Voice Of The Utrecht Young Academy

Caspar and Sicco talk academic careers and what motivates you to stay in academics with Alexandra Vennekens from the Rathenau Institute. Is #LeavingAcademia really happening and what do academics actually value in their own work? And does the university think about that the same way? Some background reading: - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01512-6 Has the great resignation wave hit academia? (Nature) - https://www.mareonline.nl/opinie/waarom-ik-mijn-verloving-met-de-universiteit-verbreek/ - Suze Zijlstra (Mare) - https://twitter.com/sanli/status/1534788435684347904?s=20&t=EBCxZkQpkrPB1LPY0Wcb3g - Young Academy Research (Tweet Sanli) - https://decorrespondent.nl/13674/aan-de-universiteit-mag-een-onderzoeker-geen-mens-meer-zijn/41342173387218-787c5801 - Correspondent Article by Ilse Jozepha Lazaroms And for the Newsynews: - On the new Regieorgaan Open Science: https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/hans-de-jonge-quartermaster-director-new-open-science-regieorgaan - On the new White House Open Access pol

Shownotes From the newsynews: - HELIOS (Higher Education Leadership initiative on Open Scholarship): https://www.heliosopen.org/news/22/3/22 - Discussion series "Publishing in transition". In this edition, researchers will discuss the challenges of a transition to fully open access https://www.uu.nl/en/news/how-do-you-prepare-your-academic-journal-for-an-open-science-future - Session ‘Wetenschappers in de publieke arena’ announcement - https://intranet.uu.nl/agenda/wetenschappers-in-de-publieke-arena-collegialiteit - Royal Academy of Science, council of social sciences: ‘Wetenschap met de ramen wijd open’ publication, 10 lessons: https://www.knaw.nl/publicaties/wetenschap-met-de-ramen-wijd-open - Open Science festival is coming, although the deadline for workshop proposals has closed, you can still register at https://opensciencefestival.nl/ - NRC Opinion piece by Juliette Schaafsma en Martijn van der Meer (Tilburg): https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2022/05/08/verdienmodel-van-grote-uitgevers-bedreigt-onbetaal

Sicco and Sanli talk to the new chair of the Utrecht University open science platform about her vision on promoting good scientific practices, collegiality, and the implementation of the university policy on recognition and rewards based on the TRIPLE criteria. mentioned in this episode: - Polution map of Utrecht measured by UU professors on their outreach trip https://knowyourair.net/prof/ - Dies Natalis 386 https://www.uu.nl/nieuws/dies-natalis-2022-curious-collaborations - Open Science Community Utrecht looking for new ambassadors https://openscience-utrecht.com - Call for open science proposals https://www.uu.nl/onderzoek/open-science/open-science-fund

This episode we talk 'Team Science' and how to really 'Open Up' your science with Ruth van Veelen and Judith de Haan. Together with colleagues they worked on the Utrecht University Open Science Monitor of 2020. In this episode we mentioned: > Sicco's thread on Royal Academy (KNAW) report on recognition and rewards https://twitter.com/SiccodeKnecht/status/1489195279677071360?s=20&t=CUhsBMlHK7YWmUiT4kODqg > Sanli's thread on the Strategic Evaluation Protocol (SEP) https://twitter.com/sanli/status/1451839522053009410?s=20&t=ZJF87fLdRgvii5JAbRg0cQ > Link to the SEP https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/documenten/Domeinen/Onderzoek/SEP_2021-2027.pdf > More info on the Rewards and Recognition3 leadership course! https://www.uu.nl/nieuws/een-gesprek-met-stans-de-haas-de-nieuwe-trekker-van-erkennen-en-waarderen > Paris call on Research Assessment https://osec2022.eu/paris-call/ > Preprints trustworthyness in Economist https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/preprints-on-the-coronavirus-have-be

“Who are these Open Science people, anyway?” In this special installment Felix and Sicco interview Susanna Bloem and Martijn van der Meer on their project called ‘Faces of Open Science’. These two young researchers in the field of the history and philosophy of science went out to find oral histories – as it happens – for which they spoke to a myriad of Open Science minded colleagues at Utrecht University. From that they distilled a number of typical persona’s, all with their own unique motivations and ideals drawing them into the movement. We find out that Open Science isn’t a monolith and why we need more internal debates on values.

