Is the scientific literature a database or a library? - LSE Impact How do two conflicting visions of the scientific literature as either a library or a database shape attitudes shape key issues in scholarly communication?

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Nanoscience is latest discipline to embrace large-scale replication efforts A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells.

📰 David Adam reports for Nature News on our Replication Initiative

"A European project calls for help to verify whether carbon quantum dots are really able to sense chemicals in cells."

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De aanslag op de universiteiten steunde op een draagvlak dat nog steeds aanwezig is - Vox magazine Waarom, vraagt columnist Willen Halffman zich af, moest er zo nodig bezuinigd worden op de universiteiten? 'Daar ligt nu onze grote uitdaging: hoe maken we van onze universiteiten instellingen die op ...

Wellicht worden de bezuinigingen op onderwijs en wetenschap teruggedraaid, maar het draagvlak voor deze budgettaire aanval is nog niet weg. Column voor @voxweb.bsky.social .

RROSA Symposia no. 4: guest lecture Jennifer Byrne Programme Monday 2 March 2026, 10.30-12.00 HG00.616(Huygens building, ground floor, wing 6)Access free, no registration needed. Jennifer Byrne (U.Sydney) “Wrongly identified reagents in resea…

Upcoming: RROSA symposium #4 with a double lecture by @jabyrnesci.bsky.social & @willemhalffman.bsky.social

Monday, 2 March 2026, 10.30-12.00
Radboud University
Room HG00.616 (Huygens building, ground floor, wing 6)

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📣 Submit to our track 'Making Science Better?' at the STS NL Conference which will take place in Twente from April 15 to 17, 2026! More details in the link below.

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The Library and the Database: Contrasting Expectations in Two Imaginaries for the Research Literature - Minerva Two competing imaginaries inform the current wave of innovations in research publishing: one that perceives ‘the literature’ as a library of research accounts, and one that sees it as a gigantic datab...

One imaginary sees the scientific literature as a gigantic library, with texts to be read. Another sees it as a database, with facts to be mined. Our analysis clarifies contrasting expectations informing current publishing innovations, and their epistemic and political risks.
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Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News? In recent years, retractions of scientific papers have been rising. Most retractions invalidate scientific claims and should not be used as sources of information. Retractions may directly affect k...

Do journalists correct the news if their scientific source articles get retracted? Barely, although quality media do it a little more.

Valinciute, Auste, and Willem Halffman. ‘Do Journalists Update Retracted Science News?’ Journalism Practice, Routledge, 2025, 1–23. doi.org/10.1080/1751....

Announcing Colloquium: Problematic Science. With presentations by @elisabethbik.bsky.social and @stanvanpelt.bsky.social. RU, 14 oct.