The next big open; education?
For the past two decades, a lot of innovation has lived under the broad umbrella of the “open” movement. When people talk about openness today, they usually mean things like open source software
The Open Fox
The Open Fox (a nod to The Mole) is not my real name. To write with honesty I must stay in the shadows, having caused the good-kind of trouble for too many years.
The lurking danger of people with too much power in Open Science
History holds many lessons that we repeatedly ignore. One such lesson is about the concentration of power. When power concentrates around infrastructure that everyone depends on, accountability erodes and abuse becomes inevitable. In
People; the problem in Open Science?
If only we fixed the publishing system. If only we fixed the incentives, rewards and recognition. Open Science (OS) likes to position itself as a systems problem. And whilst these things do matter,
Science beyond the paper; blogs, podcasts and video
For most of human history, science has been communicated through the spoken word. Knowledge moved from person to person through oral storytelling and apprenticeship style training. Writing helped to fix ideas in time
I’m a scientist and we’re publishing too much
The first step of alcoholics anonymous is to admit you have an addiction (or so the many TV shows tell me). Well, I’m a scientist and science has an addiction. It’s