This month's publication is dedicated to an analysis of the phenomenon of belief polarisation, which occurs when the same evidence causes a divergence of opinion between two individuals. It was co-authored by Leah Henderson, who works at the Faculty of Philosophy.

Mistral is a new open access peer-reviewed journal developed from scratch with the University of Groningen Press. Interview with the editor-in-chief Camilla Sutherland.

The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) employs random selection in grant decisions. Dr. Marco Bieri from the SNSF explains the rationale behind this and reflects on the experiences so far.

The university of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities of the next five years. But what exactly is the status of open science at the different UG Faculties? In this edition: the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences.

The newly established MSc programme in Voice Technology at Campus Fryslân is not only unique because of its cutting-edge and interdisciplinary approach of speech technologies, but also because it integrates open science practices in its curriculum.

An ORCID iD is a persistent identifier designed especially for researchers. Maintaining and using an ORCID iD will not only help you to receive recognition for your work, you also contribute to creating an open and robust research infrastructure. 

The article in the spotlight for this month is dedicated to public reactions to organizational digressions. It was written by Peer Stiegert and co-authors, who are all affiliated to the Faculty of Economics and Business. 

In this months' open access article in the spotlight, authors Eveline van Leeuwen (Wageningen University) and Viktor Venhorst (Faculty of Spatial Sciences, UG) investigate whether Dutch households prefer to move up or down the urban hierarchy during an economic crisis.

UG and UMCG authors unfortunately sometimes fall prey to predatory publishing behaviour. In this post, we outline four cases - anonymously - in the hope that this will help others avoid similar circumstances in the future.

As EURO 2020 has just kicked off, we place the spotlight on the article 'How Soccer Scouts identify Talented Players,' which was written by various UG authors from the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences and Faculty of Medical Sciences.