Open Science Blog

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.

This month's publication addresses blockchain technology. It critically examines the shortcomings while acknowledging the continued relevance of foundational technologies like Merkle trees and digital signatures. The research emphasizes the need to prioritize real-world requirements over blind adoption, especially when public funds are involved.

In 2024, the UG Open Science Blog continued to provide insights into open research and scholarly communication, publishing 18 articles and interviews that spanned diverse academic landscapes. Join us as we revisit the articles that captured the most attention this year.

This month we place the spotlight on a paper that places the field of Internet Studies in historical perspective. It was written by Susan Aasman, Tom Slootweg and Rik Smit from the Research Centre for Media and Journalism Studies (Faculty of Arts).

This month’s publication shows that replication studies are important but also difficult and hard work. It was written by a team of researchers and ethnographers, led by Maarten Derksen (Faculty of behavioural and Social Sciences).

October's open access article in the spotlight examines how university researchers develop a hybrid identity that combines academic and entrepreneurial roles, finding that both the perception of a university’s entrepreneurship strategy and its society-industry orientation significantly influence this identity, with the latter moderating the effect of the former.

This month's publication in the spotlight reviews three potential driving interventions to discern their impact on road safety when implemented specifically for drivers with ADHD.