QSS is now accepting articles that have gone through independent, open peer review via MetaResearch Open Review (MetaROR). The authors of an article on tracking transformative agreements through open metadata shared their experiences using MetaROR's Publish-Review-Curate (PRC) model:

A blog post celebrating one year Crossref Grant IDs at The Dutch Research Council NWO: highlighting the enormous potential of the GLS, along the observation that publishers could step up their efforts to include funding metadata in their publications: doi.org/10.64000/dvq...

Funder information can now be added to bioRxiv preprints. Incorporation of funding organizations into the Research Organization Registry (ROR) means this is available as standardized metadata for articles. connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/09...

🚨 REMINDER: We're #hiring a new Executive Director! 📍 Remote ⏰ Full-time 💰 USD 100–115k Help grow the OSHF, lead programs+fundraising, and support #openscience & #openhardware: opensciencehardware.org/2025/07/were... #job #opensource #sciencejob

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How can you include #OpenScience practices in your teaching? Read how two Dutch professors -- Elen Le Foll and Ewout Meijer, in linguistics and psychology respectively -- asked students to preregister their term-paper analyses. Interesting idea! […]

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/s...

🎤 Open Science NL awards €2M to expand #citizenscience across the Netherlands! Five new hubs (€400k each) will connect professional researchers with everyday citizens to tackle challenges in health, urban living, and biodiversity. Democracy meets science! 🇳🇱 www.openscience.nl/en/news/five... 👆

🎉 Netherlands University Presses (NUPs) receive €300,000 grant from @opensciencenl.bsky.social to strengthen diamond open access publishing! 💎 Building a sustainable, academic-led alternative free for both readers AND authors. #OpenAccess #DiamondOA #OpenScience www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran... 👆🏾

I can’t recommend the latest #jurassicpark movie. Even for a fan, this one is by far the worst of the sequel. Professionally I liked the #openscience subplot where Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey dedicate the dinosaur DNA samples to the public domain instead of a pharmaceutical company #CC0.

Meet Kingy! He has been a daily visitor to our backyard for the past few weeks! What a treat to have such a beautiful guest. #kingfisher #birdwatching #nature #vroegevogels

As we approach the summer holidays ☀️, please take a look at all the #openscience projects funded by @opensciencenl.bsky.social. Since our launch in 2023, we’ve supported more than 130 projects📊, big and small. Now they’re all featured in our project database 🗂️ www.openscience.nl/en/projects 👆🏾

Great news announced today at #metascience2025 by @wellcometrust.bsky.social CEO John Arne Røttingen: WT wil join the #BarcelonaDeclaration and has awarded a grant to #OpenAlex to dramatically improve the state of grant metadata.

Will we see you on 24th of October in Groningen for the Open Science Festival? Registration is now open. Make sure to reserve a spot as soon as possible! 👇

Open Science NL is inviting researchers to submit proposals that contribute to building a robust evidence base needed to effectively promote open science in the Netherlands and beyond. The deadline for submissions is 16 September. More information 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/rese...

A new funding opportunity to do research on #openscience. Open for researchers ánd professional support staff working in the NLs. Help build the evidence base for #openscience. A budget of 2,7m€ is available for ~10 projects of 250k€. More information: www.openscience.nl/en/news/rese...

Three additional Digital Competence Centres funded to support researchers putting #openscience into practice, one of which is based in the Dutch Caribbean region!

What a nice interview with @phdtoothfairy.bsky.social introducing the Dutch Caribbean Digital Competence Network! I believe there is a lot we could all learn from your approach 😊Congratulations Esther & all your colleagues! 🎉

Practice what you preach: we have gone through the Publish (at MetaArXiv doi.org/10.31222/osf...); Review & Curate (metaror.org/kotahi/artic...) steps at @metaror.bsky.social with our @hldejonge.bsky.social / @msphelps.bsky.social) article ‘Tracking transformative agreements through open metadata’

New paper out using the Publish Review Curate model offered by @metaror.bsky.social. Very nice publishing experience!

Big thank you to @hldejonge.bsky.social @cwts.nl for the invitation to dialogue with the brilliant Dan Rudmann on #openscience and #authoritarianism this Friday: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... #academicsky join us if you can. #DefendResearch #StandUpForScience

"Trump administration texted college professors' personal phones to ask if they're Jewish." https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/ As all academics know, you can't ask this question in a job interview […]

The man who used to be the next president www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrJP...

The German Leopoldina academy has a discussion paper on the financing of diamond publishing where they propose to fund it in the same way as research, through competitive grants to academic bodies. The idea has merit […]

What are the consequences of current attacks on science by the Trump administration on #openscience? Join this webinar with the fabulous @rouhiroo.bsky.social and @danrdmnn.bsky.social!

