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Looking for something interesting to read while you wait on an experiment? Treat yourself to a 10 minute break and catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of Open Science!

•  The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub has selected its first cohort of 47 investigators and is requiring them to share their work as pre-prints. This is fantastic news for those of us that champion the free flow of scientific discoveries!
• Science communication and the publication of research has experienced dramatic shifts since the first scientific journals were published over 350 years ago. Check out this short comic strip by the folks at Wiley, which walks you through some of the changes in research communication, copyright, and collaboration.
• The issue of reproducibility in science has reached a point of inflection, with many an individual and organization offering potential solutions. With machine learning on the rise new questions have arisen: should we patrol ourselves or allow an unaccountable and automated machine do the work for us? Should this information be made public before consulting with the parties involved?
• With tensions running high at many US government agencies, there is widespread fear that decades of work and research data will be “pruned” from government websites and archives. Thankfully, diehard coders are working around the clock to monitor data use and archive it so that it will be available for generations to come.
• Eleven major international funding agencies, including the NIH and the U.K.’s Wellcome Trust, have released a statement calling for the creation of a central preprints server, to rival the arXiv platform that physicists have been using for decades. ASAPbio issued a call to establish a “Central Service” to house life-science manuscripts that have not yet been peer reviewed. Although the specifics of this server are yet to be determined, the consortium aims to encourage life scientists to publish their work more like physicists by making their manuscripts available as preprints before submitting them to peer-reviewed journals.