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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!
Episodes
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Episode Summary:
Is Science Communication relevant and important to Open Science? Using the events organised by ORION and the MDC as part of the recent Berlin Science Week as a case study of varied science communication events the usual hosts are joined by Dr Christian Popp and Valentin Popescu from the Lifetime Flagship project at the MDC to discuss these topics.
Episode Links:
Brain City Berlin Trailer ft. Open Science Workshop event
The Bear: Storytelling Workshop on the theme of Eureka! moments
Episode Quotes:
"Science is amazing and I don't understand it but I want to know more!"
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Episode Summary
In this episode we talk to Dr. Jens Peter von Kries and Dr Katja Herzog from the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) about their work on the open access technology platform EU Open Screen Project.
Episode Links
Quotes
"From bench to bedside, this really shows that from academia there is really a chance to help people in the clinics"
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Episode Summary:
This week we talk to Dr Emma Dorris, a molecular researchers and Initiative Lead for The Patient Voice in Arthritis Research, about the benefits of public engagement for health and life sciences research. She outlines the challenges of involving the public in research, the benefits for scientists and society, and practical steps for researchers to take.
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Episode Quote:
"They are fascinated by what is going on behind the scenes, they really want to know what's happening and what's in the pipeline. and they tend to be far more supportive of it and far more supportive of high risk research than people in academia are".
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Thursday Oct 03, 2019
Episode Summary:
At the Open Science FAIR in Porto we interviewed Paola Masuzzo, one of the key note speakers, about why she wants to shift the conversation on Open Science towards a more radical approach which gets rid of the journals, realigns power structures, and unlocks knowledge for everyone.
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Quotes:
"Knowledge is precious, it is not a commercial good, it cannot be treated as one"
Thursday Sep 19, 2019
Thursday Sep 19, 2019
Episode Summary:
In this episode we are highlighting some of the tools on show at the Open Science FAIR 2019 in Porto, Portugal.
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Quotes:
'So two reasons: because you have to and just because it is for the good of society'
'Make reproducible research too easy not to do'
'I wanted to change the way people became aware of Open Science best practices'
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Episode Summary:
In this week's episode we talk to Max Caine who has a created a platform called The Science Breaker where scientists can publish summaries of their research which are easy for non-scientists to understand. We asked Max about how the platform works, what he feels the barriers to science communication are, and how to improve public trust in science.
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Quotes:
"The spark in our eyes when we are describing the starting question of our experiments, and this is something which engages the public"
Thursday Aug 01, 2019
Thursday Aug 01, 2019
Episode Summary:
Our guest this week is the influential skeptic Professor Steven Novella who is the producer and co-host of the very successful podcast A Skeptic's Guide to the Universe and author of a book by the same name. Novella is also an American clinical neurologist and assistant professor at Yale University School of Medicine. In this episode he talks to us about his views on how best to promote Open Science in medicine, the challenges of creating a new publication method, and the importance of communicating science to the public.
Links:
A Skeptic's Guide to the Universe Podcast
Steven Novella:
Episode Quotes:
"They are uncomfortable with anything that is in and of itself pseudoscience because they think it taints them"
"It doesn't really matter what you say your priorities are, your priorities are whatever it is that you promote people for"
"We have an opportunity to completely rethink how we publish science"
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Episode Summary:
In this episode we are discussing data sharing and Open Science. Our interview guest will be Stanford University Professor of Medicine: John Ioannidis who has now come to the Berlin Institute of Health as an Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow at the BIH QUEST Center to establish the Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-Berlin), the European “sister” of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS). We will cover his research and opinions on data sharing, reproducibility, and how to improve research.
Links:
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
Quotes:
'I think that scientists, by themselves, are recognizing that it is important to share [data] and in many fields, like in Genetics, they realize that unless they share they cannot really go very far'
'Clearly over the years we have seen more scientific sharing of data'
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Thursday Jul 04, 2019
Episode Summary:
In this week's episode, Open Science advocate and researcher Björn Brembs talks about his analysis of and radical solutions to the flaws he identifies in the scientific publishing system. Brembs discusses manipulated impact factors, pseudo-competitions, the evolution of the reproducibility crisis, and what we could all do instead!
Links:
Article on pseudo-competitions in science (in German)
Quotes:
'People strive not to find the next interesting discovery, but to find the next paper'
'Our institutions need to realise that the journal system harms science'
'The publication services the journal system currently provides, when we do it ourselves would be about 10% of what we are currently paying'
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Thursday Jun 20, 2019
Episode Summary:
Our guest Dr Christian Busse spoke to us about the Free Software Foundation Europe and the challenges and opportunities connected to Open and Free Software...and what the differences between those two things might be. Christian has very kindly supplied some notes for us to add this week.
Links:
First, the main website of the "Public Money, Public Code" campaign is: https://publiccode.eu
Second, the "Legal activities" section of the FSFE website, which includes further links for licensing questions, workshops and the Legal Network, can
be accessed via https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/activities.en.html
Finally, there is an position paper by the FSFE on Free Software in Horizon2020: https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/activities.en.html
Quotes:
'Free as in freedom and free as in beer'