Open Science Blog

Two UG projects have been awarded with funding from NWO's newly introduced Open Science Fund. We spoke to Dr. Imke Christiaans (UMCG) who is one of the co-applicants of the awarded project Umbrella HEART NL, and asked her to tell us more about how this project will contribute to stimulating the re-use of data to improve cardio genetic patient care.

This month's article in the spotlight presents a study on how acceptance and rejection by parents and peers play an important role in pre-adolescents’ educational outcomes. It was written by various authors from the Sociology department at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences.

Two UG projects have been awarded with funding from NWO's newly introduced Open Science Fund. We asked dr. Martijn van Leusen to tell us more about his awarded project, which seeks to use semantic modeling to create FAIR open data for archaeological field surveys. 

Researchers are increasingly asked to share their research data openly with the world. The UG's Digital Competence Centre facilitates this by managing data repository DataverseNL. Three data stewards from the DCC tell us more about this service.

This months' publication in the spotlight presents an open-source toolkit named Q-Force, which is applicable for atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. All co-authors work at the UG's Faculty of Science and Engineering.

This month's publication is dedicated to an analysis of the phenomenon of belief polarisation, which occurs when the same evidence causes a divergence of opinion between two individuals. It was co-authored by Leah Henderson, who works at the Faculty of Philosophy.

Mistral is a new open access peer-reviewed journal developed from scratch with the University of Groningen Press. Interview with the editor-in-chief Camilla Sutherland.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) employs random selection in grant decisions. Dr. Marco Bieri from the SNSF explains the rationale behind this and reflects on the experiences so far.

The University of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities of the next five years. But what exactly is the status of open science at the different UG Faculties? In this edition: the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences.

The newly established MSc programme in Voice Technology at Campus Fryslân is not only unique because of its cutting-edge and interdisciplinary approach of speech technologies, but also because it integrates open science practices in its curriculum.