On Thursdays from October to July, the SOS group gathers the project team, advisory board, partners, guests, and interested affiliates to discuss all things Open Science.
If you are interested in attending these early afternoon (CET) meetings, please email contact@opensciencestudies.eu with a brief statement of your background and motivations to join.
Monthly meetings (Feb 2022 – June 2024)
While based at Egenis, the SOS group was run on a monthly instead of a weekly basis. Below is a list of those get-togethers, most with a pictorial summary courtesy of our illustrator, Dasapta Erwin.
- 03.02.22 — Introduction to project team and discussion of project infrastructure, focus, and plans. Pictorial summary here.
- 03.03.22 — Rose Trappes and Paola Castaño introduced their projects and future fieldwork.
Special guest: Chris Kelty (UCLA). Pictorial summary here. - 07.04.22 — Special guests: Theresa Velden & Clemens Bluemel (DZHW).
- 02.06.22 — Rose and Paola gave more background to their fieldwork.
Special guest: Tony Ross-Hellauer (Graz, ON_MERRIT project). Pictorial summary here. - 01.09.22 — Special guests: Rachel Ankeny (Adelaide) and Hugh Williamson (Exeter). Pictorial summary here.
- 06.10.22 — Special guest: Hugh Shanahan (Royal Holloway)and Louise Bezuidenhout (DANS). Pictorial summary here.
- 03.11.22 — Special guests: Alexandre Hocquet and Frédéric Wieber (Université de Lorraine). Pictorial summary here.
- 01.12.22 — Special guest: Jan Baedke (Ruhr University Bochum). Pictorial summary here.
- 02.02.23 — Special guest: Benedikt Fecher (UdK Berlin) on OS platformisation.
- 01.06.23 — Special guest: Jacob van Etten (Alliance Biodiversity & CIAT) on Epistemic justice and the 1000Farms.net case study. Pictorial summary here.
- 02.11.23 — Post-summer updates and Special guest: Marcel LaFlamme, Open Research manager at PLOS.
- 07.12.23 — Updates and Special guest: Simon Hodson, executive director at Codata.
- 01.02.24 — Updates and Special guest: Bethania de Araujo Almeida (CIDACS), on citizen science and data governance in public health emergencies. Pictorial summary here.
- 07.03.24 — Updates from the group members and special guest Olavo Amaral, Professor of Biochemistry (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and a physician, writer, and activist on open science and reproducibility. Pictorial summary here.
- 06.06.24 — Updates and special guest: Simon Hodson, Executive Director of CODATA. Pictorial summary here.
Weekly meetings (October 2024 – July 2025)
Open Science has relocated to the Technical University of Munich-TUM, Germany, since September 2024. The SOS group runs on a weekly basis and is structured around two modules: Open Data-Open Science Module (WiSe2024) and Frontiers in Open Research (SoSe2025). Below is a list of those get-togethers, most with a pictorial summary courtesy of our illustrator, Dasapta Erwin.
- 17.10.24 — Presentation of the Studies of Open Science in its new TUM home: What are the tensions surrounding open science, and how does AI come into it? Pictorial summary here.
- 24.10.24 — Special guest: Hari Sridhar, on the place of science in conservation decision-making, a view from Indian conservation biology. Pictorial summary here.
- 31.10.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Philosophy of Open Science and Open Data in Perspective. Pictorial summary here.
- 07.11.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence. Pictorial summary here.
- 14.11.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 21.11.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 28.11.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 05.12.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 12.12.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 19.12.24 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 09.01.25 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 16.01.25 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 23.01.25 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 30.01.25 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 06.02.25 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.
- 13.02.25 — Sabina Leonelli on Open Science and Environmental Intelligence.