Improving the Research Culture: COS Celebrates 10 Years

The Center for Open Science (COS) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Monday, May 8, 2023 at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, DC. This event featured a day-long symposium with partners and supporters to discuss the progress and future direction of open science.

The anniversary symposium included presentations by COS staff and board members about the progress, strategy, and direction to advance its mission, along with stakeholders and colleagues giving presentations that highlighted particular areas of open science practices, impact, and COS’s Theory of Change. 

Recordings from this event are now available. Access the full event playlist here or check out the sessions below:

• Welcome and Prelude
  Brian Nosek, Executive Director, COS
• Incredible Foundations
  Tim Errington, Senior Director of Research, COS
• A Dysfunctional Reward System
  Brian Nosek, Executive Director, COS
• A Strategy to Start, Scale, and Sustain Open Scholarship
  Lisa Cuevas Shaw, Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director, COS
• Catalyzing Idealists: Make It Possible and Make It Easy
  Eric Olson, Product Manager, COS; Fiona Fidler, Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies and School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, University of Melbourne; Elliot Gould, Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant, University of Melbourne; Johanna Cohoon, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Computing, University of Utah; Nici Pfeiffer, Chief Product Officer, COS
• Bringing Change to the Mainstream With Visibility and Values: Make It Normative
  Huajin Wang, Director of Programs, COS; Christie Aschwanden, Journalist, Author, Editor; Katie Corker, Associate Professor, Quantitative, Social, and Personality Psychology, Grand Valley State University
• Scaling Change by Restructuring Incentives: Make It Rewarding
  Lesley Markham, Program Manager, COS; Kristin Eldon Whylly, Senior Program Manager & Change Management Lead, Templeton World Charity Foundation (TWCF)
• Sustaining Change With Shared Standards and Policy Reform: Make It Required
  David Mellor, Director of Policy, COS; Simine Vazire, Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne; Editor in Chief, Collabra: Psychology; Phil Bourne, Founding Dean, School of Data Science and Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
• The Big Picture: Perspectives from Change Agents
  Skip Lupia, Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor, Associate Vice President for Research, Large-Scale Strategies, and Executive Director of Bold Challenges, University of Michigan; Adam Russell, Research Scientist, UMD Applied Research Laboratory; Former Acting Deputy Director, Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H); Tara Schwetz, Acting Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH); Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study 
  
• Putting It Together and What Comes Next
  Brian Nosek, Executive Director, COS

We thank all who were involved in making COS’s 10th anniversary symposium a success.