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Replication research can take the temperature on how accurate science in a given field is, but research replication is easier said than done.
Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data – some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the start of the Trump administration.
For example, the first Trump administration tried to use the principles of transparency to prevent federal agencies from considering major health studies when setting pollution rules.
Mae gwyddoniaeth dinasyddion yn cynnig y posibilrwydd o wyddoniaeth i'r bobl, gan y bobl.
Citizen science offers the possibility of a science for the people, by the people. And it could be used to challenge the status quo.
Africa has been slow in embracing Open Science.
The open-access service PCI has opened the door for researchers to take charge of the review and publishing system, and move toward greater transparency in knowledge production.
For a while it was all the rage to adopt Wonder Woman’s famous stance and other body positions that allegedly pumped up your confidence – until more studies of the phenomenon failed to find the connection.
The movement to change the way researchers are measured should undoubtedly be embraced.
Starting in 2023, all research proposals funded by the NIH will need to include a data sharing and management plan. An expert on open science explains the requirements and how they might improve science.
Making scientific research free to read could bolster collaboration and research on solving problems such as pandemics, climate change and more. The UN has taken a step towards realising this goal.
We need to guarantee that the benefits of sciences are shared between scientists and the general public, without restriction. Peru and Brazil are leading the way.
If we want real public understanding of new findings, we must also open up peer review.
Advanced techniques allowed our research team to build an open database of billions of individual trees and challenge some common perceptions about vegetation in arid and semi-arid zones.
In countries such as Indonesia, politicised science can obscure real research. Open science has the potential to help filter out sketchy research and protect the public’s interests.
By looking at the evolving history of the open government data movement, scientists can see both limitations to current approaches and identify ways to move forward from them.
All modern scientists should share ownership of their knowledge and research.
Individually, we are all helpless in the face of the coronavirus crisis. A global collaborative boom is changing the way science is done.
But there are also risks to open science.
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Lecturer in Social Psychology, Universitas Airlangga
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PhD student in Clinical Psychology, York University, Canada
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PhD Candidate, Congnitive Neuroscience, University of Toronto
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Reader in Sociology, Cardiff University
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Professor in science and technology studies, Cardiff University
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Research associate in environmental governance, Cardiff University
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Guelph
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Senior Lecturer in Sedimentology, James Cook University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Grand Valley State University
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University of Oxford
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Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
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Curator of Human Evolution of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Head of the Centre for Data and Scientific Documentation, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Research Fellow, UMR1284 INSERM et Université de Paris au CRI, chercheur invité au Center for Complex Network Research (Northeastern University), et co-fondateur de Just One Giant Lab, Université Paris Cité