Open Science Blog

Jelte Nimoth is an embedded data steward at FSE from the UG Digital Competence Centre (UG DCC). In his role, he combines his scientific and technical expertise to help researchers make their data and software FAIR, while developing practical solutions for data management in the lab. In this interview, he tells us more about his job and the system he created in the lab.

Federico Pianzola’s monograph 'Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the Twenty-First Century' was published open access through MIT Press’s Direct to Open programme and underwent open peer review, showcasing best practices in open science.

The article in the spotlight for the month of June 2025 is titled 'The Role of Neologisms in the Climate Change Debate: Can New Words Help to Speed Up Social Change?’, written by Greta Zella, Tommaso Caselli, Saskia Peels-Matthey (all from the Faculty of Arts) and Jan Willem Bolderdijk (Faculty of Economics and Business). 

Karène Sanchez-Summerer, chair of Middle Eastern studies, exemplifies public engagement through her exhibition "'A Dutch Lawrence of Arabia?' Jacob Israël de Haan" and open access publications. This interview explores her open science initiatives and motivations.

In this interview, we speak with Prof. Don van Ravenzwaaij, a leading advocate for open science and Professor at the Department of Psychometrics and Statistics at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the UG. He shares key challenges, practical solutions, and advice for researchers navigating the balance between openness and data protection.

The article in the spotlight for the month of May 2025 is titled 'Social infrastructures as pillars of resistance against housing commodification in creative city Groningen’.

The article in the spotlight for the month of April 2025 is titled 'De-Google-ing' our Students: A User Approach to Understanding Archival Media Discovery in the Classroom

The Open Science Programme supports the UG community in making this transition to being open. We talked to Casper Albers, Dean of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences (BSS) and Chair of the Steering Committee of the Open Science Programme since 2024.

In this interview, Dr. Sebastian Lequime, assistant professor at the Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES), tells us about his work on viral evolution and FAIR data practices, the development of the open-source tool detectEVE, and his perspective as Data Editor for the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

The article in the spotlight for 2025 is titled 'Intramolecular feedback regulation of the LRRK2 Roc G domain by a LRRK2 kinase-dependent mechanism' and provides research insights into the Leucine-Rich Repeat Kinase 2 (LRRK2), a crucial protein in Parkinson's disease (PD) research.