Live Streaming Science?

More and more scientists are using Twitch, a popular game-broadcasting platform, for science communication and outreach. Could this platform decrease the knowledge gap between academia and society?

Cevdet Acarsoy • December 18, 2019

When Social Sciences become social movements!

This summer, a look at trending twitter hashtags led to some confusion. Leiden proudly hosted the SIPS conference on placebo studies. But #SIPS2019 was already being used for a different SIPS conference taking place in Rotterdam at the same time!

Leonie Cloos and Ricarda Proppert • September 30, 2019

A Serious Game for Psychologists

How to pimp up innovation and replication in psychological science?

Fenna Poletiek • September 18, 2015

In Practice

Science should generate knowledge that can be used to address real-life problems. That’s what taxpayers believe, it’s what many scientist endorse, and it’s the thinking underlying the development of the new Dutch Science Agenda. So how do we go about it?

Naomi Ellemers • June 03, 2015

Plagiarism please!

The current practice of avoiding academic plagiarism costs millions of dollars per year. By allowing scholars to plagiarize, these costs can be reduced substantially and more scientific progress can be made.

Pascal Haazebroek • September 25, 2013

Publishing open access: good or bad idea?

On Wednesday 6 February 2013 the KNAW and the Young Academy organized a debate with the theme: ‘Publish Open access or perish’. The central question in this debate concerned the future of open access publishing. Is it a great new development or not?

Eveline Crone • February 01, 2013

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