It’s a wrap! Thank you for joining us in #Groningen for this year’s #OpenScience Festival #NOSF2025 and for following along here.

We’re Josca and Babette from the University of Groningen Library - we took over this account for the 2025 festival edition, and now we’re signing off.

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Last Friday, the #OpenScience Festival #NOSF2025 in #Groningen brought together researchers, educators, and policy makers for a day full of collaboration and inspiration. Thank you all for joining and contributing to the festival!

Photos of the festival are now available:
https://opensciencefestival.nl/news/celebrating-open-science-key-moments-and-photos-from-groningen-2025

Celebrating open science: key moments and photos from Groningen 2025 | Open Science Festival

The Open Science Festival 2025 took place on 24 October at University Medical Center Groningen, attracting some 400 attendees, including researchers, educators, professional research support staff and policymakers, all eager to share and learn about open science practices.

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We've set up a dedicated Zenodo community where you can upload your slides, posters, and other materials from the festival.

🔗 https://zenodo.org/communities/osf2025nl/records?q=&l=list&p=1&s=10&sort=newest

✨ Make your work accessible to a wider audience and let attendees revisit your presentation.

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@babetteknauer @OSFNL

I was sick so I missed the #nosf2025

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Geo data – support for researchers

I created a @wikidata / @wdscholia page for the Leo Waaijers Open Science Award https://scholia.toolforge.org/award/Q136599626

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Scholia

Scholia

My remarks upon receiving the Leo Waaijers award at #nosf2025 now also up on my blog.

Thanks again — I am still brimming with warm feelings 💜

https://www.chjh.nl/remarks-leo-waaijers-award/

Remarks Leo Waaijers award

My acceptance remarks upon receipt of the Leo Waaijers Award (2025).

Chris Hartgerink
Just got home from the Netherlands #OpenScience Festival at the @rug.nl medical center. It was a wonderful edition, with more people attending than ever. So many are working on such great things. It’s really inspiring! #NOSF2025 But hey, who doesn’t want a sign like this in the garden?

Congratulations to Chris Hartgerink [email protected] for winning the Leo Waaijers award at the NL Open Science festival today, for their work on @ResearchEquals

#nosf2025.

It was an honour being nominated and sharing the podium with the other nominees - we have an amazing open science community!

(photo by @oberman)

Because it came up in discussions during #nosf2025 today: Pandoc is a powerful document conversion tool that helps you prepare content for different purposes and publication contexts.

#OpenAccess #OER #OpenScience

https://pandoc.org/

Pandoc - index

This year’s winner of the #OpenScience award at #NOSF2025 is @chartgerink founder of @ResearchEquals 👏👏🧡 — so well deserved! And as they said “It’s time to be bolder, not just bold enough!”