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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...

I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...

Although the traditional image of a science laboratory typically consists of a room full of test tubes or microscopes, the reality is tha...

Last week I took part in a meeting at the European Parliament entitled “Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good”. Here's the backg...

There is a general belief that science proceeds by smooth cycles of discovery and sharing – that scientists formulate theories, investigat...

One of the key inspirations for the free software movement was the scientific tradition of sharing information and building on the work of...

Free software was inspired in part by the scientific method, but it is only now that science is starting to apply free software's key in...

Since one of the key ideas behind this blog is to explore the application of the open source approach to other fields, I was naturally rathe...

Recently, I had the pleasure of finally meeting Cameron Neylon , probably the leading - and certainly most articulate - exponent of open sci...

Here are some interesting thoughts on open science and how it relates to those working within companies: Just as secrecy in academia only m...

Here's a key section from the new Royal Society report "The scientific century: securing our future prosperity": Science thri...

Since I have been banging on about the need for open data in science for some time, you won't be surprised to learn that I am in agreeme...

Now here's an idea : Computer code is also at the heart of a scientific issue. One of the key features of science is deniability: if you...

Open source science certainly seems to be catching on lately: there have been as many articles on the subject in the last few months as in t...

I've steered clear of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) break-in since emotions are still running high, while information content remains ...

I've written before about the idea of applying openness/open source ideas to science, but here's an interesting new project that at...

Now this is what I call open science: Hello, and thanks for dropping by at the Open Dinosaur Project. This blog is part of a wider project...

Great to see a scientist come out with this in an interesting post entitled "What, exactly, is Open Science?": granting access to...

Here's a post saying pretty much what I've been saying, but in a rather different way: Here we present a simple model of one of the...

How could I resist this story ? Aside from the great headline, it's about old-style closed-source science being challenge by open scien...