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From data sharing to citizen science and from peer review to professional development the podcasts will explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of the current scientific system, and what Open Science practices can do to improve the way we do science. Now on Season 2!
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Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Episode Summary:
The podcast this episode will report directly from an ‘Edit-a-thon’ that aims to celebrate International Women’s Day 2019 by improving diversity on Wikipedia pages. The podcast will investigate what the challenges to diversity in science are and how the Open Science movement can help.
Organising Institutions:
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP)
Interviewees:
Steph (Attendee and Science Communicator)
Links:
How to Edit a Wikipedia Page - BBC Article
Inferior, Angela Saini (The book that inspired Jess Wade)
Reimagining Open Science Through a Feminist Lens
Quotes:
'We have so many women doing incredible work so we just wanted to make them visible'
'Men's work is more likely to accepted and more likely to be cited'
'One of the things that excites me about Wikipedia is that it is a great gateway for people who might never have clicked on a journal article'
'Anything you can do in your pyjamas is a good thing'