Open Science Blog

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 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.

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.

What is the source of commonalities among languages in the world? In this article, Alexander Martin (Faculty of Arts) and co-authors explore this question by making a comparison between word-order preference of speakers of Kîîtharaka and English.

Can love affect knowledge and knowledge affect love? John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor-Mill, Max and Marianne Weber, and Bertrand and Dora Russell had a definite vocation: they wanted to change the world.