The Ongoing Transformation Podcast Features the Evolution of Open Science

This week, The Ongoing Transformation podcast from Issues in Science and Technology showcased the Center for Open Science (COS), featuring an insightful conversation with Executive Director and Co-Founder Brian Nosek about the progress of the open science movement.

Listen to Episode 36: Open Science: Moving From Possible to Expected to Required.

Here is the overview of  Episode 36: Open Science: Moving From Possible to Expected to Required:

A decade ago, University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek cofounded an unusual nonprofit, the Center for Open Science. It’s been a cheerleader, enabler, and nagger to convince scientists that making their methods, data, and papers available to others makes for better science.

The Center for Open Science has built tools to register analysis plans and hypotheses before data are collected. It campaigns for authors and journals to state explicitly whether and where data and other research materials are available. Gradually, practices that were considered fringe are becoming mainstream. The White House declared 2023 the Year of Open Science.

Nosek refers to the “pyramid of culture change” as his strategy to push for reforms: first make a better practice possible, then easy, expected, rewarding, and finally, required. It starts with building infrastructure, then experience, reward systems, and ultimately policy.

In this podcast, Nosek joins host Monya Baker to discuss the movement of scientific ideals toward reality.