My 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...
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You 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 It Review 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 It Review 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...
Read It Review 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 It Review ItDo not trust science — verify it.
Science is a resilient mechanism, standing strong throughout historical events just as it has in days that became history without mention. One might even say science thrives in the toughest of t...
Read It Review 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 ...
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