Monthly round-up: January 2022

Wel­come to new com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers!

• Lucas Grus (Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty and Research) 
• Zeynab Kamal (Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente)
• Kifil­ideen Osany­in­pe­ju (Fed­er­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Agri­cul­ture, Abeoku­ta)
• Gior­gia Gior­dana (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy)
• Lotte de Vos (KNMI)
• Steven Gold­smith (Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­si­ty)
• Lars Ban­nen­berg (Delft Uni­ver­si­ty of Tech­nol­o­gy)
• Mohamed Man­sour Khal­i­fa (Cairo Uni­ver­si­ty)
• Tim Vlem­mix (KNMI) 
• Joost Albers (Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty and Research)
• Madi­areni Sulaiman (Indone­sian Nation­al Research and Inno­va­tion Agency) 

Cel­e­brat­ing one year of our com­mu­ni­ty!

2021: Achieve­ments, reflec­tions and look­ing ahead…

Read about the growth, devel­op­ment and suc­cess­es of our glob­al online com­mu­ni­ty since it was start­ed in 2020. 

We’re launch­ing an intern­ship pro­gramme!

We’re pleased to announce that we’re offer­ing intern­ship projects for stu­dents, ear­ly career researchers and pro­fes­sion­als seek­ing fur­ther expe­ri­ence in research data man­age­ment, open sci­ence and sci­ence com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

Read more and apply!

Pub­lish­ing agri­cul­tur­al data: Future foods for sus­tain­able and healthy diets

PhD researcher, Ale­jan­dro Par­o­di, shares his moti­va­tions for open­ly pub­lish­ing his data and soft­ware code on bio­con­ver­sion effi­cien­cies of the black sol­dier fly.

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What’s the worst that can hap­pen to your data?

Coor­di­nat­ing data stew­ard at Wagenin­gen Uni­ver­si­ty and Research, Eri van Hei­jns­ber­gen, believes that the worst thing that can hap­pen to your data is that it is for­got­ten once your research is com­plete… Unless you make it FAIR, of course!

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Feed­ing hydro­genat­ed palm fat­ty acids and rumen-pro­tect­ed pro­tein to lac­tat­ing Hol­stein-Friesian dairy cows mod­i­fies milk fat tri­a­cyl­glyc­erol com­po­si­tion and struc­ture, and sol­id fat con­tent

Author(s): Kasper Het­tin­ga, Sara Pacheco, Sine Yen­er, Jan Dijk­stra, Hein van Valen­berg and Kel­ly Nichols
Cat­e­gories: Ani­mal Pro­duc­tion; Dairy Prod­ucts; Food Sci­ences

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Mon­i­tor­ing diox­ins, PCBs, PFAS and flame retar­dants in agri­cul­tur­al and fish­ery prod­uct

Author(s): Ste­fan van Leeuwen, Ron Hoogen­boom, Antoine Nijrold­er, Wim Traag, Jaap Immerzeel, Han­neke Brust, Car­o­line Dirks and Wouter A. Geb­bink
Cat­e­gories: Fish­eries — Aqua­cul­ture; Fish­eries — Wild Caught; Oth­er Ani­mal Pro­duc­tion and Ani­mal Pri­ma­ry Prod­ucts; Pri­ma­ry Ani­mal Prod­ucts


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For­age qual­i­ty in graz­ing lawns and tall grass­lands in the sub­trop­i­cal region of Nepal and impli­ca­tions for wild her­bi­vores

Author(s): Shyam Tha­pa, Joost F. de Jong, Naresh Sube­di, Naresh Sube­di, Anousch­ka Hof, Glo­ria Cor­ra­di­ni, Salu Bas­net and Her­bert HT Prins
Cat­e­gories: Ecol­o­gy

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Join TU Delft’s Open Sci­ence Pro­gramme as the Com­mu­ni­ty Engage­ment Man­ag­er

If you’re enthu­si­as­tic about com­mu­ni­ty build­ing, Open Access, FAIR data and Cit­i­zen Sci­ence then this role is for you!

Apply by 14th Feb­ru­ary

Stronger togeth­er: Fos­ter­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion between the UT-DCC, OSCT & 4TU.ResearchData

In 2022, the Uni­ver­si­ty of Twente’s Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­ter (UT DCC), the Open Sci­ence Com­mu­ni­ty Twente (OSCT) and 4TU.ResearchData are join­ing forces to co-organ­ise events and the­mat­ic ses­sions for researchers, lec­tur­ers, and sup­port staff in their shared jour­ney towards open sci­ence. 

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4TU.ResearchData meets KNMI

We held a webi­nar to inform Konin­klijk Ned­er­lands Mete­o­rol­o­gisch Insti­tu­ut (KNMI) data stew­ards about our data repos­i­to­ry and com­mu­ni­ty ser­vices. 

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The Uni­ver­si­ty of Twen­te’s DCC web­site has been updat­ed

The UT’s Dig­i­tal Com­pe­tence Cen­tre’s web­site now includes infor­ma­tion about new tools and ser­vices in the field of ICT for Research and Dig­i­tal­iza­tion of Sci­ence. 

Take a look

Data Con­ver­sa­tions: Peer-review for preprints and data

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with VU Ams­ter­dam, this event will will focus on qual­i­ty assess­ment for preprints and data pub­li­ca­tion. 4TU.ResearchData will intro­duce a pilot for the peer-review of data and soft­ware code pub­lished in the repos­i­to­ry.

Join us on 16th Feb­ru­ary — All wel­come!

4TU.ResearchData: A repos­i­to­ry ser­vice and com­mu­ni­ty for FAIR data

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the UT-DCC and OSCT, we are run­ning a webi­nar to demon­strate our ser­vices that sup­port researchers and data sup­port staff. 

Join us on 24th Feb­ru­ary — All wel­come!