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Welcome to the homepage of Open Science Uppsala, the local Open Science community in Uppsala.
Open Science is the application of the scientific method in the most transparent way possible, such as Open Access papers, Open (and FAIR) Data, Open Code, open peer-review, preregistration and registered reports, resulting in research that is (more likely to be) reproducible.
This group discusses the pros and cons of Open Science by means of discussing papers and inviting speakers.
You can follow us here:
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Email list | |
@opensciupp | |
We usually have a speaker at the second Friday of the month.
When | Where | What |
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2024-06-14 16:15-17:00 | USB [1], Studion | Nicole Teroni, Unlocking Access: Language, Literacy, and Learning in Open Science |
2024-07-12 . | . | Summer holiday |
2024-08-09 . | . | Summer holiday |
2024-09-13 16:15-17:00 | USB [1], Studion | Paul Jacobson: Brain Training |
2024-10-18 16:15-17:00 | USB [1], Studion | Christopher Erdmann and Elin Kronander, Open science at SciLifeLab - the infrastructure unit's role in advancing open science in Sweden and beyond |
2024-11-08 16:15-17:00 | USB [1], Studion | Free slot! |
2024-12-13 16:15-17:00 | USB [1], Studion | Free slot! |
See 'events' for our past activities.
- [1] USB: Uppsala Stadsbibliotek, Svartbäcksgatan 17, 753 75 Uppsala
Map, from OpenStreetMap. We are at 1.
- Uppsala Stadsbibliotek, Svartbäcksgatan 17
- Domkyrkan
- Stora torget
- Uppsala Central Station
The ground floor of Uppsala Stadsbibliotek. We are in the room called 'Studion'
- 2023-10-06: article for the Uppsala University newsletter
- 2023-12-11: interview with Universitetsläraren
This is a regular schedule for a meeting. Note that the speaker is boss regarding (1) the exact time to start, (2) the time to yes/no take questions.
When | What |
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15:30-16:00 | Speaker and OSU host prepare |
16:00-16:15 | Audience is welcome |
16:15-16:16 | Introduction about OSU |
16:16-16:45 | Talk |
16:45-17:00 | Questions |
17:00 onwards | End of meeting, option to join us to the pub after cleaning |
These are the Frequently Asked Questions, also called 'FAQ'.
The sections are:
Section | Description |
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Open Science | About Open Science |
Open Science Uppsala | About us |
Website | About this website |
Information for speakers | Information for speakers |
Volunteering | Volunteering at OSU |
Contact | How to contact us |
Open Science is a different thing for different people. A attempt of a definition that could be given:
Open Science is using the scientific method, taking into account that scientists are human.
This means:
- Open Access: everyone should be able to read and criticize scientistic works
- Open Data: everyone should be able to re-use scientific data used in experiments, with some limitations on privacy-sensitive data
- Open Code: everyone should be able to re-do, criticise and re-use scientific analyses
- Open Hardware: everyone should be able to run a computational analysis on hardware with an open license
- Pre-registration: scientists should be open about their initial hypotheses and should not pursuaded to do p-value hacking or HARKing
- Preregistration: publishing the methods of a scientific experiment before doing the actual experiment
- Registered Reports: an more stringent extension of a preregistration, which, after reviewing the methods of a scientific experiment, its results are published, regardless of the results
A more extensive picture:
Redrawn slide from presentation of Ana Persic, Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building (SC/PCB), UNESCO (France) presentation to Open Science Conference 2021, ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany. Caption and image from Wikipedia, image created by RobbieIanMorrison
- to teach one another about Open Science (e.g. by reading papers)
- to discuss Open Science
- using English as the main language (i.e. most academic papers are English)
- regularily (e.g. once a month)
- for everyone (i.e. non-scientists are also welcome)
- in Uppsala (i.e. in-person meetings)
- for free (i.e. everyone can afford to participate)
- at a public location (i.e. non-scientists can reach the venue)
- in a scholarly way (i.e. we embrace the scientific method in our discussions)
Activities by OSU are, among others:
- Discussing Open Science papers
- Speakers that discuss an aspect of Open Science
See 'Activities' :-)
Please contact @richelbilderbeek
at [email protected]
if you want to organize or participate in activities.
You can follow us by:
- Email list
- @opensciupp
- Mastodon: [TODO by Börje]
Because the meetings are intended to be open to everyone that wants to discuss the scientific method in general and Open Science in particular.
