open_science_uppsala

The Open Science Uppsala logo

Welcome to the homepage of Open Science Uppsala, the local Open Science community in Uppsala.

Open Science is the application of the scientific method in the most transparent way possible, such as Open Access papers, Open (and FAIR) Data, Open Code, open peer-review, preregistration and registered reports, resulting in research that is (more likely to be) reproducible.

This group discusses the pros and cons of Open Science by means of discussing papers and inviting speakers.

You can follow us here:

Logo	Link
	Email list
	LinkedIn
	@opensciupp

Activities

We usually have a speaker at the second Friday of the month.

When	Where	What
2023-04-14 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Mallassal	Emmi Puuvuori, ‘Start of a practical application in open science - In Vivo Library’
2023-05-12 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Studion	Miguel de Navascués, ‘PCI, a free recommendation process of scientific preprints based on peer review’
2023-06-09 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Mallassal	Barbro Bornsäter, ‘FAIR data for Heritage Science: Developing a guide to good practice for open science within the heritage sciences’
2023-07-14	.	[No event, due to summer holiday]
2023-08-11	.	[No event, due to summer holiday]
2023-09-08 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Mallassal	Martin Johnsson, ‘It’s about what kind of knowledge we want’
2023-10-13 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Mallassal	Ismail Elouafiq, TBA
2023-11-10 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Mallassal	Adam Gill, TBA
2023-12-08 16:15-17:00	USB [1], Mallassal	Anna Hallberg, TBA

See ‘Past events’ for our previous activities.

[1] USB: Uppsala Stadsbibliotek, Svartbäcksgatan 17, 753 75 Uppsala
[2] This is not an OSU event

Map, from OpenStreetMap. We are at 1.

Uppsala Stadsbibliotek, Svartbäcksgatan 17

Domkyrkan

Stora torget

Uppsala Central Station

The ground floor of Uppsala Stadsbibliotek. We are in the room called ‘Mallassal’

Schedule

This is a regular schedule for a meeting. Note that the speaker is boss regarding (1) the exact time to start, (2) the time to yes/no take questions.

When	What
15:30-16:00	Speaker and OSU host prepare
16:00-16:15	Audience is welcome
16:15-16:16	Introduction about OSU
16:16-16:45	Talk
16:45-17:00	Questions
17:00 onwards	End of meeting, option to join us to the pub after cleaning

FAQ

These are the Frequently Asked Questions, also called ‘FAQ’.

The sections are:

Section	Description
Open Science	About Open Science
Open Science Uppsala	About us
Website	About this website
Information for speakers	Information for speakers
Volunteering	Volunteering at OSU
Contact	How to contact us

Open Science

What is Open Science?

Open Science is a different thing for different people. A attempt of a definition that could be given:

Open Science is using the scientific method, taking into account that scientists are human.

This means:

Open Access: everyone should be able to read and criticize scientistic works
Open Data: everyone should be able to re-use scientific data used in experiments, with some limitations on privacy-sensitive data
Open Code: everyone should be able to re-do, criticise and re-use scientific analyses
Open Hardware: everyone should be able to run a computational analysis on hardware with an open license
Pre-registration: scientists should be open about their initial hypotheses and should not pursuaded to do p-value hacking or HARKing
Preregistration: publishing the methods of a scientific experiment before doing the actual experiment
Registered Reports: an more stringent extension of a preregistration, which, after reviewing the methods of a scientific experiment, its results are published, regardless of the results

A more extensive picture:

Redrawn slide from presentation of Ana Persic, Division of Science Policy and Capacity-Building (SC/PCB), UNESCO (France) presentation to Open Science Conference 2021, ZBW — Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Germany. Caption and image from Wikipedia, image created by RobbieIanMorrison

Open Science Uppsala

What is the goal of Open Science Uppsala?

to teach one another about Open Science (e.g. by reading papers)
to discuss Open Science
using English as the main language (i.e. most academic papers are English)
regularily (e.g. once a month)
for everyone (i.e. non-scientists are also welcome)
in Uppsala (i.e. in-person meetings)
for free (i.e. everyone can afford to participate)
at a public location (i.e. non-scientists can reach the venue)
in a scholarly way (i.e. we embrace the scientific method in our discussions)

What activities does Open Science Uppsala organize?

