Talks

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Studierende, es scheint eigentlich selbstverständlich, dass Wissenschaftler:innen genau wissen sollten, warum sie eine statistische Analyse durchführen. Jedoch zeigt sich, dass sie oft erstaunlich vage bezüglich des Ziels ihrer Analyse, dem so genannten theoretischen Schätzwert, bleiben. Dies mag teilweise strategisch sein (wenn man das Ziel einer Analyse nicht genau angibt, ist […]

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen, liebe Studierende, Wir freuen uns sehr, dass wir für den ersten Vortrag der Open Science-Reihe in diesem Jahr Elisabeth Bik gewinnen konnten. Sie wird am 24. Januar um 15 Uhr über “Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research – how can Open Science help?” sprechen.  Elisabeth Bik ist eine Bildforensik-Detektivin, die ihren Job in der

Dear colleagues and students, When we ask people what open science is, we typically receive a broad variety of responses, ranging from “it’s about making sure people can read your papers for free (open access)” to “you have to make your data available (RDM)” to “that’s really complicated to describe”. The truth is that open science is all of these things and more, but it

Dear Colleagues and Students, Our next guest, this Wednesday, 12.07. at 12h, is Dr Helena Hartmann, postdoc at the Uniklinik Essen. Helena Hartmann will give a lecture with the title “Open Science and feminist psychology – a dream team?“. In it, she aims to discuss how feminist researchers navigate the world of (open) science, guided

Dear Colleagues and Students, Our next guest is Dr Rima-Maria Rahal, postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods (Cologne). Rima-Maria Rahal will speak about her latest paper on why “Quality research needs good working conditions“, published in Nature Human Behavior. We are excited to discuss this important and timely topic on

Dear colleagues, dear students,  we would like to invite you to the next event in our Open Science event series. On Thursday, 8 December, at 3 pm, Jeanette Erdmann, Sören Krach and Jonas Obleser will host a panel discussion on “The future of scientific publishing”. Traditional as well as innovative publication models of different journals

Dear colleagues, dear students, as part of our Open Science lecture series, next Thursday February 23 at 3 pm André Calero Valdez, one of the winners of the Open Science Award of the University last year, will give a talk titled “Automating Open Science. Using digital tools to assist research and communication”.André Calero Valdez studied

Today we had a very exciting exchange with Daniel Nüst from CODECHECK, located at the TU Dresden, Germany, organized by the German Reproducibility Network (GRN). CODECHECK supports code checkers who independently evaluate the authors’ code and execution of computations underlying scientific papers by providing them with a workflow, guidelines, and tools. Code checkers do not

Today we had a very interesting meeting with the Responsible Metrics team of the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research. The meeting was organized by the German Reproducibility Network (GRN) to increase communication among initiatives that are part of the network and facilitate collaborations. The exchange with Responsible Metrics was very inspiring. Specifically their training

Dear colleagues, dear students, we would like to invite you to a talk on June 23 at 3 pm by Dr. Carsten Richter (Lübeck University/ IEBD | Institut für Entrepreneurship und Business Development) on “Reconciling Intellectual property and Open Science in the response to emerging diseases“ While Open Science is about providing unlimited access to scientific knowledge, the idea