This week’s buzz in Open Science: Introducing OpenTrons: easy to use biotech tools that you can connect together to make a modular lab automation system so you can do more science than ever before! Looking for tips on how to write a winning grant? Check out these sample applications and summary statements provided by a…
The European Commission is asking for feedback on their paper “‘Science 2.0’- Science in Transition”. They’re inviting residents of Europe to read the paper and send in their thoughts before September 30. After it came to light that the first round of review, at Science, of the controversial STAP study was overwhelmingly critical, Lenny Teytelman…
Björn Brembs is a leading practitioner of Open Science, with a history of not only publishing openly, but also freely sharing the highly specialized research software generated by his lab. Björn’s collaborator, Julien Colomb began developing code to allow the lab to publish their data concomitantly with the analyses. Taking the sharing of data and…
Some quick links from this week’s news in Open Science: A Creative Commons guide to sharing your science. By Puneet Kishor of Creative Commons. How being online changes how we think about the traditional research paper. By Shauna Gordon-McKeon on OpenSource.com US agency updates rules on sharing genomic data. By Richard van Noorden in Nature…
This week’s round-up of open science news: It’s Back To School season, and you, too, can get back in the (virtual) school benches with two free online courses that cover open science: Open knowledge: changing the global course of learning (Stanford OpenEdX, Sept 2 – Dec 12) Open Research (P2PU.org, registration closes Sept 12, course…
What was new in open science this week? CGIAR is running a competition “to find new, enticing and innovative online ways to present CGIAR research facts, figures and open data sources”. After the Open Source Pharma conference, attendees launched a Thunderclap to draw more attention to the need for open source drug development. The CASRAI…
As I posted earlier this year, I have been co-chairing the CASRAI Peer Review Services Working Group together with Laura Paglione (Technical Director, ORCID) to look at the best way to recognise referee reports as a formal output in for example an ORCID profile. This project has looked at the peer review of a wide…
What was new in open science this week? Rumours surfaced that Google is working on “Google Science”, but there doesn’t seem to be any more evidence than a single document of unknown source. Notes from yesterday’s Mozilla Science call are up. The big news is that next week is the deadline to submit proposals for…
This past Wednesday, August 6th, we hosted the latest installment of the #F1000Talks tweetchats; we discussed Open Science Advocacy as an Early Career Researcher. We had a fantastic turnout and a fast-paced discussion, full of great testimonials and advice on transforming Open Science from the exception to the norm. Couldn’t make it to the tweetchat?…
What was new in open science this week? F1000 Specialist extraordinaire Ross Mounce is at it again! Check out his interview at opensource.com on why Open Science is the future of scientific discovery. As divided as it is, even the US Congress is concerned about reproducibility in research! We might not all be (Isaac) Newtons…
