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• Earlier this week, the Advancing Research Communication & Scholarship conference took place in Philadelphia. Here, Paige Brown moderated a roundtable on Socializing Scholarly Communication, with Lou Woodley, Erin McKiernan and Ivan Oransky. On the BioMedCentral blog, Stephanie Harriman wrote a summary of another ARCScon panel, on Righting Peer Review. You can find more tweets/slides/thoughts from ARCScon on twitter, with hashtag #arcs2015
• Exciting things are happening in the EU: The final report on the Science 2.0 Public Consultation is now published on the website of the European Commission. Meanwhile, on May 6 (next week) The Hague declaration on knowledge discovery in the digital age will be launched in Brussels.
• China’s scientific progress hinges on access to data, writes Zheng Wan in Nature News.
• There’s an interesting discussion in the comments of this blog post by Titus Brown, in which he asks if open science proponents are in an “open science bubble”. What do you think?
• Finally, New York City saw its first open science meetup this week. Some photos in the tweets below:

Full house of #openscience enthusiasts in the NYC meetup tonight! Talk by @KyleCranmer just about to start. pic.twitter.com/kaKtFM3euo

— Deyan Ginev (@dginev) April 29, 2015

#openScience and a puppy pic.twitter.com/hVBwSjyt5J

— Kyle Cranmer (@KyleCranmer) April 29, 2015