- Ad hominem reasoning: instead, discuss the content of the argument instead
- Conspiracy theories (e.g. 'All scientists are corrupt'): instead, discuss what the academic literature states on scientists' behavior
- Anecdotal evidence: instead, refer to scientific studies and/or reviews. Of course, throwing in a personal story is OK, using it as a irrefutable proof is scholarly no-go.
- Science Fika: an community for 20 mins science talks aimed at a general audience
- ReproducibiliTea Psychology: a community that focuses on the department of Psychology. They do not have a website.
- The Uppsala node of the Swedish Reproducibility Network: a community that focuses reproducibility. This local node does not have had events yet.
Please add your Open Science community in Uppsala by
Contact @richelbilderbeek
at [email protected]
and I will happily add your Uppsala community here :-)
There are many, here I list communities that have members in Uppsala:
- European Open Science Cloud Association, the bigger, more online community
- Open Science Sweden: the bigger, more online community
- FAIRPoints: an online event series highlighting pragmatic measures developed by the community towards the implementation of the FAIR data principles.
- Open life Science: a program for people interested in applying open principles in their work and becoming Open Science ambassadors in their communities.
Contact @richelbilderbeek
at [email protected]
and I will happily add your online community here :-)
As the Open Science community in Uppsala is small. At the time this website was created, it was the first website.
To connect people that are interesting in learning more about Open Science.
- Sent at the first day of each month, for months that have an activity
- Short
See the newsletter archive for previous newsletters.
- Sent at the first day of each month, for months that have an activity
- Short
See the tweets archive for previous tweets.
You are boss here.
Here are some suggestions:
- Give a talk about your own Open Science work/ideas
- Discuss an Open Science scholarly article
Half an hour before the meeting, you'll have the time to prepare. The first 15 minutes, the audience comes in. Then you have 45 minutes left, that you can fill in yourself. For example, you can do 30 minutes of talking and 15 minutes of questions.
Note that you are boss here. If you want more/less time for questions, it will be so :-)
- HDMI cable with a lot of converter plugs
- A big screen
Ordered alphabetically on first name:
- Anna Hallberg 0000-0001-6219-1402 @AnnaHallberg3
- Börje Dahrén 0000-0002-9274-6998 @BDahren
- Emmi Puuvuori 0000-0001-8501-218X
- Jonas Söderberg 0000-0003-2722-7590 Netzach
- Richel Bilderbeek: 0000-0003-1107-7049 @rjcbilderbeek richelbilderbeek Richel Bilderbeek
- Chairman: Richel
- Communication in/out: Richel
- Communication to NBIS and Life Science: Jonas
- Organizing activities: Richel
- Finances: Richel
- Maintaining this website: Richel
- Facebook account: Anna
- LinkedIn account: Emmi
- Mastodon account: Börje
- Twitter account: Richel
Yup, we even have a reserve team. Here they are!
Ordered alphabetically on first name:
- Adam Gill 0000-0001-5641-610X
Yes, everyone is welcome.
The volunteers determine what Open Science Uppsala is, hence voting is democratic: most votes win. All votes are equal. For bigger change, the chair can request a two-third majority vote.
Awesome!
You can:
- to see what needs to be done: visit the Issues
- other things: contact @richelbilderbeek
at
[email protected]
- Send an email to @richelbilderbeek at
[email protected]
- Add a GitHub Issue
- Uppsala university library page on Open Science
- SOPS4RI ('Standard Operating Procedures for Research Integrity')
- Open Science Radio
- https://bit.ly/open_science_uppsala: shorter link to homepage
- https://github.com/open-science-uppsala/open_science_uppsala: GitHub page
- CODECHECK: tests if a computational experiment can be reproduced
- ReproHack: tests if an academic paper can be reproduced
- rOpenSci: public peer-review of R packages
QR code to Open Science Uppsala homepage
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[Kathawalla et al., 2021] Kathawalla, Ummul-Kiram, Priya Silverstein, and Moin Syed. "Easing into open science: A guide for graduate students and their advisors." Collabra: Psychology 7.1 (2021).
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[Milham and Klein, 2019] Milham, Michael P., and Arno Klein. "Be the change you seek in science." BMC biology 17.1 (2019): 1-4. List of recommended practices