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Chris Hartgerink

Chris Hartgerink

OK Google: Delete My Account (No Wait. No Really.)

OK Google: Delete My Account (No Wait. No Really.)

This post is a cross-post from Medium. I used to be an avid Google user. Everything I did was Google and I got really attached to my e-mail address after so many years of use: c.hartgerink@gmail.com. I fear some remnants of my data linger in the Googliverse,

Concerns About Blockchain for Science

Concerns About Blockchain for Science

This is a cross-post from Medium. I know, I know: I wrote about blockchain for science just last summer — this blog will explain why I now consider implementing blockchain to “improve” science a mistake. I am sharing why I changed my mind because the narrative is increasingly concerning me: The

Wetenschap is meer dan een product, de promovendus meer dan een middel

Wetenschap is meer dan een product, de promovendus meer dan een middel

"One finds limits by pushing them" - Herbert Simon Iedere ochtend dat ik op Tilburg University aankom, zie ik bovenstaand citaat. Een mooi citaat, waarschijnlijk bedoeld om de medewerker te inspireren. In mijn ervaring blijkt het veelal schijn die het beeld van de universiteit als voorstrijder van de

Copyright and Licenses in Open Access Publishing

Copyright and Licenses in Open Access Publishing

This is a cross-post from Medium. tl;dr copyright restricts knowledge sharing and by extension production; the author can decide to empower knowledge sharing and production with specific Creative Commons licenses (i.e., only CC 0 or CC BY) If you came here purely for a clarification of Creative Commons

False claims of copyright and STM

Recently, I have become interested in the issue of false claims of copyright (i.e., copyfraud) in publishing. I just wrote to the publisher’s association (STM) to ask them what their perspective is on copyfraud is and whether they condone such behavior by their member associations. Read my letter

Elsevier stopped me doing my research

This is a cross-post from the original, previously available on the Open Notebook Science Network. I am a statistician interested in detecting potentially problematic research such as data fabrication, which results in unreliable findings and can harm policy-making, confound funding decisions, and hampers research progress. To this end, I am