Open Science Blog

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.

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.

We asked co-author Kasper Meijer to tell us more about his publication in Scientific Data, an open access journal for descriptions of datasets and research that advances the sharing and reuse of scientific data.

Datasets of the GDCC are openly available and some have been downloaded over 100,000 times. We asked Director Prof Robert Inklaar to tell us more about the importance of FAIR data, the GDCC and why he chose to be an Open Science ambassador for his faculty.

The University of Groningen sees open science as one of its priorities. In this interview, we look back with Cisca Wijmenga on the development of open science at the university during her time as Rector Magnificus.

Having appropriate infrastructure in place is crucial for practicing open science. We asked researcher and data steward Pascal de Boer to tell us more about a FAIR and open access data repository he co-created.

Part of open science is to not only make your research data, but also software and code available to others in a FAIR way. But how to do this? Software specialist Burcu Beygu shares some practical advice.

Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. One of the ways to do this is by publishing your dataset in a dedicated journal.

Part of open science is that researchers make their data FAIR: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. We asked Lilian Peters and colleagues to tell us more on how they accomplished this for highly relevant medical health data.