Access 2 Perspectives – Conversations. All about Open Science Communication

Farah Hussain is the Managing Director at Farah Hussain Coaching and Training in London, England. With over 30 years of experience as a coach and trainer, Farah and her organization offer services such as executive coaching, leadership development, diversity & inclusion, corporate training, management consulting, career development coaching and team building. These services are targeted at ind...

Richard Jefferson  is a molecular biologist, social entrepreneur, inventor, open information systems proponent and innovation system strategist. He founded Cambia almost 30 years ago, as a means to democratize science-enabled innovation. He works on "Solving the Problem of Problem Solving" He discusses his journey into molecular biology, social entrepreneurship, and invention with Jo in this...

From manuscript preparation to business-related best practices, scholarly publishers increasingly integrate data capture and analysis into their systems. These efforts are considered essential to enable interoperability, ensure transparency, and build trust with authors, funders, and institutions. On Thursday, October 20, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, CCC presented The Data Quality Imperative:...

Jo Cowper is the founder of  Six Degrees East, a company she founded out of her passion to help business owners build stronger, more unique and more resilient brands that unlock growth for their businesses. She works with start-ups and SMEs, empowering them to make better decisions that are informed by a clear understanding of their external environment, and their own unique strengths. From a...

Jo hosted a webinar presentation in collaboration with AfricaOSH and the various platforms for research dissemination and discovery in Africa were discussed.

Frank Landon Bentum is an Open Science enthusiast and the Executive Manager for Africa Open Science Hardware (AfricaOSH). He is a strong advocate for Open Science Hardware in Africa and other parts of the world.  In this conversation with Jo, he shares the aims and objectives of AfricaOSH. More details at https://access2perspectives.org/2022/11/a-conversation-with-frank-landon-bentum/ Host: D...

As a consultant, Jigisha Patel works with organizations committed to research integrity to manage complex research integrity issues (such as paper mills) and develop preventative strategies to reduce the risk of research and publication misconduct. As a trainer, she provides training for editors and research integrity teams on the management of research integrity issues. Her CPD certified Research...

Ludmilla Figueiredo is a research data and code curator coming from a background in ecology and conservational biodiversity. In this episode, she talks with Jo about the benefits that coding has in open science. Ludmilla Figueiredo has completed a postdoc studying the payment of extinction debts at the Ecosystem modeling group of the University of Würzburg in Germany, and, since March 2022, works...

Gareth Dyke is a writer, researcher, and educator with deep experience at the interface between publishing and academia. He is the Director of Global Content at Research Square Company. He shares his wealth of experience on p aleontology, preprints, and researcher's career path with Jo.  He has authored over 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals over the last 20 years (including in Nature an...

Chris Emezue is a researcher and the founder of Lanfrica, an online resource centre that catalogues, archives and links African language resources in order to mitigate the difficulty encountered in discovering African works. His research areas of interest include machine/deep learning, reinforcement learning (for games and neural machine translation), natural language processing (speech and langua...

Multilingualism is a skill that most researchers have in international research consortia and groups and also need in order to be able to disseminate their findings through scholarly publishing. However, the difficulties in learning another language and deficiencies like grammar and spelling issues often cause challenges and backlashes to non-English native speakers. Avi Staiman and Jo share some...

Kate and Jo talk about unhealthy stress in working and research environments and what measures each of us can take to gain and maintain a state of wellbeing again. Mental health is too often ignored, and although it is talked about more openly now and especially since the pandemic, many of us pay lip service to that ethos, and when it comes to looking after ourselves, it’s business as usual. Appre...

Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman are both librarians at Utrecht University library who - over the past decade - have become renowned for openly sharing their knowledge on Open Science and digital scholarly communication with the wider scholarly community. You might have come across 101 Innovations in Scholarly Publishing , which is an extensive investigation into the digital tools used by researche...

At the Jena University School for Microbial Communication, Hendrik Huthoff is responsible for the post-graduate life science and soft skills training. He leads several initiatives to improve mental health and wellbeing support in academia and coordinates the Mental Health First Aid programme. Hendrik and Jo talk here about how people who obviously struggle with mental health challenges can be appr...

Nici Pfieffer is Chief Product Officer at the Center for Open Science and in that position works towards enabling researchers to share their work to advance the transparency and reproducibility of science. With Jo, she talks about the importance of open digital infrastructure and how she contributes to research rigor and the achievements made through her work. ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8335-6018 Website...

Marieke Shoenmaker has more than 30 years of experience in (e)Business Development and entrepreneurship. About 14 years ago, she founded her company Gamechanger the Lean Innovation Platform with Annemieke Gotzsch and Vincent Thamm, which has grown into a large network of Innovation Managers across the Netherlands. In today's episode, Marieke and Jo talk about agile project management, innovation,...

Ludmilla Figueiredo is a research data and code curator coming from a background in ecology and conservational biodiversity. In this episode, she tal`ks with Jo about the implementation of open science principles in the fast-paced and heavy workload researchers must handle. She has completed a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in Brazil, followed by a Master’s in Rennes, France, and finally, a PhD in W...

Natira McDermott is a public speaking coach who helps her clients create successful businesses by dropping perfectionism and embracing their own compelling visibility. She shares with us key skills and public speaker should have to become visible by speaking like themselves instead of a textbook. Prior to her coaching career, Natira spent 15 years at advertising and media agencies in NYC where she...

Hugues Abriel, MD PhD, is a biologist (ETH Zurich, 1989) and physician (University of Lausanne, 1994). He completed his PhD in medicine and life sciences (specializing in medical physiology) at the University of Lausanne in 1995. Since 2009, Hugues Abriel has been a Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Bern. He is since 2022 one of the members (vice-rector for research) of the exec...

Wellness consultant Julie Wren talks with Jo about maintaining physical and mental wellbeing despite the impact a high-octane life can have on health and longevity. She is an expert in nutrition, mental wellness, self-care, and draws conclusions from the gut-brain axis to building wellness into your daily routine. We discuss the term 'infobesity' aka information overload and what effects t...

Data scientists and open knowledge evangelist Paola Masuzza shares with Jo what Open Science means to her, and how Open Science and Research Integrity relate to each other. We talk about the influence that the late Jon Tennant had on each of our careers and look at the next steps for the Open Science MOOC as it is being migrated to the Globally Distributed Open Research and Education ( IGDORE ). P...

Martin Delahunty is Founder and Managing Director of Inspiring STEM Consulting, providing publishing and training services to publishers, universities and pharmaceutical companies, focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He is a former Secretary for the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals and Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Ma...

Join us for a reflection on the work that went into the HuMetricsHSS white paper “Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy,” assessing from interviews the reappointment, promotion, and tenure (RPT) processes in 10 research universities in the Midwest of the USA. More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/06/a-conversation-with-rebecca-kennison-simone-sacchi-and-chris-long/ Host: Dr Jo H...

Following up on our previous episode with Joyce Wangari Nugi, in which we talked about Holistic wellness and mental health in research careers , this episode is about Wangari’s work for the deaf community and deafness in academia. We are joined by N’kadziri Aminah Idd, who facilitates sign language interpretation throughout our conversation (see the video below). Personal profiles ORCID iD: 0000-0...

Danny Chan is the President of Biotech Without Borders, a non-profit community biology lab in New York City. Besides trying to defend his time to pursue independent research centered around protocol development for the DIY science community, he enjoys video games, eating new food around the city, watching movies with his partner, and playing table-top RPGs. Personal profiles ORCID iD: 0000-0002-80...