Activities by OSU are, among others:

Discussing Open Science papers
Speakers that discuss an aspect of Open Science

See ‘Activities’ :-)

Please contact @richelbilderbeek at richel@richelbilderbeek.nl if you want to organize or participate in activities.

How can I follow Open Science Uppsala?

You can follow us by:

Email list
LinkedIn
@opensciupp
Mastodon: [TODO by Börje]
Facebook: [?TODO by Anna]

Why is Open Science Uppsala at the Stadsbibliotek? Why not at the university?

Because the meetings are intended to be open to everyone that wants to discuss the scientific method in general and Open Science in particular.

What will not be accepted in discussions?

Ad hominem reasoning: instead, discuss the content of the argument instead
Conspiracy theories (e.g. ‘All scientists are corrupt’): instead, discuss what the academic literature states on scientists’ behavior
Anecdotal evidence: instead, refer to scientific studies and/or reviews. Of course, throwing in a personal story is OK, using it as a irrefutable proof is scholarly no-go.

Which similar communities are there in Uppsala?

Science Fika: an community for 20 mins science talks aimed at a general audience
ReproducibiliTea Psychology: a community that focuses on the department of Psychology. They do not have a website.
The Uppsala node of the Swedish Reproducibility Network: a community that focuses reproducibility. This local node does not have had events yet.

Please add your Open Science community in Uppsala by Contact @richelbilderbeek at richel@richelbilderbeek.nl and I will happily add your Uppsala community here :-)

Which similar communities are there online?

There are many, here I list communities that have members in Uppsala:

European Open Science Cloud Association, the bigger, more online community
Open Science Sweden: the bigger, more online community
FAIRPoints: an online event series highlighting pragmatic measures developed by the community towards the implementation of the FAIR data principles.
Open life Science: a program for people interested in applying open principles in their work and becoming Open Science ambassadors in their communities.

Contact @richelbilderbeek at richel@richelbilderbeek.nl and I will happily add your online community here :-)

Website

Why did you start this website?

As the Open Science community in Uppsala is small. At the time this website was created, it was the first website.

What is the goal of this website?

To connect people that are interesting in learning more about Open Science.

Email list

What is policy of the email list?

Sent at the first day of each month, for months that have an activity
Short

See the newsletter archive for previous newsletters.

Twitter

What is the Twitter policy?

Sent at the first day of each month, for months that have an activity
Short

See the tweets archive for previous tweets.

Information for speakers

What can I do?

You are boss here.

Here are some suggestions:

Give a talk about your own Open Science work/ideas
Discuss an Open Science scholarly article

What is the schedule?

Half an hour before the meeting, you’ll have the time to prepare. The first 15 minutes, the audience comes in. Then you have 45 minutes left, that you can fill in yourself. For example, you can do 30 minutes of talking and 15 minutes of questions.

Note that you are boss here. If you want more/less time for questions, it will be so :-)

What are the technical properties of the room?

HDMI cable with a lot of converter plugs
A big screen

Volunteering

Who are the team members?

Ordered alphabetically on first name:

Anna Hallberg 0000-0001-6219-1402 @AnnaHallberg3
Börje Dahrén 0000-0002-9274-6998 @BDahren
Emmi Puuvuori 0000-0001-8501-218X
Jonas Söderberg 0000-0003-2722-7590 Netzach
Richel Bilderbeek: 0000-0003-1107-7049 @rjcbilderbeek richelbilderbeek Richel Bilderbeek

What is the current structure of Open Science Uppsala?

Chairman: Richel
Communication in/out: Richel
Communication to NBIS and Life Science: Jonas
Organizing activities: Richel
Finances: Richel
Maintaining this website: Richel
Facebook account: ?Anna
LinkedIn account: Emmi
Mastodon account: Börje
Twitter account: Richel

Who are the reserve team members?

Yup, we even have a reserve team. Here they are!