Berent Prakken
@bprakken
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vice dean for education and professor of pediatric immunology University Medical Center Utrecht ; CSO of the Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine
the Netherlands
Joined October 2010
Just 4 more days before the opening of the first complete virtual PRES conference ( https://t.co/Gfrrtq3equ) will go live with off course first YIM organised by @PReSEMERGE. Join more than 1100 colleagues who already registered!
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I agree with @lucienengelen please listen to our colleagues in @Bernhoven
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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
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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. https://t.co/UG3NheO9R9 via @timeshighered
timeshighereducation.com
With careers riding on young scientists’ position in author lists, friction is all too common. A snowballing initiative to list authors’ contributions aims to make sure credit is always given where...
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Thank God, finally some positive news from Washington: US open access mandate projected as painful but needed https://t.co/QcnTaMRTpD via @timeshighered #openscience @openscience @SciTransit
timeshighereducation.com
Widely expected Plan S-style order hailed as ‘major boost’ to global movement
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Good tips for all graduate school students (and in fact also for faculty...): What not to do in graduate school
nature.com
Nature - Six limiting maxims PhD students should avoid.
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The button challenge is back! Put yourself in the shoes of a child with a rheumatic disease by taking part! #WORDDay2020 #ButtonChallenge2020 video link: https://t.co/Hp7Qxf73SD
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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
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Another argument for linking arts, medicine and humanities as we do in https://t.co/hR5OYObb6e of @HumanitiesUU @UU_GNK and @HKUtrecht : How poetry can improve (your) science:
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Platform voor interfacultaire samenwerking op het gebied van gezondheid en gezondheidszorg
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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
Nature - The publisher is scrutinizing researchers who might be inappropriately using the review process to promote their own work.
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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 https://t.co/3HqFb8fxWv
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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
https://t.co/JVSzPXSBat via @timeshighered
timeshighereducation.com
The ‘best’ scientists lack time for peer review, and academics should be rated for ‘worthy’ papers, argues Dan Shechtman
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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
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Read more about TM here; a collection of papers edited and (in large part) written by students and faculty of the Eureka Institute ( https://t.co/5cAhx0QKcr) The Silent Cry: How to Turn Translational Medicine Towards Patients and Unmet Medical Needs
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... 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
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Very inspiring week @ the Eureka @utrechtsummer on translational medicine with 37 students, 38 faculty from 20+ countries from all continents with inspiring teachers as @rfoty @salmaansana @MiedemaF @RinzeBenedictus @marcvanmil and many many more.....
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This is true flip- thinking @OmdenkenWorld Pat Furlong @utrechtsummer shows how she turned the greatest tragedy imaginable (loosing her both sons) into a world changing movement @ParentProjectMD. Humbled and honored to have her teach us
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Silence before the storm : the 4th Eureka summer school is@about to start @onderwijsUMCU @SciTransit @utrechtsummer
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