I have never been in Open Science for the money. I was also never trained in marketing, which is why I have now made my latest book, The [R]evolution of Open Science, available online for free. In epub and pdf formats, as well as on Amazon still for less than $3 if you want a […]
Finally, a project that has been in the works for around 2 years is now online! What started just from a simple idea exploded into this project, and I am grateful to have worked with some beautiful minds on crafting this together. Here it is, “A tale of two ‘opens’: intersections between Free and Open […]
The Paleobiology Database (PBDB) is a public, digital archive of the fossil record. Based on countless hours of work from more than 400 scientists around the world, it now contains more than 1.3 million individual fossil occurrences from around the world in a single database that is accessible by everyone. That’s pretty awesome. What’s even more […]
Right on the back of OpenCon in DC and my open science talk with the Ministry of Education in Slovenia was our AMAZING OpenCon satellite event in Berlin! We kicked off day one with an epic hackathon, a ‘reproducibility hack‘ led by Anna Krystalli and Julien Colomb, and with the backing of the PaperHive and Overleaf […]
Straight to it. Myself and Bastian Greshake have been invited to OpenCon this year. Sadly though, we were not awarded travel grants. Super sadly, we’re both poor too. As such, we’ve launched a crowdfunding campaign on IndieGogo to help us get to Washington DC. All the details are on the page, including a video with […]
A few weeks ago, OpenCon hit Brussels in a tidal wave of awesomeness, and led me to thinking about how open access and all that jazz aren’t really about just making papers openly available, but in making the statement that knowledge is something that everyone has equal rights to. Open Science isn’t just a way […]