The Excellence Paradox: Selecting for excellence is self-defeating
Does it really make sense to select only the best? I explore how excellence is self-defeating from a theoretical probability perspective.
Chris Hartgerink
The joy of compounding skillsets
Being a generalist makes you more unique then you think!
"Stories from my PhD" series
As a recovered academic, I feel comfortable writing some stories I have not shared before.
Remarks for the Berlin Publishing Conference 2023
My remarks for the junior researcher panel at the APE2023 conference.
Open Inaccessibility
In my decade working on the openness of research I touched upon content accessibility only a few times, in part because it was and is a less discussed topic in my circles. But that does not make it less important.
After all: When a PDF is downloaded, who can read
Dipping my toes into 3D
This week I am a bit at a loss what to write about - I had drafts on the weaponization of meta-research, how to write an R package in 2022 (but the year's almost out), the consequences of owning your digital infrastructure.
But none of it really fell
Private open scholarship
A primary argument around open scholarship (i.e., open science) is that of “publicly funded means publicly accessible.” I don’t like that argument because it reinforces the inverse: Privately funded means privately accessible.