Academic Life and Culture

 

Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge (TGHC) - a transdisciplinary community engagement project to foster Open Science practices with marginalized communities

The Transdisciplinary Global Health Challenge (TGHC) is an educational module, implemented within the Global Health minor programme at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In this module, students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds work together with …

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 …

Research and data lessons from a non-academic job

It’s been one year after leaving academia and starting to work for a charity organisation. For a bit of context, I did my PhD in Psychology, after which I spent four years across two postdocs (one in France, one in England) and I got to the point …

Research Support Games List

The purpose of this document is to provide an aggregated list of games and game-related resources that are relevant to research support services. The term "research support games" is here defined to mean any game- or play-based experience that is …

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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