Episode 9: On Creating Inclusive Pathways to Innovation

In this episode, we explore innovation and interruption in the research community with Jason Barkeloo, founder of the open science platform Therapoid. We talk about building a parallel pathway for innovation, one that provides open technologies, lab equipment, and microgrants and builds reputation through blockchain technologies, with the goal of providing more researchers access to scientific resources. We get a bit nerdy and dig into persistent identifiers, cryptocurrency, open regulation, mitigating exploitation. And I push back about the practicalities of adopting Web 3 when Web 2 is still incompletely integrated into scholarly workflows. Join us for a delightful conversation about opening up science!

Links

To learn more about We Interrupt and to suggest people we should talk to and topics you think we should explore, please see our webpage at: https://www.weinterrupthis.com or contact us on twitter at @HaakYak.

You can find more about Jason on LinkedIn, and explore the Therapoid open science ecosystem at https://therapoid.net/.

Additional reading and resources on Open Science:

• The UN Open Science Forum Towards Equitable Scholarly Publishing for SDGs and Beyond (May 2023)

• The CERN Open Science Portal

• NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS)

• NIH “Advancing the Promise of Open Science” NLM Blog (February 2023)

• Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable Research, OSTP (January 2023)

Credits

• Emma Levinson created the artwork on our website

• The intro music is Bartok’s "Melody with Interruptions",  Mikrokosmos, Volume 6, played by Dr. Alan Huckleberry, for The University of Iowa Piano Pedagogy Video Recording Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt3CimYcisU. 

• The Podcast photo is a public domain image, obtained from rawpixel. (License CC0 1.0)