Hi, all,
Media coverage of the COS and Open Science Collaboration projects have
been very good on the goals and activities of the project, but the
emphasis is still too much "personality piece" rather than
"large-scale collaborative project". The coverage of our press
release, while excellent overall, was a good example of this bias
(other links below):
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/05/new-center-aims-to-make-science-more-open-and-reliable/
We'd like to find ways to emphasize the fact that this really is a
community effort, beyond our ignored efforts to do so during
interviews. Here's the idea:
We're often asked for images representing us, and, so far, we've been
sending our logo, but perhaps, in the future, we can send collage-type
designs comprised of images of you.
If you consider yourself a member of the Open Science Collaboration or
Reproducibility Project, please send us high quality images of
yourselves, your lab/peers/students, and/or your school's logo. We'll
create some collage-type designs that we can send to the media when
they ask for images in the future, in hopes that they'll use those
rather than photos of Brian that they find on the internet.
Email
pho...@centerforopenscience.org with the photos (do NOT
reply-all!). Please abel them lastname_firstname_rp.jpg if you're in
the Reproducibility Project and lastname_firstname.jpg otherwise.
Thanks!
Jeff.
Links:
http://chronicle.com/article/New-Center-Hopes-to-Clean-Up/137683/
(Paywall...yeah)
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/03/psychologists-launch-a-bare-all-.html?ref=hp