1. kaitlin thaney
@kaythaney ; @mozillascience
PLOS ALM / 10 oct. 2013
metrics for
web-native science

2. (0)

3. doing good is part of our code

4. help researchers use the
power of the open web to
change science’s future.

5. (1)

6. science is broken
- broken incentives, discouraging collaboration + sharing.
- inflexible, siloed tools (and communities)
- research that’s near impossible to build upon, reuse.
- small bursts of activity, little coordination.
- skills gap keeping researchers from working on the web.

7. “... up to 70% of research from academic labs
cannot be reproduced, representing an enormous
waste of money and effort.”
- Elizabeth Iorns, Science Exchange

8. “There’s greater reward,
and more temptation to
bend the rules.”
- David Resnik, bioethicist

10. facing a digital skills gap

11. (2)

12. shifting practice is hard.
... but not impossible.

15. “One worry I have is that, with reviews like this, scientists will be
even more discouraged from publishing their code [...] We need
to get more code out there, not improve how it looks.”

18. instill best
(digital,
reproducible)
practice
“research hygiene”

19. (3)

20. subjectivity can
undermine reproducibility.
our systems’ visions need to be in sync.

22. does this ensure (full) interoperability?

23. coordination and
collaboration are key.
design for interoperability.
remember the
non-technical challenges.

24. join us.
teach, hack, build, learn.
http://software-carpentry.org
http://wiki.mozilla.org/ScienceLab

25. questions?
kaitlin@mozillafoundation.org
@kaythaney ; @mozillascience