Louise Bezuidenhout

Resilience in Times of Crisis: Strengthening Open Science Against Geopolitical Pressures How can open science be resilient in the face of geopolitical pressures? Drawing on findings from a recent workshop, we suggest four discussion points that need further consideration as funding agenci...

Check out our new blog post on resilience in Open Science www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/res...

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Are we nearly there yet? Six years into the national recognition and rewards program, and with all the support from the top management, can we talk of a behavior change on the work-floor?

🎙️ "Are we nearly there yet?"

Our colleague @alexrushforth.bsky.social joined the very first episode of the podcast series Fairly Recognised by the Dutch Recognition and Rewards programme to discuss the role of academics in research evaluation.

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Resilience in times of crisis: Strengthening Open Science against geopolitical pressures The success of the Open Science movement relies on research products and infrastructures being open, accessible and sustainably curated. Recent global events, however, have illustrated the vulnerabili...

Want to be part of a conversation about geopolitics and Open Science? Why not join us in Leiden on the 6th of November for the workshop "Resilience in times of crisis". Registration open now (in person only). www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026 The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).

Commitments → action

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social will discontinue its Web of Science subscription on 1 January 2026, consistent with the Barcelona Declaration.

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Three challenges for scientific publishing

Today I had the pleasure to be a panelist in the session 'moving beyond journals' at the @royalsociety.org Future of Scientific Publishing conference.

I argued that scientific publishing is going through a transformation addressing the challenges of openness, curation and meaningful dialogue.