Open Research has been quite a part of my work but I haven’t mentioned it much. It’s a good time to provide a summary:
- While I am part of a wider network - the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), I associate myself more with being an Open Research Champion at Newcastle University. I gave a short presentation at the Welcome event.
- We run a reproducibiliTea journal club, and a few months ago I presented the famous paper on the Garden of Forking Paths (not the short story by Jorge Luis Borges). I guess this is even more relevant now, as one can ask AI agents to look into all these forking paths with ease.
- Together with the two other champions in the school, we ran an event on Open Access yesterday (slides here).
- We organised the University’s inaugural Open Research Conference last year. There will be one this year.