Open Science News – 21 August 2015
| 21 August, 2015 | Eva Amsen |
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Was the Ecological Society of America (ESA) too strict with their social media policy during their recent conference? Many attendees (and followers of the #ESA100 hash tag) were expecting the ESA to have a “tweet unless told not to” policy, but it was changed at the last moment to a policy allowing attendees to only tweet with explicit speaker permission. In a draft letter to the organisers of next year’s conference, the ESA Open Science section is asking for a change to this policy, and also emphasize the the importance of an ESA-branded collection of posters and slides. ESA have a channel on F1000Research for this very purpose, so please have a look at the channel, and submit your own poster/slides to make sure they get the exposure they deserve!- “What is open science? And why support it?” Matthew Dovey writes on the JISC blog about the future EU plans for open science, and why it matters.
- RCUK seeks feedback on good practice guidelines for open research data. You can send your feedback and comments until September 28, to the address mentioned in the announcement.
- Sadly, the Open Science group on Stack Exchange, which we have mentioned before, did not get enough users to be able to continue as an open group. It was supposed to be a place where anyone could ask questions about open science. Where do you currently go to get these questions answered?
- “Science Isn’t Broken – It’s just a hell of a lot harder than we give it credit for” is the header of a great article on FiveThirtyEight, by Christie Aschwanden. It explains many of the issues with the scientific evaluation system to an audience that might not be too familiar with how research is carried out and reported.
- A group of researchers, engineers, and educators from different countries in the global south is working on the Open Source Hardware Project, to be able to provide laboratory equipment to researchers in these countries.
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