Kicking off the #OpenScience convergence workshop in Washington DC.
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Moving on to Lightning talks!
Laura Trouille is introducing Zooniverse: the worlds largest platform across disiciplines to work on research projects: https://www.zooniverse.org/
Citizen Science sits at an intersection between science and the public, helping to create dialogue between scientists and the public. There is understandable mistrust from the public in scientific topics, particularly machine learning. What licences do people use for ethical reuse?
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Simine Vazire talking about #OpenScience in Psychology or SIPS. There is a tension between standing for something and incorporate criticism. One of these were criticisms around conference locations. There are advantages in terms of visas versus LGBTQ inclusivity. How does this fit into the vision?
There is a tradeoff between bringing people along incrementally before making policy changes, and moving to slow. Optional openness in a journal led to a hidden curriculum....
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.. For example, if people open up their process which allows for criticism, is this fair compared to people that close of their science and get the benefit of the doubt? Therefore they moved to obligatory policies to level the playing field in transparency.
Now psychology can also be a case study to other fields, such as quantum nanoscience (nice talk/event that I should find the link for..)
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Noor Johnson and Roberta Turraq Glenn are now introducing ELOKA (Exchange for local observations and knowledge of the Arctic, https://eloka.nsidc.org/eloka).
ELOKA prioritises Indigenous governance in research and are thinking about how to organise events and workshop in a more equitable manner. Do other people have best practices they can share?
Roberto works in the Alaska Arctic Observatory and Knowledge Hub (AAOKH), working on user agreements to get access to data.
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One way to hold journals more accountable is to ensure that policies are in place that contribute to the quality of research and link this to the prestige system - instead of expecting the system to change overnight.
We also need to shift from building new tools that bloat the system - also mentioned by Juan Pablo Flores during the panel Q&A: what about resources for maintenance? You can also get corporate funding onboard to increase sustainability.
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Karthik Ram (Navigation Fund):
#OpenScience can bridge the differences between different organisations and industries. We need better infrastructure to enable this. On the one end there are profit driven tools and on the other end well intentioned mission driven tools, that are not financially sustainable.
The navigation fund aims to support new and existing tools/infrastructures that aim to give researchers more agency.
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Tony Ross-Hellauer highlights how #OpenScience is a bundle of different practices with different challenges.
PathOS (https://pathos-project.eu/) is trying to identify and quantify impact of Open Science to support informed policy making.
Current level of robust evidence is actually low, and lots of streetlight effects, and publication bias.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick is highlighting the Knowledge Commons, a platform that is free to use by users. How do we keep platforms like this sustainable?
Sustaining members get a voice in the governance processes. Transforming the platform to a truly open source community would allow further sustainability but is difficult for the small team leading the effort.
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Malcolm Macleod talks about the UK reproducibility network, discussing all of the relevant parties involved in such a network. The network is primarily UK focused to be able to receive funding.
The local network leads are the 'terrorist wing,' trying to change the world. The network tries to leverage their energy and bring them together to share best practices.
There are now reproducibility networks, supported by the original network where possible.
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At some point you start to only look for further funding to remain sustainable.
IF there is no funding, some other initiative should start anew and refresh. This is difficult for organisations to do, but organisations need to accept that this change may be needed.
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Now Ting Xu is presenting the Chinese #OpenScience Network (COSN, https://open-sci.cn/). They organise trainings, seminars and hackhatons.
"We do what we can do" ensures that the network can remain sustainable.
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Hong Phuc Dang from FOSS Asia presents on a project: 'Pocket Science Lab'.
Open source can offer tools to scientific research and citizens.
This started from a network of people that cared about education.
This has led to an affordable price for the technology and adoption across multiple fields.
The documentation could use more love. And funding.
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We will head into a lunch break soonish and after that there will be breakout sessions from which I won't be live-tooting because we're using Chatham House Rule ( participants are free to use the information received but don't identify the identities), so I'll wait until the discussion later to report out. Next to the fact that I need to facilitate the discussion and I cannot multi task that well
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Back to some tooting after some very interesting break out discussions!
Were talking about burning down the journal system, perhaps one journal at a time.
Way to close off the day
A more mild idea offered is to remove journal titles from any type of evaluation.
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Next up in the discussion: #OpenScience is in an echo-chamber. There is a shared culture and language that is being used. How do we talk and engage to outsiders?
Coalition building is difficult when there are trust problems.
There are some people that wear different hats and can engage outside of their own area. Can we map a network of people in this room to see where the bridges are?
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Differences in disciplines came up in the training discussion: who are we marketing to and what levers do we need to push that excites them? Words matter: do we talk about reproducibility, transparency or #OpenScience
How do we identify Open Science work that is not labeled as such?
We need to be able to work in local contexts - not everything needs to be scaled up.
What is Open Science in different communities of practice?