Martijn van der Meer

Chair

Martijn is a historian of science and medicine and works as a lecturer and researcher at Erasmus Medical Centre and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a policy advisor on responsible research at Tilburg University. In 2018, he co-founded the Center of Trial and Error and currently chairs the board.

Posts by Martijn van der Meer

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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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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...

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Behind the Scenes

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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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 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 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.