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Chris Hartgerink

Chris Hartgerink

Self-hosting vs paid hosting

Self-hosting vs paid hosting

I migrated my blog from a self-hosted Ghost server to the hosted service provided by Ghost - and it’s a relief to be honest. I have always enjoyed administrating things myself. I hate it when I can’t (👀 at you organizational IT departments). Privately, I would consider myself an

A year at JOSS in review

It’s already been a year since I announced I was starting as an editor at JOSS! 🤯 I am still smug about being on their about page: In all seriousness though, I’ve learned a lot since I started editing. I’d never been an editor at a journal, and

Perpetually imminent launches

Perpetually imminent launches

It’s not uncommon for academics to have ideas - in fact it’s what they’re paid for. Sometimes it feels like that's where they stall too. With the push to reform science, academics have been funnelling those ideas towards improving science. More minds, more insights -

Why I schedule my emails

Why I schedule my emails

Emails can be a neverending to do list. In a way, it's like housework: There's always something to do and it's undervalued. Don't get me wrong - I love email because it's a to do list too. But sometimes it

Editing for Upstream

Editing for Upstream

I've been invited to join the Upstream blog's editorial team – I am happy to announce that from now on I'll be working with Ginny Hendricks, Christine Ferguson, Martin Fenner, and John Chodacki to bring new content on the blog. Launched in February 2022, the

"Data upon request" no longer ethical?

"Data upon request" no longer ethical?

A recent paper in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology indicates that researchers in their sample who indicate data is available upon request actually fail to comply with data requests in 93%. This seemed to make a great impression on Twitter, with over 3,000 retweets and 15,000 likes (at

Unarchived research - the case of ScienceMatters

Unarchived research - the case of ScienceMatters

One of the key functions of a scholarly publishing system is archiving the work - something that doesn't happen without effort. One of the documents I like to reference for archival strategy is that by National Digital Stewardship Alliance - it goes from hot archival (easily retrievable but