Berent Prakken

Retweet if you choose Dr. Fauci and science over Trump

Just 4 more days before the opening of the first complete virtual PRES conference (pres.eu/pres2020/) will go live with off course first YIM organised by @PReSEMERGE. Join more than 1100 colleagues who already registered!

I agree with @lucienengelen please listen to our colleagues in @Bernhoven

Inspirerend lunch in @UMCUtrecht met @jpaternotte. Mooi om om een politicus te ontmoeten die oprecht betrokken is bij studenten, docenten en onderzoekers en zich echt verdiept in de uitdagingen in Hoger Onderwijs @onderwijsUMCU @studentenbond @WOinactie

I guess whoever dreamed as a kid to become a scientist, never dreamed a about authorship orders. Let's do it the old way: settle authorship order with croquet matches as British ecologists Michael Hassell and Robert May did in 1973. timeshighereducation.com/features/what-… via @timeshighered

Thank God, finally some positive news from Washington: US open access mandate projected as painful but needed timeshighereducation.com/news/us-open-a… via @timeshighered #openscience @openscience @SciTransit

Good tips for all graduate school students (and in fact also for faculty...): What not to do in graduate school nature.com/articles/d4158…

The button challenge is back! Put yourself in the shoes of a child with a rheumatic disease by taking part! #WORDDay2020 #ButtonChallenge2020 video link: bit.ly/38m1q02

More news from the Nature graduate student survey: be aware starting PhD students: 25% said they would change their supervisor if they could start over again - sadly it is not even that surprising. Much, much more work to do @UU_GSLS @hvrijen @Prout_UU nature.com/articles/d4158…

Important story not to miss from @ek_wilson - please read (and think) her 9 tips - all important for young (and older) academics. @UU_GSLS @Prout_UU @onderwijsUMCU

@UU_GSLS @onderwijsUMCU @Prout_UU More disturbing news: mental health of PhD researchers demands urgent attention nature.com/articles/d4158…

@SciTransit @UU_GSLS @Prout_UU A kinder research culture is not only crucial but it is also possible! nature.com/articles/d4158…

Another argument for linking arts, medicine and humanities as we do in uu.nl/onderzoek/de-n… of @HumanitiesUU @UU_GNK and @HKUtrecht : How poetry can improve (your) science: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Almost too ashamed to post this, but this is actually happening (and we all know it). All due to a sick system that focuses on the wrong incentives (@SciTransit). So this is what PhD students (@Prout_UU) may be forced to do just to get their work published nature.com/articles/d4158…

This may ultimately help young researchers; some types of funding could be withheld unless universities provide better support for early- and mid-career staff — particularly women and trainees nature.com/articles/d4158… @UU_GSLS @Prout_UU

It took Nobel prize winner Dan Shechtman 2 years to get his finding through peer-review and was labeled "Quasi scientist". This system must change! @Eureka_TM timeshighereducation.com/news/nobelist-… via @timeshighered

A crucial step towards less bias and less waste: registered reports as an innovative way to publish based on the research question and not on the novelty of the results nature.com/articles/d4158…

@onderwijsUMCU @marcvanmil @hvrijen After chess, GO & dr Watson now AI poker bot is first to beat poker professionals at multiplayer game. Time to re-think the future of medical professionals and their education nature.com/articles/d4158…

Read more about TM here; a collection of papers edited and (in large part) written by students and faculty of the Eureka Institute (eurekainstitute.org) The Silent Cry: How to Turn Translational Medicine Towards Patients and Unmet Medical Needs frontiersin.org/research-topic…

... with a common goal; to do research that will have true impact on patients life’s. Thanks to all students and faculty, especially @patfurlong of @ParentProjectMD, and many others such as @cbenari We need each other to make a true difference. @SciTransit @onderwijsUMCU