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BlockchainForScience
The video presentation by Soenke Bartling at Blockchain for Science Con 2019 explores the transformative potential of blockchain technology in addressing critical challenges within scientific research and academia. The core argument centers on shifting from traditional, centralized systems to decent …
csvconf
The presentation addresses the critical need to sustain scientific progress amidst a landscape of increasing crises, including institutional failures, funding cuts, and geopolitical censorship. The speaker argues that current reliance on centralized systems creates fragile points of failure where lo …
CNI: Coalition for Networked Information
Maria Gould from DataCite introduces the critical need to reframe research infrastructure as a collective investment rather than a series of individual transactions. She explains that DataCite operates as a non-profit membership association founded in 2009, now serving over 1,800 global organization …
Open Knowledge Belgium
Mark Porter from VLIOS presents a compelling vision for advancing open science beyond simple checklists like FAIR principles by introducing five distinct work zones designed to make global research data as easily searchable and accessible via natural language queries as Google. His primary goal is t …
Center for Open Science
The Coalition for Resilient Research Data Infrastructure (CREDI) is advancing its mission to build a robust ecosystem for federally funded research data by addressing critical vulnerabilities such as chronic underfunding, staff shortages, and fragmented incentives that currently threaten the stabili …
Andrew Huberman
In this episode of The Huberman Lab Podcast, host Andrew Huberman interviews Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan regarding their ambitious mission to cure all human diseases by the end of the century through the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Launched in 2015, CZI operates on a philosophy that …
Lex Fridman
In this episode of the Lex Fridman Podcast, evolutionary biologist and author Bret Weinstein joins to discuss the intersection of science, truth, and censorship during the pandemic. Weinstein argues that while science is a powerful tool for understanding the world, it operates as an institution susc …
Lex Fridman
Luís and João Batalha, co-founders of Fermat's Library, discuss their platform designed to make dense academic papers more accessible through rich annotations. They argue that scientific ideas should be freely disseminated rather than locked behind paywalls, emphasizing the historical context often …