This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened on Twitter. A direct series of insults towards researchers for expressing their view on a matter relating to ‘Open Science’. Any other idiots out there that feel like exposing themselves today? pic.twitter.com/i3GdToGSdR — Jordan Anaya (@OmnesResNetwork) May 13, 2017 Yeah, that’s not helping. […]
Earlier this year, we announced that we were going to build an Open Science MOOC! So far, more than 30 people from around the world have contributed their time and expertise. Thanks to their volunteer input, we have all managed to construct a proposed structure for this project, which can be found here. This is […]
Open Access needs to be used more effectively to tear down barriers to research accessibility. The ‘open’ versus ‘closed’ access debate probably doesn’t make that much sense to many people. Including myself, actually. It’s not immediately clear what either term means in different contexts (e.g., data, review, research, science), or what we actually even mean […]
Dear Sage Bionetworks, I am writing to express my interest in your Assembly in Washington this coming April. I have just completed my PhD, which I guess classifies me as a ‘young investigator’. For the past 5 years, alongside my studies, I have been a pretty relentless campaigner for various aspects of ‘open research’. I […]
‘Open’ is not an end result for research: it is a mechanism. A mechanism for improved transparency and accountability, for reproducibility and rigour, and efficiency and accelerated discovery. A new article by Marcus Munafò and colleagues presents a manifesto for reproducible research that highlights this, and contains substantial important reading on this topic. Enjoy! Abstract […]
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 […]
Just to follow up from the last post here, a nice blog post over at OpenAIRE has popped up for the conference on Open Science in Slovenia I talked at a couple of weeks ago. It provides nice snapshot summaries of each of the talks involved, and a continuous video of all the talks can […]
I have been gifted with a rare opportunity. The next step in my life is what I’m calling my ‘Journey to nowhere’. (#JourneyToNowhere on Twitter and Instagram) My PhD left has me quite mentally and physically drained. I wanted to do the best damn job possible, and sadly that comes at a cost sometimes. I […]
For the 3-4 regular readers of this blog, you’re probably aware that a while back we published a paper with F1000Research reviewing the evidence behind the societal, economic, and academic impacts of Open Access. Today, we submitted what I like to think of as the ‘final’ version of that paper. We have taken on an […]
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 […]