IDRC Data Sharing Pilot Project that we’ve just published was to try and demonstrate some best practice.
Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Production
How the necessity for documentation changes as different aspects of accountability rather than reproducibility are taken into account.
How the necessity for documentation changes as different aspects of accountability rather than reproducibility are taken into account.
Leaving the Gold Standard
Theories of citation
Theories of citation
Against the 2.5% Commitment
The inequity of traditional tenders
The inequity of traditional tenders
Thinking out loud: Tacit knowledge and deficit models
Social models of knowledge.
Social models of knowledge.
Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Man
I don’t think I would like to meet myself as a twenty year old. I was arrogant, sure of myself, concerned with where I was going. Of course all of this was built on a lack of confidence
I don’t think I would like to meet myself as a twenty year old. I was arrogant, sure of myself, concerned with where I was going. Of course all of this was built on a lack of confidence
Making it Personal: The Rare Disease Literature Sucks
The patients and their families the specific condition is what they live. Many of these people actually become far more expert on the condition and the day to day issues that one particular patient experiences, but that expertise is rarely captured in the case studies and metastudies and reviews.
The patients and their families the specific condition is what they live. Many of these people actually become far more expert on the condition and the day to day issues that one particular patient experiences, but that expertise is rarely captured in the case studies and metastudies and reviews.
Speculation: Learning, Teaching and Knowledge Making
The core of Lave and Wenger’s argument is that to understand learning we have to see the learner as a whole person in a web of relationships.
The core of Lave and Wenger’s argument is that to understand learning we have to see the learner as a whole person in a web of relationships.
What Measurement Does to Us
"Before thermometers: philosophers mocked the idea of temperature ever being measurable, with all its nuance, complexity and subjectivity." Tweet by @SilverVVupes
“Before thermometers: philosophers mocked the idea of temperature ever being measurable, with all its nuance, complexity and subjectivity.” Tweet by @SilverVVupes
Thinking Collectively…or How to Get Something Out of Neoliberal Critique Without (Immediately) Overthrowing the Capitalist System
One of the things I find frustrating about discussions of economics in scholarly publishing is the way that discussions that are built around critique of capital models or neoliberalism are dismissed as impractical.
One of the things I find frustrating about discussions of economics in scholarly publishing is the way that discussions that are built around critique of capital models or neoliberalism are dismissed as impractical.
Diversity and Inclusion are the Uniting Prinicple of Open Science
The only thing that links all varying strands of open science (and open scholarship more generally) is inclusion and diversity as a first principle.
The only thing that links all varying strands of open science (and open scholarship more generally) is inclusion and diversity as a first principle.
Polecon of OA Publishing II: What’s the Technical Problem With Reforming Scholarly Publishing?
Challenges to scholarly publishing.
Without focussing too much on technical details, because there are legitimate differences of opinion on how best to implement this, solutions would likely involve re-thinking the form of the documents flowing through the system.