Sam Tsui - Hold It Against Me

A review of transparency, observations about how open source culture is changing, and what we might do about it.

Open Source Transparency

each week SINTN (the Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neuroscience) invites a prominent scientist to come to campus and share their most recent work with the Stanford community. For professors, and a few students each week, this is also an opportunity to chat casually with these scientists one-on-one. With the goal of opening that experience up to the broader neuroscience community, we at NeuWrite West (a group dedicated to improving science communication), are launching a new podcast called NeuroTalk. Each week, we will engage the SINTN speaker in an informal interview/conversation, with the aim of gaining a better insight into the speaker’s personality, and providing a platform for the kinds of stories which are of interest to us but are often left out of more formal papers or presentations. In essence, it’s a conversation between neuroscientists, for neuroscientists.

This week’s guest is Dr. Michael Platt, a professor of neurobiology, and the director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Open Source Transparency

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