A decade ago, the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment launched. I know I referenced it a lot in my efforts to improve research, and I bet many of you did too! It is with great pride I can announce Liberate Science is working with DORA to make their 10 year celebration a success. Specifically, we are supporting DORA and its community with event management. We help curate and scaffold incoming community sessions for success.

🔈 This is the transcript of the Open Update. Find the original audio on Anchor.fm. Welcome to the Open Update. I'm your host Chris Hartgerink and this week, we don’t have a regular episode for you. The last recording we did, ended up glitchy and unusable, and then we had health issues that prevented us from recording anything at all.

💡 This is a post in a series of Stories From My PhD. For background on this series, read the announcement post. As a researcher you are bound to uphold certain standards of conduct. When I defended my PhD, I was reminded of that rather explicitly with the following statement before being awarded my degree: This statement was only introduced in the past decade, but I think a reminder like this is a simple and effective idea.

The trip to the 26th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI 2022) in Granada, Spain, was my first international trip since I had finished my one-year research stay in Leiden and come back to Taiwan. When I learned that the STI 2022 conference would be held physically, I was very excited about returning to Europe and reconnecting with the colleagues over there.

In the slow, unpredictable world of journal publication, preprints—unreviewed published papers—offer a mechanism for rapidly communicating health research with the scholarly community. Historically, media coverage of preprints was discouraged in journalism, due to potential concerns about reporting flawed, biased, or provisional research.

We started running Twitter bots in 2017, when Liberate Science was only a side project. First we launched the PsyArxiv bot. Later, we launched bots for the MetaArxiv (2020) and EdArxiv (2021) preprint servers. Six years in, we are shutting down these Twitter bots.

The adoption of open science practices has become a prominent topic of study for the science studies community. However, the research practices of the community itself are still quite traditional. While open access publishing, preprinting, open peer review, open data sharing, and other open science practices are gradually becoming more common in the science studies community, the adoption of these practices is still at a relatively low level.

🔈 Find the original audio on Anchor.fm In this episode, we get to know our new co-host! The Open Update podcast is a space to have conversations and continuously update what it means to be open. In season 3, co-hosts Sarahanne Field and Chris Hartgerink, discuss how power imbalances affect efforts to improve research, and the world beyond. [00:00:00] Chris Hartgerink: Welcome back to the Open Update.

💡 This is an idea I've toyed around with for a few years, but never wrote down. I would love to hear your feedback! Competitive research processes lead to many perverse incentives - incentives that put the researcher and the research process at odds. For example, because of selective publication pressures researchers primarily end up publishing those research processes that end up in significant or novel results.

Diese Woche befassten sich die EU-Wissenschaftsminister:innen im Rahmen der schwedischen EU-Ratspräsidentschaft mit der Weiterentwicklung von Open Science in Europa.  Im Vorfeld der Sitzung wurden zwei lesenswerte Briefing Papers veröffentlicht. In diesen werden die Themenfelder Infrastrukturen für Forschungsdaten (PDF) und Open Access (PDF) behandelt.