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• When will “open science” become simply “science”?  By Mick Watson in Genome Biology.
• Slides for a short course called “Open Science goes Geo”, which was presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly earlier this year, are available on Zenodo in three parts: Part I: Research Data, Part II: Scientific Software, Part III: Beyond Data and Software.
• The Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science award up to $15,000 to early-career researchers who promote open science practices. Temina Madon writes about the new prizes on the LSE blog.
• On The Winnower, Benjamin Laken proposes an Open Scientific Standard.
• Nature News and The Scientist both covered Yoav Gilad’s reanalysis of the mouse ENCODE data, and the use of Twitter as a discussion platform for science. Gilad published in F1000Research to create a more formal platform for discussion, and to make the comments easier to find in context.
• Finally, the #IAmAnOpenScientistBecause hashtag is still active. Here are a few of the more recent tweets:

#IamAnOpenScientistBecause I love being able to open the eyes and minds of the curious people that want to make the world a better place

— Nerea (@sailormercury91) May 18, 2015

#IamAnOpenScientistBecause I don’t think learning should be restricted by paywalls.

— Priya (@PL_Priya) May 19, 2015

#IamAnOpenScientistBecause #MedEd should be available to everyone everywhere #FOAMrad #FOAMed

— Dr Henry Knipe (@DrHenryK) May 20, 2015

#IamAnOpenScientistBecause Knowledge is the most important tool of society pic.twitter.com/z8lEQOTkTh

— Margeris (@MargerisJimenez) May 21, 2015