Open Science News – 24 April 2015

24 April, 2015

Yesterday and today the FOSTER-UNESCO Open Science for Doctoral Schools meeting took place in Paris. Attendees have been tweeting using the #OpenSci4Doc hashtag.
Digital Science has been busy: Here’s a summary of their “Shaking It Up: Challenges and Solutions in Scholarly Information Management” event in San Francisco earlier this week, and an announcement of an upcoming webinar about Best Practices in Research Object Management
This year’s Open Con meeting will take place in Brussels.
Kaitlin Thaney proposes an idea to help labs assess the open science skill set of incoming graduate students. She’s asking for suggestions and feedback, so leave her a comment.
An interesting blog post on the LSE blog asks: To what are we opening science?
“Because so little formal attention has been paid to coding in the lab, the process of learning to code has at times proven isolating, stressful and immensely time consuming for many early career researchers.” Mozilla Science Lab released a handbook to help scientists learn about coding together.
Hack Your PhD created a beautiful poster about open science for a recent meeting.
And finally, we created some open science news of our own this week, when we launched the first collaborative living figure. This article already had one interactive figure 3, but in this new version the article has additional data from other labs feeding in to Figure 4, updating the results in real time. It was covered in Nature News, and on our blog.

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