Frank Miedema

C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say The reorganization that began on Tuesday will scale back an agency that has been a public health model around the world.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Statement of support for a global research ecosystem Our global research ecosystem is at risk — it's time to invest in the tools and services that power research and scholarship.

I've signed the "Statement of support for a global research ecosystem" and so should you:

https://investinopen.org/blog/statement-of-support-for-a-global-research-ecosystem/

#openscience #opendata #opensource #openaccess

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research A group of scientists who are experts at spotting fraudulent research outline five essential steps to combat industrialized scientific misconduct.

I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Update. As recently as January 2, 2025, #NASA had five modules for teaching #OpenScience on its web site. The #Trump administration has taken them down.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science/tops/os101/

Here they are in the @internetarchive Wayback Machine […]

prachtig artikel van #joostdevries over de culturele sociaal-economische ontwikkelingen in de VS sinds de zestiger jaren, zoals die in parallel in de realistische romans van John Updike en de analytisch sociologische boeken van Christopher Lasch ‘in beeld’ zijn gebracht.

Case studies are vital to monitoring the development of open science As a recent consultation on how to monitor open science practices draws to a close, Louise Bezuidenhout, Paola Castaño, Sabina Leonelli, Ismael Rafols and Andrea Vargiu argue that if monitoring fra…

💥New: Case studies are vital to monitoring the development of open science

✍️Louise Bezuidenhout, Paola Castaño, @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social, @ismaelrafols.bsky.social & Andrea Vargiu

#AcademicSky #OpenScience

Next to Open Science, and in fact highly synergistic with it, there is the European Universities Initiative. A collection of university alliances to improve education and research across the EU!
Utrecht University is a proud partner of the CHARM-EU alliance. charm-eu.eu

charm-eu.eu

What’s going on in The Netherlands Open Science program? Check here: www.openscience.nl/en

CoARA Reaches 700 Member Milestone - CoARA CoARA Membership Now Reaches 700 Members, Signifying a Key Milestone in the Initiative’s Development Nearing the 2nd anniversary of CoARA, membership recently hit 700 members worldwide, […]

CoARA, The Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment that started 2 years ago has now 700 members world wide, with a many activities: coara.eu/news/coara-r...

My book ‘Open Science: The Very Idea, Springer 2022, is open access available, but the paperback is now available with a major discour for 16,28 euro only.

See also Ian Boyd's article this week: www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Politics makes science an instrument of injustice - Research Professional News The way that governments think corrupts scientists and their work. Ian Boyd offers an alternative

“government needs to incorporate not just scientific knowledge, but scientific thinking. Instead of being a post-political service for government […] science needs to become a way of thinking about problem-solving within the political calculus.” 1/2
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Excited to be in Canberra for AIMOS 24 agbarnett.github.io/aimos.confer...

I gave a talk this morning on ‘where next for metascience?’ — slides online here: rori.figshare.com/articles/pre...

Thanks to Adrian Barnett & all at @aimosinc.bsky.social for the opportunity to join you 🙏🏻

Barbaren hakken weer in op de universiteit Beatrice de Graaf vraagt zich af wat Karel de Grote ervan had gevonden dat zijn opvolgers een voor een de talen uit het vakkenpakket halen.

Columnist @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social vraagt zich af wat Karel de Grote, de ‘Vader van Europa’, ervan had gevonden dat Europese ministers een voor een de talen en kunsten uit het vakkenpakket halen. ‘Hoe houd je een cultuur bijeen als je daar de bijl in zet?’