time including also the perspectives of students on learning about Open Science (OS)! We have three amazing guests: Prof. Dr. Jordan Wagge and her two outstanding undergraduate students, Jasmine …

Opening up understanding of neurodiversity: A call for applying participatory and open scholarship practices

Recent movements towards a more open, intersectional, and inclusive academia (Birhane & Guest, 2020) focus on the need to address traditional power imbalances detrimentally affecting under-represented individuals (e.g., women: Pownall …

Oxford|Berlin Summer School on Open Research 2021

Welcome to the 4th edition of the Oxford|Berlin summer school on Open Research taking place online on 20 - 23 September 2021! It is a free course for early career researchers (post graduate students (MSc, PhD, and postdocs) who would like to learn …

Point of View: An annotated introductory reading list for neurodiversity

Since its inception, the concept of neurodiversity has been defined in a number of different ways, which can cause confusion among those hoping to educate themselves about the topic. Learning about neurodiversity can also be challenging because there …

Positive Deviance Underlies Successful Science: Normative Methodologies Risk Throwing out the Baby With the Bathwater

Successful science needs deviant ideas that may challenge established norms. The last decade saw an unprecedented science-engineering project, with strict rules on preregistration, statistical testing, result-independent guaranteed publication, …

Research Integrity and Responsible Scholarship

Manual for a mandatory course for PhD candidates enrolled in the Graduate School for Social Sciences and Master students in the Social Sciences for a Digital Society program at VU Amsterdam. The course seeks to contribute to a reflection and …

Shifting the culture of peer review with Reviewer Zero

Reviewer Zero is a collective founded in 2020 to take concrete, data-driven, anti-racist action to improve the culture of scientific peer review. We were formed with guidance from SPARK Society — an organization that improves visibility and provides …

Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes

In recent years, the scientific community has called for improvements in the credibility, robustness and reproducibility of research, characterized by increased interest and promotion of open and transparent research practices. While progress has …

The needed link between open science and science diplomacy—A Latin American perspective

The relevance of science diplomacy and open science in today's world is undeniable. Science diplomacy enables countries to jointly address pressing global challenges, such as climate change, pandemics, and food security. Open science, promoting …

Towards a culture of open scholarship: the role of pedagogical communities

The UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has called for evidence on the roles that different stakeholders play in reproducibility and research integrity. Of central priority are proposals for improving research integrity and quality, …
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