Revising Science in the Making | First Issue: Sciences of the Mind
What does a congress on Posthumanism have in common with our journal? To be very honest, I had no idea at first. But, I was giving a talk there anyway, so I decided to ask whether I could give a short pitch on The Journal of Trial and Error. To my surprise, I was put on a panel together with Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Francesca Ferrando, two giants in the field.
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If, like us, you are interested in setting up an open access online journal; you’ll find a variety of resources, tips, and fairly detailed expected timing and budget predictions. However, many of these guides assume some aspects that us, as junior academics-to-be, lack.
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One of our first alliances was with the Open Science Community Utrecht (OSCU). Stefan was already a member, so it was relatively easy for him to come into contact with the founders of OSCU. Firstly, we asked whether they were willing to include a paragraph about us in their monthly newsletter.
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We must admit that we were a little nervous for our first UtrechtInc meeting, exactly one week ago. Our contact person, let’s call him John, was someone we had never met before and all his credentials we could find online were somewhat intimidating. However, he turned out to be a very nice guy. After some jokes about the Dutch language capacities of foreign PhD students and expats, we sat down to talk.
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