Road to Open Science (R2OS)

In episode 5 of the Road to Open Science podcast we talk to Cameron Neylon.

David Cameron Neylon is an advocate for open access and Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. From 2012 - 2015 he was the Advocacy Director at the Public Library of Science.

Cameron is one of the four authors of The Panton Principles, a set of principles which were written to promote open science.

In this converstaion, we focused on two of his recent papers. 1- “Excellence R Us”: university research and the fetishisation of excellence, and 2- Sustaining Scholarly Infrastructures through Collective Action.

Please feel welcome to engage in the discussion on twitter (twitter.com/R2OSpodcast) or on the portal of the Open Science Community Utrecht (openscience-utrecht.com/r2os-episode-5/) where you can also find all the show-notes

Rosanne Hertzberger is a microbiologist, writer and columnist. She obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam and worked at the Washington University in St. Louis at the Center for Women’s Infectious Disease Research. She is now a visiting researcher connected to the VU University in Amsterdam. Within the context of open kitchen science, she shares her findings, experiences and experiments on her personal blog REBLAB.org. On this website you can also find the guidelines that define good science for Rosanne. She has written the book "Ode aan de E-nummers" about the food industry and writes columns in Dutch newspapers NRC Handelsblad and nrc.next.

Egon Willighagen is assistant professor at Maastricht University, in the Department of Bioinformatics. Egon is active in various projects and initiatives connected to open science. For example BridgeDb, a framework for finding and mapping equivalent database identifiers, WikiPathways, a database of biological pathways, The Chemistry Development Kit, a collection of modular Java libraries for processing chemical information and Bioclipse, an open source platform for chemo- and bioinformatics.

Francien Peterse is assistant professor of organic geochemistry and a climate scientist. Despite the large body of evidence for the climate disaster we face, in the not-so-distant future, and the confirmation that this is caused by human activities, she sees insufficient efforts are made to save the planet. We talked about the role of scientists in encouraging stronger actions. From talking about collective action, we drift to another issue facing the academics who feel the increasing pressure to deliver more with less resources, which has caused rage in part of the community. Here again, different part of the community is hesitant in providing their support as they feel the burn less severely and see the uncertain benefits of acting now come their way only in the distant future.

We spoke with Rosanne Hertzberger and Egon Willighagen. Rosanne Hertzberger is a microbiologist, writer and columnist. After receiving her PhD at the University of Amsterdam and postdoctoral appointment in United States, she continued her research as an independent open scientist next to her professional writing activities. She is now a visiting researcher connected to the VU University in Amsterdam.

Egon Willighagen is assistant professor at Maastricht University, in the Department of Bioinformatics. Egon is active in various open science projects for more than 20 years.

If you want to engage in the discussion around the topics presented in this podcast series you can follow us on twitter (twitter.com/R2OSpodcast) or on the portal of the Open Science Community Utrecht (openscience-utrecht.com/r2os-episode-4/) where you can also find all the show notes.

Jean-Sébastien Caux is a professor in theoretical condensed matter physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITFA), part of the Institute of Physics within the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam. He is also a ricipient of the ERC-advanced grant for his research. You can read more on his blog and follow his Twitter @jscaux. He is also the founder of the publishing portal SciPost.

Christopher Jackson is a professor of basin analysis at the Imperial College in London and a member of the advisory board of EarthArxiv. He shared his views about open access publishing and the use of preprints for more effective dissemination of knowledge.

We had conversations with Christopher Jackson and Jean-Sébastien Caux, two researchers who have started open access publishing platforms. They both told us that academics should be more in charge of the publishing system than they currently are, because publishing is too important for academia to be left at the discretion of the commercial players.

Christopher Jackson is a professor of Basin Analysis at Imperial College in London. He has been one of the initiators of EarthArxiv (built on the Open Science Framework.

Jean-Sébastien Caux is professor of theoretical Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Amsterdam and a recipient of ERC-advanced grant. He has founded the open-source publishing platform SciPost.org.

What role do you think the researchers should play in the publishing industry? What personal initiatives have you taken or are planing to take? How can researchers help each other in promoting academic-lead open-source publishing? Please feel welcome to engage in the discussion on twitter (twitter.com/R2OSpodcast) or on the portal of the Open Science Community Utrecht (openscience-utrecht.com/r2os-episode-3/) where you can also find all the show notes.

We talked to Daniel Lakens, assistant professor in Applied Cognitive Psychology at Eindhoven University of Technology, and author of the blog 'The 20% Statistician'. In 2017, he recieved the Leamer-Rosenthal prize for Open Social Science as a Leader in Education. He believes science should be a much more collaborative enterprise

A shorter version of this interview was used in the second episode, "Collaboration is Key" (https://soundcloud.com/utrechtyoungacademy/the-road-to-open-science-ep-2-collaboration-is-key). The other guests of episode 2 are Kirstie Whitaker, Anita Eerland and Loek Brinkman. All the show-notes and discussion about that episode are available on openscience-utrecht.com/r2os-episode-2/. Follow @R2OSpodcast on twitter to stay up to date about the upcoming episodes.

We talked to Kirstie Whitaker. She is a research fellow at the Alan Turing Institute (London) and senior research associate at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Mozilla Open Science Fellow. The Mozilla Science Lab is a community of researchers, developers, and librarians making research open and accessible. Kirstie was a member of the first Mozilla Open Leadership cohort and is currently a mentor for the fifth round of this cohort.

A shorter version of this interview was used in the second episode, "Collaboration is Key" (https://soundcloud.com/utrechtyoungacademy/the-road-to-open-science-ep-2-collaboration-is-key). The other guests of episode 2 are Daniel Lakens, Anita Eerland and Loek Brinkman. All the show-notes and discussion about that episode are available on openscience-utrecht.com/r2os-episode-2/. Follow @R2OSpodcast on twitter to stay up to date about the upcoming episodes.