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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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Behind the Scenes

October 09, 2023

National Science Communication Day: JOTE Presents on Values in Science

Yesterday, Stefan Gaillard (JOTE, DNUS), Megan Milota (UMCU, DNUS), Robert Dasović and Marcel Hobma organized a workshop on values in science, for the annual Dutch conference on Science Communication.

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October 06, 2023

Sex Differences and Clinical Research: a Reflection on Communicating About Values in Science

Philosophers teach us that science is drenched in values, but what does this mean for science communication? Editor Marcel reflects on what values mean for his earlier work on clinical trials.

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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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open science

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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