I am currently preparing for the courses I teach in term 2 and one of my objectives this year is to create course websites ¹ with course material that the students can access but that can also be made available publicly in the hope that they might be useful to someone ² . It is also an opportunity to move away from a workflow that discourages improvement and makes editing material cumbersome.

A shorter version of this blog post in Dutch has been published earlier on the website of Nederlandse UNESCO Commissie.

Die Perspektiven von Geflüchteten sind in Öffentlichkeit und Politik stark unterrepräsentiert – auch und vor allem beim Thema Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik. Das hat auch die Debatte um den Rückblick auf 10 Jahre „langer Sommer der Migration“ nicht geändert.

L’appel de propositions du Forum des revues étudiantes est ouvert ! Cet appel s’adresse aux étudiants canadiens qui participent à la publication de revues étudiantes ou qui s’y intéressent. The English version is available here.

The Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals is open! The call is open to students in Canada who are involved with or interested in student journal publishing. Version française disponible ici.

The Publication Facts Label Is Now Freely Available for the 34,000 Journals Using OJS (V. 3.3 – 3.5) There’s no better way for journal publishers and editors to address today’s questions of research integrity than to implement PKP’s Publication Facts Label (PFL) in their instance of OJS (versions 3.3 – 3.5). The open source PFL Plugin […] The post This label will put your journal’s research integrity in black and white appeared first on

Die Rückschau auf zehn Jahre „Langer Sommer der Migration“ zeigt die starke Rolle der Kommunen als Orte des Ankommens. Städte und Gemeinden sind die Orte, wo Geflüchtetenaufnahme stattfindet, wo Integrationsprozesse vorangetrieben werden und wo Modi des miteinander Lebens und der Teilhabe ausgehandelt werden.

Today CWTS released the Leiden Ranking 2025. We in fact released two editions of the ranking, the Traditional Edition and the Open Edition. The Leiden Ranking Traditional Edition is the name we use for the Leiden Ranking based on data from the Web of Science database. The Leiden Ranking Open Edition is the name of a new edition of the Leiden Ranking launched last year based on open data from the OpenAlex database.

A lot of things are less than ideal in the world at the moment, but I can’t help but be amazed at what one can do with a static website. WebR through quarto-live allows you to run R (you can also run Python with pyodide) in the browser. No server required. Like below: eyJhdHRyIjp7ImVkaXQiOnRydWUsImV2YWwiOnRydWV9LCJjb2RlIjoiMisyIn0= I can’t help but feel this is a little like magic.

On October 24th, I received the Leo Waaijers award at the Dutch Open Science Festival. The judges announced a shortlist from 26 nominations, which included the Barcelona Declaration coordinating team, EnvisionBox team, and myself as the founder of ResearchEquals. I include my acceptance remarks below — thank you for all the appreciations, it really fills me up and reinvigorates the work!

International research mobility is widely seen as a strategic tool to strengthen national research capacity and global competitiveness. Programmes like the Fulbright Program (US), the Sandwich Doctorate Programme (Brazil), Erasmus Programmes (EU), and China Scholarship Council (China) illustrate this global commitment.