Stefan Gaillard

Co-founder, Editor, Special Issue Editor-in-Chief

Stefan Gaillard specializes in failure, uncertainty, and erroneous claims – both in science and society. He is one of the co-founders of the Journal of Trial and Error and currently works on the special issue on scientific failure in the health domain.

Posts by Stefan Gaillard

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January 04, 2024

JOTE in Conversation: Michael Burke. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"

Professor of rhetoric at Utrecht University Michael Burke talks about failure and academic publishing. "Why are publishing companies getting paid for our peer review?"

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April 01, 2024

JOTE in Conversation: Leo Tiokhin - “Criticism in Science Should be Rewarded”

We present to you the fourth instalment of our “JOTE in conversation” series, where we ask Leo Tiokhin about Red Team Market and his career.

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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

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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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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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

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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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.