The Week in Review is our weekly roundup of what’s new in open science from the past week. If you have news or announcements you’d like passed on to the community, be sure to share on Twitter with @mozillascience and @billdoesphysics, or join our mailing list and get in touch there.

Meetings & Conferences

• Leading up to OpenCon 2015, Meredith Niles and Ethan White each released webcasts sharing their ideas on how to turn open practices into assets in an academic career.

Blogs & Articles

• Matteo Cantiello wrote a proposal to improve science communication with the public. Cantiello points out that this communication needs be done by the scientists originating the research in question, and can be best supported by including links to press releases and public-oriented summaries in full papers and publications.
• Dan Foreman-Mackey wrote an in-depth reconstruction of the results of Burke et al’s recent analysis of open Kepler data on terrestrial exoplanets, as ‘an experiment in open science’. Foreman-Mackey’s reconstruction was not exactly identical to Burke’s, but reached the same conclusions.
• Dan Katz et al released a summary of proceedings from WSSSPE2; the preprint comments on the persistent need for stronger software training among researchers, and offers a list of criteria for reviewers examining papers focusing on scientific software.
• Academia.edu responded to criticisms of their recent claim that publishing an open access paper with them increased citation rates by about one citation per year per paper, by redoing their analysis while eliminating a potentially biased part of their sample; the citation benefit found was only slightly reduced.
• Don’t miss Open Data Excuse Bingo.