Past, Present and Future of Open Science (Emergent session): Introducing Project Free Our Knowledge, the collective action platform for researchers

[jsheunis]

Introducing Project Free Our Knowledge, the collective action platform for researchers

By Cooper Smout, Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education

• Theme: Past, Present and Future of Open Science
• Format: Emergent session

Abstract

Neuroscientists are faced with a ‘tragedy of the commons’ dilemma: Open Science practices have the potential to benefit the collective neuroscience community (and beyond), but their adoption is limited by incentive structures that reward sloppy science and high-impact publications at the individual level. ‘Crowd-acting’ platforms (e.g., Kickstarter, Collaction) overcome such conflicting incentives by organising a critical mass of support for the intended action, prior to its adoption. Similarly, Free Our Knowledge is a new collective action problem for the research community. Researchers can pledge to support a new behaviour, but only act on that pledge if and when there is a sufficient level of community support to protect their interests. Free Our Knowledge launched last year with a number of open access campaigns, but is designed to accommodate any number of behavioural change campaigns created by the researcher community (e.g., publish open access, post data to a repository). In this session, I'll introduce the project, talk about some campaign ideas that I think could benefit the neuroimaging community, and answer any questions that arise from the crowd.

Useful Links

https://www.freeourknowledge.org/
https://github.com/freeourknowledge

Tagging @CooperSmout

[CooperSmout]

@kel-github will be hosting and @CooperSmout will present and do an AMA

[Starborn]

Cooper and all thanks for the work in the OSR, Not sure If I can attend the session (in the sense that I am busy on many fronts and becoming disoriented) but would very much hope that future editions of OHBM conference will leverage and integrate more the osf approach and resources. Let us know how to connect with your project, I suggest a mailing list and if I can figure out where the gm takes palace on friday I ll suggest it there. Also forming a peer learning group for python for OSR participants who may benefit from peer support in their multivariate learning curves, PDM

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[CooperSmout]

Most welcome Paolo, glad you enjoyed it! I am told that the MNE python tutorials are quite good, but agree that a workshop would help too. The OS-SIG General Meeting will happen 03:40-04:40 UTC tomorrow at https://www.crowdcast.io/ossig2019.

My project can be found at https://www.freeourknowledge.org/. If you can please send an email to the email linked in my Github account I will add you to the mailing list. Thanks for asking!

[CooperSmout]

*Paola :)

[Starborn]

she/her I am not fussy because I regularly misspell names/words (my apologies) but yes thanks

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[CooperSmout]

Thanks to all for a great session, was a pleasure to introduce Project Free Our Knowledge and field your questions :)

Session recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwETkJUiVw&feature=youtu.be
Website: https://www.freeourknowledge.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/projectFOK
Github (Python developers needed!): https://github.com/FreeOurKnowledge/