Slides from my AAAS '17 talk, part of the panel: "Mind the Gaps: Wikipedia as a Tool to Connect Scientists and the Public"

A man hunched over a microscope in Spain at the turn of the 20th century was making prescient hypotheses about how the brain works. Meet Santiago Ramón y Cajal, an artist, photographer, doctor, bodybuilder, scientist, chess player and publisher.

The JRC at the world's biggest annual science gathering

A community guide for open source creators.

The human brain?

Humanity is going through unprecedented global change. The systems that arose to organize societies in the last 400 years are breaking down — and now is the time to envision what will come next.

GitHub just released a massive guide to contributing to open source.

Social media platforms such as Twitter can be effectively used for connecting with scientific communities across the globe, facilitating knowledge exchange.

Catch up with all that’s been happening in the world of Open Science!

Elsevier have been caught selling access to paid-for “open articles in 2014, 2015, and 2016.

What do you see when you picture a scientist? Is it a white man in a lab coat? This portrait will smash that stereotype to bits.

Ambra is an innovative Open Source platform for publishing Open Access research articles. It provides features for post-publication discussion and versioned articles that allows for a “living” document around which further scientific discoveries can be made. The platform is in active development by PLOS (Public Library of Science) and is licensed under the MIT License.

Visual representation of selected ORCID integrations as listed on ORCID website.

£182'100 of fixed costs per year.

How should the scientific publication process be rethought to be more meritocratic?

Satirical academic social media accounts go serious to protest Donald Trump.

A statement from a consortium of funders

Democratic players or clandestine lobbyists?

A battle for the future, basic decency, and the people we love.

If we were to have to invent the scholarly publishing system again from scratch today, what would it look like?

This episode we spoke to Max Hodak Founder and CEO of Transcriptic, a Menlo Park based biotech company offering a robotic solution to research in the life sciences.

Authors want to know about citations, downloads, and impact metrics. This post reviews common metrics and explores the limitations inherent in each.

The Scholix initiative is a high level interoperability framework for exchanging information about the links between scholarly literature and data.

Bubbling beakers, blazing Bunsen burners, boiling broths and a book.

Very informative and In-depth annual open access roundup.

Every single day new advancements are being made in the world of education, but when you look at the media and the people who are making these advancements, you rarely will see a black woman being honored.

And why should you care? There's a global trend of companies integrating hackathons into their overall innovation strategy.

The legends of mathematics that almost never were.

Proposals for the next Research Excellence Framework have so far produced a lively discussion.

Nordic nations dominate the top 15, while South Korea reigns supreme and Russia is dealt a huge blow.