Do not trust science — verify it.
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ARCS2015
Making the scientific system more open and transparent
Science needs to be a transparent process. The methods used and the results obtained should be easily accessible to and by all, not only to discuss conclusions, but also to compare and contrast res...
Read ItHow becoming an open scientist made me fall back in love with neuroscience
Three years into my PhD, the most important thing to me was publishing in Nature. As a PhD student in computational neuroscience at Carnegie Mellon, I was building computer simulations to study how...
Read ItMaking Science Open by Drawing Science.
A little over a year ago, I started a website. This website took me on a journey I could have never imagined. It scored me my first press interview and got me on Business Insider and Huffington Pos...
Read ItMaking Openness My Business
For a long time I let the things I am not - namely, a researcher and an expert - stop me from having an impact. I wasn't quite sure that my words carried any weight, especially as I struggled with ...
Read ItYou Don't Get to 2000 Open Data Sets Without Making a Few Friends – or: How I Got to be Called the Mark Zuckerberg of Open Source Genetics
What Have I Done?! There are many firm believers in the different kinds of openness: open access, open source, open data, open science, open you-name-it. And at least to me, some of the most inter...
Read ItAddgene, An Open Access Success Story
It has been my honor for the last 4 years to facilitate open reagent sharing with the team at Addgene. Addgene accelerates discovery by facilitating collaboration and the open sharing of ready-to...
Read ItAnecdata On Sharing Science
[ This is my competition entry for the ARCS2015 essay competition hosted at The Winnower. I'm using their excellent WordPress plugin to automagically transfer this post from my blog to their site a...
Read ItHow contributing to open source launched my academic career
Open has defined my professional career in every way imaginable: for almost ten years now it has been the motivating force in my career, the mode in which I work, and the subject that I research. A...
Read ItUndefined scholar
An academic career takes years to develop. I share below some experiences on how my perception and the meaning of a PhD was altered through a chance encounter with Freeman Dyson’s story in physics...
Read ItMy open science story
It never really occurred to me not to be open. From the moment I started my PhD, I made a promise to myself that everything I did would be open and transparent. By this, I don’t just mean access...
Read ItOpen source publishing to boost your career
When I started my PhD I was rather naïve about the workings of academia, never mind open science. This is my story on how I learned that open science, and in my case open source publishing, can n...
Read ItHow I Went From Opening My Science To Unboxing It Completely
My open science story starts with many people's biggest fear: rejection. More specifically, an article submission rejected by a closed, medium-impact journal on the grounds that my Master's level r...
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