🎉 On Monday, 13 October at 4 pm (CEST), our colleague @utawehn.bsky.social will deliver her inaugural lecture "Making Participation Matter? Citizen Science for Sustainability and Governance". 👥 You can join the livestream or attend in person. Register here 👉 universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Very excited about the partnership between @barcelonadori.bsky.social and @oa2020.org to work together on advancing openness of publication metadata in publisher negotiations! Interested to learn more? Join next Thursday's OA2020 webinar. Registration: eu02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @cwts.nl

📣 The first research seminar of the season! Madhan Muthu will talk about "Open access in India: A trajectory of opportunities, missteps, and future potential". 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 26.9.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 Online & at CWTS www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Our @cwts.nl PhD candidate Narmin Rzayeva chose to submit her most recent article, co-authored with @stephenpinfield.bsky.social and me, to MetaROR. The article presents an analysis of the adoption of preprinting across disciplines and regions. Glad to see the feedback provided by two reviewers!

📢 New RoRI paper out in Science & Technology Studies The study explores how 8 research funders navigate the ambiguous role of “excellence” - not simply as a matter of fact, but increasingly as a matter of concern requiring reconfiguration: sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view...

"Much of what shapes a scientific paper never sees the light of day." RoRI's André Brasil writes about MetaROR (MetaResearch Open Review) and opening the black box of peer review in the inaugural issue of REACH by @sci-integrity.com: www.sci-integrity.com/reach-inaugu...

📢 Transparency in AI use in academia is urgently needed. In this blog post, @serhiinazarovets.bsky.social, Natalia Tsybuliak, Jaime A. Texeira da Silva & @yanasychikova.bsky.social introduce GAIDeT - a practical taxonomy for declaring AI use in research. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/gai...

📄 Facing pressures to stay competitive, researchers publish ever more, often at the cost of quality. Sagartirtha Chakraborty shows how this situation compares to a prisoner’s dilemma, explains the connection with predatory journals, and outlines solutions. www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/aca...

📝 Today, the team behind the GLOBAL reporting guideline invites researchers who are preparing or reviewing a bibliometric article to take part in a pilot test of the guideline. 👇 Find more information in the article below [1/2]

🎓 Our colleague Thed van Leeuwen has been invited for the “Research Quality and Open Science” fellowship programme by @berlinualliance.bsky.social, together with @lizziegadd.bsky.social from @lborouniversity.bsky.social. 🥂 Congratulations! www.berlin-university-alliance.de/en/items/202...

Open science is one of our key areas of expertise at @cwts.nl. Very glad that we can use our expertise in this area to develop an open science monitoring framework for the Netherlands! We will work on this together with colleagues at Dialogic.

💸 Our latest blog post describes how the research project “Tracking Research Funding Flows in the Global South” by @clacso.bsky.social, @cwts.nl & Siris Academic aims to make visible & analyze ways in which international science funding circulates. 👇 Read it now on Leiden Madtrics

We were very happy to learn that our partnership with Dialogic innovatie & interactie has been selected for the Open Science Monitoring and Evaluation project! 👇

My PhD candidate Juan Pablo Bascur submitted one of his papers to MetaROR. The reviews of his paper have now been published on the platform. Very glad to see early-career researchers embracing new approaches to scientific publishing!

Very happy with the participation of @cwts.nl in the COMET initiative!

New on the blog, Organizer @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social Nees Jan van Eck from @cwts.nl explains why CWTS is passionate about enriching #metadata and participating in COMET. A must-read! 👉 www.cometadata.org/blog/cwts

Today I had the pleasure to be a panelist in the session 'moving beyond journals' at the @royalsociety.org Future of Scientific Publishing conference. I argued that scientific publishing is going through a transformation addressing the challenges of openness, curation and meaningful dialogue.

The conference finally offered opportunity for MetaROR team to get together. I had nice dinner with Kathy Zeiler, @stephenpinfield.bsky.social, @aidybarnett.bsky.social, @alexh.bsky.social, @andre-brasil.bsky.social. Feeling privileged to work with such great team! cms.metaror.org/about-our-te...

Very grateful to all colleagues in the metascience community who dropped by at the @metaror.bsky.social stand at the recent #Metascience2025 conference. Glad to see the overwhelming interest in the MetaROR platform! metaror.org @rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

☄️ @cometadata.bsky.social is working towards a community approach to metadata enrichment. We are involved with our colleague @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social 💡 Find out more in this article 👉 www.cometadata.org/blog/comet-i... 📆 Join their community meeting on 15 July 👉 datacite.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🎉 Congratulations to our Citizen Science Lab colleagues (@mobilemaggie.bsky.social, @anoukspelt.bsky.social, Jordy Janssen) at @unileiden.bsky.social for being part of 1 of 5 #CitizenScience hubs funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social! More info about the Hub for Impactful & Engaged Research (HIER).👇

We're proud to see our colleague @ludowaltman.bsky.social featured in a 🆕 interview as part of the #AcademiaInMotion campaign at @unileiden.bsky.social where he shares his vision on #OpenScience, #SocietalEngagement, and Recognition & Rewards. 👉 www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/news/2025/07...

