In this interview with EuroScientist, Lawrence Rajendran explains why he created Matters, to change the way we communicate science. He has devised a new way of publishing science by submitting single observations to build the big Lego puzzle of science. He believes that the current way of presenting papers, based on storytelling, needs to be revisited as they tend to favour oversights of what could be perceived as negative results. He thinks this this will to open science to allow greater multidisciplinary collaborations and to reach out to a wider audience, beyond the scientific community.

Read more: https://www.euroscientist.com/matters-founder-lawrence-rajendran-lego-approach-scientific-publishing/

Lawrence Rajendran: the Lego approach to scientific publishing

Sheila Jasanoff is director of the program on science, technology and society at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. She is one of the world-expert on dissecting what’s in the mind of scientists when they take decisions about their research.

She often likes to strike a discordant note when speaking with scientists. As she did at ESOF2016 in Manchester, UK, where Euroscientist met her in July. In this interview, she warns that regulatory bodies alone cannot take decisions on thorny issues, such how to regulate gene editing technology CRISPR-Cas9, without involving society at large. She believes consulting citizens is a priority, even before framing the scientific problem.

Read more: http://www.euroscientist.com/sheila-jasanoff-framing-research-with-citizens-perspectives

Sheila Jasanoff: framing research with citizens’ perspectives - part 1

Sheila Jasanoff: framing research with citizens’ perspectives - part 2

We are soon to benefit from the availability of hyperlocal news. News about the local sports team, our local weather, average prices of houses in our locality, etc. This is the perfect illustration of how technology will serve the needs of citizens in a way that was never possible before. Today, most news report are relevant to entire regions or nations, or have an international dimension. But news that are only relevant to the locality where people live are too costly to produce via traditional means, using journalists. Instead, Claude de Loupy, CEO of French startup Syllabs, explains how robots capable of writing hyperlocal news report by making sense of automated wheather, sports and other automated data reports, are already available.

Read more:https://www.euroscientist.com/claude-de-loupy-interview-era-hyperlocal-news/

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Claude de Loupy: the era of hyperlocal news

Changing the environment in which scientists evolve requires considerable cultural changes. In this exclusive interview, EuroScientist talks to Hans Wigzell, one of the most influential scientists in Europe and former president of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Although he recognises the necessity of bureaucrats in research institutions, he denounces their intervention as micromanagers of research. He also shares his views on what is required to, literally, let scientists free from bureaucrats. The solution he advocates involves strong leadership in research to remove the need for bureaucratic rules.

Read more: https://www.euroscientist.com/hans-wigzell-interview-let-researchers-free-from-bureaucrats/

Hans Wigzell: Let the researchers free from bureaucracy

Finding reliable funding in the course of a scientific career is difficult, even for the best scientists, says Emmanuelle Charpentier, head of regulation and infection biology at the Max-Planck-Institut in Berlin, Germany. Better known for her work on developing the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique, she calls for an informed debate on the implications of her work and wishes to avoid giving into the media buzz without more in-depth reflection. In this first of a two-part series, Charpentiers shares her perspective in an authentic way.

Read more: https://www.euroscientist.com/emmanuelle-charpentier-podcast/

Emmanuelle Charpentier: the strings attached to CRISPR/Cas9 success

Shane Snow is a freelance science and business journalist turned entrepreneur. In this interview with EuroScientist, he tells the story of how he co-founded Contently, a company initially created to help companies and brands to produce editorial and multimedia content telling their story. He also explains how the its business subsequently evolved into a technology company by incorporating the latest web tracking and analytics technologies to effectively distribute its content over the internet. Snow discusses the challenges of creating suitable content to help raise the profile of science, making a distinction between content that is promotional in nature and more critical journalistic content.

Read more: https://www.euroscientist.com/contentlys-shane-snow-the-key-to-using-virtual-soap-boxes/

Shane Snow: Contently, the key to using virtual soap boxes

Discussion on privacy were top of the agenda at one of the biggest technology trade fairs in Europe, the CeBIT 2017 in Hannover, Germany. Indeed as social media are full of the many aspects of the lives of those who share their views with as little as pressing a  ‘like’ button on Facebook. Invited speaker

Invited speaker at CeBIT 2017,  Michal Kosinski, who is an assistant professor of organisational behaviour at Stanford graduate school of business, California, USA, shares update on his latest work about the ability to predict future behaviour from psychological traits inferred from the trail made of the many digital crumbs, including pictures we share over the internet.

Read more: http://www.euroscientist.com/michal-kosinski-interview-make-post-privacy-world-comfortable-possible

Michal Kosinski Interview: making our post-privacy world a habitable place

In this exclusive interview with Shawn Jensen, CEO of data privacy company Profila, EuroScientist editor finds out about the implications of the regulations for citizens and for researchers. Part of the discussion discusses the ins and out of giving consent, in an era where any organisations holding data is required to ensure that individual data is used appropriately.

Read more: https://www.euroscientist.com/shawn-jensen-gdpr-is-about-giving-citizens-control-over-personal-data/

Shawn Jensen: GDPR is about giving citizens control over personal data

Find out from four experts how blockchain technology is likely to change the way scientists work. Some focus on the impact of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies in the financing of research while others analyse the way blockchain can improve the quality of the research itself by increasing its reproducibility. Clearly, blockchain has so many potential applications that we are only just opening the door to its many potential disruptions in professional research circles.

How open science could benefit from blockchain: L Heller, J van Rossum, E Klumpers & S Bartling

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