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Covid-19 has had a huge impact on teaching at universities over the past two years. Through force of circumstances, lecturers have adapted much faster to a digital future. On 7 June Leiden Teachers Academy’s annual Education Festival (working language is English) will present insights on this ‘new n…

Leiden University publishes the highest percentage of preprints in the Netherlands. Why is that and why post your article online before it has been peer reviewed? Professor of Quantitative Science Studies and keen preprint poster Ludo Waltman explains.

Leiden Bio Science Park is holding its Open Day and everyone is welcome! Always wanted to know what goes on in our buildings? This is your chance to find out! Join in workshops, games and lab tours. Whether you’re a student or lecturer at Leiden University or are just plain interested in bioscience,…

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Join this webinar, designed for research support staff, project managers, and anyone involved in the financial management of research projects at Leiden University. Engage with project controllers and get your questions answered in this interactive session organized by the LRSN Project Control…

The Research Support Walk is an informal, end-of-day walk designed to bring together research support colleagues from across various faculties. Get to chat to colleagues from other research support domains while being physically active and end your day with a relaxing transition from work to personal…

Webinar

At Leiden University, we are enhancing post-award project management with the introduction of a university-wide pool of Research Project Managers, housed at Luris. This initiative aims to relieve researchers of the administrative burden associated with managing externally funded collaborative…

Workshop

In this webinar we will present the work that has been done on professionalizing data stewardship over the past few years. After a brief explanation of the background, we will present the UFO-profiles as they are in use now for data stewards. However, this is only a first step in the process, and we…

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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop Addressing the climate crisis requires radical and urgent action at all levels of society. Universities are ideally positioned to lead such action but are largely failing to do so. At the same time, many academic scientists find their…

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Making data reusable in the social sciences Data management is a key component of opening science at Leiden University. Researchers across disciplines are encouraged to manage and share their data in ways which facilitate reuse. But what does it take to make different types of data – gathered through…

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Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how In this OSCoffee, Myrthe Vel Tromp will talk about a member initiative of OSCL: the ReproducibiliTea journal club. In these one hour online informal discussions, mostly ECRs (early career researchers) discuss papers on various…

OSCoffee: Introduction to ReproducibiliTea journal clubs—the what, why, and how In this OSCoffee, Myrthe Vel Tromp will talk about a member initiative of OSCL: the ReproducibiliTea journal club. In these one hour online informal discussions, mostly ECRs (early career researchers) discuss papers…

This informal gathering provides an excellent opportunity for exchanging insights, experiences, and questions in a relaxed setting. Some topics that can be discussed include open access publishing, data sharing, posting preprints, citizen science, open education… Whether you have experience with OS…

The Schoof government, which has since assumed a caretaker role, presented its coalition agreement last year, followed later by its budget. As expected, higher education is facing severe cuts. In the coming period, the Executive Board will regularly (see updates below) look at the consequences of what…

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A Glance at Open Access Book Publishing Platforms There is a growing number of scholars who show interests in publishing academic books in Open Access. While the benefits of doing so are obvious, they may find it a hassle to navigate through the various OA publishing platforms and decide which one…

Disseminating Knowledge through YouTube For about three years now, Victor Gijsbers has been publishing philosophy videos on his YouTube channel, which now has 7000+ subscribers and is watched for more than 100 hours each day. In this OSCoffee presentation, he will delve into how he makes videos,…

Open Educational Resources (OER) OER are freely accessible teaching/learning materials that may be viewed, reused and/or modified depending on the license. Verena Weimer will open the OS Coffee with a brief input on OER, their development, opportunities and limitations. Furthermore, she will discuss…

Open Science in Criminology - barriers and opportunities Making data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) is a pillar of Open Science. Yet, privacy regulations hinder the implementation of FAIR principles in research fields working with sensitive data. In this OSCoffee, Katharina…

Better coding for reproducible research Many researchers (including me) spend a large chunk of their time writing code, despite having little to no formal training about how to do so effectively. This results in wasted time, lower-quality output, and also negatively impacts the reproducibility and transparency…

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The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars In this OSCoffee, Zsuzsika Sjoerds will help us delve into the domain of cognitive biases and explore the influence they have on our work as scholars. ,We discuss how biases shape our scientific journey, from hypothesis formation…

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Webinar with Q&A

Doing Open Science in the Humanities: From Public Discourse to Qualitative Data In this OSCoffee, Naomi Truan reflects on her trajectory as an open science scholar, first with data that posed no obvious issue being shared openly (parliamentary debates), then with more sensitive data that requires a…

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Open Science and AI - Synergy or Contradiction Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, in particular, Large Language Models (LLMs), are rapidly transforming various industries, such as healthcare, finance, and manufacturing, as well as research and higher education. LLMs have the potential…

How to take your next step in the path to open science Although Open Science contributes to more transparent and inclusive research, its practical implementation is often challenging. We encourage more researchers to engage in Open Science practices, ultimately fostering a more transparent, inclusive…

Building a data competence center for Population Health Management Population health Management (PHM) is a recent interdisciplinary approach that seeks to improve health outcomes by tailoring prevention and intervention programs to population groups. To achieve this, researchers are working with health…

Unintended consequences of the shift towards Gold Open Access publishing Only when three major statements on open access were made, in respectively Budapest, Bethesda, and Berlin, science policy and research funding got deeper involved in the open science movement, leading to the development…

Festival

To celebrate the crucial role of Open Science in scientific advancement, The Network of Open Science Communities in the Netherlands (OSC-NL) is hosting its first National Open Science Week from 23 to 27 September 2024. During this week, the team for Open Science support will be visiting your faculty…

Webinar, Q&A, discussion

The relationship between academia and democracy is a complicated one. Should policy makers listen to scientists or to citizens? That is the dilemma Valérie Pattyn and Johan Christensen will discuss with a panel of experts during the academic conference EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF).