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Chris Hartgerink

Chris Hartgerink

Dipping my toes into 3D

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

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.

Constructive selfishness

Constructive selfishness

In my reflections on the Shuttleworth Fellowship (forthcoming), I realised that I was given the gift of "constructive selfishness." The gist is: If you make things work for you, you can make things work for others as well. Constructive selfishness includes others and means that by focusing on

Snaps of November (2022)

Snaps of November (2022)

I bought a new secondhand camera to kickstart my long-lost hobby from my adolescent days this month. I wanted to share some snaps here.

Creative Fridays

Creative Fridays

After my summer vacation, I decided I was going to take Fridays off. For the past six weeks I have taken Creative Fridays.

Thoughts on Mastodon (part 1?)

Thoughts on Mastodon (part 1?)

The Twitter shitshow re-taught me a valuable lesson: All institutions we have come to rely on can be burnt down in just a few weeks. That means their maintenance requires effort and not changing things also takes effort. I know this reenergises me about my work on changing science: Science

The future of syndicated access

The future of syndicated access

We could use distributed access to prevent surveillance practices from spreading into scholarly publishing further.