AkademieNL's new admin
I am happy to announce I am taking over as the admin for the Mastodon server AkademieNL. Robbert Hoogstraat is entrusting me with this and in this blog, I talk about what this means for AkademieNL.
Upstream reflections
Recently, I left the Upstream editorial team as a result of changing priorities. I figured it would be a good idea to reflect before I forget.
During my tenure at Upstream, I helped realize the following posts:
1. Language Diversity in Scholarly Publishing
2. The Environmental Impact of Research Infrastructures:
Remarks on barriers to Open Science for ECRs
Yesterday was the first of four listening sessions by the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. These are specifically geared towards Early-Career Researchers (ECRs), which I guess I technically would still be had I stayed in academia.
I had the opportunity to briefly participate and share
(Not-)for-profit in research
In response to the European Council, I need to get a new pet peeve of mine off my chest.
Undoing questionable academic practices
Why and how could we start undoing a system promoting questionable academic practices?
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.
Remarks for the Berlin Publishing Conference 2023
My remarks for the junior researcher panel at the APE2023 conference.