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April 26, 2023

Evaluative Measures or Game-Able Targets? Academic Competition Can Turn Even Qualitative Measures into Targets for Researchers

Although the global switch from quantitative to qualitative evaluation measures is certainly necessary, without lowering academic competition they too might become game-able targets.

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February 27, 2023

How 'Recognition and Rewards' in Dutch academia turned metrics into incentives

In recent attempts to reform research assesment, metrics have explicitly become “incentives”. Yet, the Dutch debate about this transition focussed on the wrong elements.

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December 02, 2022

Not All That Shines Is Diamond: Why Open Access Publication Favors Rich Authors, Prestigious Universities and Industry-Funded Research

More and more researchers pay processing costs for publishing in Open Access, but these costs disadvantage authors who are female, early in their career or, from low-income countries.

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October 28, 2022

Can Direct Replications Save Psychology From Its Conceptual and Measurement Issues?

Science reformers suggest direct replications as a solution to the replication crisis, but they might not be able to deal with the conceptual and measurement issues that underlie the crisis.

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October 21, 2022

Music and Mistakes: An Interview with Two Music Therapists on When Things Go Wrong

Mistakes are quite common in music therapy, yet rarely discussed. The book Breaking Strings: Explorations of Mistakes in Music Therapy and this interview are an attempt to remedy that.

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September 10, 2021

Who Is to Blame When We Fly Too Close to the Sun – Academia or the Individual?

We should beware of using Ariely and others as scapegoats. Rather than dwelling on the moral failings of individual researchers, we might reframe fraud and misconduct as a systemic problem.

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May 31, 2020

JOTE in Conversation: Daniël Lakens. Whose Fault Is it That Science is Irreproducible? And Who the Heck Are Metascientists?

So if you ask, ‘who’s responsible?’ The truth is that everybody’s pointing but nobody is doing anything.

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psychology

March 25, 2020

The Four Horsemen of the Crisis in Psychological Science

Psychological science is in a crisis, and has been for quite some time.

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March 05, 2020

JOTE in Conversation: Léa Roumazeilles. How Does Failure Arise and How Do You Deal With It?

We talked with Léa Roumazeilles, PhD candidate in Neurobiology at Oxford University. We spoke with her about her thesis subject: ‘Structure and function of the social brain in primates’.

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open science

February 21, 2020

Open Science Symposium Utrecht – Starting off with the Natural Sciences

On February 6, the Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU) organized a symposium on Open Science at the Faculty of Science of Utrecht University.

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open science

December 18, 2019

Wetenschap, Wees Eens Eerlijk Over Jezelf!

Vorige week presenteerde minister Van Engelshoven haar langverwachte ‘Strategische Agenda voor het hoger onderwijs en onderzoek’.

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Behind the Scenes

October 18, 2019

The Open Science Summer School Experience

When I first heard the term “open science” and realized what it meant, I thought, well, that sounds good, how hard can it be?

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Behind the Scenes

September 30, 2019

Are We Facing a Bigger Monster? The Journal of Trial and Error Visits Cambridge

As fall hits, we now look back and reflect about the beginning of summer.

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September 17, 2019

Posthumanism, Lille & "New Forms of Science"

What does a congress on Posthumanism have in common with our journal? To be very honest, I had no idea at first.

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beginnings

September 06, 2019

Talk on Descartes Colloquium: Initiating a Journal for Trial and Error in Science

On the 16th of June, project leader Martijn van der Meer gave a lecture at the Descartes Colloquium for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Humanities at Utrecht University.

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Behind the Scenes

June 12, 2019

Becoming an Open Access Online Journal

The how-to articles on setting up the infrastructure needed for a journal have been for us a rough sketch of a road that we have been traveling mostly, and proudly, off-road.

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Behind the Scenes

June 03, 2019

Open Science Community Utrecht

One of our first alliances was with the Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU). Stefan was already a member, so it was relatively easy for him to come into contact with the founders of OSCU.

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Behind the Scenes

May 21, 2019

Our First UtrechtInc Meeting

We must admit that we were a little nervous for our first UtrechtInc meeting, exactly one week ago.

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Behind the Scenes

May 01, 2019

On How the JOTE Project Has Been Evolving

A few months have passed since the Journal of Trial and Error’s first public appearance at the Descartes’ Christmas colloquium. Since then, we’ve had several exciting developments...

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Behind the Scenes

March 26, 2019

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

It truly was the most wonderful time of the year: the last Descartes Centre Colloquium of 2018. The Descartes Centre, of course, is a place of legend, it is right up there with El Dorado.

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beginnings

March 11, 2019

Humble Beginnings

Underlying our interest in establishing a humanistic science journal, was a need of constructing, not deconstructing, and by doing so, positively contributing to the intellectual scene...

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March 09, 2019

The Birth of a Journal

An Open Science talk by Dr. Katja Mayer, who investigates practices of Open Science in computational Open Science and big data...

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Behind the Scenes

February 02, 2019

Open Science Talk

After a course in philosophy of science and a historiographical course on the history of the natural sciences, we had gotten a taste of what the rest of the program could be...