Please note, this story contains details about incidents of sexual assault. I want to tell you two stories about times when I was either sexually assaulted, or when it was attempted at me. I have been toying with the idea about whether or not to write about this for some time, especially given recent events […]
Open Science has always been pluralistic in its practices, values, and principles. While in some respects, there is strength in such diversity, it can also make strategic co-ordination inherently difficult. With this in mind, these are the five key things that I feel the “Open Science movement/community” could focus on in the future: Research evaluation […]
I first started attending scientific conferences as an undergraduate in the UK, more than a decade ago now. Over the years since, I have been fortunate enough to attend a range of events around the world in a number of different capacities; speaker, host/organiser, panelist, intern, general attendee, you name it. Through this, I have […]
Platforms such as Twitter seem to increasingly foster and encourage unhealthy, vitriolic and hostile behaviours. These often transpire as forms of ‘outrage’ culture, virtue-signalling, mobbing, and cancel culture, none of which seem particularly virtuous. I woke up today to see that even tea, yes, tea, has now become a victim of an online mob. I […]
Source: Pirates and publishers both battle COVID-19 – CGTN, by Daniel Harries. The scientific research community has been divided by a conflict between publishers and internet pirates, in a battle over access to knowledge, copyright laws and public health. Despite ongoing antagonism both sides are now doing their bit against the COVID-19 outbreak. Research into […]
Recently, I published a book called “The [R]evolution in Open Science“, which is available on Amazon now for $3. While all of the chapters are already available online for free, they weren’t all indexed in one place for easier discovery. Well, now this post brings them all together! So, you don’t have to pay, or […]
In my many years on Twitter, I have seen a lot of interesting things. Back when I first started some 9 years ago, it used to be, well, fun. People would joke, share, and generally enjoy engaging as part of a community. We used to go viral, discussing and celebrating the things we loved. Now […]
This article represents the fourth update in a series regarding a public statement made by the organisation, OpenCon. Here are parts One, Two, and Three, each of which present an important piece into this ongoing saga. I am continuing to make these correspondences a matter of public record in order to provide as much documentation […]
Yesterday was perhaps one of the most challenging days of my life so far. As many of you know, my life has been wracked by a series of quite devastating challenges the last few months, which I have documented on this blog. The motivations and reasons for these events still largely remain unclear to me […]
Very happy that our article, Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing, was by FAR the most popular article published in Publications in 2019. Congratulations, and thanks, to all co-authors for helping to produce such a useful piece of work! The screenshot below is from the annual report from the journal. I hope it continues to […]