In this blog post we make the case for the @metaror.bsky.social publish-review-curate model, arguing it supports better research assessment, as promoted by DORA and others. @rorinstitute.bsky.social @aimosinc.bsky.social @cwts.nl

🎉 Exciting news! The Ethical Data Initiative and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies @cwts.nl have joined forces to promote responsible data practices and ethics. Find out more and stay tuned for updates! 👉 bit.ly/4lgqyL1 🌍✨ #DataEthics #ResponsibleData

🕖 Only a few days left to apply.... Check out this exciting opportunity to join RoRI as a (senior) Research Fellow in #Metascience. Apply before 9 July 👇

🤝CWTS @cwts.nl & EDI @edinitiative.bsky.social have signed a Memorandum of Understanding! We're teaming up to advance responsible data practices & strengthen global dialogue around data ethics, scientific governance, & equity in research.🌍 🔗 Learn more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

📣 Last seminar before the summer break! @alexrushforth.bsky.social and Gunnar Sivertsen will present "A new typology of national research assessment systems: Continuity and change in 13 countries". 📅 Friday, 11.7.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 Online www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

📄 New report: "A Year in Metascience", reflecting on the activities of the UK Metascience Unit during its first year of operation. 📚 Included as well: a comprehensive annex, detailing the past, present and future of UK metascience. Highly recommended reading! 👉 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Great news: At #Metascience2025 @wellcometrust.bsky.social just announced its signature of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information! Wellcome CEO John-Arne Røttingen made the important argument that open research information offers crucial evidence to support metascience. @cwts.nl

🚀 The EOSC Open Science Observatory is launching its next phase! This new version helps track national efforts and feeds into EU-wide Open Science policy. 👉 Learn more and join us online: pathos-project.eu/conference-o...

Very proud to be part of this collaboration!

📣 In next week's seminar, Leandro Rodriguez Medina will discuss the challenges of "Epistemic decentralization", building on the new book "Decentralizing Knowledges. Essays on Distributed Agency". 📅 Friday, 27.6.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 Online www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Don't forget to tune in to our research seminar this afternoon! 👇

🎓 Congratulations to Thed van Leeuwen on his inaugural lecture at Leiden University last Monday! If you missed it, you can read the full lecture here: 📖English version 👉 zenodo.org/records/1566... 📖Dutch version 👉https://bit.ly/3HOvzvb

🎉 We wrapped up another great edition of our Bibliometric Data Sources & Indicators course at CWTS, @unileiden.bsky.social. 💬 Thank you to all participants and to our lecturers Clara Calero Medina, @vtraag.bsky.social & @ludowaltman.bsky.social for the inspiring week!

Today, our colleague Thed van Leeuwen gives his inaugural lecture at Leiden University. Ahead of the event, he shares key insights — calling for a more human-centred approach in #OpenScience. 📰 Read more: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... @leidensocial.bsky.social

📣 Upcoming seminar: "Navigating Academic Evaluations: Logics of Judgment in Promotion Review", with Łukasz Remisiewicz from the University of Gdansk. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 20.6.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 Online www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

This study by @vtraag.bsky.social and colleagues offers a great demonstration of the power of rigorous data-driven metaresearch. It also shows the value of the RoRI model. Without this model, it would have been almost impossible to bring together the various data sets used in this study. @cwts.nl

🎉 On Monday, 16 June at 4 pm (CEST), our colleague Thed van Leeuwen will deliver his inaugural lecture "Academic life at a crossroads" (in Dutch). Attend in person? Register here 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... or watch the live stream 👉 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/academic-...

📣 New seminar: 'Human Reference Atlas: Mapping the human body at single-cell resolution', with @katyborner.bsky.social from Indiana University Bloomington. 🎧 Make sure to join! 📅 Friday, 6.6.2025 | 3:00-4:15 PM (CEST) 📌 At CWTS & online www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

📚 New article by our colleague Wolfgang Kaltenbrunner, published in Minerva just today: "Between Gift-Giving and Accumulation: Peer Review Economies in Psychology". 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... #PeerReview #ScholarlyCommunication #MetaResearch #Preprints

👇 At CWTS, we used a #DeepDemocracy approach to debate this complex topic and to co-create a new travel policy—prioritizing trains, reducing flights, and aligning with our values of collaboration and sustainability.

🎓 In our newest blog post, Tanya Lee and Ana Parrón Cabañero explore how PhD trajectories at @unileiden.bsky.social could better reflect the diverse activities, needs and expectations of PhD candidates and why this matters now. Read more here. 👇 www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/bey...

How does the adoption of preprinting differ between European countries? Preprint adoption is significantly higher in Western and Northern European countries than in their Southern and Eastern European neighbors. Switzerland has the highest preprint adoption in Europe.

📣 Reminder of tomorrow's seminar at CWTS, on "Foundations and futures of scientometrics - a tribute to the legacy of Loet Leydesdorff". Make sure to tune in! Find more information below 👇

Exciting PhD opportunities resulting from the recently established collaboration between IHE Delft and @cwts.nl! Supervision by @utawehn.bsky.social together with @thomasfranssen.bsky.social, Ingeborg Meijer and Tjitske Holtrop.

To accelerate the sharing of scientific knowledge, researchers increasingly publish their work on preprint servers. In our latest blog post, @ludowaltman.bsky.social, Narmin Rzayeva and @stephenpinfield.bsky.social discuss the state of preprinting in Europe and the Netherlands. 👇 Read it now

📣 Two new PhD positions on #CitizenScience and participatory environmental governance! 🏛️ The PhD candidates will work at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education under supervision of researchers from both IHE Delft and CWTS. 📅 Application deadline: 11 June! 👉 www.un-ihe.org/working-ihe-...

🆕 Working paper: A new typology of national research assessment systems: continuity and change in 13 countries ✅ Typology for categorizing research assessment systems ✅ Tracing key shifts over time ✅ Exploring future developments @rorinstitute.bsky.social 👉 shorturl.at/ZLgAn

Very nice to see the review process through @metaror.bsky.social in practice!