Paola Masuzzo
- IGDORE
- https://igdore.org/
15 giugno 2021 - SESSIONE 5: OPEN SCIENCE
Open Science: non ci sono alternative
Open Science: the only way to move forward
Open Science: non ci sono alternative
Paola Masuzzo has a PhD in Bioinformatics from Ghent University, in Belgium, and a big passion for data and open knowledge. She has participated in many international projects for the promotion of open research practices, especially for FAIR data and open source code. She is currently a data scientist for a corporate organization, an independent researcher by the Institute for Globally Distributed Open Research and Education (IGDORE, https://igdore.org/), and an associate of onData (https://ondata.it/).
She spends a lot of free time advocating for free and fair access to knowledge. She has co-authored many articles on open scholarly communication, has been a ContentMine and a Research Data Alliance fellow, has co-founded the Civic Lab Ghent, and served in the Steering Committee of the Open Science MOOC (https://opensciencemooc.eu/).
ABSTRACT
We find ourselves at a deciding moment: either we embrace entirely a new model of conducting, publishing, evaluating research, or we will most likely fail to meet the sustainable goals, failing at the same time our researchers and society and taxpayers at large. We can longer choose on which side to stand. We have let papers, money, Impact Factor, be the currency in the academic world for way too long; it's time we move the focus to what really matters: integrity, mentorship, care for mental health, inclusion. In this talk I will present some key aspects of a different science, a science that I dream about every day, a science that goes back to where it belongs, at the heart of society, and that will help us meet the challenging and difficult times we are living, and the ones yet to come.