We talk to Jose Urra Llanusa and Santosh Ilamparuthi, founders of the open hardware community at Delft Technical University, on promises and pitfalls of open hardware, and how to scale up good quality devices. Show notes: + [Guide to preprints](https://zenodo.org/record/5600535) + [Book launch "Open Science, the Very Idea"](https://www.uu.nl/nieuws/onbeschaamd-activistisch-een-nieuw-boek-over-open-science) + [NWO Open Science fund](https://www.nwo.nl/onderzoeksprogrammas/open-science/open-science-fund) + [OSCU symposium, faculty of Science](https://osf.io/rfzy6/)

We talk to Michael Bon, founder of the Collective Science Platform (CoScience) on his take on the big sin of academia and how reviving the scientific debate in the digital age make science great again. Show notes: + Climate Helpdesk: https://www.klimaathelpdesk.org/ + National measures to combat threats against scientists: https://www.vsnu.nl/en_GB/news-items.html/nieuwsbericht/788-universiteiten-nemen-landelijke-maatregelen-tegen-bedreiging-wetenschappers + Elisabeth Bik: https://scienceintegritydigest.com/about/ + Better animal research through Open Science: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/better-animal-research-through-open-science + The Collective Science Platform: https://www.sjscience.org/about-sjs

The recognition and reward discussion surged during the summer. Charisma Hehakaya (PhD candidate at the UMC) had co-authored a opinion piece about including early career academics, because the decisions affect them the most. She talks with us about the background of this discussion and why she is active in the Young Science In Transition. Show notes: Article of Charisma and Sander Bosch: https://www.scienceguide.nl/2021/06/jonge-wetenschappers-worden-soms-nog-vergeten-in-erkennen-en-waarderen/ Letter with 171 signatures: https://www.scienceguide.nl/2021/07/nieuwe-erkennen-en-waarderen-schaadt-nederlandse-wetenschap/ Response 1 to that letter: https://recognitionrewards.nl/2021/08/03/waarom-het-nieuwe-erkennen-en-waarderen-juist-excellent-onderzoek-bevordert/ Response 2 to that letter: https://www.scienceguide.nl/2021/07/we-moeten-af-van-telzucht-in-de-wetenschap/ Inadequacy of bibliographic metrics: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/reliability-of-researcher-metric-the-h-index-is-in-decline/4014025.article

Can science be truly open if it doesn't allow for all perspectives? In this episode we talk diversity and inclusion with associate professor at the UMC Utrecht Gönül Dilaver. Also, we touch base on the newsynews and talk education with Gönül. Shownotes: - Interview Paul Boselie on not using the Journal Impact Factor: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01759-5?fbclid=IwAR14xtmGL5yCfesD5ziYSbkdrB99lPcDidEAl1e4sVZDUWaodj0d9JNofag - Ovrir le Science, The French Government's bold Open Science Plan: https://www.ouvrirlascience.fr/second-national-plan-for-open-science/ - Two introductory open science workshops now available for all UU&UMCU groups, https://www.uu.nl/en/news/university-library-helps-research-groups-to-get-started-with-open-science

"Code often isn't your project, the research question is your project." Research software is a major component of modern science, but not everyone is a specialist in this regard. Barbara Vreede and Lieke de Boer from the Netherlands eScience center talk about the increasing importance of version control and the role of the research software engineer. Shownotes: Tweede Werksessie Erkennen en Waarderen: hoe dichten we de kloof tussen OBP en WP? https://www.uu.nl/agenda/tweede-werksessie-erkennen-en-waarderen-hoe-dichten-we-de-kloof-tussen-obp-en-wp The infamous Randall Munroe comic: https://xkcd.com/2456/ Atlantic article by Benjamin Mazer - Scientific publishin is a Joke: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/xkcd-science-paper-meme-nails-academic-publishing/618810/ Paper on the credibility of preprints: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.201520#d1e476 Open grants database https://www.ogrants.org/ Minor revision podcast by Lieke de Boer and her colleague Jeroen: https://

How do you replicate history? No, this is not a rhetorical question but an actual ongoing open science project by historians from Utrecht University. Together with a group of students Pim Huijnen and Pieter Huistra are shaping an entirely novel approach to historical research. Also, your shownotes: Innovation is overvalued, hail the maintainers!: https://aeon.co/essays/innovation-is-overvalued-maintenance-often-matters-more Fieldlabs criticism: https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/na-kritiek-uit-samenleving-nu-kritiek-uit-wetenschap-fieldlabs-voldoen-niet-aan-ethische-normen~bb37d048/ Open Science Newsletter: https://www.uu.nl/nieuws/schrijf-je-in-voor-de-open-science-nieuwsbrief More on the open Science Practice Funds: https://www.uu.nl/en/news/four-teams-have-received-a-contribution-from-the-fund-for-stimulating-open-science-practices FAIR Software event: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/fair-software Wilma van Wezenbeek blog on education: https://vu-ntl.nl/index.php/en/2021/04/08/linking-open-edu

