The Week in Review is our 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 @arlissc99, #openscience or join our mailing list and get in touch there.
Articles & Blogs
- Excellent advice on what makes for a good public talk from Zach Lieberman. The visual is key.
- The Wellcome Trust in partnership with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute announces The Open Science Prize. The deadline for Phase 1 prizes is Feb 29, 2016.
- Read Jure Triglav’s post about “Why we need a hub for software in science”.
- PLOS Computational Biology posted a great article, “Ten Simple Rules for Creating a Good Data Management Plan” which clearly walks one through the key aspects of an effective plan, now a key requirement for research proposals. In a similar “ten simple rules” theme here’s a Peerj preprint discussing a rules for digital data storage.
Resources
- Here’s a great resource for open source libraries you can use for the software projects – Libraries.io The Open Source Discovery Service. There’s a good chance you’ll find something to give you a hand.
At the Science Lab
- Zannah Marsh, Instructional Designer for the Science Lab, has written a great summary of the Mozilla Fellows for Science Onboarding session that took place in Brooklyn, NY in mid-October. Lots of great insights on leadership and collaboration along with a host of links to presentations from the Science Lab team and the Fellows. A really great read.
- Abby Cabunoc Mayes gave a presentation on Existing Infrastructure & Needs – Credit, Discoverability, and Altmetrics at the ICIS Event: Software for Science – Getting Credit for Code. Take a look at Abby’s slides from her talk showing highlighting what we’ve been doing at the Mozilla Science Lab and our current projects such as Software Discovery Dashboard with students from the Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T)
- MozFest 2015 kicks off this coming weekend in London UK, November 6-8. The Open Science track is running full schedule of sprints, trainings and the Open Research Accelerator. Stay tuned for lots of follow-up blogs and resources.
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