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This week in open science news: Some interesting pieces to read, and a few ways you can be involved in open science via hack days, community calls, or surveys.

Things to read:

• Science is often flawed. It’s time we embraced that. By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman on Vox
• Will traditional science journals disappear? By Dorothy Bishop in The Guardian.
• Weighing Up Anonymity and Openness in Publication Peer Review. By Hilda Bastian on Absolutely Maybe (PLOS blogs)

Things to do:

• A community call to discuss contributor badges (May 20),
• The NHS hackday (London, 16/17 May)
• The Mozilla Science Lab global sprint (various locations, June 4/5)
• A survey about scholarly communication tools