Yet another installment of the Road to Open Science podcast where we tackle the question of how to find a needle in an ever growing haystack: Automated Systematic Reviews (ASReviews). With Rens van de Schoot we discuss what drives him and his team to run this project, and why they opted for the 'open' approach. SHOWNOTES Sanli introduces himself as a new member of De Jonge Akademie: https://vimeo.com/524195598 More on the Open Access and Diamond study: https://www.vsnu.nl/files/documenten/Domeinen/Onderzoek/Open%20access/Naar%20100%20procent%20Open%20Access%20-%20tijdschriftartikelen.pdf Moderna sequence: https://github.com/NAalytics/Assemblies-of-putative-SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding-mRNA-sequences-for-vaccines-BNT-162b2-and-mRNA-1273/blob/main/Assemblies%20of%20putative%20SARS-CoV2-spike-encoding%20mRNA%20sequences%20for%20vaccines%20BNT-162b2%20and%20mRNA-1273.docx.pdf More on the Corona Field Labs https://fieldlabevenementen.nl/ Paper on Automatic Systematic Reviews by Rens; https://www.nature.com/ar

In this episode, Sicco and Sanli review some open-science-related projects and events. They talk to dr. Marieke Adriaanse and prof. Paul Boselie, co-chairs of the “Recognition and Rewards” workgroup at Utrecht University, about their vision document. This document, recently approved by the University board, will set the basis for transformation of the evaluation and appreciation procedures at Utrecht University. Mentioned in this episode: • Twitter memes of Oded Rechavi - https://twitter.com/OdedRechavi • The KlimaatHelpdesk initiative – www.klimaathelpdesk.org • Advancing Open Access in the Netherlands after 2020: from quantity to quality, by Jeroen Bosman, Hans de Jonge, Bianca Kramer, and Jeroen Sondervan - https://zenodo.org/record/4455790#.YCJDJDGg-Uk • Report of the Recognition and Rewards festival, February 2021 https://recognitionrewards.nl/2021/02/11/a-recap-of-the-recognition-rewards-festival/ • Peer-reviewers time for mass rebellion by Richard Smith - https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/02/01/r

In this episode, cohosts Sicco and Sanli share their personal takes on the essence of open science and how it benefits the academic community and the society at large taking examples from the hot debates around handling of the Covid19 pandemic by national health agencies. They review the recent announcements and news. They talk to Melanie Imming about her 6 years of advocating for Open Science in the Netherlands and the upcoming open science festival. Mentioned in this episode: Covid vaccination data - https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations NWO open science fund - https://www.nwo.nl/calls/open-science-fund-2020/2021 San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)- https://sfdora.org/read/ Open Science Festival - https://www.openscience.nl/the-netherlands-national-open-science-festival Everything Hertz podcast with Michael Eisen - https://everythinghertz.com/122 SciPost’s peer-witnessed refereeing - https://scipost.org/FAQ#pwr

In the first University Cooperative workshop on May 14th 2019, at Utrecht University, participants were introduced to the issues, the concepts, and successful examples of governing common resources. They also investigated two cases related to the university and knowledge dissemination. In this podcast some of the participants reflect on the program of the day. [more info](https://openscience-utrecht.com/workshop-the-university-cooperative/)

Nearly thirty years ago, Elinor Ostrom published her groundbreaking book Governing the Commons, in which she showed that users of natural and agricultural resources can and do govern such resources themselves. They do not have to rely on hierarchical state or corporate regulation, nor on a pricing mechanism to overcome the collective action problems that may arise. By setting up rules together, and monitoring compliance with these rules, commoners are able to manage resources themselves. Ostrom also extended her work on commons governance to knowledge commons. Sharing resources, such as data, methods, publications, and the curriculum, is one of the foundations of university education and development. But today many academic resources such as subscriptions and the syllabus are managed in a rigid, bureaucratic way. Many users and producers of resources and knowledge lack the opportunity to express their wishes and highlight alternatives. In the first University Cooperative workshop on May 14th 2019, at Utrecht

In the May episode of the Road to Open Science newschat, Melanie Imming and Loek Brinkman talk with Jeroen Bosman and Bianca Kramer about some of the latest developments in Open Science in Utrecht and beyond. Topics discussed include recent activities of the Open Science Community, developments within the National Platform Open Science (NPOS), and a workshop on University Cooperatives building on the idea of the university as a commons. We also discuss how the current discourse around Open Science is viewed by researchers.

[Bianca Kramer](twitter.com/MsPhelps) and [Jeroen Sondervan](twitter.com/jeroenson) share recent development with open science activities in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and the EU. We also discuss a recent report from the Horizon 2020 expert group on Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication provided to the European Commission .

[Anita Eerland](twitter.com/AnitaEerland) and [Jeroen Bosman](twitter.com/jeroenbosman) share some hot news about open access publishing. We also discuss the recent growth of the Open Science communities in The Netherlands and formation of the Open Science platform at Utrecht University with an ambitious plan.

Micah Vandegrift is Open Knowledge Librarian at North Carolina State University, and recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to study the state of Open Science in two European Countries, Denmark and The Netherlands. He tells us about his observations in Europe and his vision on the future position of libraries in the "discovery" decade of open science.