As of January 2024, and after several years of successful interdisciplinary collaboration, the Special Interest Group (SIG) Open Statistical Software JASP and R has ceased to exist.
From March 1st onwards, Roel Brouwer will be the new team lead for the research engineers. He will take over the tasks of Martine de Vos. She will start her new role as ‘kwartiermaker’ for the local Digital Competence Centre (DCC).
Jasmijn van Harten, Jantien van Berkel, Janna Besamusca and Joop Schippers (all Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ) are leading a part in the 'Autisme works' research.
Kate Avis, Jeffrie Quarsie and Lorelie Tummers will each receive a Mosaic 2.0 grant from NWO. The aim of the PhD scholarship programme is to promote an inclusive working environment within Dutch knowledge institutions.
A new summer school on causal inference and causal data science methods has been developed by members of the Causal Data Science Special Interest group (now open for registration!)
In Woodcuts as Reading Guides: How Images Shaped Knowledge Transmission in Medical-Astrological Books in Dutch (1500-1550), Andrea van Leerdam shows the importance of woodcuts.
To help Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ staff set up their workflow when using software tools and computational services, the Research Engineering team makes its expertise available.
In the Groningen landscape, you will find few signs that directly refer to gas extraction. Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ scholars Gertjan Plets and Nikkie Wiegink aim to change this.
By making the source code freely available, the CDH Research Software Lab has made their text and data mining tool I-Analyzer accessible to everyone for free.
Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ Library has made a major contribution to the realisation of the documentary Metamorphosis, which is shown at the Amsterdam IDFA festival.
In the third blog in the series 'Simple steps towards FAIR code and software' Julian Gonggrijp explains how you can ensure that others can run your code.
As of 1 November 2023, Prof. dr. Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij will be the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Wijngaards-de Meij is Professor of Data Use for Innovation in Higher Education. She has served as Vice Dean of the faculty since 2019.