and how did we get here?
Open Science for Physicists, Lecture 1
Sanli Faez
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" I have failed as a scientist, as a researcher. I have manipulated research data and faked studies. Not once, but several times, not for a short period, but over a longer period of time. I realize that by this behavior I have left my immediate colleagues bewildered and angry and have put my field of study, social psychology, in a bad light. I'm ashamed of that and I deeply regret it."
You probably haven’t heard of cardiologist Don Poldermans, but experts who study scientific misconduct believe that thousands of people may be dead because of him.
DUB News 9/10/2012
One provocative analysis from cardiologists Graham Cole and Darrel Francis estimated that there were 800,000 deaths compared to if the best practices had been established five years sooner.
Vox News 26/8/2024
‘The last few years have been tough, but I am happy to have accounted for the research I have led all these years. Both the LOWI and the Executive Board have concluded that there has been no violation of scientific integrity. Regarding the Quantized Majorana Conductance publication, it was concluded that I should have been more careful as a supervisor, and I fully agree.’
the Integrity Committee of the National Organization for Scientific Integrity (LOWI in Dutch) ruled that Kouwenhoven and his postdoctoral researcher, Hao Zhang, had been negligent in their 2018 Majorana article.
In the conclusion of their report (8 March 2021) the SIC had previously written that ‘the authors were so carried away by their enthusiasm that they were blind to the data not fitting the purpose they were pursuing.’
Delta News, 8/12/2023
Gopalakrishna et al, PLOS One 2022, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263023
University world news
The egocentric research culture
is NOT self-correcting
The cycle of credibility
Frank Miedema, Open Science: the Very Idea, Springer 2022
Show Your Work. Share Your Work. Advance Science. That’s Open Science.
Kramer, Bianca and Jeroen Bosman. “Innovations in scholarly communication - global survey on research tool usage.” (2016)
More information: https://on.unesco.org/openscience
increases scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society;
makes multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone; and
opens the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community.
Our interconnected world needs open science to help solve complex social, environmental, and economic challenges and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
https://science.nasa.gov/open-science
For a deeper discussion, check: https://open-science.cwts.nl/
For a deeper discussion, check: https://open-science.cwts.nl/
Public: The obligation to make science accessible to the public
Democratic: Making research products available
Pragmatic: Making research more efficient
Infrastructure: Architecture matters most
Measurement: Finding alternative measurements for scientific output
Scientists interact with a complex
knowledge development and attribution network.
Community over Code
healthy community is a higher priority than good code
Guide for Collaboration, https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/collaboration/collaboration
“Selfishness beats altruism within groups.
Altruistic groups beat selfish groups.”
Does Altruism Exist? Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others, by David Sloan Wilson, Yale UP, 2015
Gifting : giving away something of value for others to use and adapt.
Creating together : inviting others to contribute to a set objective or project.
Soliciting ideas : asking a question or giving a challenge
Learning through use : studying usage patterns, and offering subsequent
enhancements
Enhancing value exchanges : improving the value of interactions between project organizers, contributors, and users.
Networking common interests : building mutually-reinforcing relationships with the power to attract a passionate community.
Taxonomy of open value exchange - Mozilla Open Leadership Framework
academics' perspective
Lechner, Tijdink et al, The core epistemic responsibilities of universities: Results from a Delphi study, Accountability in Research, DOI: 10.1080/08989621.2023.2255826