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Community call – Mar. 10, 11ET

Our next community call will take place this Thursday, March 10th. The call is open to the public and will start at 11:00 am ET. Call in details can be found on the call etherpad (where you can also find notes and the agenda) and on the wiki. (If you have trouble with the toll-free […]

Study Group Learning Calls: R Edition

Study Groups are one of our most popular projects at the Mozilla Science Lab. For those as yet unfamiliar, the project is an open source kit that allows you to build community groups around learning, schedule events via your own website, and lead a team of peers in studying topics of technical or research interest.  […]

Research Round-up: Challenges in Decoding Resilience to Disease

This week, we’re continuing a series of guest blogs from our Mozilla Fellows for Science, with Jason Bobe, you can read more about Jason here on the 2015 fellows’ page, and read on to learn about his thoughts on open science, and challenges in genomics research. Reach out to him on twitter @jasonbobe, or read […]

Research Round-up: Learning through Making, Let’s Close the Gap!

Posted on February 22, 2016 by  Joey Lee

This week, we’re continuing a series (started Tuesday) of guest blogs from our Mozilla Fellows for Science, with Joey K. Lee, you can read more about Joey here on the 2015 fellows’ page, and read on to learn about his thoughts on open science, and best practice for building great community. Reach out to him […]

Planning for Data Reuse

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you are well aware of our Mozilla Fellows for Science (see recent blog posts about their work) and the Working Open Workshop (WOW) we recently hosted in Berlin. I am also leading work on building out training and resources to support data sharing and reuse. Over […]

Project Call – Feb 25 12ET

Join our next project call, Thursday, February 25th at 12pm ET, to learn how you can get involved in open source and open science! Each month, we celebrate new contributors, hear updates on our Collaborate projects, and share tips on working openly and collaboratively on research software. This month, I’m excited to announce that we’ll […]

Research Round-up: Science isn’t accessible to everyone. This is a problem.

This week, we’re continuing a series (started Tuesday) of guest blogs from our Mozilla Fellows for Science, with Christie Bahlai, you can read more about Christie here on the 2015 fellows’ page, and read on to learn about her thoughts on open science, and her interaction with its discontents. Reach out to her on twitter […]

Research Round-up: Science is much harder than it should be

This week, we’re kicking off a series of guest blogs from our Mozilla Fellows for Science, starting with Richard Smith-Unna, you can read more about Richard here on the 2015 fellows’ page, and read on to learn about his thoughts on open science, and his interaction with its discontents. Reach out to him on twitter […]

Research Round-up: Announcing Fellows’ Blogs

Many of our readers know that in 2015 we launched a program called Mozilla Fellows for Science, designed to support four individuals over the course of ten months as they work to complete projects in open source, open science, and open education affiliated with their graduate institutions of choice. You may have met the fellows […]

Share Your Story of Research Data Re-use!

Back in October 2015, I posted an invitation to jump into the firehose of open data with me. To my delight, Stephanie Wykstra of Innovations for Poverty Action took me up on the offer and plunged in head first. We know that data sharing makes research more reproducible and expands the value of collected data […]