Open Science

It’s been a while since our last Monday update. Happy (Northern Hemisphere) spring equinox! We had a great time at last month’s OSSci meetup at UC Santa Cruz. We ran into a minor technical glitch with the recording, which — due to travel — could not be resolved until now…

Getting financing is not an easy task for a researcher. Arranging things with institutions, journals, and grantmakers will often be complicated, for you have to meet a lot of contradictory demands, and it is not always useful for the research itself. But there is an alternative way of raising funds…

Kaylin Bugbee, Rahul Ramachandran This blog post is a collaborative effort between Kaylin Bugbee, who is responsible for leading Science Discovery Engine Project–one of NASA’s Open-Source Science Initiative efforts, and Rahul Ramachandran, who is leading the AI foundation model effort within NASA/IMPACT. For some time, IMPACT has been studying the…

We at the Monarch Initiative are excited to announce that we have been awarded a Distinguished Achievement Award for Data Reuse in the first NIH DataWorks! Challenge, which awarded 11 prizes out of a total field of 106 applicants. Monica Munoz-Torres, Ph.D., …

The world of Decentralized Science (DeSci) is new to most people in the scientific world. But it can soon provide an attractive alternative to traditional forms of scientific life. …

Hi and welcome. I am Gaston Welisch and I am the editor for a new series of speculative and experimental articles called ‘Postcards to a ghost’. …

Being a scientist you often see the trendy words “Open Science” and hear something about its benefits. OpSci promises transparency, equity, quick access to information, collaboration, and resources. OpSci lovers say it will make research faster, more effective, and more agile. Is it really so? …

JupyterCon 2023 is just around the corner, and it promises to be an exciting and action-packed event that you won’t want to miss. …

You may have heard of DeSci in your life, and you may not. Maybe you have read that it is useful and nice and helps to avoid barriers to publishing your research proposal and getting funded. But then you try to go into it, and… how the hell does it…