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PCI – Statistics and machine learning
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags academic journals, arXiv, Computo, machine learning, PCI, PCI Comput Stats, PCI Statistics and Machine Learning, PLoS ONE, preprint, submission on April 17, 2025 by xi'an
when open publishing is not fair [PCI webinar, 20 March, 4pm CET]
Posted in Books, University life with tags author publishing, epistemology, open access, open publishing, PCI, PCI Journal, Peer Community in, Philosophy of Science, refereeing, seminar, Technical University of Munich, webinar on March 15, 2025 by xi'an
9th seminar of the PCI webinar series
Mandatory registration using this link: https://univ-cotedazur.zoom.us/meeting/register/rz8ZKReZQeqs-3yR3S6q4g
When Open Publishing Is Not Fair
Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of Munich, TUM)
Summary: There are obvious ways in which Open Access has augmented inequity rather than mitigating it, for instance in relation to Author Publishing Costs and the differential access that researchers based in academic institutions around the world may have to publishing deals and packages. Less obvious but equally fundamental are inequities in the access to infrastructures, skills and information fostering an effective use of online resources ranging from Open Access journals to Open Data infrastructures. Most importantly, openness as a paradigm of “sharing” is predicated on a model of research practice that does not fit well with most domains and methods of research, and particularly with science done in low-resourced environments. I reflect on these issues and draw on examples and cases emerging from the PHIL_OS project (“A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments”; www.opensciencestudies.eu ), as well as my experiences as Open Science advocate and participant in Open Access debates over the last ten years.
Speaker’s bio: After high school in Italy, Sabina Leonelli studied History and Philosophy of Science at University College London (BSc Hons, 2000) and London School of Economics (MSc, 2001). She earned a PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2007), while research assistant for Hasok Chang and attending the Dutch graduate schools for STS and philosophy. After coming back to LSE to work with Mary Morgan (2006-2008), she moved to the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences at the University of Exeter, which she directed from 2013 to 2024. She was appointed TUM Professor on 09/24. Building on philosophical, historical and social science methods and collaborations with scientists and policy-makers, Sabina Leonelli studies: (1) the role of technology, data and organisms in knowledge production, and especially how computing and digitalisation efforts are transforming research and its social dynamics and roles; and (2) the institutionalisation of Open Science as a window on the methods, epistemology and political economy of contemporary scientific inquiry, particularly in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences.
What is the PCI webinar series?
-What is it? Seminars on research practices, publication practices, evaluation, scientific integrity, meta-research.
-How does it work? Remote conferences using zoom with registration.
-For whom is it? For anyone interested in scholarly publication, all PCI users, all PCI recommenders who do preprint evaluations for PCI, authors of articles, etc.
-When is it? Once a quarter
-Why is it for? To learn about scholarly publishing, to improve our knowledge about scholarly review, to become better reviewers, to create a sense of community among PCI users.
Find details about the PCI webinar series and past seminars at https://peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-series/
ten computer codes that transformed science
Posted in Books, Linux, R, Statistics, University life with tags Apple II, arXiv, C, Fortran, Fourier transform, John Tukey, Linux, Monte Carlo algorithm, Nature, Pascal, PCI, PCI Math Comp Biol, Peer Community, Project Jupyter, R, Rmarkdown, S-plus, SAS, sweave, unix on April 23, 2021 by xi'an
In a “Feature” article of 21 January 2021, Nature goes over a poll on “software tools that have had a big impact on the world of science”. Among those,
the Fortran compiler (1957), which is one of the first symbolic languages, developed by IBM. This is the first computer language I learned (in 1982) and one of the two (with SAS) I ever coded on punch cards for the massive computers of INSEE. I quickly and enthusiastically switched to Pascal (and the Apple IIe) the year after and despite an attempt at moving to C, I alas kept the Pascal programming style in my subsequent C codes (until I gave up in the early 2000’s!). Moving to R full time, even though I had been using Splus since a Unix version was produced. Interestingly, a later survey of Nature readers put R at the top of the list of what should have been included!, incidentally including Monte Carlo algorithms into the list (and I did not vote in that poll!),
the fast Fourier transform (1965), co-introduced by John Tukey, but which I never ever used (or at least knowingly!),
arXiv (1991), which was started as an emailed preprint list by Paul Ginsparg at Los Alamos, getting the current name by 1998, and where I only started publishing (or arXiving) in 2007, perhaps because it then sounded difficult to submit a preprint there, perhaps because having a worldwide preprint server sounded more like bother (esp. since we had then to publish our preprints on the local servers) than revolution, perhaps because of a vague worry of being overtaken by others… Anyway, I now see arXiv as the primary outlet for publishing papers, with the possible added features of arXiv-backed journals and Peer Community validations,
the IPython Notebook (2011), by Fernando Pérez, which started by 259 lines of Python code, and turned into Jupyter in 2014. I know nothing about this, but I can relate to the relevance of the project when thinking about Rmarkdown, which I find more and more to be a great way to work on collaborative projects and to teach. And for producing reproducible research. (I do remember writing once a paper in Sweave, but not which one…!)
news from PCI
Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags alternative publishing, arXiv, bioRxiv, INRA, INRAE, Max Planck Institute, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, open and free access, PCI, Peer Community, peer review, reproducibility on May 6, 2020 by xi'an