Please read this urgent and important plea to invest more, not less, in open science when under financial pressure. bit.ly/42FkAw3 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social @opensciencenl.bsky.social @cos.io @elisabethbik.bsky.social @ukrepro.bsky.social @tier2-project.eu @scienceguide.bsky.social

New blog @opensciencenl.bsky.social: 'Let's talk about open access books: What lessons have we learned from the NWO Open Access Books Fund?' www.openscience.nl/en/cases/let... @oapenbooks.bsky.social #openaccess #openaccessbooks @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social

Save the date: this year the National Open Science Festival #OSF2025NL will take place on 24 October 2025 in Groningen, with the #OSC-NL Barcamp taking place on the 23rd. 👉 opensciencefestival.nl/en/news/save... @unigroningen.bsky.social @umcgroningen.bsky.social @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social #LCRDM

Will They Come for PubMed Next? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

The Netherlands faces a critical risk of losing its leadership in knowledge and innovation if proposed science funding cuts proceed, warns NWO. The halving of Open Science NL's budget adds to these concerns. This week, the Senate is deliberating on the OCW budget: www.nwo.nl/en/news/know...

@nature.com “Are the Trump team’s actions affecting your research? Tell Nature” www.nature.com/articles/d41... via Signal: Max Kozlov: mkozlov.01; Dan Garisto: dgaristo.72; Heidi Ledford: hledford.01; Jeff Tollefson: jtollefson.11; Alexandra Witze: alexwitze.01; General Nature: naturenews.61 🧪

New preprint! Tracking transformative agreements w/ #openmetadata. We developed and tested a method to identify papers published under these contracts using data from OpenAlex & @coalitions-oa.bsky.social Journal Checker Tool. w/ @msphelps.bsky.social @jeroenson.bsky.social: doi.org/10.31222/osf...

The research environment in the U.S. is going through unprecedented changes, including a ban on preprints for NIH intramural researchers. In response to those events, we would like to share a message of support and ensure that ASAPbio stands firmly for open, inclusive, and uncensored science.🧪 🔬

Excited to announce I've been appointed Executive Director of the Barcelona Declaration @barcelonadori.bsky.social , (alongside my other consulting activities). We have funding for the next 3 years and will soon discuss the creation of a governance board. barcelona-declaration.org/news/2025020...

To what extent do researchers funded by Dutch Research Council NWO and ZonMw share the research data and code underlying their publications? Today we published an analysis based on 10.000+ papers using the open source tool Grobid: www.nwo.nl/en/news/shar... All underlying data openly available!

Yesterday we celebrated the launch of the National Training and Community Platform for Data Professionals! 🎉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/rdnl... @hldejonge.bsky.social @opensciencenl.bsky.social & @anjasmit.bsky.social @dans-knaw-nwo.bsky.social cogratulated everyone and kicked off the work!

Big news! Today we announce the launch of a 4,8m€ project to set up a national trainings platform for data stewardship in the Netherlands! Congratulations to the RDNL consortium with the successful bid!

This excellent study by @najko.bsky.social confirms what many suspect for quite some time: "current levels of implementation of transformative agreements is insufficient to bring about a large-scale transition to full #openaccess". Published in #QSS @mitpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

NWO signs the SoI for Open Research Europe (ORE), alongside ten other funding councils in Europe, research organisations, and ministries. The signatories aim to support and co-finance the OA publishing platform for an initial period of 5 years, starting in 2026. www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-...

„Plattformen wie Blue Sky brechen das Monopol auf und ermöglichen kreative Onlinediskurse", sagt der Mathematiker und Informatiker und aktuelle Preisträger der „netidee SCIENCE“-Förderung Jan Maly über Federated-Social-Media-Plattformen wie #bluesky. ▶️ scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/ki-v...

How to flip your journal: A guide to more equitable publishing with #DiamondOA doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Colleagues from several Dutch university libraries have prepared a guide on how to flip a journal to diamond open access. It includes a lot of highly valuable advice!

As of today the national website on #openaccess is completely renewed and it now comes with an awesome new feature: the DiamondOA expertise centre. A result of the national project run by universities and their libraries. www.openaccess.nl/en/diamond-o...

Knowledge security & open, international collaboration go hand in hand, experts say. Read more 👉 www.nwo.nl/en/cases/why... #DutchResearchCouncil #NWO #OpenScience

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We've been on Bluesky since January, and we're loving it so far! Open Science NL is here to connect, share, and collaborate on all things open science. Have you seen our Open Science General Starter Pack? Check it out and let’s keep the conversation going. go.bsky.app/E847hfK

🙏🏽 ✨ @cjvanlissa.bsky.social and @michelenuijten.bsky.social ! #openscience universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

New funding call: Want to contribute to transparency and reliability in research? Open Science NL offers funding for replication studies across all disciplines. Apply by 6 March 2025, with budgets of up to €200,000. Find out more in the Call for Proposals 👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/new-...

New year, new funding opportunities for #openscience in the NLs! Today @opensciencenl.bsky.social we are opening a new round of the much anticipated Replication Studies Programme. 5m€ is available for projects (up to 200k) in all disciplines. www.openscience.nl/en/news/new-...

What a year 2024 was! One marked by the looming budget cuts. But also one in which we @opensciencenl.bsky.social awarded over €20 million to projects to advance #openscience in the NLs. So proud of the team that made this possibe! Read here about progress we made: www.openscience.nl/en/cases/wha...