Recent & Upcoming Talks

2019

Bringing Science to the 21 st century: Open Source tools for better research

Webinar for the Open Science MOOC group. Starting theirs webinar series on open science and research improvement.
11 Oct, 2019 15:00 Centre for Research and Interdisciplinarity
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Designing Open Hardware for 21st century science

10 Apr, 2019 17:00 TU Delft
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Setting up a science lab with Open Source Hardware

After work session with high school and college teachers. The main goals of the session were to start a dialogue and find collaborating opportunities. Could teachers use open source hardware to introduce more practical activities in STEM related curriculum?
3 Apr, 2019 17:30 University of sussex
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Building Open Source Scientific Equipment: How researchers are owning their instruments

I presented Flypi as an example on how researchers can leverage the open source movement, to build their own tools, update the design of existing ones, and how this can be used to help development.
2 Mar, 2019 16:30
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Bringing Science to the 21 st century: Open Source tools for better research

Talk at the Rockefeller University in New York City, discussing issues with scientific hardware and how to update/upgrade them using open source technologies.
22 Feb, 2019 14:00 The Rockefeller University
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Building Open Source Scientific Equipment: How researchers are owning their instruments

Talk at the Center for Integrative Neurosciences in the UCSF, discussing aspects and benefits of using Open Source Hardware for research.
15 Feb, 2019 14:30 UCSF, Center for integrative Neurosciences
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Bringing publishing into the 21 st century: The battle for open access

In this community call with Mozilla fellows, I presented traditional publishing models in life sciences, how editing companies allow them to be flawed and abusive, paving way for open access journals, as well as preprints and other publishing models that are fairer and more inclusive.
19 Jan, 2019 20:06 Brighton
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2017

Open Science: Better standards and outcomes. Part I – Papers, Papers, Papers

Talk at the internal seminar of the Eye Clinic at the University of Tuebingen, where the landscape of academic papers and publishing was discussed, together with ideas on how to promote Open practices (Pre prints, Open Access, Reviewing of Pre Prints) internally.
13 Dec, 2017 09:00 University of Tuebingen
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Academic Science is crippled: How open source and Open Access are bringing science back to the 21st century

30 Oct, 2017 14:00 Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Academic Science is Crippled: How Open Source and Open Access are bringing science back to the 21st century

Talk at the Student retreat of the Muenich Technical University (TUM). ```Retreat Bernried, 07.-09.06.2017 Invited Speakers: Marcel Quint (University of Halle-Wittenberg, DE), Rüdiger Simon (University of Düsseldorf, DE), André Maia Chagas (University of Tübingen, DE) Courses: Conflict managment in academia (schainundkuchenbrandt, DE), Project managment in academia (Golin Wissenschaftsmanagment, DE) Activities: Table tennis, bowling, hiking ````

Organized by: Alexander Kutschera

7 Jun, 2017 15:00 Muenich Technical University
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The use of open source hardware in the medical field

Remote talk at Higher Institute of Medical Technology (Yaounde, Cameroon) about the use of open source hardware for the medical field, as part of the event “Biohacking in the medical Field: perspectives for developing countries”.
23 May, 2017 14:00 Higher Institute of Medical Technology
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