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Project in LISS Call 2018Researchers: Muriel Hagenaars (UU), Jacques Hagenaars (TiU) In extreme danger, the best-known automatic reactions are probably to fight or to flight. But a third, relatively unknown response is tonic immobility (‘playing dead’), which occurs especially in (perceived) unescapable threatening situations. Tonic immobility increases survival chances in animals hunted by predators. It…

Project in LISS Call 2018Lead researcher: Bastian Jaeger (TiU) Despite their generally poor accuracy, personality impressions based on facial appearance influence a wide range of behaviors, such as criminal sentencing, voting, personnel selection, and social exchange. A possible explanation for this is that people are lay physiognomists: they believe that a person’s character is reflected…

At the request of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the KNAW wrote the advisory report Hergebruik van publieke data. Meer wetenschap en beter overheidsbeleid (Reuse of public data. More science and better government policy). Yesterday, Pearl Dysktra, head of the committee and scientific director of ODISSEI, handed the report to the Ministry. In…

ODISSEI has submitted a proposal to the NWO Roadmap Large-scale scientific infrastructure. Requesting €18 million, ODISSEI wants to further develop the ODISSEI Secure Supercomputer (OSSC), set up a laboratory for innovations in data collection and analysis, continue to finance and innovate fieldwork, and set up a hub for education and communication. The proposal is assessed by…

After the success of the first call in 2018, this year ODISSEI repeats the call Collect data in the LISS panel. In this call, researchers at one of the ODISSEI member organisations can apply for free data collection through the LISS panel. This panel, managed by CentERdata, consists of some 7,000 individuals from approximately 4,500…

ODISSEI welcomes CentERdata, Erasmus School of Health Policy Management (Erasmus University Rotterdam), and the VU School of Business and Economics as its newest member organisations. The full list of ODISSEI member organisations can be found here.

In the latest edition of e-Data & Research much attention is paid to ODISSEI. Scientific director Pearl Dijkstra wrote a column on the importance of cooperation for reaching your scientific goals (see English translation below). Anne Gielen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) was interviewed on her research on the long term effects of the adjustments made to…

In the ODISSEI LISS call 2018, nine projects were awarded free time in the LISS panel: Seger Breugelmans, Tilburg University Henk van der Kolk, Twente University Tim Wildschut, Utrecht University Nadine Bol, Universiteit van Amsterdam Bella Struminskaya, Utrecht University Muriel Hagenaars, Utrecht University Mariëlle Cloin, Tilburg University Bastian Jaeger, Tilburg University Banu Aysolmaz, Maastricht University…

Theme: Mobile device surveys and sensordata The Dutch Platform for Survey Research (NPSO) is organizing their second annual lecture day on 21 May. This years theme is ‘mobile device surveys and sensordata’. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets can no longer be ignored in our daily lives. Also in survey research, more and more…

The Netherlands eScience Center invites ‘Big Science’ researchers and ICT researchers to apply for funding to address innovative compute-intensive and/or data-driven research problems. Theretofore, the eScience Center introduces the call Innovative eScience Technologies for ‘Big Science’ (eTEC-BIG). The deadline for the submission of pre-proposals is Thursday 9 May 2019, 14:00 CET. The deadline for submission of…