Open Science Blog

This month’s publication shows that replication studies are important but also difficult and hard work. It was written by a team of researchers and ethnographers, led by Maarten Derksen (Faculty of behavioural and Social Sciences).

October's open access article in the spotlight examines how university researchers develop a hybrid identity that combines academic and entrepreneurial roles, finding that both the perception of a university’s entrepreneurship strategy and its society-industry orientation significantly influence this identity, with the latter moderating the effect of the former.

This month's publication in the spotlight reviews three potential driving interventions to discern their impact on road safety when implemented specifically for drivers with ADHD.

The Network promotes reproducibility and transparency in all scholarly disciplines a.o. through training activities and by sharing best practices and supporting meta-scientific research.

Researchers who join ‘Collective Action in Science Diamond’ promise to publish (at least) one diamond open access article in the coming five years. 

What is the source of commonalities among languages in the world? In this article, Alexander Martin (Faculty of Arts) and co-authors explore this question by making a comparison between word-order preference of speakers of Kîîtharaka and English.

Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world.

This month's article studies whether or not the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has been successful in removing gender differences from their Talent Programme funding scheme. We asked corresponding author Casper Albers (Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences) to tell us more.

We asked co-author Kasper Meijer to tell us more about his publication in Scientific Data, an open access journal for descriptions of datasets and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data.

Author Sven Gins (PhD student at the Faculty of Religion, Culture and Society) shows how animal trials in premodern Europe shed light on more recent cases about the legal personhood of animals that received global attention.