Open Science Blog

This month we highlight an article by Leonieke Bolderman (Faculty of Spatial Sciences). She analyzes how murals can become symbols of both heritage and divisive gentrification in the context of the contemporary media city.

This month's article in the spotlight examines how women scientists were portrayed in films in the context of fourth-wave feminism. It was written by various authors from the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

This month, Maeve McKeown reflects on her experiences with open access publishing and open science in general, the Recognition & Rewards programme, and how the neoliberal university impacted her as a researcher.

This month we put the spotlight on an edited volume which is dedicated to the topic of costumary international law (CIL). We interviewed co-editor Panos Merkouris, who works at the Faculty of Law.

This month’s publication is dedicated to a study of airborne flocks of homing pigeons attacked by a robotic falcon. It was written by various co-authors from the UG’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, and the universities of Exeter and London.

This month's article presents an analysis of the Buddha Mummy Statue case by UG author Zhen Chen, in which Chinese village committees sued a Dutch collector for the return of a stolen golden statue that contains a mummified Buddha. This brought up the question: is a mummy a person or a property, or in fact neither? 

This month's publication is dedicated to the phenomenon of speech prosody, which is the variation in how we use our voices when we speak. Special about this article is that it was published in Frontiers for Young Minds, which is a journal tailored to a young audience. 

The authors of this month's article in the spotlight argue that soil degradation should be considered the 10th Earth system process in the so-called planetary boundaries framework. It was written by Clarisse Kraamwinkel, Anne Beaulieu (both from Campus Fryslân), Teresa Dias (Universidade de Lisboa) and Ruth Howison (Faculty of Science and Engineering).

This month's publication addresses the intensification of state control over the digital domain in Russia, and what types of online activism are tolerated or even endorsed and why. It was written by Rashid Gabdulhakov, who works at the Faculty of Arts. 

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.